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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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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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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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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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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.
Loi, Michele, Heitz, Christoph
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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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The Paradox of Anti-Democratic Arguments: a defence of democratic principles in debate
Science & Philosophy, 2023 Conventional approaches in pro- or anti-democratic discourses often scrutinize the efficacy of leadership based on its outcomes, or explore the moral foundations of different systems.
Bekesi B Aron
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Are We Playing a Moral Lottery? Moral Disagreement from a Metasemantic Perspective
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2021 If someone disagrees with my moral views, or more generally if I’m in a group of n people who all disagree with each other, but I don’t have any special evidence or basis for my epistemic superiority, then it’s at best a 1-in-n chance that my views are ...
Sinan Dogramaci
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