Cost and Psychological Difficulty
Two Aspects of Demandingness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21293699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Mcelwee (University of Southampton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 920-935 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australasian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8402 • E-ISSN: 1470-6828 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00048402.2022.2042574 |
| OpenAlex | W4220735555 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 22 |
The demandingness of a moral prescription is generally understood exclusively in terms of the welfare costs involved in complying with that prescription. I argue that psychological difficulty is a second aspect of demandingness, whose relevance cannot be reduced to that of welfare costs. Appeal to psychological difficulty explains intuitive verdicts about the permissibility of favouring oneself over others, favouring loved ones over strangers, and favouring one’s short-term good over one’s long-term good. There are also significant implications for the morality of addressing severe global poverty
Appeal · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Morality · Political science · Positive economics · Poverty · Relevance (law) · Sociology · Term (time) · Welfare · Welfare economics · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
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Achievement
Supererogation
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |