Ashley Coates
Biographic Data
| ID | 6210846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashley Coates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashley |
| FAMILY NAME | Coates |
| SIGNATURE | COATES A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sentience, Communal Relations, and Moral Status
Thaddeus Metz has developed and defended a “modal-relational” account of moral status based on his interpretation of salient Sub-Saharan African values. Roughly, on this account, a being has moral status to the degree it can enter into friendly or communal relationships with characteristic human beings. In this paper, it is argued that this theory’s true significance for environmental ethics has thus far not been recognized. Metz’s own view is th…
The Primitivist Response to the Inference Problem
While the inference problem is widely thought to be one of the most serious problems facing non-Humean accounts of laws, Jonathan Schaffer has argued that a primitivist response straightforwardly dissolves the problem. On this basis, he claims that the inference problem is really a pseudo-problem. Here I clarify the prospects of a primitivist response to the inference problem and their implications for the philosophical significance of the proble…
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The Primitivist Response to the Inference Problem
While the inference problem is widely thought to be one of the most serious problems facing non-Humean accounts of laws, Jonathan Schaffer has argued that a primitivist response straightforwardly dissolves the problem. On this basis, he claims that the inference problem is really a pseudo-problem. Here I clarify the prospects of a primitivist response to the inference problem and their implications for the philosophical significance of the proble…
Sentience, Communal Relations, and Moral Status
Thaddeus Metz has developed and defended a “modal-relational” account of moral status based on his interpretation of salient Sub-Saharan African values. Roughly, on this account, a being has moral status to the degree it can enter into friendly or communal relationships with characteristic human beings. In this paper, it is argued that this theory’s true significance for environmental ethics has thus far not been recognized. Metz’s own view is th…
Applied philosophy (1 works) · Contemporary philosophy (1 works) · Environmental ethics (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 works) · General interest (1 works) · Inference (1 works) · Interpretation (philosophy) (1 works) · Philosophy (1 works) · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity (1 works)