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Real universal rights
A short reflection for the beginning of a new year. In traditional rights-based ethics, we start with a set of all important rights and then ask the question: which entities in the universe get all those rights? Then we see … Lees verder
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Arguments for an impartial preference for human lives
Suppose you have the choice between helping (benefiting, saving) either person X or person Y. Suppose you have no personal preference for either one of them, i.e. you have no personal connection or emotional bond with one of them. To … Lees verder
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Exploiting the cognitive biases of altruists
How to become an effective altruist? The answer is easy: by exploiting the cognitive biases of altruists. Learn about cognitive biases, see how altruists are susceptible to these biases by making ineffective choices, and do what those biased altruists don’t … Lees verder
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Our worst enemies in crucial areas
What are the most important problems in the most important areas like ethics, economics, politics and sciences? In this short article I present an overview of our worst enemies. Ethics Several ethical principles and theories are possible, but what characterizes … Lees verder
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Speciesism, arbitrariness and moral illusions
Bruers, S. Speciesism, Arbitrariness and Moral Illusions. Philosophia 49, 957–975 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00282-7 In this article I present several topics related to the moral philosophy of animal rights: Defining moral illusions: persistent intuitive moral judgments that violate our strongest and deepest moral values. … Lees verder
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The three most defensible principles in ethics
From eight to five to three: this article is the result of a long process of several years, searching for the most important or fundamental ethical principles, refining, simplifying and deleting principles until we end up with the three ethical … Lees verder
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What is a rational ethicist?
Accuracy, effectiveness and consistency A rational ethicist lives by the slogan: accurate in beliefs, effective in means, consistent in ends. Our ends should be consistent in the sense that our moral values or ethical principles should not contain contradictions, vagueness … Lees verder
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Moral illusions and wild animal suffering neglect
There is a lot of suffering in wild nature: hunger, disease, parasites, predation, competition,… Given the numbers of wild animals and the intensities of suffering, we should not underestimate the moral importance of this problem of wild animal suffering. However, … Lees verder
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Moral illusions and arbitrary discrimination
My presentation at the TEDxGhent PhD contest (24-03-2016), winner of the special prize for the audience’s favourite speaker. Slides can be downloaded here: Moral illusions and arbitrary discrimination. Short description: If your senses cannot always be trusted because of optical … Lees verder
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Against arbitrariness
A more complete article about unwanted arbitrariness as the fundamental ethical principle, can be found here. In this article I demonstrate that the anti-arbitrariness principle might be the most fundamental principle in both science and ethics. What is arbitrariness? Arbitrariness … Lees verder
Stijn Bruers, the rational ethicist 