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The Illusion of Permissive Balancing

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The standard view among philosophers of normativity is that practical reasons balance permissively (i.e., when reasons are tied between incompatible actions, either action is rational), while epistemic reasons balance prohibitively (i.e., when reasons are tied between incompatible doxastic attitudes, neither attitude may be rationally formed).
Jordan Scott
wiley   +1 more source

Valuings as Sentiments

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We are valuing beings, beings who possess the capacity to value things. But what is it “to value” something? The most common accounts in the literature hold that to value an item is either to have a first‐order or a second‐order desire toward it; or to believe that item to be valuable; or to care about that item; or to have a combination of ...
Mauro Rossi, Christine Tappolet
wiley   +1 more source

Guessing at Ghosts in the Machine

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As AI grows ever more complex and ubiquitous, its moral status becomes increasingly pressing. But knowing whether an AI has moral status is only part of the ethical puzzle. To determine how we ought to treat such entities, we must know not only whether AIs have moral status, but also about the content of their interests—what contributes to ...
Helen Yetter‐Chappell
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
wiley   +1 more source

When do we experience effort? [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese
Holton E, Holton R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Heidegger and Levinas on the phenomenology of the hand: Between work and gesture

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Heidegger and Levinas develop distinct phenomenological accounts of the hand. Both thinkers refuse to treat the hand as merely an anatomical organ, instead viewing it as an essential dimension of human existence. Yet their interpretations diverge sharply. In the first section, I show how Heidegger grounds the function
Cristian Ciocan
wiley   +1 more source

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