Title: ‘Lexical Priority, Decision Theory and De Minimis Risk’ Abstract: Say that one moral requirement takes lexical priority聽over another just in case violations of the former can never be outweighed or counterbalanced by violations of the latter.聽While lexical priority is arguably a feature of many ethical systems, attempts to model it within the framework of…
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Title: ‘Consent and the Question of Dynamics’ Abstract: In this paper, I first argue that 鈥渞ights-waiving鈥� is not an accurate, general description of the operation persons perform when they grant permissive consent. It fails to describe the change to the structure of the normative world that I call authority-retaining permissive consent. This is the kind…
Title: ‘How To Be a Pluralist About Gender’ Abstract: There are various of attractive accounts of gender kinds on offer (Haslanger 2012, Asta 2018), as well as accounts of the ontology of human social kinds (or social groups) more broadly (Mallon 2016, Ritchie 2020) that are much more conducive to feminist aims than a lot…
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