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Philosophy: Recent submissions

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    • MENTAL CAUSATION, INTENTIONAL ACTION AND EXPLANATORY PRACTICE 

      Kim, Hyun Chul (University of Kansas, 2008-06-18)
      The problem of mental causation results from some unwarranted metaphysical assumption: the Principle of Nomological Character of Causality (NCC). However, there is little reason to understand causation in the manner required ...

    • Normative Sentimentalism and Animal Ethics 

      Gerrek, Monica (University of Kansas, 2008-01-09)
      The purpose of this dissertation is to present what I think is a particularly compelling normative version of sentimentalism. The moral principle which is the foundation of this ethic is: An act, or a failure to act, is ...

    • RACE AND OPPRESSION: PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES IN VOLUNTARY OPPRESSION 

      Alavi, Roksana (University of Kansas, 2008-04-16)
      In my dissertation I discuss voluntary racial oppression. In my view coercion is not required for all oppressive situations. The psychologically oppressed, internalizes the expectation of inferiority and becomes one's own ...

    • Savulescu's objections to the future of value argument 

      Marquis, Don (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Institute of Medical Ethics, 2005-02-01)

    • Deprivations, futures and the wrongness of killing 

      Marquis, Don (BMJ Publishing, 2001-12)
      In my essay, Why abortion is immoral, I criticised discussions of the morality of abortion in which the crucial issue is whether fetuses are human beings or whether fetuses are persons. Both argument strategies are inadequate ...

    • A defence of the potential future of value theory 

      Marquis, Don (BMJ Publishing, 2002-06)
      In this issue of the journal Mark Brown has offered a new argument against my potential future of value theory. I argue that even though the premises of this new argument are far more defensible than the premises of his ...