Essays in Philosophy

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List of Papers (Total 638)

Review of "A Philosophy for Europe – From the Outside

By Maren Behrensen, Published on 07/31/19

Review of "Genetic Ethics: An Introduction

By Samantha Elaine Noll, Published on 07/31/19

Transportation Planning for Automated Vehicles—Or Automated Vehicles for Transportation Planning?

In recent years, philosophical examinations of automated vehicles have progressed far beyond initial concerns over the ethical decisions that pertain to programming in the event of a crash. In turn, this paper moves in that direction, focusing on the motivations behind efforts to implement driverless vehicles into urban settings. The author argues that the many perceived benefits...

Mobility Justice, Phenomenology and Gender: A Case from Karachi

Karachi is considered the economic hub of Pakistan, but it lacks a systematized public transport service. Although the demand-supply gap in the transport sector and the poor quality of this deregulated service affects everyone, it wreaks havoc for women, manifesting in the form of social exclusion. Men can benefit from alternative, (and sometimes cheaper) private modes of...

Emerging Urban Mobility Technologies through the Lens of Everyday Urban Aesthetics: Case of Self-Driving Vehicle

The goal of this article is to deepen the concept of emerging urban mobility technology. Drawing on philosophical everyday and urban aesthetics, as well as the postphenomenological strand in the philosophy of technology, we explicate the relation between everyday aesthetic experience and urban mobility commoning. Thus, we shed light on the central role of aesthetics for providing...

Health Justice in the City: Why an Intersectional Analysis of Transportation Matters for Bioethics

Recently, there has been a concerted effort to shift bioethics’ traditional focus from clinical and research settings to more robustly engage with issues of justice and health equity. This broader bioethics agenda seeks to embed health related issues in wider institutional and cultural contexts and to help develop fair policies. In this paper, we argue that bioethicists who...

Review of Charles W. Mills

By Steve Ross, Published on 01/22/19

Antinatalism and Moral Particularism

By Gerald K. Harrison, Published on 01/22/19

The Duty to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Limits of Permissible Procreation

Many environmental philosophers have argued that there is an obligation for individuals to reduce their individual carbon footprints. However, few of them have addressed whether this obligation would entail a corresponding duty to limit one’s family size. In this paper, I examine several reasons that one might view procreative acts as an exception to a more general duty to reduce...

Is There an Obligation to Abort? Act Utilitarianism and the Ethics of Procreation

Most Act-Utilitarians, including Singer are Permissivists who claim that their theory usually permits abortion. In contrast, a minority, including Hare and Tännsjö, are Restrictionists who assert that Act-Utilitarianism (AU) usually limits abortion. I argue that both Permissivists and Restrictionists have misunderstood AU’s radical implications for abortion: AU entails that...

More Co-parents, Fewer Children: Multiparenting and Sustainable Population

Some philosophers argue that we should limit procreation – for instance, to one child per person or one child per couple – in order to reduce our aggregate carbon footprint. I provide additional support to the claim that population size is a matter of justice, by explaining that we have a duty of justice towards the current generation of children to pass on to them a sustainable...