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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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Autonomy and purity in Kant's moral theory [PDF]
, 2010 Kant believed that the moral law is a law that the rational will legislates. This thesis examines this claim and its broader implications for Kant’s moral theory.
Benson, Carolyn Jane
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The Moral Status of Babies and Our Obligations to Them [PDF]
, 2012 This thesis explores who counts: who is part of the so-called moral community, and why. If personhood is the measure of full moral considerability—as many take it to be—then marginal humans will not count as fully morally considerable.
Porter, Lindsey
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The false promise of the better argument [PDF]
, 2011 Effective argumentation in international politics is widely conceived as a matter of persuasion. In particular, the ‘logic of arguing’ ascribes explanatory power to the ‘better argument’ and promises to illuminate the conditions of legitimate ...
Tine Hanrieder, Hanrieder, Tine
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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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Two sources of moral reasons [PDF]
, 2010 One of the core questions in contemporary metaethics concerns the nature and status of moral claims. However, this question presupposes that morality is unified, and that a single metaethical account will suffice.
Macdonald, Iain Ezra
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Moral Error Theory and the Argument from Epistemic Reasons [PDF]
, 2012 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 ...
Cosker-Rowland, Rach
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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 problem of moral luck: An argument against its epistemic reduction [PDF]
, 2009 Whom I call 'epistemic reductionists' in this article are critics of the notion of 'moral luck' that maintain that all supposed cases of moral luck are illusory; they are in fact cases of what I describe as a special form of epistemic luck, the only ...
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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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