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Knowledge Versus Understanding: What Drives Moral Progress? 知识与理解：是什么推动了道德进步？
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10465-w
Petar Bodlović, Karolina Kudlek
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The Neurocorrective Offer and Manipulative Pressure 神经矫正提议和操纵压力
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-08-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10462-z
Sebastian Jon Holmen, Emma Dore-Horgan
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Influencer-Centered Accounts of Manipulation 以影响者为中心的操纵描述
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10458-9
Micha H. Werner
{"title":"Influencer-Centered Accounts of Manipulation","authors":"Micha H. Werner","doi":"10.1007/s10677-024-10458-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-024-10458-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Advances in science and technology have added to our insights into the vulnerabilities of human agency as well as to the methods of exploiting them. This has raised the stakes for efforts to clarify the concept and ethics of manipulation. Among these efforts, Robert Noggle’s influencer-centered account of manipulation has been most significant. He defines manipulative acts as those whereby an agent intentionally influences a recipient’s attitudes so that they do <i>not</i> conform as closely as they otherwise would to the pertinent norms and ideals endorsed by the <i>influencer</i>. This provides a relatively simple and in many ways clear definition of manipulation. It sidesteps thorny debates about autonomy, freedom, or practical rationality. It also promises to reveal a conceptual parallel between manipulating and lying, and thus to explain why manipulation is <i>pro tanto</i> wrong. In one respect, however, the account remains ambiguous: It remains unclear whether, and to what extent, it requires that influencers’ beliefs about what is ideal <i>for their recipients</i> to be grounded in some effort on the part of the influencer to identify with or take on the role of her recipient. This paper explains this ambiguity. It argues that influencer-centrism cannot remain indifferent to the <i>validity</i> of an agent’s beliefs about the ideal state of the recipient <i>and</i> provide an identification requirement that would render the whole account plausible and sufficiently determinate.</p>","PeriodicalId":47052,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Theory and Moral Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142181021","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Distributive Demands of Relational Egalitarianism 关系平等主义的分配要求
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-08-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10460-1
Jan-Christoph Heilinger
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Impactful Conceptual Engineering: Designing Technological Artefacts Ethically 有影响力的概念工程：从道德角度设计技术工艺品
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10459-8
Herman Veluwenkamp
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Instrumental Needs: A Relational Account 工具性需求：关系叙述
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10453-0
Espen Dyrnes Stabell
{"title":"Instrumental Needs: A Relational Account","authors":"Espen Dyrnes Stabell","doi":"10.1007/s10677-024-10453-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-024-10453-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Instrumentalism about need suggests that the normative significance of an agent’s need for <i>x</i> depends on the end for which <i>x</i> is needed. Instrumental accounts have, however, been vague about the transfer or transmission of normative significance supposed to be occurring from ends to needs. How should such transmission be understood, and how can we assess the amount or degree of significance being transmitted in particular cases? The Relational Account (RA) combines work on normative transmission principles and the strength of reasons in order to clarify these issues. RA, it is argued, both (1) improves the instrumental view on need and (2) can be used to analyze and assess a large range of needs and arguments from need – including ‘basic needs’, which some argue require non-instrumental explanation. While the paper develops an instrumental view, the analysis of the normativity of the needs-end relation will also be helpful for clarifying instrumental relations between different kinds of need in non-instrumentalist theories – such as relations between ‘absolute’ and intermediate needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":47052,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Theory and Moral Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141612707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Self-Threatening Extortionists Constitute a Problem for Utilitarians, Not Contractualists 自我威胁的勒索者是功利主义者的问题，而不是契约主义者的问题
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10457-w
Robert Huseby, Sigurd Lindstad
