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19David Boonin, Dead Wrong: The Ethics of Posthumous Harm(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. xii + 209Utilitas 35 (3): 238-242. 2023.
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958Applied Ethics: An Impartial IntroductionHackett Publishing. 2021.This book is devoted to applied ethics. We focus on six popular and controversial topics: abortion, the environment, animals, poverty, punishment, and disability. We cover three chapters per topic, and each chapter is devoted to a famous or influential argument on the topic. After we present an influential argument, we then consider objections to the argument, and replies to the objections. The book is impartial, and set up in order to equip the reader to make up her own mind about the controver…Read more
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75Transformed By FaithFaith and Philosophy 36 (1): 4-32. 2019.Appealing to self-interest is a common way of justifying the rationality of religious faith. For instance, Pascal’s wager relies upon the expected value of choosing the life of faith being infinite. Similarly, many contemporary arguments for the rationality of faith turn on whether it is better for an agent to have faith rather than lack it. In this paper, I argue, contra Pascal, that considerations of self-interest do not make choosing faith rational because they fail to take into account the w…Read more
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186Religious Experience, Voluntarist Reasons, and the Transformative Experience PuzzleRes Philosophica 93 (1): 269-287. 2016.Transformative experiences are epistemically and personally transformative: prior to having the experience, agents cannot predict the value of the experience and cannot anticipate how it will change their core values and preferences. Paul (2014, 2015) argues that these experiences pose a puzzle for standard decision-making procedures because values cannot be assigned to outcomes involving transformative experience. Responding philosophers are quick to point out that decision procedures are built…Read more
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