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    Prinzipien in der Ethik
    Mentis. 2013.
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    Practical conflicts as a problem for epistemic reductionism about practical reasons
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 105 (3): 677-686. 2021.
    According to epistemic reductionism about practical reasons, facts about practical reasons can be reduced to facts about evidence for ought-judgements. We argue that this view misconstrues practical conflicts. At least some conflicts between practical reasons put us in a position to know that an action ϕ is optional, i.e. that we neither ought to perform nor ought to refrain from performing the action. By understanding conflicts of practical reasons as conflicts of evidence about what one ought …Read more
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    How Do Reasons Transmit to Non-Necessary Means?
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 99 (2): 271-285. 2021.
    Which principles govern the transmission of reasons from ends to means? Some philosophers have suggested a liberal transmission principle, according to which agents have an instrumental reason for an action whenever this action is a means for them to do what they have non-instrumental reason to do. In this paper, we (i) discuss the merits and demerits of the liberal transmission principle, (ii) argue that there are good reasons to reject it, and (iii) present an alternative, less liberal transmi…Read more
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    Aggregation für Nonkonsequentialisten
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 70 (2): 269-274. 2016.
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    Précis zu Prinzipien in der Ethik
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 69 (1): 73-77. 2015.
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    Repliken
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 69 (1): 91-95. 2015.
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    Wunscherfüllung und Freude als Elemente des Guten – Kommentar
    Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 67 (2). 2013.
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    Some of our reasons for action are grounded in the fact that the action in question is a means to something else we have reason to do. This raises the question as to which principles govern the transmission of reasons from ends to means. In this paper, we discuss the merits and demerits of a liberal transmission principle, which plays a prominent role in the current literature. The principle states that an agent has an instrumental reason to whenever -ing is a means for him to do what he has in…Read more
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    The right and the wrong kind of reasons
    Philosophy Compass 12 (5). 2017.
    In a number of recent philosophical debates, it has become common to distinguish between two kinds of normative reasons, often called the right kind of reasons (henceforth: RKR) and the wrong kind of reasons (henceforth: WKR). The distinction was first introduced in discussions of the so-called buck-passing account of value, which aims to analyze value properties in terms of reasons for pro-attitudes and has been argued to face the wrong kind of reasons problem. But nowadays it also gets applied…Read more
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    Mixed Feelings About Mixed Solutions
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (1): 59-69. 2016.
    The numbers problem concerns the question of what is the right thing to do in trade-off cases where one can save different non-overlapping groups of persons, but not everyone. Proponents of mixed solutions argue that both saving the many and holding a lottery to determine whom to save can each be morally right in such cases, depending on the relative sizes of the groups involved. In his book The Dimensions of Consequentialism, Martin Peterson presents an ingenious version of such an approach tha…Read more