Thesis
Normative uncertainty
- Abstract:
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Very often, we are unsure about what we ought to do. Under what conditions should we help to improve the lives of distant strangers rather than those of our family members? At what point does an embryo or foetus become a person, with all the rights that that entails? Is it ever permissible to raise and kill non-human animals in order to use their meat for food?
Sometimes, this uncertainty arises out of empirical uncertainty: we might not know to what extent non-human animal...
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Contributors
+ John, B
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
+ Krister, B
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:9180
- Deposit date:
- 2014-10-27
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- Copyright holder:
- MacAskill, W
- Copyright date:
- 2014
- Notes:
- This thesis is not currently available in ORA.
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