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Moral laws and moral worth
This essay concerns two forms of moral non-naturalism according to which general moral principles or laws enter into the grounding explanations of...
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Moral worth, right reasons and counterfactual motives
This paper explores the question of what makes an action morally worthy. I start with a popular theory of moral worth which roughly states that a...
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Moral Difference and Moral Differences
The idea that human beings have a distinct moral worth—a moral significance over and above any moral worth, such as that may be, possessed by other...
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The influence of personal moral philosophies on consumer responses to company moral transgressions: the role of moral reasoning strategies and moral intensity
Consumers can continue purchasing from or boycott a company in response to unethical conduct. Moral decoupling and moral rationalization are two...
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The Moral Status of Social Robots: A Pragmatic Approach
Debates about the moral status of social robots (SRs) currently face a second-order, or metatheoretical impasse. On the one hand, moral...
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A critical view on using “life not worth living” in the bioethics of assisted reproduction
This paper critically engages with how life not worth living (LNWL) and cognate concepts are used in the field of beginning-of-life bioethics as the...
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A Moral Bind? — Autonomous Weapons, Moral Responsibility, and Institutional Reality
In “Accepting Moral Responsibility for the Actions of Autonomous Weapons Systems—a Moral Gambit” (2022), Mariarosaria Taddeo and Alexander Blanchard...
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Blameless Moral Criticism – the Case of Moral Disappointment
In discussing the ways in which we hold each other accountable for immoral conduct, philosophers have often focused on blame, aiming to specify...
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AI Moral Enhancement: Upgrading the Socio-Technical System of Moral Engagement
Several proposals for moral enhancement would use AI to augment (auxiliary enhancement) or even supplant (exhaustive enhancement) human moral...
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The Moral Agent: A Critical Rationalist Perspective
Despite the moral underpinnings of Karl Popper’s philosophy, he has not presented a well-established moral theory for critical rationalism (CR). This...
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The Reliability Challenge to Moral Intuitions
In recent years, the epistemic reliability of moral intuitions has been undermined by substantial empirical data reporting the influence of cognitive...
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Anthropological Crisis or Crisis in Moral Status: a Philosophy of Technology Approach to the Moral Consideration of Artificial Intelligence
The inquiry into the moral status of artificial intelligence (AI) is leading to prolific theoretical discussions. A new entity that does not share...
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Defending Pure Moral Deference: an Argument from Rationality
Pessimists about moral deference argue that there is something special about moral beliefs which make it impermissible for agents to defer on moral...
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Moral Transformation as Shifting (Im)Possibilities
The phenomenon of moral transformation, though important, has received little attention in virtue ethics. In this paper we propose a virtue-ethical...
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Attention, moral skill, and algorithmic recommendation
Recommender systems are artificial intelligence technologies, deployed by online platforms, that model our individual preferences and direct our...
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The structure of moral encroachment
According to moral encroachment facts about epistemic justification can vary with moral factors that are unrelated to the truth of the belief. Most...
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Accepting Moral Responsibility for the Actions of Autonomous Weapons Systems—a Moral Gambit
In this article, we focus on the attribution of moral responsibility for the actions of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). To do so, we suggest that...
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How (not) to integrate scientific and moral realism
In this essay, I seek to clarify and defend a unified account of realism, i.e. a conception of realism that does not only apply to philosophy of...
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Reasonable standards and exculpating moral ignorance
It is widely agreed that ignorance of fact exculpates, but does moral ignorance exculpate? If so, does it exculpate in the same way as non-moral...
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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...