The Virtuous Arguer as a Virtuous Sequencer
In conclusion, we reflect on the implications of sequencing on virtue argumentation and the norms of argumentation. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 14, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Correction to: Guest Editors ’ Introduction: De-moralizing Ethics
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 14, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Sebo, Jeff: Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes
AbstractIn his new bookSaving Animals, Saving Ourselves: Why Animals Matter for Pandemics, Climate Change, and Other Catastrophes Jeff Sebo argues that animals matter with regard to human-induced crises and that humans have a moral responsibility to prevent, reduce, or repair the increasing amount of nonhuman suffering and death that we find in today ’s world. Moreover, he attempts to show how these various human-induced crises are interlinked among themselves and with our treatment of animals in a number of complex ways on both the levels of empirical facts and moral considerations. In this review I summarize Sebo’s a...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 8, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Moral Disagreement and Moral Education: What ’s the Problem?
AbstractAlthough initially plausible, the view that moral education should aim at the transmission of moral knowledge has been subject to severe criticism. In this context, one particularly prominent line of argumentation rests on the empirical observation that moral questions are subject to widespread and robust disagreement. In this paper, I would like to discuss the implications of moral disagreement for the goals of moral education in more detail. I will start by laying out the empirical and philosophical assumptions behind the idea that widespread and robust moral disagreement undermines the prospects of transmitting ...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 5, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
AbstractThe idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging field of inquiry by developing a synoptic taxonomy of the mechanisms of techno-moral change. It argues that technology affects moral beliefs and practices in three main domains:decisional (how we make morally loaded decisions),relational (how we relate to others) andperceptual (how we perceive situations). It argues that across these three domains there are six primary mechanisms of techno-moral change: (i) adding options; (ii) changing decision-making costs; (iii) en...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 1, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Kant and Global Poverty: Guest Editors ’ Introduction to Special Issue
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - June 1, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Explainability, Public Reason, and Medical Artificial Intelligence
This article demonstrates why the political response fails. Attending to systemic considerations, as its proponents desire, suggests that the political response is subject to the same criticis ms as other arguments for explainable AI and presents new issues. It also suggests that decision-making about non-explainable medical AI can meet public reason standards. The most plausible version of the response amounts to a simple claim that public reason demands reasons why AI is permitted. But that does not actually support explainable AI or respond to criticisms of strong requirements for explainable medical AI. (Source: Ethic...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 26, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Why Fly? Prudential Value, Climate Change, and the Ethics of Long-distance Leisure Travel
AbstractWe argue that the prudential benefits of long-distance leisure travel can justify such trips even though there are strong and important reasons against long-distance flying. This is because prudential benefits can render otherwise impermissible actions permissible, and because, according to dominant theories about wellbeing, long-distance leisure travel provides significant prudential benefits. However, this ‘wellbeing argument’ for long-distance leisure travel must be qualified in two ways. First, because travellers are epistemically privileged with respect to knowledge about what is good for them, they must l...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 24, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Guest Editors ’ Introduction: De-moralizing Ethics
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 9, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
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Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 9, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Do Moral Beliefs Motivate Action?
AbstractDo moral beliefs motivate action? To answer this question, extant arguments have considered hypothetical cases of association (dissociation) between agents ’ moral beliefs and actions. In this paper, I argue that this approach can be improved by studying people’s actual moral beliefs and actions using empirical research methods. I present three new studies showing that, when the stakes are high, associations between participants’ moral beliefs an d actions are actually explained by co-occurring but independent moral emotions. These findings suggest that moral beliefs themselves have little or no motivational ...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - May 3, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Asking before Arguing? Consent in Argumentation
AbstractArguments involve, at minimum, attempts at presenting something that an audience will take to be a reason. Reasons, once understood, affect an addressee ’s beliefs in ways that are in some significant sense outside of their direct voluntary control. Since such changes may impact the well-being, life projects, or sense of self of the addressee, they risk infringing upon their autonomy. We call this the “autonomy worry” of argumentation. In ligh t of this worry, this paper asks whether one ought to seek an addressee’s consent before arguing with them. We first consider the view that arguing of any sort and on...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 19, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Pitting Virtue Ethics Against Situationism: An Empirical Argument for Virtue
We report the results of an experiment (conducted twice, for replication) showing how social science methods can be introduced to the situationism debate to test such a claim empirically. Our results offer tentative support for eudaemonist and agent-based varieties (but not for target-centered) versions of virtue ethics. (Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice)
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - April 3, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Metz ’s Heterochthonous Relational Moral Theory and Business Ethics
AbstractOne of the practical ethical areas that Thaddeus Metz applied his Relational Moral Theory (RMT) to is business ethics. In this important area of applied ethics, Metz examines the question of how business owners, and related agents ought to deal with others, especially workers and consumers. He argues that the relational account of obligations recommends a stakeholder model of business and provides a plausible alternative (if not better to) familiar kinds of utilitarianism and Kantianism. In this article, I discuss and engage with this claim by raising a number of issues for RMT. For although I believe that Metz ’...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - March 31, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
Plans, Open Future and the Prospects for a Good Life
AbstractHow we live our lives depends on how we relate to our past, present and future. The article focusses on the relation to our future. The target of my critique is a “planning conception” that imagines the future as a realm that we can rationally plan and form in light of our ends. In the first section I present an outline of the planning conception, building on Bratman’s planning theory and Rawls’ idea of a life plan. The second section highlights the a ttractions of the planning conception. I argue that this conception offers a prima facie intriguing view of the temporality of human life. It promises a life ...
Source: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice - March 30, 2023 Category: Medical Ethics Source Type: research
