Twinning, Inorganic Replacement, and the Organism View
In explicating his version of the Organism View, Eric Olson argues that you begin to exist only after twinning is no longer possible and that you cannot survive a process of inorganic replacement....
View ArticleAgency and Human Rights
What grounds human rights? How do we determine that something is a human right? James Griffin has persuasively argued that the notion of agency should determine the content of human rights. However,...
View ArticleBias and Reasoning: Haidt’s Theory of Moral Judgment
According to Haidt’s Social Intuitionist Model (SIM) of moral judgment, most moral judgments are generated by the intuitive process and the purpose of reasoning is to provide a post hoc and biased...
View ArticleParental Love Pills: Some Ethical Considerations
It may soon be possible to develop pills that allow parents to induce in themselves more loving behavior, attitudes and emotions towards their children. In this paper, I consider whether...
View ArticlePutting the Trolley in Order: Experimental Philosophy and the Loop Case
In recent years, a number of philosophers have been conducting empirical studies that survey people’s intuitions about various subject matters in philosophy. Some have found that intuitions vary...
View ArticleThe Genetic Account of Moral Status: A Defense
Christopher Grau argues that my genetic basis for moral agency account of rightholding is problematic because it fails to grant all human beings the moral status of rightholding; it grants the status...
View ArticleWhy Children Need to Be Loved
I have argued elsewhere that children have a moral right to be loved. Mhairi Cowden challenges my arguments. Among other things, Cowden believes that children do not need to be loved. In this paper, I...
View ArticlePolitical and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?
What are human rights? According to one longstanding account, the Naturalistic Conception of human rights, human rights are those that we have simply in virtue of being human. In recent years, however,...
View ArticleIntentions and Moral Permissibility: The Case of Acting Permissibly with Bad...
Many people believe in the intention principle, according to which an agent’s intention in performing an act can sometimes make an act that would otherwise have been permissible impermissible, other...
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Human Rights as Fundamental Conditions for a Good Life
What grounds human rights? How do we determine that something is a genuine human right? In this paper, I offer a new answer: human beings have human rights to what I call the fundamental conditions for...
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