Alfred Archer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alfred Archer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Archer |
| SIGNATURE | ARCHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Philosophy, Tilburg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Moral Exemplars and the Moral Community
Linda Zagzebski’s groundbreaking book Exemplarist Moral Theory has inspired new attention to the use of moral exemplars in moral education. Zagzebski argues that admiration for moral exemplars has a crucial role to play in the development of moral virtue. It is through admiration that we come to identify moral exemplars. Moreover, it is through our admiration for exemplars that we come to identify what moral virtue consists of and also to develop…
Taking the public seriously: The role of respect in interactions between scientific experts and lay publics
Influencers as role models
The claim that celebrities have special duties to be good role models is prominent in the philosophical literature on fame. We investigate whether these arguments can be extended to social media influencers. According to the role model argument, the fact that celebrities are widely known and admired gives them a high degree of influence over others’ behaviours. This gives them strong moral reasons to act as a good example to others. While celebri…
Emotional Imperialism
How might people be wronged in relation to their feelings, moods, and emotions? Recently philosophers have begun to investigate the idea that these kinds of wrongs may constitute a distinctive form of injustice: affective injustice. In previous work, we have outlined a particular form of affective injustice that we called emotional imperialism. This paper has two main aims. First, we aim to provide an expanded account of the forms that emotional …
Exemplars and expertise: What we cannot learn from saints and heroes
According to a popular line of thought, moral exemplars have a key role to play in moral development and moral education and by paying attention to moral exemplars we can learn about what morality requires of us. However, when we pay attention to what many moral exemplars say about their actions, it seems that our moral obligations are much more demanding than we typically think they are. Some philosophers have argued that this exemplar testimony…
There Goes My Hero: The Role of Exemplars in Identity Formation
In this paper, we argue that who one is and wants to become is closely related to whom one admires. Although the links between identity formation and exemplars have been largely neglected, we claim that integrating both literature studies provides interesting new insights. First, exemplars can play an important role in and constitute a powerful tool for people’s identity construction. Second, insights into identity formation processes can help be…
Supererogation and Consequentialism
The thought that acts of supererogation exist presents a challenge to all normative ethical theories. This chapter will provide an overview of the consequentialist responses to this challenge. I will begin by explaining the problem that supererogation presents for consequentialism. I will then explore consequentialist attempts to deny the existence of acts of supererogation. Next, I will examine a range of act consequentialist attempts to accommo…
Integrity and the Value of an Integrated Self
What is integrity and why is it valuable? One account of the nature of integrity, proposed by John Cottingham amongst others, is The Integrated Self View. On this account integrity is a formal relation of coherence between various aspects of a person. One problem that has been raised against this account is that it isn’t obvious that it can account for the value of integrity. In this paper I will respond to this problem by providing an account of…
Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt
Contempt appears to be making something of a comeback in public discourse. The 2016 US Presidential Elections saw both mainstream candidates accused of contempt. Hillary Clinton and her supporters were claimed by Republicans to be contemptuous of ‘ordinary Americans’. Donald Trump, on the other hand, was seen by many to be treating the entire political process and state apparatus with contempt. Is it good to feel contempt towards others? Not acco…
Community, Pluralism, and Individualistic Pursuits: A Defense of Why Not Socialism
Is socialism morally preferable to free market capitalism?G. A. Cohen (2009) has argued that even when the economic inequalities produced by free markets are not the result of injustice, they nevertheless ought to be avoided because they are community undermining.As free markets inevitably lead to economic inequalities and Socialism does not, Socialism is morally preferable.This argument has been the subject of recent criticism.Chad Van Schoeland…
Are Acts of Supererogation Always Praiseworthy
It is commonly assumed that praiseworthiness should form part of the analysis of supererogation. I will argue that this view should be rejected. I will start by arguing that, at least on some views of the connection between moral value and praiseworthiness, it does not follow from the fact that acts of supererogation go beyond what is required by duty that they will always be praiseworthy to perform. I will then consider and dismiss what I will c…
Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality
Journal Article Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality Get access Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality.ByTessman Lisa. (Oxford: OUP, 2015. Pp. x + 279. Price £42.00.) Alfred Archer Alfred Archer University of Bristol, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 263, April 2016, Pages 400–402, https://doi.org/10…
Do We Need to Make Room for Quasi-Supererogation
Offence. 3 This category is for acts that are bad to perform but are morally optional. Julia Driver has also argued that we need to make room for a category of this sort, though, she terms this category The Suberogatory. 4 Gregory Mellema has argued that making room for this additional category does not go far enough either. 5 According to Mellema we must also make room for both Quasi-Supererogation and Quasi-Offence. Finally, Shlomo Cohen endors…
Influencers as role models
The claim that celebrities have special duties to be good role models is prominent in the philosophical literature on fame. We investigate whether these arguments can be extended to social media influencers. According to the role model argument, the fact that celebrities are widely known and admired gives them a high degree of influence over others’ behaviours. This gives them strong moral reasons to act as a good example to others. While celebri…
Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality
Journal Article Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality Get access Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality.ByTessman Lisa. (Oxford: OUP, 2015. Pp. x + 279. Price £42.00.) Alfred Archer Alfred Archer University of Bristol, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 263, April 2016, Pages 400–402, https://doi.org/10…
Do We Need to Make Room for Quasi-Supererogation
Offence. 3 This category is for acts that are bad to perform but are morally optional. Julia Driver has also argued that we need to make room for a category of this sort, though, she terms this category The Suberogatory. 4 Gregory Mellema has argued that making room for this additional category does not go far enough either. 5 According to Mellema we must also make room for both Quasi-Supererogation and Quasi-Offence. Finally, Shlomo Cohen endors…
Community, Pluralism, and Individualistic Pursuits: A Defense of Why Not Socialism
Is socialism morally preferable to free market capitalism?G. A. Cohen (2009) has argued that even when the economic inequalities produced by free markets are not the result of injustice, they nevertheless ought to be avoided because they are community undermining.As free markets inevitably lead to economic inequalities and Socialism does not, Socialism is morally preferable.This argument has been the subject of recent criticism.Chad Van Schoeland…
Are Acts of Supererogation Always Praiseworthy
It is commonly assumed that praiseworthiness should form part of the analysis of supererogation. I will argue that this view should be rejected. I will start by arguing that, at least on some views of the connection between moral value and praiseworthiness, it does not follow from the fact that acts of supererogation go beyond what is required by duty that they will always be praiseworthy to perform. I will then consider and dismiss what I will c…
Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality
Journal Article Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality Get access Moral Failure: On The Impossible Demands of Morality.ByTessman Lisa. (Oxford: OUP, 2015. Pp. x + 279. Price £42.00.) Alfred Archer Alfred Archer University of Bristol, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 263, April 2016, Pages 400–402, https://doi.org/10…
Integrity and the Value of an Integrated Self
What is integrity and why is it valuable? One account of the nature of integrity, proposed by John Cottingham amongst others, is The Integrated Self View. On this account integrity is a formal relation of coherence between various aspects of a person. One problem that has been raised against this account is that it isn’t obvious that it can account for the value of integrity. In this paper I will respond to this problem by providing an account of…
Hard Feelings: The Moral Psychology of Contempt
Contempt appears to be making something of a comeback in public discourse. The 2016 US Presidential Elections saw both mainstream candidates accused of contempt. Hillary Clinton and her supporters were claimed by Republicans to be contemptuous of ‘ordinary Americans’. Donald Trump, on the other hand, was seen by many to be treating the entire political process and state apparatus with contempt. Is it good to feel contempt towards others? Not acco…
Supererogation and Consequentialism
The thought that acts of supererogation exist presents a challenge to all normative ethical theories. This chapter will provide an overview of the consequentialist responses to this challenge. I will begin by explaining the problem that supererogation presents for consequentialism. I will then explore consequentialist attempts to deny the existence of acts of supererogation. Next, I will examine a range of act consequentialist attempts to accommo…
Emotional Imperialism
How might people be wronged in relation to their feelings, moods, and emotions? Recently philosophers have begun to investigate the idea that these kinds of wrongs may constitute a distinctive form of injustice: affective injustice. In previous work, we have outlined a particular form of affective injustice that we called emotional imperialism. This paper has two main aims. First, we aim to provide an expanded account of the forms that emotional …
Exemplars and expertise: What we cannot learn from saints and heroes
According to a popular line of thought, moral exemplars have a key role to play in moral development and moral education and by paying attention to moral exemplars we can learn about what morality requires of us. However, when we pay attention to what many moral exemplars say about their actions, it seems that our moral obligations are much more demanding than we typically think they are. Some philosophers have argued that this exemplar testimony…
There Goes My Hero: The Role of Exemplars in Identity Formation
In this paper, we argue that who one is and wants to become is closely related to whom one admires. Although the links between identity formation and exemplars have been largely neglected, we claim that integrating both literature studies provides interesting new insights. First, exemplars can play an important role in and constitute a powerful tool for people’s identity construction. Second, insights into identity formation processes can help be…
Taking the public seriously: The role of respect in interactions between scientific experts and lay publics
Influencers as role models
The claim that celebrities have special duties to be good role models is prominent in the philosophical literature on fame. We investigate whether these arguments can be extended to social media influencers. According to the role model argument, the fact that celebrities are widely known and admired gives them a high degree of influence over others’ behaviours. This gives them strong moral reasons to act as a good example to others. While celebri…
Moral Exemplars and the Moral Community
Linda Zagzebski’s groundbreaking book Exemplarist Moral Theory has inspired new attention to the use of moral exemplars in moral education. Zagzebski argues that admiration for moral exemplars has a crucial role to play in the development of moral virtue. It is through admiration that we come to identify moral exemplars. Moreover, it is through our admiration for exemplars that we come to identify what moral virtue consists of and also to develop…
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