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The moral permissibility of perspective-taking interventions
- Abstract:
- Interventions designed to promote perspective taking are increasingly prevalent in educational settings, and are also being considered for applications in other domains. Thus far, these perspective-taking interventions (PTIs) have largely escaped philosophical attention, however they are sometimes prima facie morally problematic in at least two respects: they are neither transparent nor easy to resist. Nontransparent or hard-to-resist PTIs call for a moral defense and our primary aim in this paper is to provide such a defense. We offer two arguments for the view that an exemplar PTI is morally permissible even though it is plausibly neither transparent nor easy to resist. The first argument appeals to an analogy between PTIs and permissible deceptive research practices. The second appeals to the way in which PTIs draw participants’ attention to their reasons for action. We also respond to the objection that, by imposing a particular conception of the good, PTIs violate liberal neutrality.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1007/s10677-023-10421-0
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0472cxd90
- Grant:
- 819757
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Journal:
- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice More from this journal
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 337-352
- Publication date:
- 2023-11-16
- Acceptance date:
- 2023-10-04
- DOI:
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1572-8447
- ISSN:
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1386-2820
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1544249
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pubs:1544249
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2023-11-22
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- Read and Douglas
- Copyright date:
- 2023
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- © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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