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Procreative Obligations and the Directed Duty of Care
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 785-803, November 2024.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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Ontological Foundations for Scholarly Debate Mapping Technology [PDF]
, 2008 Mapping scholarly debates is an important genre of what can be called Knowledge Domain Analytics (KDA) technology – i.e. technology which combines both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysing specialist knowledge domains.
Benn, Neil +3 more
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Progressing beyond colonization strategies to understand arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal life history
New Phytologist, Volume 244, Issue 3, Page 752-759, November 2024.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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Necessity and Liability: On an Honour-Based Justification for Defensive Harming [PDF]
, 2016 This paper considers whether victims can justify what appears to be unnecessary defensive harming by reference to an honour-based justification. I argue that such an account faces serious problems: the honour-based justification cannot permit, first ...
Bowen, Joseph
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Gun Rights as Deontic Constraints [PDF]
: In earlier work, I argued that individuals have a right to own firearms for personal defense, and that as a result, gun prohibition would be unjustified unless it at least produced benefits many times greater than its costs.
Huemer, Michael
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On two arguments for fanaticism
Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 3, Page 565-595, September 2024.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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Global consequentialism and the morality and laws of war [PDF]
Rights-based approaches and consequentialist approaches to ethics are often seen as being diametrically opposed to one another. In one sense, they are.
Greaves, Hilary
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 105, Issue 3, Page 370-391, September 2024.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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Just War Theory: Revisionists Vs Traditionalists [PDF]
, 2017 Contemporary just war theory is divided into two broad camps: revisionists and traditionalists. Traditionalists seek to provide moral foundations for something close to current international law, and in particular the laws of armed conflict.
Lazar, Seth
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Arthritis Care &Research, Volume 76, Issue 8, Page 1070-1082, August 2024.Objective We provide evidence‐based recommendations regarding screening for interstitial lung disease (ILD) and the monitoring for ILD progression in people with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs), specifically rheumatoid arthritis, systemic sclerosis, idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, mixed connective tissue disease, and Sjögren disease.
Sindhu R. Johnson +60 more
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