Academia.eduAcademia.edu

Moral Philosophy

description16,227 papers
group130,824 followers
lightbulbAbout this topic
Moral philosophy, also known as ethics, is the branch of philosophy that examines questions of morality, including concepts of right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice, and moral obligation. It seeks to understand the nature of ethical principles and the reasoning behind moral judgments.
lightbulbAbout this topic
Moral philosophy, also known as ethics, is the branch of philosophy that examines questions of morality, including concepts of right and wrong, virtue and vice, justice, and moral obligation. It seeks to understand the nature of ethical principles and the reasoning behind moral judgments.

Key research themes

1. How does ontological instability challenge traditional moral philosophy and what alternative frameworks are being proposed?

This theme focuses on the contemporary philosophical investigation into the concept of ontological instability—the idea that reality, identity, and moral categories are fluid, dynamic, and inherently unstable rather than fixed. This challenges classical moral philosophy's reliance on stable categories, essentialist assumptions, and universal ethical foundations. Researchers explore alternative, dynamic frameworks that accommodate flux, uncertainty, and emergence, aiming to create flexible, context-sensitive approaches to morality, knowledge, and categorization in response to a complex modern world.

Key finding: Demonstrates that coherent ontological categorization remains possible within a post-essentialist metaphysics of ontological instability by reconceptualizing categorization as a dynamic, temporal process rather than static... Read more
Key finding: Identifies the vulnerabilities of Dynamic Categorization to misuse, such as relativistic distortions and disinformation, owing to its embrace of uncertainty and instability. Proposes a multi-layered safeguard framework... Read more
Key finding: Presents an innovative hybrid philosophical-creative approach, using parables, metaphorical narratives, and poetic reflections to convey the lived experience of ontological instability. Challenges fixed ontological and moral... Read more
Key finding: Offers pedagogical allegories and narrative-based metaphors to introduce the concept of ontological instability, emphasizing knowledge as adaptive, relational, and contextual rather than fixed or universal. The work... Read more

2. What are the limits and implications of moral expertise amid disagreement in moral philosophy?

This research theme investigates the contested status of moral philosophers as moral experts, especially given widespread and persistent disagreement within the discipline. It critically examines whether such disagreement undermines the normative authority moral philosophers might claim when advising on practical ethical issues. This discourse has tangible implications for the role of moral philosophers in ethics committees and public moral discourse, questioning the epistemic foundations and social deference justified for moral expertise.

Key finding: Defends a version of the Argument from Disagreement (AD) that asserts the pervasive disagreement among equally credentialed moral philosophers on practical moral issues undermines their claim to moral expertise, defined... Read more

3. How can moral philosophy be reconceived to better relate to moral life and education through practice and descriptive approaches?

This theme explores alternative conceptions of moral philosophy that move away from striving for prescriptive, foundational moral theories toward approaches that emphasize moral philosophy as an interpretative, descriptive, or hermeneutic engagement with moral life. It includes considerations of moral sensibility, virtue cultivation, and the role of literature and particularism in moral education, aiming to bridge philosophical reflection and lived moral experiences.

Key finding: Examines the mid-1970s style of moral philosophy associated with McDowell and Wiggins, which stresses moral judgement as truth-apt and holistic moral sensibility as constitutive of a moral outlook resisting codification.... Read more
Key finding: Develops ethics as a hermeneutics of moral experience, presenting morality as practical philosophy where praxis is both subject and object. Proposes that ethical insight arises through interpretation of real and literary... Read more

4. How is artificial intelligence posing ethical and moral challenges to contemporary moral philosophy, religion, and fundamental rights?

This research area addresses the ethical implications and philosophical challenges presented by developments in artificial intelligence, particularly concerning its integration with human society, religious practice, and legal moral rights frameworks. It grapples with questions of agency, moral status of AI entities, ethical use in religious contexts, and regulatory frameworks that respect both human dignity and emerging machine personhood claims, highlighting tensions between technological progress and traditional moral structures.

Key finding: Using descriptive phenomenology and secondary data, the study reveals how AI technologies impact Christian church practices and preaching, urging ethical engagement that aligns technological tools with biblical principles.... Read more
Key finding: Adopts a philosophical-anthropological genealogy of AI technologies, situating AI within the continuum of technological evolution as 'second nature' per Gehlen’s theory, and introduces the PAIA model to assess key risk... Read more
Key finding: Develops a pluralistic, context-sensitive ethical framework addressing conflicts between fundamental human rights and emergent AI robot rights, focusing on contested domains such as sex rights. Employing a method termed... Read more

5. What are the philosophical debates concerning the foundations of morality with regard to religious versus secular ethics?

This theme explores foundational questions in moral philosophy about the sources and justification of moral obligations, contrasting religious-based ethics grounded in divine authority with secular, human-based moral reasoning. It highlights the implications of these differing foundations for understanding moral obligation, human dignity, and the universality of moral standards, thus framing an enduring debate central to moral theory and praxis.

Key finding: Contrasts religious ethics, which grounds moral obligation in divine authority and revelation, with secular ethics, which roots morality in human nature and experience without theological foundations. Argues that a religious... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes the Genesis creation narratives to argue that morality emerges not from an original moral transgression, but from human recognition of shame and fallibility, thus presenting morality as grounded in lived experience... Read more

All papers in Moral Philosophy

radica también la justificación del respeto por las creencias religiosas como derivado del más amplio derecho de libertad de conciencia. La postura de Dawkins no es en este caso intentar hacer que la religión obedezca este pacto,... more
En esta obra Alejandro Rosas nos ofrece una interpretación de la doctrina kantiana, vecina en muchos puntos a la lectura que de ella hiciera en su momento Fichte. Esto lo lleva a proponer una reformulación de algunas de las tesis... more
reseñas ideas y valores • vol. lxi • n. o 148 • abril de 2012 • issn 0120-0062 • bogotá, colombia
Стаття фокусується на концептуалізації досвіду окупації на основі феноменологічних описів, запропонованих Морісом Мерло-Понті та Жаном-Полем Сартром. Філософські потенціали феноменологічної методології доведено на прикладі її використання... more
If still in Kant, the catastrophe was represented by the image of Lisbon earthquake, in the second half of the 20 th century, the catastrophe has its own metaphor in the "hybris" of Technology. In its perverted circularity, Technology is... more
This chapter comprises a rewriting of Descartes' first principle of philosophy, Cogito, ergo sum. It follows the Meditations on First Philosophy along the path of the excess informing the method of the Meditations, an excess in fact duly... more
體驗實在論操作化索引 (Operational Index of PER) 修正 「操作化索引」是 PER 的應用層,把哲學痕跡理論轉換為可測量、可模擬、可比較的框架。 並不是要把哲學公式化,而是讓痕跡的生成,能同時接受 質性(詩意、敘事) 與 量化(數據、指標) 的檢驗。 這份索引是對《體驗實在論 (PER)》的延伸。原始 PER 提出了三個核心層次: R1 = 事件實在(物理痕跡、外在改變) R2 = 體驗實在(情感、記憶、互動) R3 =... more
ÖZ: Zihin-beden ayrımı, bunların mahiyeti ve birbiriyle ili kileri felsefenin en köklü problem sahalarından birini meydana getirir. Zihin-beden problemine, ça da zihin felsefesinde katkı yapan dü ünürlerden biri de Donald Davidson'dır.... more
The new translation within the Arabic-language Ludwig Wittgenstein Project: Culture and Value, translated by Marwan Mahmoud, revised and annotated by Ahmad Ziad Nasser, with a foreword by Salah Ismail. Published by Dar Al-Rafidain,... more
Starting from the statement of the Catholic theologian E. Przywara who saw in S. Kierkegaard the modern thinker with a certain perspective on the doctrine analogia entis, I have tried to identify in the writings of the Danish philosopher... more
En este trabajo se revisa el planteamiento de Aristóteles en la ética Nicomaquea sobre la virtud como columna vertical de la ética.
La figura de Oppenheimer encarna el dilema del juicio bajo condiciones de incertidumbre moral y epistémica. A través de la película de Nolan, se explora cómo la responsabilidad científica se entrelaza con la deliberación política y el... more
La democracia no se define solo por sus procedimientos, sino por las condiciones epistémicas que permiten el juicio colectivo. El texto analiza cómo el diseño institucional influye en la calidad del desacuerdo, la circulación de razones y... more
La noción de bien común ha sido transmitida en herencia al mundo occidental por la filosofía política griega, aun cuando es cierto que no son muchas las referencias que a ella, en forma explícita como contenido concreto del saber... more
El humor opera como mecanismo cognitivo que detecta incongruencias en el razonamiento cotidiano. A partir de ejemplos que evidencian fallas en analogías políticas y morales, se analiza su doble función: una evolutiva, como respuesta... more
The masters of Arts were immerged in an incredibly rich intellectual environment from which they took many tools but to which they also contributed. Although they cultivated the literal genre of cornmentaryj it does not mean that they... more
Nel contesto delle celebrazioni per il 750 anniversario della morte di san Bonaventura da Bagnoregio ( + 1274 - 2024) vorremmo anche noi inserirci con un nostro piccolo omaggio. All’inizio rifletteremo un poco sulle ‘virtù teologali’ in... more
