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Global directions of change in moral norms: a test of the moral argument theory. [PDF]
R Soc Open SciHow and why are moral norms for various issues changing across the globe? Moral argument theory uniquely addresses these questions by positing that moral norm change is driven by ‘individualizing’ arguments: concerns about harm, fairness and liberty.
Strimling P +4 more
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How does political discussion frequency impact political moral opinions? The moral argument theory of opinion dynamics. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Discussions of political issues may influence people's opinions. Is there any systematic difference in opinions between those who discuss frequently and those who do not? We measured the association between self-reported discussion frequency and the probability of holding the more liberal opinion on moral issues, using data from the General Social ...
Eriksson K, Vartanova I, Strimling P.
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A new argument for moral error theory [PDF]
Noûs, 2020 AbstractTraditional arguments for moral error theory are based on identifying a problem with the metaphysics of moral properties. I provide a new argument that is based on the inconsistency of first‐order moral judgments. I illustrate this using impossibility results in population axiology.
Christopher Cowie, Cowie, Christopher
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Moral Error Theory and the Argument from Epistemic Reasons [PDF]
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2013 In this paper I defend what I call the argument from epistemic reasons against the moral error theory. I argue that the moral error theory entails that there are no epistemic reasons for belief and that this is bad news for the moral error theory since, if there are no epistemic reasons for belief, no one knows anything.
Richard Rowland +2 more
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Is calibration a fairness requirement?
2022 ACM Conference on Fairness Accountability and Transparency, 2022 In this paper, we provide a moral analysis of two criteria of statistical fairness debated in the machine learning literature: 1) calibration between groups and 2) equality of false positive and false negative rates between groups. In our paper, we focus on moral arguments in support of either measure. The conflict between group calibration vs.
Michele Loi, Christoph Heitz
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Pain for the Moral Error Theory? A New Companions-in-Guilt Argument [PDF]
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2017 ABSTRACTThe moral error theorist claims that moral discourse is irredeemably in error because it is committed to the existence of properties that do not exist. A common response has been to postulate ‘companions in guilt’—forms of discourse that seem safe from error despite sharing the putatively problematic features of moral discourse.
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Argument and the 'Moral Impact' Theory of Law
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 The new Moral Impact Theory (“MIT”) of law is novel, innovative, and influential. It claims that the moral impacts of legal institutional actions, rather than the linguistic content of “rules” or pronouncements, determine law’s content. MIT’s corollary is that the practice of legal interpretation consists in the inquiry into what is morally required as
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Law’s Argumentative Structure Belies the New “Moral Impact” Theory of Law [PDF]
Proceedings of the 10th International RAIS Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (RAIS 2018), 2018 The new Moral Impact Theory (“MIT”) of law is novel, innovative, and influential. It claims that the moral impacts of legal institutional actions, rather than the linguistic content of any “rules” or pronouncements, determine law’s content. MIT’s corollary is thereby that the practice of legal interpretation consists in the inquiry into what is morally
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Religions, 2023 Atheist moral philosopher Erik Wielenberg recently argued that Divine Command Theory is implausible as an explanation of objective morality because it fails to explain how psychopaths have moral obligations. In this paper I explain that everyone agrees the consciences of psychopaths don’t work as they should, but there’s disagreement among experts as ...
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Is It Permissible to Make Moral Arguments against Metaphysical Theories?
Epistemology & Philosophy of ScienceI reply to K. Morozov’s paper “The Normative Problem for Panpsychism”. I show that his argument against panpsychism which is based on the demonstration of the normative problem actually is a moral argument against a metaphysical theory. I draw an analogy between this argument of K. Morozov and M. Heller’s moral argument against modal realism. I examine
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