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Overconsumption, Procreation, and Morality
Ethics in Progress, 2014 Thomas Young (2001) argues that overconsumption and procreation are morally equivalent, and thus that anyone who disapproves of overconsumption must arrive at the same normative judgment concerning procreation (or procreation beyond a certain threshold).
John Mariana
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If You Can Understand This Essay, Then You Have Moral Rights and Moral Duties
Open Philosophy, 2020 Alan Gewirth’s work on moral and political philosophy attracted a great deal of attention between 1978 and 2000, but has received very little attention since then.
White Alan
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Cooperative Intuitionism [PDF]
, 2020 According to pluralistic intuitionist theories, some of our moral beliefs are non-inferentially justified, and these beliefs come in both an a priori and an a posteriori variety.
Ingram, Stephen
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An Inconsistency in Craig’s Defence of the Moral Argument [PDF]
, 2012 I argue that William Craig’s defence of the moral argument is internally inconsistent. In the course of defending the moral argument, Craig criticizes non-theistic moral realism on the grounds that it posits the existence of certain logically necessary ...
Wielenberg, Erik J.
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Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2023 In this article, I present a two-pronged argument for the immorality of contemporary, asymmetric drone warfare, based on my new interpretations of the just war principles of “proportionality” and “moral equivalence of combatants” (MEC).
Joshua M. Hall
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Naturalistic Moral Realism and Evolutionary Biology
Philosophies, 2021 Perhaps the most familiar understanding of “naturalism” derives from Quine, understanding it as a continuity of empirical theories of the world as described through the scientific method.
Paul Bloomfield
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A new argument for moral error theory
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.
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Against directive teaching in the moral Community of Inquiry: A response to Michael Hand
Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 2020 While we consider directive teaching to be detrimental to the Community of Inquiry (CoI), we nonetheless find ourselves in qualified agreement with Hand as he challenges certain norms of practice that support the common presumption in favour of ...
Michelle Sowey, Grace Lockrobin
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The Personite Problem and the Stage-Theoretic Reply [PDF]
Organon F, 2022 Personites are shorter-lived, person-like things that extend across part of a person’s life. Their existence follows from the standard perdurance view of persons. Johnston argues that it has bizarre moral consequences.
Harold Noonan
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Robot Morality: Bertram F. Malle’s Concept of Moral Competence
Ethics in Progress, 2018 Bertram F. Malle is one of the first scientists, combining robotics with moral competence. His theory outlines that moral competence can be understood as a system of five components including moral norms, a moral vocabulary, moral cognition, moral ...
André Schmiljun
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