David Alm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1148296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Alm |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Alm |
| SIGNATURE | ALM D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2815-9841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Positive Rights: Two-Person Cases
The aim of this paper is to analyze the simplest type of case in which need-based positive rights to aid are often attributed. In such "two-person cases" there is just one agent and one patient, and the agent can aid the patient. Two questions are asked about such cases: (1) Why does the agent in such a case lack a negative right he would normally have? (2) Why does the patient have a positive right he would not normally have? The main focus in o…
A Puzzle About Proportionality
The paper addresses a puzzle about the proportionality requirement on self-defense due to L. Alexander. Indirectly the puzzle is also relevant to the proportionality requirement on punishment, insofar as the right to punish is derived from the right to self-defense. Alexander argues that there is no proportionality requirement on either self-defense or punishment, as long as the aggressor/offender has been forewarned of the risk of a disproportio…
Responsibility, Manipulation, and Resentment
Manipulation, Responsibility and Rights
Assessing the role of property rights and legal empowerment in poverty reduction
Contractualism, Reciprocity, and Compensation
I argue that it is not possible to give an adequate account, within a Scanlon-style contractualist moral theory of the moral duties to reciprocate benefits one has received from others and to compensate harms one has done to others. The problem, very simply put, is that there is no room within such a theory for the fact that the content of these obligations must be proportionate to the value of the actions that bring them into being in the first …
Desert and Aggregation
Consequentialism and the Autonomy of the Deontic
I distinguish between two forms of consequentialism: reductionist and anti-reductionist. Reductionist consequentialism holds that the deontic properties of rightness and wrongness are identical with the axiological properties of optimality and suboptimality, respectively. Anti-reductionist consequentialism denies this identification, hence accepting what I call the autonomy of the deontic . In this article I ignore reductionist consequentialism. …
Non‐Cognitivism and Validity
In this paper I defend against a certain objection the view that it is possible to account for validity and kindred notions for moral language within a non‐cognitivist framework by appeal to the descriptive meaning of moral terms. The objection is that such an account leads to an asymmetry in the accounts it offers for synonymy in different contexts; in certain contexts it holds that sameness of meaning for a moral term depends on its evaluative …
Sorting Out Ethics
Sorting Out Ethics
Book Review| January 01 2000 Sorting Out Ethics SORTING OUT ETHICS. By R. M. Hare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. x, 191. David Alm David Alm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 122–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-1-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Alm; Sorting Out Ethics. The Philosophical Revie…
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Sorting Out Ethics
Sorting Out Ethics
Book Review| January 01 2000 Sorting Out Ethics SORTING OUT ETHICS. By R. M. Hare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, 1997. Pp. x, 191. David Alm David Alm Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (1): 122–124. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-109-1-122 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David Alm; Sorting Out Ethics. The Philosophical Revie…
Non‐Cognitivism and Validity
In this paper I defend against a certain objection the view that it is possible to account for validity and kindred notions for moral language within a non‐cognitivist framework by appeal to the descriptive meaning of moral terms. The objection is that such an account leads to an asymmetry in the accounts it offers for synonymy in different contexts; in certain contexts it holds that sameness of meaning for a moral term depends on its evaluative …
Contractualism, Reciprocity, and Compensation
I argue that it is not possible to give an adequate account, within a Scanlon-style contractualist moral theory of the moral duties to reciprocate benefits one has received from others and to compensate harms one has done to others. The problem, very simply put, is that there is no room within such a theory for the fact that the content of these obligations must be proportionate to the value of the actions that bring them into being in the first …
Desert and Aggregation
Consequentialism and the Autonomy of the Deontic
I distinguish between two forms of consequentialism: reductionist and anti-reductionist. Reductionist consequentialism holds that the deontic properties of rightness and wrongness are identical with the axiological properties of optimality and suboptimality, respectively. Anti-reductionist consequentialism denies this identification, hence accepting what I call the autonomy of the deontic . In this article I ignore reductionist consequentialism. …
Assessing the role of property rights and legal empowerment in poverty reduction
Manipulation, Responsibility and Rights
Responsibility, Manipulation, and Resentment
A Puzzle About Proportionality
The paper addresses a puzzle about the proportionality requirement on self-defense due to L. Alexander. Indirectly the puzzle is also relevant to the proportionality requirement on punishment, insofar as the right to punish is derived from the right to self-defense. Alexander argues that there is no proportionality requirement on either self-defense or punishment, as long as the aggressor/offender has been forewarned of the risk of a disproportio…
Positive Rights: Two-Person Cases
The aim of this paper is to analyze the simplest type of case in which need-based positive rights to aid are often attributed. In such "two-person cases" there is just one agent and one patient, and the agent can aid the patient. Two questions are asked about such cases: (1) Why does the agent in such a case lack a negative right he would normally have? (2) Why does the patient have a positive right he would not normally have? The main focus in o…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Ethics in medical practice (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)