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18Nudge Me If You Can! Why Order Ethicists Should Embrace the Nudge ApproachJournal of Business Ethics 186 (2): 309-324. 2022.Order ethicists favour incentives as a means for making moral progress but largely ignore an alternative method, namely, nudging, which has come to prominence through the work of behavioural scientists in recent years. In this paper, we suggest that this is a mistake. Order ethicists have no reason to ignore nudging as an alternative method. Arguments they might press against it include worries about paternalism, manipulation, autonomy, and unintended bad consequences. These are, we argue, large…Read more
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487Recognizing the Diversity of Cognitive EnhancementsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 11 (4): 250-253. 2020.
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11How will future generations look back on the pandemic?Intergenerational Justice Review 7 (1). 2022.
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85Cognitive biases can affect moral intuitions about cognitive enhancementFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience 8. 2014.Research into cognitive biases that impair human judgment has mostly been applied to the area of economic decision-making. Ethical decision-making has been comparatively neglected. Since ethical decisions often involve very high individual as well as collective stakes, analyzing how cognitive biases affect them can be expected to yield important results. In this theoretical article, we consider the ethical debate about cognitive enhancement and suggest a number of cognitive biases that are likel…Read more
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92Deeper into Argumentative BullshitInformal Logic 42 (4): 439-470. 2022.In a recent paper, José Ángel Gascón extends the Frankfurtian notion of bullshit to the sphere of argumentation. On Frankfurt’s view, the hallmark of bullshit is a lack of concern for the truth of an utterance on the part of the bullshitter. Similarly, Gascón argues, the hallmark of argumentative bullshit should be viewed as a lack of concern for whether the reasons that are adduced for a claim genuinely support that claim. Gascón deserves credit for drawing attention to the idea of argumentativ…Read more
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38Why Leave the Car at Home, If That Doesn’t Save the Climate?Grazer Philosophische Studien 97 (4): 693-704. 2020.Why take individual action against collectively caused evils such as climate change? Prima facie, one’s individual contribution may seem to make a negligible difference at best. Consequentialists as well as consequence-sensitive nonconsequentialists should be interested in whether a consequence-based justification for taking individual climate action can be found nonetheless. The author argues that even though individual agents are able to make a non-zero difference in expectation, the altruisti…Read more
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19Deeper into Argumentative BullshitInformal Logic 43 (3): 439-470. 2022.In a recent paper, José Ángel Gascón extends the Frankfurtian notion of bullshit to the sphere of argumentation. On Frankfurt’s view, the hallmark of bullshit is a lack of concern for the truth of an utterance on the part of the bullshitter. Similarly, Gascón argues, the hallmark of argumentative bullshit should be viewed as a lack of concern for whether the reasons that are adduced for a claim genuinely support that claim. Gascón deserves credit for drawing attention to the idea of argumentativ…Read more