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Three Papers in Ethics

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Appel_cornellgrad_0058F_12610.pdf (849.21 KB)
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https://doi.org/10.7298/sr0w-v933
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/110497
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Author
Appel, Avi
Abstract

The Direct Harm of Testimonial InjusticeWhat kind of wrong is it to prejudicially doubt a person’s credibility or honesty? I will argue that prejudicial incredulity is immediately and unjustly harmful; in particular, I argue that the attitude of incredulity is a type of disesteem, that disesteem is directly harmful, and that prejudicially caused harms are procedurally unjust. Hypocrisy as Selfish Self-ExceptionalismWhat is hypocrisy? Why is it bad? How bad is it? I propose that hypocrisy is selfish self-exceptionalism, which is when a person holds others to a more demanding standard than that to which she holds herself due to a selfish bias. This theory explains what hypocrisy is. I also argue that the intrinsic selfishness of hypocrisy, in the context of committing to normative standards, explains why hypocrisy is bad. The Problem of Self-SacrificeDecisions that are, intuitively, self-sacrificial seem not to be accommodated by unrestricted wellbeing-subjectivism. In response, proponents of wellbeing-subjectivism have proposed various restrictions or reinterpretations of the concept of self-sacrifice. I dispute each of these proposals and propose my own analysis of self-sacrifice, one that is compatible with unrestricted wellbeing-subjectivism after all.

Description
81 pages
Date Issued
2021-08
Keywords
Ethics
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Hypocrisy
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Self-Sacrifice
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Testimonial Injustice
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Wellbeing
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Wellbeing Subjectivism
Committee Chair
Markovits, Julia
Committee Member
Manne, Kate A.
Miller, Richard William
Sobel, David
Degree Discipline
Philosophy
Degree Name
Ph. D., Philosophy
Degree Level
Doctor of Philosophy
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Type
dissertation or thesis
Link(s) to Catalog Record
https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/15160080

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