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Binary Properties as the Basis of EqualityAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 61 (2): 157-163. 2024.“Basic equality” is the thesis that all (or nearly all) human beings are equal in moral status. Widespread interpersonal differences among humans make the task of justifying basic equality notoriously difficult. One strategy for circumventing this difficulty is to identify some morally significant binary (“all-or-nothing”) property that all humans have. This strategy seems promising: if the basis of equality is binary, then those who have it have it equally. However, skeptics have argued against…Read more
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From Biological Functions to Natural GoodnessPhilosophers' Imprint 19. 2019.Neo-Aristotelian ethical naturalism aims to place moral virtue in the natural world by showing that moral goodness is an instance of natural goodness—a kind of goodness supposedly also found in the biological realm of plants and non-human animals. One of the central issues facing neo-Aristotelian naturalists concerns their commitment to a kind of function ascription based on the concept of the flourishing of an organism that seems to have no place in modern biology. In this paper, I offer a nove…Read more
University of Toronto, St. George Campus
PhD, 2021
Tel Aviv, Israel
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Action |
Ethics |
Business Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |