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The Moral Argument Against Monarchy (Absolute or Constitutional)
I argue that monarchies, in any possible form (absolute or constitutional), should be abolished once and for all. This is because of the deeply...
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The Role of Moral Norms in Political Theory
In the recent debate on political normativity in political philosophy, two positions have emerged among so-called political realists. On the first...
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Dimensions of Consciousness and the Moral Status of Brain Organoids
Human brain organoids (HBOs) are novel entities that may exhibit unique forms of cognitive potential. What moral status, if any, do they have?...
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Wrongful Discrimination Without Equal, Basic Moral Status
Many theorists think that discrimination is wrongful because it involves treating discriminatees as if they have a lower moral status than others...
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Time, moral and anti-moral: Améry and Levinas on historical responses to trauma
In this article I interpret Améry’s claims about the temporal dimension of trauma in the light of Levinas’s reflections on suffering and responses to...
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Vice-based accounts of moral evil
In this paper, I highlight three objections to vice-based accounts of moral evil: (1) the worry that vice-based accounts of evil are explanatorily...
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A Moral Evaluation of LBOs
This study conducts a moral analysis of leverage buyouts (LBOs) and relies on the holistic framework of the Triple Font Theory. It shows that the...
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Mitigating Moral Distress: Pediatric Critical Care Nurses’ Recommendations
In pediatric critical care, nurses are the primary caregivers for critically ill children and are particularly vulnerable to moral distress. There is...
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In Hindsight: An Essay Concerning My Limited Moral Understanding
This article explores one central assumption that is guiding large portions of contemporary (analytic) moral philosophy: the idea that moral...
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Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
The idea that technologies can change moral beliefs and practices is an old one. But how, exactly, does this happen? This paper builds on an emerging...
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Moral knowledge and the existence of god
In this essay, I argue that, all else being equal, theism is more probable than naturalism on the assumption that human beings are able to arrive at...
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Agroecology’s moral vision
What is agroecology’s moral vision, and what are the larger metaphysical, even theological, implications of it? Even though agroecology as a field...
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The two parts of Kant’s moral religion
Why in the Critique of Practical Reason is moral religion presented as a doctrine of the postulates of pure practical reason, of which Christian...
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Moral Responsibility, the Author, and the Ethical Criticism of Art
In this paper, I argue that since artworks cannot take moral responsibility, it is impossible to establish any sort of ethical criticism towards them...
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A puzzle about moral responsibility
We present a new puzzle about logical truth, necessity, and moral responsibility. We defend one solution to the puzzle. A corollary of our preferred...
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Moral Reasons
Normative ethics is concerned with reflection on moral problems. It does so through the analysis of moral reasons. In this chapter we explain what a...
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The fertility of moral ambiguity in precision medicine
Although precision medicine cuts across a large spectrum of professions, interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial moral deliberation has yet to be...
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For the Love of the Game: Moral Ambivalence and Justification Work in Consuming Violence
Drawing on Butler’s theoretical background, research on the ethics of violence has focused on the importance of dominant society-wide schemes and...
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The Role of Moral Experts in Secret Policy
Is it morally permissible to spy on allied countries? What type of otherwise criminal acts may covert intelligence agents commit in order to keep...
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Moral Perfection as the Counterfeit of Virtue
It is sometimes assumed that the best people—those whom it would be appropriate to admire and emulate—ought to be free of all moral defects. Numerous...