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- Andersson, Henrik, et al.
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Jumping the hurdles of moral progress
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, morality & social reality : essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen - essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 25-37
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In their work on moral progress, Dan Egonsson and Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen both express a worry concerning possible problems caused by value incommensurability. I show that this worry can be alleviated. This is done by explicating the structure of the concept of moral progress and the structure of value comparatives. With a better understanding of the relevant concepts, it becomes clear that value insommensurability does not pose a dead-end for work on moral progress, but is rather a natural part of the normative domain, and consequently, it is merely one more hurdle to pass in our pursuit of moral progress.
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- Brandstedt, Eric, et al.
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The Assurance Problem for Transfers Between Generations and the Necessity of Economic Growth
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality : Essays Dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Pettersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen - Essays Dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Pettersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 55-70
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Population ageing is a fact of all advanced economies. Fewer people are born all the while current members live longer. The support which old people have come to depend on, for example through elderly care and pensions, thus becomes increasingly expensive. This accentuates an assurance problem. Although it has been and still is the case that the young are willing to support the currently old, this support is not unconditional. In return they trust that coming generations will support them one day. Historically pro-old welfare state institutions (e.g., pension systems) have offered individuals this assurance: their claim on future generation to support them has been credible simply by positive economic and demographic development. Economic growth has been a blessing for the cooperation between generations necessary to realise old age support. This paper describes this assurance problem in simple game theoretical terms, argues that is has been neglected in historically prominent justifications of pro-old welfare state institutions, and discusses what can be done to preserve trust in times of population ageing and weak economic growth.
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- Garcia, Andrés G., et al.
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Individually Fitting but Collectively Unfitting Blame
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality : Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen - Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 159-172
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- People that produce bad outcomes can thereby become the fitting targets of blame, the fitting intensity of which is determined by the badness of the outcomes. In the following paper, I suggest that the amount of blame instances that people are fitting targets of is also determined by the weight of the badness of the outcomes. I use the example of online blame as a paradigmatic case where the amount of blame instances are made targets of risks being excessive, even when each instance of blame is fittingly held and expressed.
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- Gåvertsson, Frits, et al.
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Socratic Provocation in Art
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality : Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Peterson, & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen - Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Peterson, & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 193-207
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his ‘Provocation in Philosophy and Art’ Dan Egonsson argues that provocation is integral to Socrates’ way of doing philosophy both when aiming for (the interlocutor’s) personal moral development and as an instrument for societal change, and that provocation in art differs significantly from its Socratic counterpart. Morally dubious provocation in art can, however, Egonsson argues be justified on the grounds of its aesthetic qualities. In this response I discuss a number of aspects of Egonsson’s insightful and thought-provoking treatment of the Socratic method and artistic provocation, and argue that Socratic provocation can have an important role to play in art that is structurally similar to its role in philosophy since provocative features of a work of art can be what grounds, or makes experientially available, the aesthetic qualities of the work.
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- Halldenius, Lena, et al.
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Human Rights and Human Dignity
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality : Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen - Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 209-222
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution is an analysis of the philosophical construction of the dignity of the human, with a critical but hopefully constructive engagement with Dan Egonsson’s reflections on social attitudes about the dignity of humanity and how and why moral philosophers ought to account for then. I agree that philosophers should account for actual social attitudes, but my discussion will tend towards the conclusion that “accounting for” should be a consciously political and critical exercise, lest philosophers risk reproducing prejudice and bias.
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- Hansson Wahlberg, Tobias, et al.
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The Truth about Social Entities
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality : Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rönnow-Rasmussen - Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rönnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 483-497
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- Johansson, Jens
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Petersson on Plural Harm
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality. - Lund : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415669 - 9789189415652 ; , s. 223-238
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- Persson, Erik, et al.
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What Does It Mean for a Species to Be Alien : And Why Is It a Bad Thing?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 327-339
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Invasive alien species are frequently discussed in academic literature by practitioners, government agencies, and popular media, but what does it mean for a species to be alien and why it this seen as a bad thing? To answer these questions, I have analysed texts about invasive alien species in academic journals and in communication from government agencies. The almost totally unanimous answer to the first question was that a species is alien if and only if it is introduced to an area outside its natural range by humans. I found three primary answers to the second question, namely that (1) alien species are more probable to behave invasively or that it is impossible to know for sure if an alien species will behave invasively, (2) being alien is bad in itself or at least that alien species have a lower value than native species and native environments, and (3) being moved by humans is unnatural and being unnatural has negative value. All three answers probably contribute to why being alien is considered a negative property in species but none of them seem like a satisfying answer to why being alien should be seen as a bad thing in a species.
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- Rabinowicz, Wlodek, et al.
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Goodness and Numbers
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality and Social Reality : Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen - Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415652 - 9789189415669 ; , s. 355-381
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- You can save either David or Peter and Mary. Is there a compelling reason for saving the greater number? Taurek (1977) (in)famously denied it. In providing such reason one might attempt to establish that it is better if more people survive rather than fewer. This would settle the issue for consequentialists, but even non-consequentialists might find it relevant to the question at hand. The standard worry, however, is that such an axiological claim can only be established by aggregating gains and losses of different persons. As opposed to intrapersonal aggregation, interpersonal aggregation might seem illegitimate. Frances Kamm's Aggregation Argument is meant to overcome this difficulty. I consider how her argument is dealt with by Iwao Hirose, Weyma Lubbe and Rob Lawlor, and what is wrong with it from Taurek's own perspective. But then I suggest that this perspective is untenable: While Taurek correctly analyses the concept of 'better' in term of fitting preferences, he accunts for fittingness appealing to the wrong kind of reasons. Still, even so, Kamm's argument fails, but a closely related argument may well be acceptable. Unlike the former, that argument recognizes that different ordinary lives typically are on a par; they seldom are equally good.
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- Werkmäster, Jakob, et al.
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Love, Blame and What We are Owed : Understanding Relational Values
- 2023
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Ingår i: Value, Morality & Social Reality : Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen - Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen. - : Department of Philosophy, Lund University. - 9789189415669 - 9789189415652 ; , s. 499-512
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