…philosophy, about the extent to which political and moral considerations can play a role in philosophical theorizing, and about the importance of rival metaethical conceptions for first-order political practice. I…
Taking Deterrence Seriously: The Wide-Scope Deterrence Theory of Punishment
Abstract: A deterrence theory of punishment holds that the institution of criminal punishment is morally justified because it serves to deter crime. Because the fear of external sanction is an…
The individualism-holism debate on intertheoretic reduction and the argument from multiple realization.
Abstract: The argument from multiple realization is currently considered the argument against intertheoretic reduction. Both Little and Kincaid have applied the argument to the individualism-holism debate in support of the…
Rethinking Reprogenetics: Enhancing Ethical Analyses of Reprogenetic Technologies
Publisher’s Note: Reprogenetic technologies, which combine the power of reproductive techniques with the tools of genetic science and technology, promise prospective parents a remarkable degree of control to pick and…
‘But it’s your job!’ The moral status of jobs and the dilemma of occupational duties
Do individuals have moral duties to fulfil all the demands of their jobs? In this paper, we discuss how to understand such ‘occupational duties’ and their normative bases, with a…
Experiential Blindness Revisited: In Defence of a Case of Embodied Cognition
…are cases of pure sensory deficit. This paper argues that while the objections bring out limitations of Noë’s sensorimotor theory they do not do enough to challenge a robust perception–action…
Making Sense of Sense-Making: Reflections on Enactive and Extended Mind Theories
This paper explores some of the differences between the enactive approach in cognitive science and the extended mind thesis. We review the key enactive concepts of autonomy and sense-making. We…
Ruth Barcan Marcus and quantified modal logic
Analytic philosophy in the mid-twentieth century underwent a major change of direction when a prior consensus in favour of extensionalism and descriptivism made way for approaches using direct reference, the…
Freedom at Work: Understanding, Alienation, and the AI-Driven Workplace
…a central role in our life. Using this account of the noninstrumental value of explanations, the paper diagnoses distinctive normative defects in the workplace and economic institutions which a reliance…
The Space Between: How Empathy Really Works
…web of relationships. It also helps reveal who we actually are. It is this form of shifting perspectives that is at the core of impartiality, Maibom argues, and not the…