Ralf M Bader
Biographic Data
| ID | 4496853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralf M Bader |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralf M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bader |
| SIGNATURE | BADER R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2619-1437 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dignity of Humanity
This chapter argues that the normative significance of humanity is not to be understood in axiological terms (and that it is hence somewhat misleading to speak of the “value of humanity”) but is instead to be construed in distinctly deontological terms (and that it is accordingly preferable to speak of the “status of humanity”). It argues, in particular, that humanity has dignity insofar as humanity is the ground of being a member of the domain o…
The Asymmetry
This chapter provides an account of the asymmetry in population ethics. The first half of the asymmetry is explicated by means of a person-affecting view, whereas the second half is established by means of a structural consistency constraint. This account can be integrated into a general theory that can handle (i) cases where there are externalities in that members of the original distribution are positively or negatively affected by bringing the…
Person-Affecting Utilitarianism
This chapter is concerned with person-affecting views in population ethics which require the betterness ordering of populations to consist in betterness facts for the members of the populations and thereby require the evaluation of distributions to be reducible to facts about personal good. The first part argues that impersonal versions of utilitarianism involve an objectionable axiology precisely because they are incompatible with a person-affec…
The fundamental and the brute
Counterfactual Justifications of the State
By providing an interpretation of Nozick’s justification of the state in Anarchy, State, and Utopia , this paper identifies and illustrates a form of justification that is distinct from traditional hypothetical, teleological, and historical justifications. The proposed counterfactual or rectificationist justification treats the justification of institutional structures as being analogous to that of property distributions, subsuming these domains …
The Grounding Argument against Non-reductive Moral Realism
The supervenience argument against non-reductive moral realism threatens to rule out the existence of irreducibly normative properties by establishing that for every normative property there is a corresponding non-normative property that is necessarily co-extensive with it. This chapter identifies a hyperintensional analogue of the supervenience argument that threatens non-reductionism even within a hyperintensional setting by establishing that f…
Contingent identity and counterpart theory
This paper argues that counterpart-theoretic accounts of modality that allow for many-one counterpart relations, and thereby make room for contingent identities, are not able to preserve the transitivity of identity. It will be shown that the translation scheme of counterpart theorists breaks down and that they have to abandon the claim that objects can be contingently identical in virtue of sharing a counterpart. Moreover, modifications of count…
Kantian Axiology and the Dualism of Practical Reason
The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant
The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however-a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant a…
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse No…
Kant and the Categories of Freedom
The Grounding Argument against Non-reductive Moral Realism
The supervenience argument against non-reductive moral realism threatens to rule out the existence of irreducibly normative properties by establishing that for every normative property there is a corresponding non-normative property that is necessarily co-extensive with it. This chapter identifies a hyperintensional analogue of the supervenience argument that threatens non-reductionism even within a hyperintensional setting by establishing that f…
Kant and the Categories of Freedom
Kant and the Categories of Freedom
The Cambridge Companion to Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) is recognised as a classic of modern political philosophy. Along with John Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971), it is widely credited with breathing new life into the discipline in the second half of the twentieth century. This Companion presents a balanced and comprehensive assessment of Nozick's contribution to political philosophy. In engaging and accessible chapters, the contributors analyse No…
Kantian Axiology and the Dualism of Practical Reason
The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant
The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however-a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant a…
Contingent identity and counterpart theory
This paper argues that counterpart-theoretic accounts of modality that allow for many-one counterpart relations, and thereby make room for contingent identities, are not able to preserve the transitivity of identity. It will be shown that the translation scheme of counterpart theorists breaks down and that they have to abandon the claim that objects can be contingently identical in virtue of sharing a counterpart. Moreover, modifications of count…
Counterfactual Justifications of the State
By providing an interpretation of Nozick’s justification of the state in Anarchy, State, and Utopia , this paper identifies and illustrates a form of justification that is distinct from traditional hypothetical, teleological, and historical justifications. The proposed counterfactual or rectificationist justification treats the justification of institutional structures as being analogous to that of property distributions, subsuming these domains …
The Grounding Argument against Non-reductive Moral Realism
The supervenience argument against non-reductive moral realism threatens to rule out the existence of irreducibly normative properties by establishing that for every normative property there is a corresponding non-normative property that is necessarily co-extensive with it. This chapter identifies a hyperintensional analogue of the supervenience argument that threatens non-reductionism even within a hyperintensional setting by establishing that f…
The fundamental and the brute
The Asymmetry
This chapter provides an account of the asymmetry in population ethics. The first half of the asymmetry is explicated by means of a person-affecting view, whereas the second half is established by means of a structural consistency constraint. This account can be integrated into a general theory that can handle (i) cases where there are externalities in that members of the original distribution are positively or negatively affected by bringing the…
Person-Affecting Utilitarianism
This chapter is concerned with person-affecting views in population ethics which require the betterness ordering of populations to consist in betterness facts for the members of the populations and thereby require the evaluation of distributions to be reducible to facts about personal good. The first part argues that impersonal versions of utilitarianism involve an objectionable axiology precisely because they are incompatible with a person-affec…
The Dignity of Humanity
This chapter argues that the normative significance of humanity is not to be understood in axiological terms (and that it is hence somewhat misleading to speak of the “value of humanity”) but is instead to be construed in distinctly deontological terms (and that it is accordingly preferable to speak of the “status of humanity”). It argues, in particular, that humanity has dignity insofar as humanity is the ground of being a member of the domain o…
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (6 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works)