This paper is part of a series of reflections on how literature can con tribute to our
understanding in more or less the same way as some ethi cal thought experiments, in …

According to philosophers who embrace the dominant view of bare-difference methodology,
this argument form provides a useful and powerful tool in ethics. James Rachels coined the …

The aim of this paper is to clarify the use of contrast cases—which are pairs of cases in
which the feature under examination is varied and all else is held fixed—in ethical …

Many philosophers maintain that works of art, in particular films and novels, cannot function
as thought experiments. Most who claim this make their case by setting the bar for what can …

Whether value is “additive,” that is, whether the value of a whole must equal the sum of the
values of its parts, is widely thought to have significant implications in ethics. For example …

The bare‐difference methodology is considered to be a powerful tool in ethical reasoning.
The underlying idea is that we can identify the intrinsic evaluative significance of some …

This dissertation is composed of five papers about axiology and axiological mereology. The
uniting theme is that our concepts of value are importantly related to the value relations …

Przedmiotem moich dotychczasowych rozważań było pytanie, czy można przeprowadzić
rozróżnienie moralne między czynami polegającymi na krzywdzeniu a czynami …

Wielu ludzi skłonnych jest sądzić, że nie ma istotnej różnicy moralnej między umyślnym
krzywdzeniem kogoś a przyzwoleniem na jego krzywdę. Pogląd ten opiera się zwykle na …

1 The Under-Determination Objection to Deductive Bare-Difference Arguments Thomas
Metcalf Department of Philosophy, University o Page 1 1 The Under-Determination …