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31The Deliberative Duty and Other Individual Antidiscrimination Duties in the Dating SphereMoral Philosophy and Politics. forthcoming.What does morality require of individuals in their dating and sex life? In this article I challenge recent outlines of antidiscrimination duties in the dating sphere and present a plausible alternative: the deliberative duty. This duty avoids the risks and limitations of earlier outlines: it is time-sensitive regarding the malleability of intimate preferences, it avoids being too demanding on the duty-bearer and minimizes the risk of generating mere dutiful attraction behavior towards right-hold…Read more
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4Can minorities discriminate against majorities? An analysis of academic and ordinary usagePhilosophical Psychology. forthcoming.Can a minority agent, Jamal, discriminate against a majority agent, Dave, conceptually speaking? Taking an experimental-philosophical approach, this article addresses the conceptual puzzle by investigating both the ordinary usage of discrimination and whether the academic literature reflects the folk concept. First, it provides a conceptual analysis of discrimination as it is used across the discrimination research field. The analysis produces two novel definitions of discrimination: a symmetric…Read more
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22What is the folk concept of discrimination? Discriminators and comparatorsPhilosophical Psychology. forthcoming.According to many theorists, discrimination either requires a better treated comparator or can occur only if the discriminator belongs to a socially salient group different from that of the discriminatee. Both claims are philosophically important since they have important implications for which account of the moral wrongness of discrimination is correct, e.g., if no comparator is required, the wrongness of discrimination cannot result from treating different people as unequals since the unequal …Read more
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106"Wrongful discrimination" - a tautological claim?Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. forthcoming.Is it tautological to call an action "wrongful discrimination?" Some philosophers and political theorists answer this question in the affirmative and claim that the term "discrimination" is intrinsically evaluative. Others agree that "discrimination" usually conveys the action’s moral wrongness but claim that the term can be used in a purely descriptive way. In this paper, we present two corpus studies and two experiments designed to test whether the folk concept of discrimination is evaluative.…Read more
Aalborg, North Jutland Region, Denmark
Areas of Interest
Political Theory |
Equality |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |