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Conservation or the Moral High Ground: Siding with Bentham or Kant

, 2016
Conservation requires value judgments as well as science (Dickman et al. 2015). The furore over the killing of “Cecil” the lion highlighted the complexities of such judgments.
D. Macdonald, P. Johnson, A. Loveridge, D. Burnham, A. Dickman   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-Being

Social Science Research Network, 2015
Life evaluations and emotional states are distinct subjective well-being (SWB) components. We explore the relationship between opportunities and SWB dimensions, distinguishing between actual capabilities and means (education, employment, and income) and ...
Carol Graham, Carol Graham, Milena Nikolova   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Secrecy: An Epistemological Account

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although the ethical and political implications of secrecy are significant, I argue here that its fundamental nature is epistemological and that any account of its nature must be based on its epistemological profile. In particular, I propose examining secrecy within the framework of social and political epistemology, considering secrets as ...
Jesús Navarro
wiley   +1 more source

A Polyphonic Debate on Social Equity Budgeting

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is polyphonic (i.e., a debate involving multiple perspectives) and highlights emerging interdisciplinary thoughts on past, current, and future social equity budgeting (SEB). We present a vision for the field and emphasize the potential impact of this paper. We hope to enliven debates regarding context, underpinning philosophies, and
Bruce D. McDonald III, Laurence Ferry, Sean A. McCandless, Meagan M. Jordan, Ileana Steccolini, John R. Bartle, Thomas Ahrens, Jim Haslam, Philip G. Joyce, Tobias Polzer   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Jeremy Bentham’ın Gerçek ve Kurgusal Varlıklar Teorisi ve Hukuki Terimlerin Açıklanması

Anadolu Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi
Jeremy Bentham 18. yüzyılda yaşamış önemli bir filozof ve hukukçudur. Faydacılığın önemli temsilcilerinden ve modern düşüncede etkin olmasını sağlayan başlıca isimlerden biri olarak gösterilebilecek Bentham, çok geniş bir yelpazede eserlerini sunmuştur ...
Fatih Güneş
doaj   +1 more source

Possibilities for Social Equity Budgeting: Critical Insights From Bentham?

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Considering prior ways of seeing and practical mobilisations of Social Equity Budgeting (SEB), we suggest that prior conceptualisation, research and practice can be advanced by reflecting on insights from the philosophical and political literature on equity and justice.
Laurence Ferry, Jim Haslam, Henry Midgley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beccaria e Bentham

Diciottesimo Secolo, 2019
The philosophies of Beccaria and Bentham have a number of features in common: the juspositivist principle of legality, the project of minimizing criminal law, the dependence of punishment on types of action rather than types of actors, the idea of the ...
Luigi Ferrajoli
doaj   +1 more source

Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
wiley   +1 more source

A Hundred Thousand Darlingtons: Self‐Respect, Moral Judgement, and the Right to an Equal Democratic Say

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT I defend the non‐instrumentalist thesis that every adult member of a political society has a pro tanto fundamental moral right to an equal democratic say in determining the content of the laws to which she is subject. I begin by giving an account of an important kind of servility that has received only glancing notice in philosophical ...
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

AI Alignment Versus AI Ethical Treatment: 10 Challenges

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A morally acceptable course of AI development should avoid two dangers: creating unaligned AI systems that pose a threat to humanity and mistreating AI systems that merit moral consideration in their own right. This paper argues these two dangers interact and that if we create AI systems that merit moral consideration, simultaneously avoiding ...
Adam Bradley, Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source