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Moral obligations and consent

open access: yes, 2018
In this chapter, I examine the effects consent has on our moral obligations. In particular, I address three questions: (1) Whose obligations are affected by a person’s consent? It is uncontroversial that consent changes the normative situation of the agent to whom it is given. But can it also create a new obligation for the person giving it?
Müller, Andreas
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Moral Obligations

2016
David Baggett, Jerry L. Walls
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Virtue and Moral Obligation

2023
Although Early Modern male philosophers arguably moved away from virtue ethics toward theories of obligation, it is less clearly true of women philosophers of that period. I argue that Early Modern women philosophers in France and England mixed elements from virtue ethics and theories of moral obligation in order to theorize their moral experience.
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Moral Obligations: Actualist, Possibilist, or Hybridist? [PDF]

open access: yesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy, 2016
Do facts about what an agent would freely do in certain circumstances at least partly determine any of her moral obligations? Actualists answer ‘yes’, while possibilists answer ‘no’.
Travis Timmerman, Yishai Cohen
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The moral psychology of obligation

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2019
Abstract Although psychologists have paid scant attention to the sense of obligation as a distinctly human motivation, moral philosophers have identified two of its key features: First, it has a peremptory, demanding force, with a kind of coercive quality, and second, it is often tied to agreement-like social interactions (e.g., promises) in which ...
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On the moral obligation of the scientist

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1952
With his customary lucidity and directness of expression. Dr. Einstein here examines the question whether scientific inquiry should be pursued as an autonomous object or subordinated to some “practical” end. He argues that the choice—which cannot be decided on a logical basis—”will have considerable influence upon our thinking and our moral judgment ...
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