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227Degrees of Preference and Degrees of Preference SatisfactionUtilitas 23 (3): 316-323. 2011.The standard view holds that the degree to which an individual's preferences are satisfied is simply the degree to which the individual prefers the prospect that is realized to the other prospects in her preference domain. In this article, I reject the standard view by showing that it violates one fundamental intuition about degrees of preference satisfaction.
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961Sur la symétrie présumée entre valeurs et préférencesLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 9 (2): 82-98. 2014.Comment pouvons-nous analyser des relations de valeur non standards, comme la parité axiologique, en termes d’attitudes appropriées? Wlodek Rabinowicz suggère que deux choses sont à parité si et seulement si il est à la fois permissible de préférer l’une à l’autre et permissible d’avoir la préférence contraire. Dans un article récent, Johan Gustafsson soutient toutefois que l’analyse de Rabinowicz viole un principe de symétrie entre valeurs et préférences, selon lequel il existe pour toute relat…Read more
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175The Problem of Predation in ZoopolisJournal of Applied Philosophy 35 (4): 718-736. 2016.In this article, we argue that the phenomenon of predation is the source of several problems for Donaldson and Kymlicka's account of our duties towards wild and liminal animals. According to them, humans should adopt a general policy of non-intervention with respect to predatory behaviour involving wild and liminal animals. They justify this recommendation by appealing to the status of those animals as, respectively, members of sovereign communities and denizens of human-animal societies. Our go…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
| Value Theory |
| Well-Being |
| Moral Psychology |
| Meta-Ethics |
| Philosophy of Economics |