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7Dimensions of Consequentialism: Ethics, Equality, and Risk (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2013 1-2. 2013.
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239Depression, listlessness, and moral motivationRatio 24 (1): 28-45. 2011.Motivational internalism (MI) holds that, necessarily, if an agent judges that she is morally obligated to ø, then, that agent is, to at least some minimal extent, motivated to ø. Opponents of MI sometimes invoke depression as a counterexample on the grounds that depressed individuals appear to sincerely affirm moral judgments but are ‘listless’ and unmotivated by such judgments. Such listlessness is a credible counterexample to MI, I argue, only if the actual clinical disorder of depression, ra…Read more
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34Tonkens on the irrationality of the suicidally mentally illJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (1): 102-106. 2009.abstract Ryan Tonkens proposes that my Kantian approach to suicide intervention with respect to the mentally ill (2002) wrongly assumes that the suicidally mentally ill are rational and are therefore rational agents to whom Kantian moral constraints ought to apply. Here I indicate how the empirical evidence concerning the suicidally mentally ill does not support Tonkens' criticism that the suicidally mentally ill are irrational. In particular, that evidence does not support the conclusion that s…Read more
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The Politics of Race |
Moral Emotion, Misc |
Kantian Ethics |
Equality |
Punishment in Criminal Law |
Suicide |
Death and Dying |
Paternalism |
Morality of Procreation |