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Any account of moral status faces three difficulties simultaneously. The first is the grounding difficulty—how to account for the grounds of moral status. The second is the mapping difficulty—how to map the grounds to the moral reasons for action associated with the possession of (some level of) moral status. The third is the cases difficulty—how to navigate the grounds and mapping difficulties without running afoul of strong intuitions about a wide range of problem cases. One cannot navigate these difficulties perfectly. But this chapter argues that a coherent and relatively compelling view can be had by grounding moral status in aspects of a subject’s conscious mental life, by mapping the grounds to moral reasons in terms of respect for conscious subjects, and by taking the problem cases one by one.

Author

Joshua Shepherd

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN