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14The desirability of institutionalized rivalryInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy. 2022.Many social institutions function with rivalry, whether it is the legal adversarial system, the electoral system, competitive sports or the market. The literature on adversarial ethics (with authors such as Arthur Applbaum, David Luban and Joseph Heath) attempts to clarify what is a good behavior in these situations, but this work does not examine if institutionalized rivalry is desirable given its good and bad aspects. According to Monroe Freedman, for instance, the confrontation between lawyer…Read more
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34The notion of moral competence in the scientific literature: a critical review of a thin conceptEthics and Behavior 33 (6): 461-489. 2023.This critical review accomplished two main tasks: first, the article provides scope for identifying the most common conceptions of moral competence in the scientific literature, as well as the different ways to measure this type of competence. Having moral judgment is the most popular element of moral competence, but the literature introduces many other elements. The review also shows there is a plethora of ways to measure moral competence, either in standardized tests providing scores or other …Read more
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64In search of the moral status of AI: why sentience is a strong argumentAI and Society 37 (1): 319-330. 2022.Is it OK to lie to Siri? Is it bad to mistreat a robot for our own pleasure? Under what condition should we grant a moral status to an artificial intelligence (AI) system? This paper looks at different arguments for granting moral status to an AI system: the idea of indirect duties, the relational argument, the argument from intelligence, the arguments from life and information, and the argument from sentience. In each but the last case, we find unresolved issues with the particular argument, wh…Read more
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170In search of the moral status of AI: why sentience is a strong argumentAI and Society 1 1-12. 2021.Is it OK to lie to Siri? Is it bad to mistreat a robot for our own pleasure? Under what condition should we grant a moral status to an artificial intelligence system? This paper looks at different arguments for granting moral status to an AI system: the idea of indirect duties, the relational argument, the argument from intelligence, the arguments from life and information, and the argument from sentience. In each but the last case, we find unresolved issues with the particular argument, which l…Read more
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27Executive Compensation and Employee Remuneration: The Flexible Principles of Justice in PayJournal of Business Ethics 160 (1): 89-105. 2019.This paper investigates a series of normative principles that are used to justify different aspects of executive compensation within business firms, as well as the remuneration of lower-ranking employees. We look at how businesses perform pay benchmarking; employees’ engagement, fidelity and loyalty ; and the acceptability of what we call both-ends-dipping, that is, receiving both ex ante and ex post benefits for the same work. We make two observations. First, either different or incoherent prin…Read more
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18The Social Life of Money, by Nigel Dodd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 456 pp. ISBN: 987-0-6911-4142-8 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 26 (3): 434-437. 2016.
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45#republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media, by Cass R. Sunstein. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. 328 pp. ISBN: 978-0691175515 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 28 (3): 360-363. 2018.
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37Executive Compensation and Employee Remuneration: The Flexible Principles of Justice in PayJournal of Business Ethics 160. 2018.This paper investigates a series of normative principles that are used to justify different aspects of executive compensation within business firms, as well as the remuneration of lower-ranking employees. We look at how businesses perform pay benchmarking; employees’ engagement, fidelity and loyalty ; and the acceptability of what we call both-ends-dipping, that is, receiving both ex ante and ex post benefits for the same work. We make two observations. First, either different or incoherent prin…Read more
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17Inequality: What Can Be Done?, by Anthony B. Atkinson. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015. 384 pp. ISBN: 978-0-674-50476-9 (review)Business Ethics Quarterly 27 (2): 323-326. 2017.
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51Who Should Decide How Machines Make Morally Laden Decisions?Science and Engineering Ethics 23 (4): 951-967. 2017.Who should decide how a machine will decide what to do when it is driving a car, performing a medical procedure, or, more generally, when it is facing any kind of morally laden decision? More and more, machines are making complex decisions with a considerable level of autonomy. We should be much more preoccupied by this problem than we currently are. After a series of preliminary remarks, this paper will go over four possible answers to the question raised above. First, we may claim that it is t…Read more
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57The Contained-Rivalry Requirement and a 'Triple Feature' Program for Business EthicsJournal of Business Ethics 115 (1): 167-182. 2013.This paper proposes a description of the moral obligations of economic agents. It will show that a threefold division should be adopted to distinguish moral obligations applying to their interactions in the market, obligations applying to their interactions inside business firms and obligations applying to their interactions with agents outside the market. Competition might be permissible in the first case since markets are special patterns of social interactions (called adversarial schemes). Th…Read more
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31There Is No Bathing in River Styx: Rule Manipulation, Performance Downplaying and Adversarial SchemesEthical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (1): 129-145. 2016.Adversarial scheme points to situations of rivalry like auctions, public tendering, sports competitions, elections or trials. Thomas Pogge suggested that these schemes have great advantage: they force agents to reveal their full performance. But they also incentivize agents to manipulate the rules. In other schemes with incentives, he also suggests, agents can easily downplay their performance, but won’t engage in rule manipulation to the same extent. In this paper, I will argue that adversarial…Read more
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13The Unification ChallengeBusiness Ethics Journal Review 1 (5): 28-36. 2013.Wayne Norman argues that there should be more similarity or unity between the justifications for markets and the extra-legal norms that apply to market agents. I question two aspects of his claim. First, why does Norman refer to this view as a view about the self-regulation of market agents? Agents could self-regulate with many different norms, not necessarily norms informed by the justifications for markets. Second, asking for more similarity might create problems in terms of the liberty of mar…Read more
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57Capital Accumulation and Policy Recommendations: A Review Essay of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 10 (1): 163-182. 2015.In this review, I say a few words about the analysis portion of Piketty’s book, but I will focus mostly on its solution portion. In the first section, I go over Piketty’s main argument and make two critical points: there is a lack of consideration for, first, human capital and, second, absolute levels of income and capital per capita. The second section of this essay focuses on the solution portion of the book. I also go over Piketty’s argument and make five more substantial points: I wonder wha…Read more
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Université du Québec à MontréalAssistant Professor
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
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Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Equality |
Justice |
Applied Ethics |
Ethics of Artificial Intelligence |
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Philosophy of Mind |
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Equality |
Justice |