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Individual Virtues, Social Movements, and Allyship in the Sphere of Intellectual Disability
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Tommy Ness
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Environmental Just Wars: Jus ad Bellum and the Natural Environment
ABSTRACT War is bad for the environment, yet the environmental ramifications of warfare have not been widely addressed by just war theorists and revisionist philosophers of war. The law and legal scholars have paid more attention to protecting nature during armed conflict.
Tamar Meisels
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McMahan on Speciesism and Deprivation [PDF]
Jeff McMahan has long shown himself to be a vigorous and incisive critic of speciesism, and in his essay “Our Fellow Creatures” he has been particularly critical of speciesist arguments that draw inspiration from Wittgenstein.
Grau, Christopher
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A Project View of the Right to Parent
ABSTRACT The institution of the family and its importance have recently received considerable attention from political theorists. Leading views maintain that the institution's justification is grounded, at least in part, in the non‐instrumental value of the parent–child relationship itself.
Benjamin Lange
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Procreative Obligations and the Directed Duty of Care
ABSTRACT There is much dispute about what we owe the children we are responsible for creating. Some argue that so long as we provide offspring with lives worth living we do no wrong. Others argue that our procreative obligations are weightier and oblige us to provide (or attempt to provide) our offspring with a reasonable opportunity to thrive, or meet
Reuven Brandt
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Defending Defensive Killing : Reply to Barry, McMahan, Ferzan, Renzo and Haque
This article responds to objections to the account of permissible harming developed in Defensive Killing, as raised by Christian Barry, Jeff McMahan, Kimberly Ferzan, Massimo Renzo and Adil Ahmad Haque.
Frowe, Helen,
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Progressing beyond colonization strategies to understand arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal life history
Summary Knowledge of differential life‐history strategies in arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi is relevant for understanding the ecology of this group and its potential role in sustainable agriculture and carbon sequestration. At present, AM fungal life‐history theories often focus on differential investment into intra‐ vs extraradical structures among
Tessa Camenzind +6 more
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Discussion of Jeff McMahan\u27s \u27Or \u27Emet Lecture: Proportionality in Self-Defense and War
Follow-up seminar on Jeff McMahan\u27s ‘Or ‘Emet Lecture, delivered on Thursday, March 11, 2010. Part of the Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism Seminar Series.
Scott, Craig +3 more
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On two arguments for fanaticism
Abstract Should we make significant sacrifices to ever‐so‐slightly lower the chance of extremely bad outcomes, or to ever‐so‐slightly raise the chance of extremely good outcomes? Fanaticism says yes: for every bad outcome, there is a tiny chance of extreme disaster that is even worse, and for every good outcome, there is a tiny chance of an enormous ...
Jeffrey Sanford Russell
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Abstract In this paper, I discuss two different metaethical challenges based on population ethical impossibility results. According to the anti‐realist challenge, the results pose a serious threat to the existence of objective moral facts. According to the skeptical challenge, the results pose a serious threat to the reliability of our moral intuitions.
Victor Moberger
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