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Aim or preference? Reflections on the commitment to the truth in the criminal process
It is widely accepted that the criminal process aims at the truth. It is also widely accepted that convicting the innocent is worse than acquitting...
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Beyond Reasonableness: Argumentative Virtues in Pragma-Dialectics
The pragma-dialectical research program begins with a philosophical estate, in which a conception of reasonableness is offered that must serve as...
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Group prioritarianism: why AI should not replace humanity
If a future AI system can enjoy far more well-being than a human per resource, what would be the best way to allocate resources between these future...
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On why proximal intentions need to remain snubbed: a reply to Mele
I argue against elements of Alfred Mele’s picture of the nature of intentions and the triggers of intentional actions. Mele (Philosophical Studies...
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Many Bombers of the Principle of Double Effect: An Analysis of Strategic/Terror Bomber Thought Experiment Variants
The strategic/terror bomber thought experiment is often employed in the contemporary debate on the principle of double effect (PDE). It is taken to...
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The Heaviest Metal
It has recently been argued that metal’s ‘heaviness’ is conceptually inarticulable. I argue, on the contrary, that ‘heaviness’ is a matter of...
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On the Logical Argument from Natural Evil: A Response to Moore
Dwayne Moore’s "A Naturalistic Theodicy for Sterba’s Problem of Natural Evil," (Moore, 2024) provides a detailed critique of my logical argument from...
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An Introduction to Food Ethics: A Philosophical Pursuit
The relation between food and morality is not a novel concern in Philosophy. There have been discussions about the same in traditions as early as the...
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Instrumental Needs: A Relational Account
Instrumentalism about need suggests that the normative significance of an agent’s need for x depends on the end for which x is needed. Instrumental...
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The Determinants of Countercyclical Job Satisfaction in the Public Sector
Job satisfaction is sensitive to economic fluctuations; it rises during economic growth and falls in recessions. Job satisfaction also depends on...
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Pragma-dialectics and the problem of agreement
Pragma-Dialectics (PD) is an approach to argumentation that can be described as disagreement-centric. On PD, disagreement is the condition which...
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Uncontrolled Power: Independence and Markets in Republicanism
This paper discusses three theses of the neo-republican analysis of the market. According to the first, one of the advantages of the market is its...
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Varieties of Natural Concepts
The concepts to be considered in this chapter are those that occur in everyday common human thought and language – the “natural history” of concepts...
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Self-Threatening Extortionists Constitute a Problem for Utilitarians, Not Contractualists
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...
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Libertarianism, decision-making, and a point of no return
This paper develops a challenge to standard libertarian views that is based on an imagined neuroscientificdiscovery that is incompatible with...