Samuel Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5712816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tidewater Community College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3543-459X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Why Police Shouldn't Be Allowed to Lie to Suspects
In this essay, I argue that it is morally wrong for police to lie to suspects in interrogations and that it should be legally prohibited. I base my argument on broadly Kantian considerations about respect for autonomy: Respect for rational agency forbids lying to suspects and there is no plausible and compelling rationale for allowing police to lie to suspects in typical cases of interrogation
Commitment and transformative choice
This paper presents a new solution to the problem of transformative choice raised by L.A. Paul's recent work. Paul thinks that transformative choices pose a problem because we cannot assess how much we would value the results of such choices due to the fact that we are unfamiliar with what the experiences that result will be like. I draw on Amartya Sen's notion of commitments and their place in our decision‐making for resources to address this pr…
Labour‐Based Justifications of Intellectual Property and the Problem of Disruptive Innovations
Justifying intellectual property on the basis of labour is an understandably popular strategy, but there is a tension in basing some intellectual property claims on labour that has gone largely unnoticed in treatments of the subject: many forms of innovation cause people to lose their jobs, which seriously hampers the ability of those who lose work to productively use their own labour. This article shows that even under Lockean and other labour‐b…
Constructivism, moral realism, and the possibility of Kant's rational religion
In this article I challenge Kantian constructivism both as an interpretation of Kant's own philosophical commitments and on its own merits as a moral theory, and argue in favour of a moral realist interpretation of Kant. I do so by focusing on Kant's own religious views and the question of whether a Kantian moral theory can be religiously neutral. I show that constructivist readings have severe problems on both fronts, while realist readings of K…
Routes of Power
"Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America by Christopher Jones." Canadian Journal of History, 51(3), pp. 619–620
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Routes of Power
"Routes of Power: Energy and Modern America by Christopher Jones." Canadian Journal of History, 51(3), pp. 619–620
Constructivism, moral realism, and the possibility of Kant's rational religion
In this article I challenge Kantian constructivism both as an interpretation of Kant's own philosophical commitments and on its own merits as a moral theory, and argue in favour of a moral realist interpretation of Kant. I do so by focusing on Kant's own religious views and the question of whether a Kantian moral theory can be religiously neutral. I show that constructivist readings have severe problems on both fronts, while realist readings of K…
Commitment and transformative choice
This paper presents a new solution to the problem of transformative choice raised by L.A. Paul's recent work. Paul thinks that transformative choices pose a problem because we cannot assess how much we would value the results of such choices due to the fact that we are unfamiliar with what the experiences that result will be like. I draw on Amartya Sen's notion of commitments and their place in our decision‐making for resources to address this pr…
Labour‐Based Justifications of Intellectual Property and the Problem of Disruptive Innovations
Justifying intellectual property on the basis of labour is an understandably popular strategy, but there is a tension in basing some intellectual property claims on labour that has gone largely unnoticed in treatments of the subject: many forms of innovation cause people to lose their jobs, which seriously hampers the ability of those who lose work to productively use their own labour. This article shows that even under Lockean and other labour‐b…
Why Police Shouldn't Be Allowed to Lie to Suspects
In this essay, I argue that it is morally wrong for police to lie to suspects in interrogations and that it should be legally prohibited. I base my argument on broadly Kantian considerations about respect for autonomy: Respect for rational agency forbids lying to suspects and there is no plausible and compelling rationale for allowing police to lie to suspects in typical cases of interrogation
Epistemology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Autonomy (1 work) · Business (1 work)