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Articles 1 - 13 of 13
Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
Mask-Less Shopping Is Like Drunk Driving, Jonathan Spelman
Mask-Less Shopping Is Like Drunk Driving, Jonathan Spelman
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many states in the U.S. issued stayat-home orders that prohibited people from leaving their homes except to access essential services. Upon reopening, a number of those states passed mask mandates requiring people to wear face coverings while in public, but as I write this, in October of 2020, there remain a substantial number of states that have not outlawed what I’ll call ‘maskless shopping’. This is a mistake. After describing the standard, public health argument for outlawing mask-less shopping and explaining why it fails, I give a better argument for outlawing mask-less shopping that …
Mike Dewine, Mask Mandates, And The Value Of Moral Philosophy, Jonathan Spelman
Mike Dewine, Mask Mandates, And The Value Of Moral Philosophy, Jonathan Spelman
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Against Eating Humanely-Raised Meat: Revisiting Fred’S Basement, Jonathan Spelman
Against Eating Humanely-Raised Meat: Revisiting Fred’S Basement, Jonathan Spelman
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
In “Puppies, Pigs, and People: Eating Meat and Marginal Cases,” Alastair Norcross uses a thought experiment he calls “Fred’s Basement” to argue that consuming factory-farmed meat is morally equivalent to torturing and killing puppies to enjoy the taste of chocolate. Thus, he concludes that consuming factory-farmed meat is morally wrong. Although Norcross leaves open the possibility that consuming humanely-raised meat is permissible, I contend that his basic argumentative approach rules it out. In this paper, then, I extend Norcross’ thought experiment in hopes of convincing readers that consuming humanely-raised meat is morally wrong.
The Ethics Of Choice In Single-Player Video Games, Erica L. Neely
The Ethics Of Choice In Single-Player Video Games, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
Video games are a specific kind of virtual world which many engage with on a daily basis; as such, we cannot ignore the values they embody. In this paper I argue that it is possible to cause moral harm or benefit within a video game, specifically by drawing attention to the nature of the choices both players and designers make. I discuss ways in which games attempt to represent morality, arguing that while flawed, even games with seemingly superficial devices such as morality meters can attempt to promote moral reflection. Ultimately, I argue that the moral status of the actions …
Augmented Reality, Augmented Ethics: Who Has The Right To Augment A Particular Physical Space?, Erica L. Neely
Augmented Reality, Augmented Ethics: Who Has The Right To Augment A Particular Physical Space?, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
Augmented reality (AR) blends the virtual and physical worlds such that the virtual content experienced by a user of AR technology depends on the user’s geographical location. Games such as Pokémon GO and technologies such as HoloLens are introducing an increasing number of people to augmented reality. AR technologies raise a number of ethical concerns; I focus on ethical rights surrounding the augmentation of a particular physical space. To address this I distinguish public and private spaces; I also separate the case where we access augmentations via many different applications from the case where there is a more unified sphere …
No Player Is Ideal: Why Video Game Designers Cannot Ethically Ignore Players’ Real-World Identities, Erica L. Neely
No Player Is Ideal: Why Video Game Designers Cannot Ethically Ignore Players’ Real-World Identities, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
As video games flourish, designers have a responsibility to treat players and potential players justly. In deontological terms, designers are obliged to treat all of them as having intrinsic worth. Since players are a diverse group, designers must not simply focus on an idealized gamer, who is typically a straight white male. This creates a duty to consider whether design choices place unnecessary barriers to the ability of certain groups of players to achieve their ends in playing a game. I examine the design implication of this for the gameworld, avatar design, and accessibility to players with disabilities. I also …
Review Of "Ignorance And Moral Obligation", By Michael J. Zimmerman, Jonathan Spelman
Review Of "Ignorance And Moral Obligation", By Michael J. Zimmerman, Jonathan Spelman
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
The Risks Of Revolution: Ethical Dilemmas In 3d Printing From A Us Perspective, Erica L. Neely
The Risks Of Revolution: Ethical Dilemmas In 3d Printing From A Us Perspective, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
Additive manufacturing has spread widely over the past decade, especially with the availability of home 3D printers. In the future, many items may be manufactured at home, which raises two ethical issues. First, there are questions of safety. Our current safety regulations depend on centralized manufacturing assumptions they will be difficult to enforce on this new model of manufacturing. Using current US law as an example, I argue that consumers are not capable of fully assessing all relevant risks and thus continue to require protection any regulation will likely apply to plans, however, not physical objects. Second, there are intellectual …
The Care Of The Reaper Man: Death, The Auditors, And The Importance Of Individuality, Erica L. Neely
The Care Of The Reaper Man: Death, The Auditors, And The Importance Of Individuality, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Machines And The Moral Community, Erica L. Neely
Machines And The Moral Community, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
A key distinction in ethics is between members and nonmembers of the moral community. Over time, our notion of this community has expanded as we have moved from a rationality criterion to a sentience criterion for membership. I argue that a sentience criterion is insufficient to accommodate all members of the moral community; the true underlying criterion can be understood in terms of whether a being has interests. This may be extended to conscious, self-aware machines, as well as to any autonomous intelligent machines. Such machines exhibit an ability to formulate desires for the course of their own existence; this …
Two Concepts Of Community, Erica L. Neely
Two Concepts Of Community, Erica L. Neely
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
Communities play an important role in many areas of philosophy, ranging from epistemology through social and political philosophy. However, two notions of community are often conflated. The descriptive concept of community takes a community to be a collection of individuals satisfying a particular description. The relational concept of community takes a community to consist of more than a set of members satisfying a particular trait; there must also be a relation of recognition among the members or between the members and the community as a whole. The descriptive concept is simpler, however, it does not provide a sufficiently robust concept …
Soul And Elemental Motion In Aristotle’S Physics Viii 4, Errol G. Katayama
Soul And Elemental Motion In Aristotle’S Physics Viii 4, Errol G. Katayama
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
By defending the following views – that Aristotle identifies the generator and perhaps the obstacle remover (in an extended sense) as an essential cause of the natural sublunary elemental motion in Physics VIII 4; that this view is consistent with the view of Physics II 1 that the sublunary simple bodies have a principle of internal motion; and that the sublunary and the celestial elements have a nature in the very same way – I shall offer what has so far eluded Aristotelian commentators: a consistent interpretation of Aristotle's theory of the natural motions of the sublunary and also the …
Substantial Unity And Living Things In Aristotle, Errol G. Katayama
Substantial Unity And Living Things In Aristotle, Errol G. Katayama
Philosophy and Religion Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.