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Lockean Puzzles
Author(s) -
MILLIGAN TONY
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00566.x
Subject(s) - epistemology , deliberation , sort , dimension (graph theory) , moral philosophy , philosophy , moral responsibility , set (abstract data type) , sociology , computer science , law , mathematics , politics , political science , pure mathematics , information retrieval , programming language
In analytic moral philosophy it is standard to use unrealistic puzzles to set up moral dilemmas of a sort that I will call Lockean Puzzles. This paper will try to pinpoint just what is and what is not problematic about their use as a teaching tool or component part of philosophical arguments. I will try to flesh out the claim that what may be lost sight of in such Lockean puzzling is the personal dimension of moral deliberation—for example, moral problems differ from technical problems in the sense that they are non‐transferable, we cannot hand them over to others for solution.