Assessing the Moral Evaluations of Pharmacological Enhancements

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dc.contributor.advisorGlannon, Walter
dc.contributor.authorCaouette, Justin
dc.contributor.committeememberFantl, Jeremy
dc.contributor.committeememberMigotti, Mark
dc.contributor.committeememberLevey, Ann
dc.contributor.committeememberJotterand, Fabrice
dc.date2019-06
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-17T17:26:36Z
dc.date.available2018-12-17T17:26:36Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-13
dc.description.abstractThere are a variety of ways to accomplish a goal. But how we choose to accomplish a goal matters, morally speaking. The focus of my dissertation is on the ways in which the use of pharmacological enhancements should affect our moral evaluations. I’m concerned with this central question: how should our decision to enhance or not affect our evaluation of the act or person in question? I discuss a number of moral evaluations including deontic evaluations of human action, which concern assessments of actions being right, wrong, or obligatory; agent evaluations, which include assessments of how we should treat people; these include assessments of moral responsibility and just punishment; and outcome evaluations which include whether or not the completion of a goal is an achievement or not and whether such an achievement is meaningful or hollow (Bradford 2015a). These latter evaluations have received much less attention and one goal in this dissertation is to remedy that gap in the literature. After carefully examining many of the arguments against the use of pharmacological enhancements and casting doubt on them, I conclude that utilizing various pharmacological enhancements is not only permissible in many contexts but may be obligatory in far more cases than has been previously suggested.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCaouette, J. (2018). Assessing The Moral Evaluations of Pharmacological Enhancements (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34979
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/109359
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArtsen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.en_US
dc.subject.classificationPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.classificationEngineering--Biomedicalen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychology--Cognitiveen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychology--Experimentalen_US
dc.subject.classificationPsychology--Socialen_US
dc.titleAssessing the Moral Evaluations of Pharmacological Enhancementsen_US
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophyen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgaryen_US
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
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