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32New Reflections on the Mirror: the Interests Proximity Bias SolutionPhilosophia 48 (4): 1527-1542. 2020.We worry about becoming non-existent, but not about coming into being. But both events are similarly bad according to Deprivationism; hence, it seems that we should display symmetric attitudes towards both. This entails the implausible conclusion that we should display negative attitudes towards the time of our birth. In a series of articles Brueckner and Fischer offered one of the most prominent attempts to block this conclusion by appealing to a temporal bias towards future pleasures. Inspired…Read more
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30How to Dispel the Asymmetry Concerning RetractionPhenomenology and Mind 12 74-82. 2017.MacFarlane (2014) advocates a radical form of semantic relativism. He argues that his proposal complies with the norms governing our assertion practices in various areas of discourse. These practices also include norms regarding the conditions in which it is inappropriate not to retract an assertion. Ferrari & Zeman (2014) identify an asymmetry concerning retractions in two relevant areas of discourse and argue that assessment-sensitivity needs to be supplemented with further theoretical tools t…Read more
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11Como Não Devemos Discriminar com Base na EspécieRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 73 (3-4): 1495-1516. 2017.We argue that Anthropocentrism – the kind of speciesism that privilegies the human species – is morally unacceptable. We distinguish and criticize three varieties of Anthropocentrism: unqualified, qualified empirical and qualified non-empirical. Firstly, unqualified Anthropocentrism is dismissed because it is grounded on a moral principle which implies that discriminations like racism and sexism are justified. Secondly, qualified empirical Anthropocentrism falls victim to the marginal cases argu…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language, Misc |
Meta-Ethics |
Consequentialism |
The Badness of Death |
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