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Parr, Tom and Slavny, Adam (2019) Rescuing basic equality. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 100 (3). pp. 837-857. doi:10.1111/papq.12285 ISSN 0279-0750.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12285
Abstract
In the philosophical literature on the basis of moral equality, one conclusion achieves near consensus: that we must reject all Psychological Capacity Accounts. This widely held view crystallises around three objections. The first is the Arbitrariness Objection, which holds that the threshold at which the possession of the relevant capacities places an individual within the required range is arbitrary. The second is the Variations Objection, which holds that there is rational pressure to acknowledge that variations in psychological capacities between individuals are morally relevant. The third is the No Rational Agency Objection, according to which Psychological Capacity Accounts have unpalatable implications for our treatment of humans who do not possess the relevant capacities. We develop a Psychological Capacity Account based on the capacity for a conception of the good and offer a novel defence of the account against these objections.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | Pacific Philosophical Quarterly | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0279-0750 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 100 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 837-857 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/papq.12285 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Parr, T., and Slavny, A. ( 2019) Rescuing Basic Equality. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12285. which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/papq.12285. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 June 2019 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 30 July 2021 | ||||||||
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