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    Mapuche Az-Mapu and Nature's Contribution to People: Eudemonic Values for Living Well
    with Juan Ñanculef-Huaiquinao, Yohana Coñuecar-Llancapani, Francisco Araos Leiva, Wladimir Riquelme Maulén, and Christopher Raymond
    Environmental Values 32 (3): 291-314. 2023.
    In the context of understanding Nature's Contribution to People, this article explores the Mapuche value system and its contributions to living well by conserving nature. Through the context-specific approach, the findings shows that the Mapuche Az-Mapu is important for bio-cultural conservation in Chile. Deepening understanding of the distinct Mapuche value system shows the importance of rights and sovereignty for other coastal stateless nations who are enhancing bio-cultural conservation aroun…Read more
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    Toward a Role Ethical Theory of Right Action
    with Michael Smith
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (3): 599-614. 2018.
    Despite its prominence in traditional societies and its apparent commonsense appeal, the moral tradition of Role Ethics has been largely neglected in mainstream normative theory. Role Ethics is the view that the duties and/or virtues of social life are determined largely by the social roles we incur in the communities we inhabit. This essay aims to address two of the main challenges that hinder Role Ethics from garnering more serious consideration as a legitimate normative theory, namely that it…Read more
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    The moral psychology of determinism
    Philosophical Psychology 26 (5): 639-661. 2013.
    In recent years, philosophers and psychologists have resurrected a debate at the intersection of metaphysics and moral psychology. The central question is whether we can conceive of moral agents as deterministic systems unfolding predictably and inevitably under constant laws without psychologically damaging the pro-social attitudes and moral emotions that grease the wheels of social life. These concerns are sparked by recent experiments documenting a decline in the ethical behavior of participa…Read more
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    A Working Definition of Moral Progress
    Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20 (1): 75-92. 2017.
    Essentially everyone agrees that the outlawing of slavery, or the beginning of women’s suffrage, or the defeat of Nazism constitute paradigmatic examples of moral progress in human history. But this consensus belies a deep division about the nature of moral progress more generally, a consequence of the foundational differences among and within normative traditions regarding the nature and scope of the ‘moral’ in moral progress. This essay proposes that philosophers might nonetheless converge on …Read more