Volume 74 (2019), 8

The aim of the paper is to explain the normative ambivalent interconnection between civil rights and economic rights based on the example of people with disabilities. The article starts with the reference to two competing ideals of freedom in the human rights agenda, and the two meanings of the lack of free- dom: while the libertarian normative ideal of lack of… Read more

The hypothesis of the article is the idea that the collective moral responsibility is meaningful also at the level of unstructured groups, which do not have a stable identity capable of persisting over time. According to the author, such a grouping does not necessarily have to fulfill the conditions specific to a structured group in order to have the status of an… Read more

The paper deals with the normative reasoning of human rights in the concept of effective altruism. It focuses on the analysis of the works of Peter Singer and Thomas W. Pogge, who argue in favor of the moral obligation to protect human rights of people living in extreme poverty. The aim of the paper is to introduce the main principles of the universal and… Read more

Most of us understand health care as a system in which certain values and moral standards must apply. We will try to grasp different types of health care sys- tems, the way they work and, above all, specify how the systems differ from one another. We will investigate the issue of the access to health care and we will show how the theoretical and practical… Read more

A plenitude of motivations can and has been be enlisted to speak for the hyperintensionality of epistemic modals. This fact is well-known and many logical frameworks have been introduced to capture the finegrained nature of epistemic modals. Recently, hyperintensionality of deontic modals has been brought into the focus. Paradoxes of deontic logic and the failure… Read more

The metaphysical nature of fictional characters is a matter of extensive philosophical debate. The related positions come in various flavours and are accom- panied by more or less controversial analyses. Possible worlds, or possibilia, are a matter of equally extensive debate, and (controversial) theories about their nature abound. I present an approach to… Read more