2025· Phenomenology and Mind· Vol 29, pp. 46· 0 citations
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In post-Kantian metaphysics, several analytic thinkers argue that criterialism is both a necessary and sufficient condition for personhood. Criterialism contends that there is a specific subset of properties that determines someone’s personal identity, such as social reactive attitudes, mental complexity (second-order volition), value in combination with autonomy, self-consciousness, communication, and (practical) reason. However, Emmanuel Levinas, a prominent continental thinker, argues that behavioral properties are not tests for, but are parts of the ethical ideal of personhood. Levinas insists that the acceptance of others (as persons) cannot be a conclusion inferred from a test procedure; acceptance of others means precisely refusing to submit them to such tests. Personhood, therefore, depends on otherness. It is the other that shapes one’s identity as a person, and the infinite responsibility one has towards the other person calls for an ethical shift away from the subject and the categories of being.
When, if ever, is it permissible to afford special consideration to friends and family? How can we strive to be objective in our thinking, and is this always a feasible or appropriate aim?
This book examines the categories of impartiality and objectivity by showing how they frame certain debates in epistemology, moral...
Brian Leiter has recently suggested that anyone who denied law's artifactuality, "the extravagance of their metaphysical commitments would.., be a subject for psychological, not philosophical investigation." There is a sense in which he is unquestionably right. If by artifact we mean the product of human effort, the cl...
Dan Priel· Articles & Book Chapters· 0 citations
Talia Bettcher (2009) has defended a principle known as “The First-Person Authority” (FPA) of gender avowals. Gender avowals are a specific kind of speech acts, namely, present-tense gender ascriptions from the first-person point of view (which we can also call gender self-identifications). This principle has given ris...
Esa Díaz-León· Phenomenology and Mind· 0 citations
The paper argues that though we usually think of the prophets as social or moral critics, their principal concern is idolatry. They oppose the unique God YHWH to the Ba’alim – still familiar to us in terms of a particular community, nation, religion, money, sex, and so forth. YHWH's particularity required in response a...
T. Gorringe· Studies in Christian Ethics· 0 citations
This book is a sustained attack on the claim that values are objective, in the world independent of people’s attitudes. It evaluates this claim in different value domains: moral, personal or prudential, aesthetic, and general evaluative. The first section greatly expands on J.L. Mackie’s appeal to moral disagreement...
A prominent strand in contemporary debates on free will and moral responsibility bases these concepts on the idea that decisions and actions can be guided not only by causes, but also by reasons. Such a view needs to clarify the precise ontological standing of reasons, and particularly their suggested difference from c...
Dietmar Hübner· Synthese· 1 citation
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