Add to ORKGIn this paper, I confront Parfit’s Mixed Maxims Objection. I argue that recent attempts to respond to this objection fail, and I argue that their failure is compounded by the failure of recent attempts to show how the Formula of Universal Law can be used to demarcate the category of obligatory maxims. I then set out my own response to the objection, drawing on remarks from Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals for inspiration and developing a novel account of how the Formula of Universal Law can be employed to determine the deontic status of action tokens, action types, and maxims
Moral necessity is the idea that specific imperatives bind the actions of a moral agent regardless o...
Derek Parfit’s On What Matters endorses Kantian Contractualism, the normative theory that everyone o...
In this paper, I argue that Kantian ethics is not inclusive, and his formulation of CI fails. It ...
In this paper, I confront Parfit’s Mixed Maxims Objection. I argue that recent attempts to respond t...
Ever since Hegel famously objected to Kant’s universalization formulations of the Categorical Impera...
My goal in this piece is to show that there is a problem lurking in the shadows of recent attempts t...
According to the objection from positive duties, Kant's Formula of Universal Law is flawed because i...
In the Doctrine of Virtue, Kant introduces the concept of an end that is also a duty and explains th...
My goal in this paper is to show that it is not the case that positive duties can be derived from Ka...
Author Posting © Philosophical Inquiry, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of Philosoph...
In this paper I am going to raise a problem for recent attempts to derive positive duties from Kant’...
In this paper I examine Kant’s account of maximic action and his discussion of the universal ground ...
Kant’s formula of universal law (FUL) is standardly understood as a test of the moral permissibility...
Moral necessity is the idea that specific imperatives bind the actions of a moral agent regardless o...
Derek Parfit’s On What Matters endorses Kantian Contractualism, the normative theory that everyone o...
In this paper, I argue that Kantian ethics is not inclusive, and his formulation of CI fails. It ...
In this paper, I confront Parfit’s Mixed Maxims Objection. I argue that recent attempts to respond t...
Ever since Hegel famously objected to Kant’s universalization formulations of the Categorical Impera...
My goal in this piece is to show that there is a problem lurking in the shadows of recent attempts t...
According to the objection from positive duties, Kant's Formula of Universal Law is flawed because i...
In the Doctrine of Virtue, Kant introduces the concept of an end that is also a duty and explains th...
My goal in this paper is to show that it is not the case that positive duties can be derived from Ka...
Author Posting © Philosophical Inquiry, 2017. This article is posted here by permission of Philosoph...
In this paper I am going to raise a problem for recent attempts to derive positive duties from Kant’...
In this paper I examine Kant’s account of maximic action and his discussion of the universal ground ...
Kant’s formula of universal law (FUL) is standardly understood as a test of the moral permissibility...
Moral necessity is the idea that specific imperatives bind the actions of a moral agent regardless o...
Derek Parfit’s On What Matters endorses Kantian Contractualism, the normative theory that everyone o...
In this paper, I argue that Kantian ethics is not inclusive, and his formulation of CI fails. It ...