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Heritage and War: Ethical Issues (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.The destruction of cultural heritage in war is currently attracting considerable attention. ISIS’s campaign of deliberate destruction across the Middle East was met with widespread horror and calls for some kind of international response. The United States attracted criticism for both its accidental damaging of Ancient Babylon in 2015 and its failure to protect the Mosul Museum from looters in 2003. In 2016, the International Criminal Court prosecuted its first case of the destruction of heritag…Read more
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Naked: The Dark Side of Shame and Moral Life, by Krista Thomason (Book Review) (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 1. 2018."Naked" is a worthwhile read for anyone interested in shame and its role in morality. The book is particularly timely given how common public shaming has become in online settings. Krista K. Thomason argues that, even though shame is a negative emotion with potentially damaging consequences, its dark side is outweighed by its moral benefits insofar as shame is constitutive of desirable moral commitments. According to the author, being liable to shame is constitutive of respecting other people’s …Read more
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We might be afraid of black-box algorithmsJournal of Medical Ethics 47. 2021.
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Testing the Motivational Strength of Positive and Negative Duty Arguments Regarding Global PovertyReview of Philosophy and Psychology 13 (3): 699-717. 2022.Two main types of philosophical arguments have been given in support of the claim that the citizens of affluent societies have stringent moral duties to aid the global poor: “positive duty” arguments based on the notion of beneficence and “negative duty” arguments based on noninterference. Peter Singer’s positive duty argument (Singer 1972) and Thomas Pogge’s negative duty argument (Pogge 2002) are among the most prominent examples. Philosophers have made speculative claims about the relative ef…Read more
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.The Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to ethical issues related to digital technologies, with a special emphasis on AI. Philosophers with a wide range of expertise cover thirty-seven topics: from the right to have access to internet, to trolling and online shaming, speech on social media, fake news, sex robots and dating online, persuasive technology, value alignment, algorithmic bias, predictive policing, price discrimination online, medical AI, privacy and s…Read more
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The Stoics on Lekta: All There is to SayOxford University Press. 2019.
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Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility: Essays in Ancient PhilosophyOxford University Press. 2021.Determinism, Freedom, and Moral Responsibility brings together nine substantial essays on determinism, freedom, and moral responsibility in antiquity by Susanne Bobzien. The essays present the main ancient theories on these subjects, ranging historically from Aristotle followed by the Epicureans, the early Stoics, several later Stoics, and up to Alexander of Aphrodisias in the third century CE. The author discusses questions about rational and autonomous human agency and their compatibility wi…Read more
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Geometrical Changes: Change and Motion in Aristotle’s Philosophy of GeometryProceedings of the Aristotelian Society (3): 385-394. 2023.Graduate Papers from the 2022 Joint Session. It is often said that Aristotle takes geometrical objects to be absolutely unmovable and unchangeable. However, Greek geometrical practice does appeal to motion and change, and geometers seem to consider their objects apt to be manipulated. In this paper, I examine if and how Aristotle’s philosophy of geometry can account for the geometers’ practices and way of talking. First, I illustrate three different ways in which Greek geometry appeals to change…Read more
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