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59Duties to Oneself and Their Alleged IncoherenceAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 100 (3): 565-579. 2022.Duties to oneself are allegedly incoherent: if we had duties to ourselves, we would be able to opt out of them. I argue that there is a constraint on one’s ability to release oneself from duties to oneself. The release must be autonomous in order to be normatively transformative. First, I show that the view that combines the division of the self with the second-personal characterization of morality is problematic. Second, I advance a fundamental solution to the problem of the incoherence of duti…Read more
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42Duties to oneself and third-party blamePublic Affairs Quarterly 34 (2): 185-203. 2020.A number of viable ethical theories allow for the possibility of duties to oneself. If such duties exist, then, at least sometimes, by treating ourselves badly, we wrong ourselves and could rightly be held responsible, by ourselves and by non-affected third parties, for doing so. Yet, while we blame those who wrong others, we do not tend to, nor do we think ourselves entitled to blame people who treat themselves badly. If we try, they might justifiably respond that it is none of our business. Th…Read more
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22Robert N. Johnson: Self-Improvement: An Essay in Kantian Ethics: Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-959934-9, £ 27.50 (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (5): 707-708. 2012.
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University of GothenburgDepartment of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of SciencePost-doctoral Fellow
Göteborg, Vastra Gotaland, Sweden
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |