Fairness as Appropriate Impartiality and the Problem of the Self-Serving Bias
Garrett Cullity contends that fairness is appropriate impartiality (See Cullity (2004) Chapters 8 and 10 and Cullity (2008)). Cullity deploys his account of fairness as a means of limiting the extreme moral demand to make sacrifices in order to aid others that was posed by Peter Singer in his semina...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2016]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Año: 2016, Volumen: 19, Número: 3, Páginas: 695-709 |
| Clasificaciones IxTheo: | NCA Ética VA Filosofía ZD Psicología |
| Otras palabras clave: | B
Moral Demandingness
B Impartiality B Self-Serving Bias B Équité B Murphy B Poverty Alleviation B Cullity, Broome B Moral Obligation |
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| Sumario: | Garrett Cullity contends that fairness is appropriate impartiality (See Cullity (2004) Chapters 8 and 10 and Cullity (2008)). Cullity deploys his account of fairness as a means of limiting the extreme moral demand to make sacrifices in order to aid others that was posed by Peter Singer in his seminal article Famine, Affluence and Morality. My paper is founded upon the combination of (1) the observation that the idea that fairness consists in appropriate impartiality is very vague and (2) the fact that psychological studies show the self-serving bias is especially likely to infect ones judgements when the ideas involved are vague. I argue that Cullitys solution to extreme moral demandingness is threatened by these findings. I then comment on whether some other theories of fairness are vulnerable to the same objection. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9665-6 |