...-considered obligations overriding regret moral residue There is an apparent—and, to my knowledge, unnoticed—tension between two central ideas in moral philosophy. One of these ideas is that people never have obligations that they cannot obey; in other words, “ought” implies “can”. The other idea...

... reason, but a moral, overriding reason—to pursue this end? Because she starts by laying out in great detail (taking up two-thirds of the book) what material independence amounts to, rather than why we ought to be concerned about it as rational agents, Kosch somewhat stretches the reader’s patience...

... desire is outweighed. Therefore, the Success principle must be understood in a much stronger way, for instance, as claiming that a rational agent’s strongest and overriding desire must be that her life going forward go as well as possible. So understood, my objection is that the Success principle...

...-things-considered propriety of assertion, not epistemic propriety. In high stakes , practical norms override the epistemic norm KNA. Keith’s asserting “The bank is open on Saturday” would be epistemically proper but all-things-considered improper. Simion backs up her account with an etiological...

... research program is born refuted” has a confirming instance right here. 4. Reformulating the Wager So it is all over for the Wager as it stands. Can we do better? An ade- quate reformulation of the Wager must meet the following require- ments: Requirement of Overriding Utility The utility...

... natural rights views are “implausible” (156),making anarchist arguments too easy (145). He prefers “seminatural” contractarian rights. These rights, however, are defended by Morris in part because they are overridable by considerations of mutual advantage (thus obviating the need for consent...

... unwisely tossing aside? More importantly, why is this loss so compelling that it would justify the government overriding my considered wishes along with those of the telemarketers? I am also unconvinced of Allen's defense of “no touching” rules related to nude dancing. Women in these clubs may...

... questions. However, there are always overriding instrumentalist elements or instincts that hold back aspects of his theory. Regarding nationalism, Seymour concludes, “We cannot find a remedy for nationalism if we close our eyes to it. On the contrary, it is only by making it explicit that we will be able...

... should avoid the sweet. It becomes tempting to ascribe to Aristotle an implicit conception of what have more recently been called ‘besires’—whether the marriage of belief and desire be equal or unequal—with the crucial twist that sincere conviction must be backed by overriding desire. Gottlieb...

... will which is the product of the agent’s exercise of effective agency’ (65). Thus, one’s feeling of power is always relative to whatever is the overriding goal of one’s will. Reginster succinctly explains another Nietzschean slogan, ‘ Ressentiment itself becomes creative’: a revaluation of values alters...

...) articulates a variant where assertion is linked to the declarative clause by a norm that can be overridden when other general pragmatic considerations or other linguistic conventions indicate a different intended interpret- ation. Representing Knowledge 121 list of default overrides anytime an instance...

... that it illicitly appeals to a moralized distinction between doing and allowing. Some reassurance, however, comes from the fact that his subjectivism about normative reasons entails that moral reasons are not always overriding. Though morality may require substantial sacrifice, we may sometimes have more reason...

... more generally). Whereas the field is dominated by liability-centric accounts of permissible war, Sparing Civilians sets out an alternative research program, in which lesser-evil justifications for overriding individual rights do the majority of the heavy lifting. More generally still, by exploring...

... of alien standards, imposed from without. So long as we are looking only at these two guides to action, we are facing two disparate sorts of standards, with no reason why one should override the other. As far as our aspirations are concerned, a standard that frustrates them is simply...

... for a conceptual role for moral wrongness: that the judgment that x is morally wrong leads to the judgment that not doing x is (all things considered) better than doing x. Wedgwood also considers variants of this role which do not make judgments of moral wrongness overriding. Though Skorupski ( 2010 , 298–99...

... way to encourage citizens to adopt the Platonic ideal of citizenship would be to inculcate the relevant virtues and values—for example, idealism, the interest in and capacity to engage in philosophical reflection, and an overriding concern for the common good—through state-controlled education...

... of welfare. In that case: when, if ever, is it permissible for us to override whatever sorts of rights animals have in the interest of saving, or at least significantly improving, human lives? Either way, you decide to pick up Shelly Kagan’s new book, nominally on just these topics. I’m afraid that you...

... in and of the whole of nature. Watkins explains that reason’s search for the unconditioned leads us to posit an unconditioned purpose for the whole of nature, which additionally allows us to order all the particulars in nature according to this overriding purpose. This is the first appearance of the faculty...

... and fast distinctions between system 1 and system 2 to account for implicit bias. He calls his theory a dual level theory and uses this framework to articulate conditions for overriding implicit bias. On Frankish's view, we can use various explicit, conscious methods of self-control to mitigate...

... inclinations or the conformity of its choices with the Cat- egorical Imperative. In deciding which of the principles to give overriding status, it is deciding which to subordinate to the other. So the choice it has to make is one between a good and an evil disposition. But how is it to make the choice...