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Climate Change: Who Does What, Why and How
2014
This chapter rehearses arguments in favour of the idea that individuals are subject to an obligation to engage in self-starting anti-climate change practices, and indicates what sort of practices individuals would have to engage in for that obligation to be appropriately discharged. It argues that these practices cannot be purely private; rather these must be capable of being interpersonally co-ordinated and when so, of effectively stimulating systemic reform. They must allow for effective signalling and learning; be compatible with individual moral psychology (that is, they must generate individual benefits, not just burdens); and demand of individuals no more than what their measure of per…
Moral Harm and Moral Responsibility: A Defence of Ascriptivism
2012
This paper investigates the relations between the concepts of moral harm and moral responsibility, arguing for a circularity between the two. On this basis the conceptual soundness of descriptivism, on which consequentialist and non-consequentialist arguments are often grounded, is questioned. In the last section a certain version of ascriptivism is defended: the circularity is relevant in order to understand how a restricted version of ascriptivism may in fact be well founded.
Meritare le responsabilità. Il complicato confine tra merito, virtù e gloria in Cicerone e in Tacito
2017
Quale posto la relazione tra merito e responsabilità ha avuto nelle concezioni morali dei Romani? Quale lessico ne è in qualche modo spia e rappresentazione? Per provare a rispondere a tali domande intendo partire dal Dialogus de oratoribus di Tacito, che presenterò come un apologo significativo del conflitto tra successo, gloria e virtù, utile anche per misurare la distanza tra le idee romane di merito e responsabilità e quelle nostre; quindi passerò dal racconto al modello, andando a recuperare, dietro i personaggi dell’opera, la riflessione etica compiuta dall’ultimo Cicerone, che trova il suo punto culturalmente più interessante proprio nell’individuazione di criteri che definiscono il …
Chapter 5. Overcoming scepticism? Belief and moral responsibility
2006
Este es el capítulo 5 de mi libro Moral Responsibility: the ways of scepticism (Routledge 2006). Los cuatro primeros capítulos son comentarios extensos a un importante argumento escéptico sobre la posibilidad de la responsabilidad moral, que puede reconstruirse o extraerse fácilmente a partir de la bibliografía actual sobre la responsabilidad moral. El argumento, que denomino SMR (por “Scepticism about Moral Responsibility”), puede formularse como sigue: Primera premisa (A): O el determinismo es verdadero o no lo es. Segunda premisa (B): Si el determinismo es verdadero, la responsabilidad moral no es posible. Tercera premisa (C): Si el determinismo no es verdadero, la responsabilidad moral …