{"title":"Self-Threatening Extortionists Constitute a Problem for Utilitarians, Not Contractualists","authors":"Robert Huseby, Sigurd Lindstad","doi":"10.1007/s10677-024-10457-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-024-10457-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Johann Frick has claimed that morality requires that we (in many cases) should give in to the demands of rational agents who attempt to extort us by threatening to harm themselves (self-threatening extortionists). He has further argued that since contractualism implies that there is no such moral requirement, such cases represent a problem for this brand of moral theory. In this paper, we argue that things are quite the other way around: Morality does not require that we give in to the demands of self-threatening extortionists. Such cases, therefore, represent a problem for (act) utilitarianism, rather than contractualism. Our argument appeals to a particular understanding of the idea that rational agents have a special responsibility to take care of their own interests or welfare.</p>","PeriodicalId":47052,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Theory and Moral Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Blame and Proportionality 责任与相称性
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10454-z
Marta Johansson Werkmäster, Jakob Werkmäster
{"title":"Blame and Proportionality","authors":"Marta Johansson Werkmäster, Jakob Werkmäster","doi":"10.1007/s10677-024-10454-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-024-10454-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The ethics of blame includes conditions determining whether an instance of blame is permissible. One generally recognised condition is that blame should be proportionate. If it is not proportionate, that speaks against its permissibility. All the same, what exactly amounts to proportionate blame is currently under-theorised. In this paper, we aim to amend this. More precisely, we distinguish between private and overt blame and highlight some of their differences – e.g., that they aggregate differently. Then, we develop an account of proportional blame and draw out some practical implications of our account.</p>","PeriodicalId":47052,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Theory and Moral Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Preach! (Practice not Included): A Qualified Defense of Hypocrisy 宣讲！(不包括练习）：为虚伪辩护
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10456-x
Carlos Santana
{"title":"Preach! (Practice not Included): A Qualified Defense of Hypocrisy","authors":"Carlos Santana","doi":"10.1007/s10677-024-10456-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-024-10456-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Hypocrisy is generally treated as particularly repugnant, perhaps the “only unforgivable sin.” I argue that this attitude is misplaced. Hypocrisy—especially quotidian hypocrisy by the average citizen—plays an essential role in maintaining and promoting a good society. Hypocrisy facilitates the establishment and maintenance of beneficial social norms, and can secure better social outcomes when full compliance with a norm is suboptimal. The hypocrite then, is sometimes playing a crucial role in society, and in such cases doesn’t deserve the full measure of the reprobation we usually reserve for them. Instead of focusing our reactions on their hypocrisy, we should instead target our attitudes on the misbehavior itself.</p>","PeriodicalId":47052,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Theory and Moral Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms 规划而不禁止：动物研究与可避免伤害论证
IF 1 2区 哲学
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Pub Date : 2024-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10455-y
Nico Dario Müller
{"title":"Planning without Banning: Animal Research and the Argument from Avoidable Harms","authors":"Nico Dario Müller","doi":"10.1007/s10677-024-10455-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-024-10455-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The call for a planned phase-out is at the forefront of the political debate about animal experimentation. While authorities like the European Commission start taking a strategic approach to regulatory animal testing, they refuse to develop specific roadmaps for the phase-out of animal research. I articulate the central argument that is advanced against phase-out planning in animal research, the argument from avoidable harms: By restricting research, we may incur avoidable future harms and thus, while we may regret having to use animals in ways that harm them, for the sake of avoiding future harms we must not phase out animal research. The discussion of this argument yields two Conclusions: First, it applies only to ban-based phase-out plans, but not to plans consisting of a range of other interventions known from the literature on transformative governance. Second, the premises of the argument construe animal research as a necessary evil, thus as a conflict of unequal duties. But we have a duty not just to avoid avoidable harms, but also to avoid avoidable moral conflicts. This we can only do by taking a strategic approach. Thus, what initially looks like an argument against phase-out planning is in truth an argument for ban-free phase-out planning. This finding is important for practice because it shows that while government authorities’ reluctance to issue bans may be justified, their refusal to undertake strategic planning for the phase-out of animal research is not.</p>","PeriodicalId":47052,"journal":{"name":"Ethical Theory and Moral Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141509827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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