Sean Cordell
Biographic Data
| ID | 979985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Cordell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Cordell |
| SIGNATURE | CORDELL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Open University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4840-8921 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Group Virtues: No Great Leap Forward with Collectivism
A body of work in ethics and epistemology has advanced a collectivist view of virtues. Collectivism holds that some social groups can be subjects in themselves which can possess attributes such as agency or responsibility. Collectivism about virtues holds that virtues (and vices) are among those attributes. By focusing on two different accounts, I argue that the collectivist virtue project has limited prospects. On one such interpretation of inst…
Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement
Journal Article Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement Get access Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement By Persson Ingmar Savulescu Julian. ( Oxford: OUP, 2012. Pp. 160. Price £20.00.) Sean Cordell Sean Cordell Open University, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 255, April 2014, Pages 330–332, ht…
Virtuous Persons and Social Roles
The article discusses the characteristics of virtuous persons in relation to their social role(s). It explores the key features of the neo-Aristotelian account of right action and some problems for this account in the context of a certain social role. The problem can be characterized as a dilemma. When evaluating an action in some role, one view is that the obligations and requirements of roles could be taken as something already given by social …
Group Virtues: No Great Leap Forward with Collectivism
A body of work in ethics and epistemology has advanced a collectivist view of virtues. Collectivism holds that some social groups can be subjects in themselves which can possess attributes such as agency or responsibility. Collectivism about virtues holds that virtues (and vices) are among those attributes. By focusing on two different accounts, I argue that the collectivist virtue project has limited prospects. On one such interpretation of inst…
Virtuous Persons and Social Roles
The article discusses the characteristics of virtuous persons in relation to their social role(s). It explores the key features of the neo-Aristotelian account of right action and some problems for this account in the context of a certain social role. The problem can be characterized as a dilemma. When evaluating an action in some role, one view is that the obligations and requirements of roles could be taken as something already given by social …
Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement
Journal Article Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement Get access Unfit for the Future: The Need for Moral Enhancement By Persson Ingmar Savulescu Julian. ( Oxford: OUP, 2012. Pp. 160. Price £20.00.) Sean Cordell Sean Cordell Open University, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 64, Issue 255, April 2014, Pages 330–332, ht…
Group Virtues: No Great Leap Forward with Collectivism
A body of work in ethics and epistemology has advanced a collectivist view of virtues. Collectivism holds that some social groups can be subjects in themselves which can possess attributes such as agency or responsibility. Collectivism about virtues holds that virtues (and vices) are among those attributes. By focusing on two different accounts, I argue that the collectivist virtue project has limited prospects. On one such interpretation of inst…
Sociology (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Citation (1 works) · Collectivism (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Economics (1 works) · Environmental ethics (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works)