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- 2Gauthier, David P--Morals by agreement
- 2The Non-Identity Problem
- 1Aesthetics
- 1Agent (Philosophy)
- 1Antinatalism
- 1Abedinifard, Morteza
- 1Andes, Peter
- 1Cameron, Frank.
- 1Contreiras, Andrew
- 1Cust, Kenn F. T.
- 1Donohoe, Aidan.
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Fall 2013
The Non-Identity Problem arises in cases in which an agent causes someone to exist in an undesirable state, and it intuitively seems they have acted wrongly by doing so. It can be difficult to locate the source of this wrongdoing, however, since in these cases there is no way for the agent to...
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Fall 2010
This thesis argues that Hannah Arendt is correct to suggest that thinking enables judgment, even though Arendt never fully formulates this idea herself. I provide a critical reading of Arendt’s essay “Thinking and Moral Considerations” and of her series of lectures on Kant’s political philosophy....
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Fall 2010
Moral virtues need intellectual virtues. I support this claims by (1) proposing a response in terms of intellectual virtues and other psychological factors to situationalist critiques against moral virtue, (2) arguing that intellectual virtues must assess moral contexts for proper manifestation...
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Spring 2021
There are many things that we might feel obligated to justify to other people, but having a child is not usually one of them. It is difficult to imagine a decision more personal, or more apparently within one’s rights to make. Yet in recent decades a number of thinkers have raised questions and...