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oapen-20.500.12657-471092021-03-10T01:23:46Z Chapter Consciousness and Morality Shepherd, Joshua Levy, Neil Consciousness, moral status, moral responsibility, moral knowledge, moral significance bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy This chapter considers three connections between consciousness and issues in ethics: first, the relevance of consciousness for questions surrounding an entity’s moral status; second, the relevance of consciousness for questions surrounding moral responsibility for action; and third, the relevance of consciousness for the acquisition of moral knowledge. This is a disparate set of connections, prompting a question: is there anything about consciousness these connections have in common? One might expect the answer to be no. But debate in each area has thus far failed to settle just what about consciousness is so intuitively important for moral status, moral responsibility, and moral knowledge. Given this fact, it remains possible that there is some common connection of these different issues in ethics to consciousness. The chapter takes up this possibility in its conclusion. 2021-03-09T09:38:30Z 2021-03-09T09:38:30Z 2020 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47109 eng application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International Bookshelf_NBK563591.pdf Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Consciousness b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 f8dcec60-fcea-49d1-bb3a-c3cacb6ddcb4 d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd Wellcome 15 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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This chapter considers three connections between consciousness and issues in ethics: first, the relevance of consciousness for questions surrounding an entity’s moral status; second, the relevance of consciousness for questions surrounding moral responsibility for action; and third, the relevance of consciousness for the acquisition of moral knowledge. This is a disparate set of connections, prompting a question: is there anything about consciousness these connections have in common? One might expect the answer to be no. But debate in each area has thus far failed to settle just what about consciousness is so intuitively important for moral status, moral responsibility, and moral knowledge. Given this fact, it remains possible that there is some common connection of these different issues in ethics to consciousness. The chapter takes up this possibility in its conclusion.
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