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University of Leeds
School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science

Associate Professor

Australian National University

PhD, 2018

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Areas of Specialization

Moral Psychology

Normative Ethics

Areas of Interest

Moral Psychology

Normative Ethics

Social and Political Philosophy

Moral Error Theories and Fictionalism

Moral Skepticism

Moral Responsibility, Misc

Ethics and Cognitive Science

Evolution of Morality

Empathy and Sympathy

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Not Always Worth the Effort: Difficulty and the Value of Achievement
Sukaina Hirji

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 100 (2): 525-548. 2019.

Recent literature has argued that what makes certain activities ranging from curing cancer to running a marathon count as achievements, and what makes achievements intrinsically valuable is, centrally, that they involve great effort. Although there is much the difficulty-based view gets right, I argue that it generates the wrong results about some central cases of achievement, and this is because it is too narrowly focused on only one perfectionist capacity, the will. I propose a revised perfect…Read more
Recent literature has argued that what makes certain activities ranging from curing cancer to running a marathon count as achievements, and what makes achievements intrinsically valuable is, centrally, that they involve great effort. Although there is much the difficulty-based view gets right, I argue that it generates the wrong results about some central cases of achievement, and this is because it is too narrowly focused on only one perfectionist capacity, the will. I propose a revised perfectionist account on which an achievement is an activity that fully exercises or expresses any number of a range of perfectionist capacities.