Intuitively, we judge that our responsibility has more to do with what we do than what we omit to do, and that it extends more to intended effects than to side-effects of our deeds. These intuitions have been expressed in our tradition through two principles: the doctrine of acts and omissions (DDE) and the doctrine of double effect (DDE). Jonathan Glover acknowledges that these two principles are important, but believes that it is eventually better to discard them and, instead, to stick to the consequentialist view that our responsibility extends equally to all the consequences of our behavior (acts and omissions). I first examine Glover’s objections against the two principles and then present Joshua Greene’s research on the neuropsycholog...
The first principle, often associated with the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, emphasizes the irr...
This dissertation develops a Kantian quality of will account of moral blameworthiness. Part I starts...
An emerging movement called “experimental philosophy ” provides a new angle on the venerable debate ...
Intuitivement, nous jugeons que notre responsabilité concerne davantage ce que nous faisons que ce q...
In his book Causing Death and Saving Lives, Jonathan Glover undertakes to criticize the acts and omi...
For this special issue dedicated to Jonathan Glover, Peter Singer was asked to reflect on the influe...
Joshua Greene and Peter Singer argue, on the basis of empirical evidence, that deontological moral j...
Traditionally, moral philosophers have distinguished between doing and allowing harm, and have norma...
John Rawls believed that capturing our moral sense was the goal of moral philosophy. Deontology, Co...
Common morality endorses some form of an exceptionless prohibition against killing innocents. Natura...
Many philosophers have argued that alternative possibilities are required for an agent’s moral respo...
The philosopher Bernard Williams describes an example in which a botanist wanders into a village in ...
Evaluator-relative consequentialists frequently endorse the traditional doing-allowing distinction. ...
I argue against two of the most influential contemporary theories of moral responsibility: those of ...
I argue that the strongest form of consequentialism is one which rejects the claim that we are moral...
The first principle, often associated with the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, emphasizes the irr...
This dissertation develops a Kantian quality of will account of moral blameworthiness. Part I starts...
An emerging movement called “experimental philosophy ” provides a new angle on the venerable debate ...
Intuitivement, nous jugeons que notre responsabilité concerne davantage ce que nous faisons que ce q...
In his book Causing Death and Saving Lives, Jonathan Glover undertakes to criticize the acts and omi...
For this special issue dedicated to Jonathan Glover, Peter Singer was asked to reflect on the influe...
Joshua Greene and Peter Singer argue, on the basis of empirical evidence, that deontological moral j...
Traditionally, moral philosophers have distinguished between doing and allowing harm, and have norma...
John Rawls believed that capturing our moral sense was the goal of moral philosophy. Deontology, Co...
Common morality endorses some form of an exceptionless prohibition against killing innocents. Natura...
Many philosophers have argued that alternative possibilities are required for an agent’s moral respo...
The philosopher Bernard Williams describes an example in which a botanist wanders into a village in ...
Evaluator-relative consequentialists frequently endorse the traditional doing-allowing distinction. ...
I argue against two of the most influential contemporary theories of moral responsibility: those of ...
I argue that the strongest form of consequentialism is one which rejects the claim that we are moral...
The first principle, often associated with the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant, emphasizes the irr...
This dissertation develops a Kantian quality of will account of moral blameworthiness. Part I starts...
An emerging movement called “experimental philosophy ” provides a new angle on the venerable debate ...