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Against the impairment argument: A reply to Hendricks [PDF]
, 2020 In an article of this journal, Perry Hendricks makes a novel argument for the immorality of abortion. According to his impairment argument, abortion is immoral because: (a) it is wrong to impair a fetus to the nth degree, such as causing the fetus to ...
Räsänen, Joona
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Making the Animals on the Plate Visible: Anglophone Celebrity Chef Cookbooks Ranked by Sentient Animal Deaths [PDF]
, 2018 Recent decades have witnessed the rise of chefs to a position of cultural prominence. This rise has coincided with increased consciousness of ethical issues pertaining to food, particularly as they concern animals.
Lamey, Andy, Sharpless, Ike
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, 2018 Many of us think we have agent-centred options to act suboptimally. Some of these involve favouring our own interests. Others involve sacrificing them. In this paper, I explore three different ways to accommodate agent-centred options in a criterion of ...
Lazar, Seth
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The indispensable mental element of justification and the failure of purely objectivist (mostly “revisionist”) just war theories [PDF]
, 2020 The “right intention” requirement, in the form of a requirement that the agent must have a justified true belief that the mind-independent conditions of the justification to use force are fulfilled, is not an additional criterion, but one that constrains
Steinhoff, Uwe
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Brain Death as the End of a Human Organism as a Self-moving Whole [PDF]
, 2021 The biophilosophic justification for the idea that “brain death” is death needs to support two claims: that what dies in human death is a human organism, not merely a psychological entity distinct from it; that total brain failure signifies the end of ...
Omelianchuk, Adam
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Jeff McMahan (2009). Killing in war [PDF]
, 2009 Book review of Jeff McMahan, Killing in war. UK: Oxford Unuversity Press, 2009.
Steinhoff, UB
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, 2018 By claiming that “just war is just war,” critics suggest that just war theory both distracts from and sanitizes the horror of modern warfare by dressing it up in the language of moral principles. However, the phrase can also be taken as a reminder of why
O'Driscoll, Cian
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Moral certainty and the wrongness of killing: A non‐propositional view
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 170-194, April 2026.Abstract In 2008 I published a paper making the case that Wittgenstein's On Certainty reflections can be fruitfully extended to cast light on the foundations of our moral lives and practices. My primary example was that the wrongness of killing is a basic moral certainty.
Nigel Pleasants
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Animal Rights, Moral Motivation, and the Experience of Wonder
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 112-127, February 2026.ABSTRACT Despite being strong, arguments for animal rights often fail to motivate. One reason for this is that rights are associated with concepts, such as respect, that are difficult to apply to nonhuman animals. These concepts are difficult to apply because they are implicitly grounded in the special status of humans.
Steve Cooke
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Accidentally Killing on Purpose Again: Intentions Under Uncertainty
Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 228-238, December 2025.ABSTRACT Many philosophers believe that intentions are relevant to the justification of harm—they believe that intentional harms, or harms that result from intentionally affecting or using another person, are harder to justify than harms that are merely foreseen.
Patrick Tomlin
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