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Title: “Against ‘Good For,’ Against ‘Well-Being'” Abstract:聽This paper challenges the widely held view that 鈥榞ood for鈥�, 鈥榳ell- being鈥�, and related terms express a distinctive evaluative concept of central importance for ethics and separate from 鈥榮imply good鈥� as used by G.E. Moore and others. More specifically, it argues that there鈥檚 no philosophically useful good-for or well-being…

Location: Teams (online only) Title:聽Can Fanaticism be a Liberatory Virtue? Abstract:聽Quassim Cassam (2022a) and Paul Katsafanas (2019) have argued that fanaticism and extremism are normatively negative concepts鈥攃haracterized by, e.g., perverted ideals, vicious closed-mindedness, and unwarranted intolerance. I suggest an alternative approach that: (i) explains what makes fanaticism and extremism vicious in the very many cases…

Title: Threshold Deontology: Some Lessons from Vagueness Abtract: Threshold Deontology is the view that the positive consequences of an act do not normally override moral constraints, but when the positive balance of the consequences of an act is sufficiently great, it may be morally permitted, and possibly required to engage in an act that is…