Amir Saemi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5966811 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amir Saemi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amir |
| FAMILY NAME | Saemi |
| SIGNATURE | SAEMI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0771-0534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Against Consequentialist Interpretations of Deontological Principles
The distinction between doing and allowing (DDA); intentional and non-intentional agency (DDE); and agent-relative versus agent-neutral values have been invoked to support the deontological nature of moral thought. Consequentialists claim that, since these distinctions can be incorporated into value theory, all plausible deontological theories ultimately reduce to consequentialism. I argue: first, that while the DDA and DDE can be framed in agent…
The problem of arbitrary requirements
Targeting Human Shields
In this paper, we are concerned with the morality of killing human shields. Many moral philosophers seem to believe that knowingly killing human shields necessarily involves intentionally targeting human shields. If we assume that the distinction between intention and foresight is morally significant, then this view would entail that it is generally harder to justify a military operation in which human shields are knowingly killed than a military…
The Form of Practical Knowledge and Implicit Cognition
The Guise of the Good and the Problem of Over-Intellectualism
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The Guise of the Good and the Problem of Over-Intellectualism
The Form of Practical Knowledge and Implicit Cognition
Targeting Human Shields
In this paper, we are concerned with the morality of killing human shields. Many moral philosophers seem to believe that knowingly killing human shields necessarily involves intentionally targeting human shields. If we assume that the distinction between intention and foresight is morally significant, then this view would entail that it is generally harder to justify a military operation in which human shields are knowingly killed than a military…
The problem of arbitrary requirements
Against Consequentialist Interpretations of Deontological Principles
The distinction between doing and allowing (DDA); intentional and non-intentional agency (DDE); and agent-relative versus agent-neutral values have been invoked to support the deontological nature of moral thought. Consequentialists claim that, since these distinctions can be incorporated into value theory, all plausible deontological theories ultimately reduce to consequentialism. I argue: first, that while the DDA and DDE can be framed in agent…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Applied philosophy (1 work) · Arbitrariness (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Cognition (1 work)