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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"moral intuitions"”.
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… in nature, reflecting on notions such as moral intuitions, universalism, consistency and coherence. It demonstrates that moral illusions might exist and offers a method to discover such moral illusions. The second part turns to normative ethics, dealing with principles of welfare, justice …
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A Feminist Defense of Moderate Moral Intuitionism
… are concerned with the epistemic status of moral intuitions. The first article argues in favour of moderate moral intuitionism, the view that while any successful moral epistemology must be intuitionist to at least some extent, it must also take intuitions to be fallible. This is …
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Coherentism in moral epistemology: moral science or elaborate intuitionism?
: Moral foundationalists maintain that among our moral beliefs there are some that are justified non-inferentially by something other than just more beliefs. Also, that all of the other beliefs in the system can trace their chain of justification back to members of this special ‘epistemically …
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The theory of rational decision and the foundations of ethics
… and contractarianism, is the more adequate moral theory. I begin by outlining what I call orthodox decision theory and note from this theory together with a minimal characterization of what it is to make a moral judgement we can deduce utilitarianism. The apparent conflict between …
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Practicing Against What You Preach: A Social Values Perspective on Moral Hypocrisy
There is very little extant research on moral hypocrisy. As such, there are many definitional and theoretical issues that have yet to be addressed. Thus far, there are two working definitions of moral hypocrisy: (a) the motivation to appear moral, but avoid the consequences of behaving morally and …
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Minimizing harm : three problems in moral theory
Chapter 1 (Distance and Morality): This chapter is a response toFrances Kamm's "Faminine Ethics: the Problem of Distance in Morality and Singer's Ethical Theory". I argue that Kamm fails to produce a pair of cases in which a moral difference is present that is not attributable to factors other than …
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Why Are Some Statistical Generalizations Epistemically Risky?
Moral encroachment theses (MET) operate like pragmatic encroachment theses. When the stakes of belief are high, so are the standards for evidence. This means that evidence which is sufficient in a low stakes-of-belief scenario may be insufficient when the stakes are raised. Simply, METs aim to …
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CONTROLLED AND AUTOMATIC PROCESSES IN MORAL DECISION-MAKING
A popular dual-process theory of moral decision-making, that put forward by Joshua Greene, proposes that deontological judgments are produced by affective intuitions while consequentialist judgements usually are the product of cognitive deliberation. Greene and colleagues (2001, 2004) have backed …
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Food waste reduction strategies for sustainable food security in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… Religiosity is an important driver of moral intuitions and as such marketers would do well to consider the diverse effects of moral foundations on specialty food consumption. Due to the current environmental crisis, sustainable consumption behaviour and its drivers has gained …
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Spying: A Normative Account of the Second Oldest Profession
… the five principles are supported by widespread intuitions about government spying in liberal democracies. In chapters four through six, I show that the same principles are supported by the moral theory that I think is most plausible: two-level utilitarianism. Since utilitarianism is often …
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Proactive lucidity: Superconsciousness, creativity, and the virtually real
… actual form and structure in certain leanings or moral intuitions fundamental to human and non-human alike. It further suggests that in working for the individual such intuitions work for the greater good. The core of this thesis is about the exciting way a group of people exhibit their creative …
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Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship Between the Moral Law and the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics
… between two seemingly divergent approaches to morality. On the one hand, there are those who take the view that morality concerns itself with the promotion of certain ends. This is a teleological or consequentialist view of ethics. On the other hand, we see thinkers who take the view that …
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How are price fixing agreements unfair?
… suggest that people judge price fixing as a moral violation influenced by the dual entitlement principle and the double effect theory. Moreover, results suggest that people’s intuitions about price fixing are not static and move whenever the social and moral context changes.