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Saving and Letting Live

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a metaphysical difference between person A killing person B and A merely letting B die. There is also a metaphysical difference between A saving B and A merely letting B live. This paper argues that the metaphysical difference between saving and letting live gives rise to a moral difference. It then puts that moral difference to work:
Thomas Byrne
wiley   +1 more source

Doing your part: Joint obligation and individual‐level transmission

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper addresses how joint obligations bear on what individual group members should do. I argue that joint obligations do not transmit to the individual level. On the view I defend, “What should we do?” and “What should I do?” are separate questions to be answered independently. I distinguish two versions of the view that joint obligations
Rowan Mellor
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Methodological issues in consciousness research, volume II. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Psychol
Simione L   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Neurodiversity and attentional normativity

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We argue that some recent theories of attentional normativity license predictable misevaluations of neurodivergent cognizers. We suggest that this is because norms of attention have mostly been theorized without neuroatypical cognizers in mind.
Claire Field, Kurt Sylvan
wiley   +1 more source

Belief revision revised

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
Abstract I outline a novel counterexample to the principle of belief revision, Anticipation: if both learning e$e$ and learning not‐e$e$ would render belief in p$p$ unjustified, you cannot now be justified in believing p$p$. If I am right, not only is the leading theory of belief revision false, so are various recently proposed weakenings.
Joshua Edward Pearson
wiley   +1 more source

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