Emnée van den Brandeler
Emnée van den Brandeler
The literature on the epistemology of ignorance already discusses how certain forms of discrimination, such as racism and sexism, are perpetuated by the ignorance of individuals and groups. However, little attention has been given to how sp...
Devon Cass
Devon Cass
Several philosophers argue for the 'convergence thesis' for positional goods: prioritarians, sufficientarians, and egalitarians may converge on favouring an equal (or not too unequal) distribution of goods that have positional aspects. I di...
Backward-Looking Principles of Climate Justice: The Unjustified Move from the Polluter Pays Principle to the Beneficiary Pays Principle [0.03%]
基于排污者付费原则的气候正义观及其缺陷
Laura García-Portela
Laura García-Portela
Climate change involves changes in the climate system caused by polluting human activities and the social and natural effects of these changes. The historical and anthropogenic grounds of climate change play an important role in climate jus...
How I Would have been Differently Treated. Discrimination Through the Lens of Counterfactual Fairness [0.03%]
我本应受到的对待——基于反事实公平性的歧视衡量方法
Michele Loi,Francesco Nappo,Eleonora Viganò
Michele Loi
The widespread use of algorithms for prediction-based decisions urges us to consider the question of what it means for a given act or practice to be discriminatory. Building upon work by Kusner and colleagues in the field of machine learnin...
Jakob Elster
Jakob Elster
The involvement of ethicists, philosophers or others who might qualify as 'moral experts' in policy-development, where they are sometimes, typically as members of a committee, given an advisory role, is often seen as problematic, for severa...
Tore Vincents Olsen
Tore Vincents Olsen
This article provides a normative framework for evaluating the moral permissibility of various defences of European Union (EU) values against their violation in EU member states. This requires, first, a coherent interpretation of EU values ...
Why Conscience Matters: A Theory of Conscience and Its Relevance to Conscientious Objection in Medicine [0.03%]
良心为何重要？论良心及其在医学领域拒绝治疗的理论意义
Xavier Symons
Xavier Symons
Conscience is an idea that has significant currency in liberal democratic societies. Yet contemporary moral philosophical scholarship on conscience is surprisingly sparse. This paper seeks to offer a rigorous philosophical account of the ro...
What Is Wrong with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's Definition of Antisemitism? [0.03%]
国际反犹太主义联盟的反犹太主义定义存在什么问题？
Jan Deckers,Jonathan Coulter
Jan Deckers
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) developed a 'Working Definition of Antisemitism' in 2016. Whilst the definition has received a significant amount of media attention, we are not aware of any comprehensive philosophica...
The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 7 [0.03%]
欧盟驱逐机制的需求：民主倒退与第7条条款的失效
Tom Theuns
Tom Theuns
What should the EU do about the fact that some Member States are backsliding on their commitments to democracy, supposedly a fundamental value of the EU? The Treaty provisions under Article 7 TEU are widely criticized for being ineffective ...
Contracting for Catastrophe:Legitimizing Emergency Constitutions by Drawing on Social Contract Theory [0.03%]
灾变中的契约论：运用社会契约论来完善紧急状态下的宪法制度
Stefan Voigt
Stefan Voigt
States of emergency are declared frequently in all parts of the world. Their declaration routinely implies a suspension of basic constitutional rights. In the last half century, it has become the norm for constitutions to contain an explici...