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101Why Humean constructivists should become Kantian constructivistsPhilosophical Explorations 22 (3): 280-293. 2019.One of the main reasons for philosophers to have embraced Humean constructivism rather than Kantian constructivism is a negative one: they believe that in the end Kantian constructivism is an unsta...
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48Korsgaard’s Other Argument for Interpersonal Morality: the Argument from the Sufficiency of AgencyEthical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (4): 887-902. 2018.Christine Korsgaard’s argument for the claim that one should not only value one’s own humanity but also the humanity of all other persons, ‘the publicity of reasons argument’, has been heavily criticized and I believe rightly so. However, both in an early paper and in her most recent work, Korsgaard does not rely on controversial, Wittgensteinian ideas regarding the publicity of reasons, but instead she uses a different argument to justify interpersonal morality, which I will refer to as ‘the ar…Read more
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92It only takes two to tango: against grounding morality in interactionPhilosophical Studies 176 (10): 2767-2783. 2019.Most Kantian constructivists try to ground universal duties of interpersonal morality in certain interactions between individuals, such as communication, argumentation, shared action or the second-person standpoint. The goal of this paper is to present these, which I refer to as arguments from the second-person perspective, with a dilemma: either the specific kind of interaction that is taken as a starting point of these arguments is inescapable, but in that case the argument does not justify a …Read more
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234Reflective equilibrium and moral objectivityInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (5): 443-465. 2017.Ever since the introduction of reflective equilibrium in ethics, it has been argued that reflective equilibrium either leads to moral relativism, or that it turns out to be a form of intuitionism in disguise. Despite these criticisms, reflective equilibrium remains the most dominant method of moral justification in ethics. In this paper, I therefore critically examine the most recent attempts to defend the method of reflective equilibrium against these objections. Defenders of reflective equilib…Read more
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38Can Person-Centered Care Deal With Atypical Persons?American Journal of Bioethics 13 (8): 44-46. 2013.No abstract
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23Academische filosofie = publieksfilosofie?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 108 (2): 239-243. 2016.Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community.
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95In defence of fact-dependencyCanadian Journal of Philosophy 44 (3-4): 443-462. 2014.G.A. Cohen and David Estlund claim that, because of their fact-dependent nature, constructivist theories of justice do not qualify as moral theories about fundamental values such as justice. In this paper, I defend fact-dependent, constructivist theories of justice against this fact-independency critique. I argue that constructivists can invoke facts among the grounds for accepting fundamental principles of justice while maintaining that the foundation of morality has to be non-empirical. My cla…Read more
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1Recensie Marc Slors: Dat had je gedacht! Brein, bewustzijn en vrije wil in filosofisch perspectief Amsterdam (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 104 (4): 306. 2012.
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26Justice for Earthlings: Essays in Political Philosophy, David Miller. Cambridge University Press, 2012, vii + 254 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 30 (2): 245-251. 2014.
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