In his last work, Virno proposes a material anthropology "of detachment": man is not his essence, his faculties (body, consciousness, upright posture, neoteny, faculty of language...), but he has them, taking them continuously within an... more
M. Marianelli, E. Pili, “Tra” l’uno e i molti. L’unità che è relazione, in Id. (eds.), Unità. Metafisica, teologia, cosmologia, Città Nuova, Roma 2022, pp. 11-22
En este trabajo nos proponemos realizar un estudio crítico de la filosofía moral de Thomas Reid en diálogo con el pensamiento moral de David Hume. Se quiere responder a la pregunta sobre qué son las distinciones o juicios morales y la... more
Part of the Philosophy Commons, and the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Kats, Kelsey, "Skepticism Leads to Faith". The First-Year Papers (2010 -present) (2009).
Part of the Philosophy Commons, and the Religion Commons Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Kats, Kelsey, "Skepticism Leads to Faith". The First-Year Papers (2010 -present) (2009).
Thirty-four lectures and interviews on law, politics, ethics and modernity.
In this contribution, I defend a robust model of political idealism, making the case for such an approach to both the theory and practice of politics. On this view, not only in framing a political philosophy but also in putting forward... more
Indignación, memoria y esperanza • El horror de Gaza nos interpela con justa ira. Sin embargo, este grito de indignación no debe convertirse en un lugar cómodo desde el cual juzgar la historia con falsa superioridad moral. Jesús nos... more
In this paper, an attempt will be made to analyze the time of sexuate difference, so as to understand (a) in what consists a temporal characterization that takes into account sexu- ate difference, (b) which temporal dimension is proper to... more
El corpus nietzscheano contiene fragmentos que parecen compatibles con algunas de las tesis fundamentales del nazismo. Sin embargo, una comprensión cabal de su filosofía demuestra que esta interpretación constituye una apropiación... more
L’attuale crisi degli equilibri nazionali e internazionali vede emergere nuove forze anti-democratiche che rimettono in discussione la demarcazione tra democrazia e autoritarismo intesi come modelli ideologicamente alternativi e... more
In un’età nella quale acquistano consensi crescenti proposte politiche che integrano elementi di autoritarismo, fastidio per i limiti posti dai sistemi costituzionali all’esercizio del potere, insofferenza per la critica, denigrazione... more
This essay argues for an interpretation of Nietzsche's concept of conscience (Gewissen) based on a phenomenological reconstruction of its characteristics, as indicated by texts in which Nietzsche attempts to describe experiences related... more
In This study reconstructs Bernard Mandeville’s subtle critique of deism by tracing his break with the notion of moral rationalism. Situated in the eighteenth-century deist milieu, it shows how Mandeville... more
This technical brief introduces the Silence Intelligence Quotient (SIQ), a pioneering metric developed by Samuel Zulu (2025) to evaluate and enhance an individual's ability to interpret, respond to, and strategically deploy silence across... more
Abstract: L’ipotesi del controllo dell’AI è oggi al centro di un dibattito multidisciplinare. In questo articolo viene analizzata un’altra possibilità: quella dell’allineamento dell’intelligenza umana all’intelligenza artificiale. A tale... more
Locke scholarship views the young Locke as either a Hobbesian absolutist or a Christian authoritarian. They neglect the liberal character of Two Tracts on Government. Instead, I argue that the young Locke is a liberal. Furthermore, I... more
Il volume raccoglie gli atti del convegno Condanne a morte, fucilazioni, decimazioni sommarie nella Grande Guerra: una questione ancora aperta (Pistoia il 24 novembre 2022), organizzato dall’ANPI Comitato Provinciale di Pistoia e... more
Het is nuttig te weten, tegen welke visies Paulus zich richt. Zijn bedoeling wordt zo duidelijker.
Il capro espiatorio come teoria sociale L'opera di René Girard può essere letta alla luce di più discipline. Questa esposizione a vedute così estese non consente all'autore di tematizzare alcuni limiti che risultano strutturali per il suo... more
Thomas Pogge and Andrew Kuper suggest that we should promote an ‘institutional’ solution to global poverty. They advocate the institutional solution because they think that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can never be the primary... more
1. Of the 140 published state and federal decisions to use the term "double effect" prior to the Supreme Court 's 1997 decision in Vacco v. Quill, 521 U.S. 793 (1997), by far the most common usages of the term have been for purposes... more
Критически оценивается «новая этика» искусственного интеллекта, предложенная М. Габриэлем. Утверждается, что в отличие от интеллекта человека искусственный интеллект лишен нормативного измерения или, что эквивалентно, чувствительности к... more
Download research papers for free!