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Elvio Baccarini

University of Rijeka, Prof. of Political Philosophy, Ethics and Philosophy of Arts
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The moral bioenhancement of psychopaths

E Baccarini, L Malatesti - Journal of Medical Ethics, 2017 - jme.bmj.com
We argue that the mandatory moral bioenhancement of psychopaths is justified as a
prescription of social morality. Moral bioenhancement is legitimate when it is justified on the …

Mill's case for plural voting and the need for balanced public decisions

E Baccarini, V Ivanković - Prolegomena: Časopis za filozofiju, 2015 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak This paper revisits John Stuart Mill's famous proposal for plural voting, according to
which universal suffrage is conjoined with the possibility for some to claim and utilise …

The disorder status of psychopathy

L Malatesti, E Baccarini - Psychopathy: Its Uses, Validity and Status, 2022 - Springer
In this chapter, we investigate whether psychopathy is a mental disorder. We argue that
addressing this question requires engaging, at least, with three principal issues that have …

[PDF][PDF] In a better world? public reason and biotechnologies

E Baccarini - 2015 - academia.edu
This is a book about political philosophy. To be more precise, it is a book about applied
political philosophy. My intention is to draw out a way how political philosophy can help in …

Public reason. The consensus and the convergence view

E Baccarini - Filozofija i drustvo, 2014 - doiserbia.nb.rs
Jonathan Quong proposes and defends the consensus, shared reasons, view of public
reason. The proposal is opposed to the convergence view, defended, among others, by …

[PDF][PDF] Epistemic democracy, political legitimacy and reasonable pluralism

E Baccarini - Etica & Politica/Ethics & Politics, 2021 - sites.units.it
After presenting some of Cerovac's theses (2020), the article explains some challenges to
the criticism of all forms of epistocracy that he developed. The objections are expressed …

Having a reason and distributive justice in the order of public reason

E Baccarini - European journal of analytic philosophy, 2013 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak In the fi rst part of the paper, Gaus' ground for the ideal of persons as free and equal
is described. Doubts are raised about the appropriateness of the use of his account of this …

[PDF][PDF] Art, knowledge and testimony

I Vidmar, E Baccarini - Synthesis philosophica, 2010 - hrcak.srce.hr
In this paper we want to explore different epistemological benefits that we gain by dealing
with some artworks, and our focus is on narrative arts. We claim that there is a sense in …

[HTML][HTML] Art, moral understanding, radical changes

E Baccarini - Rivista di estetica, 2018 - journals.openedition.org
Empirical methods interact with moral philosophy in several ways. In this paper I remark the
role of experience, as well as formative experience, in moral epistemology. I defend the …

[PDF][PDF] The moral and cognitive value of art

E Baccarini, MC Urban - Etica e Politica/Ethics and Politics, 2013 - academia.edu
This paper is about the notions of the artistic, aesthetic, cognitive and moral value of art and
their (possible) interconnectedness. The main concern is to try to advocate the cognitivist …