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    On Being Conscious as a Basic Liberty.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu & Shunsuke Sugimoto - 2024 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 15 (1):24-26.
    Crutchfield and Redinger (2024) maintain that “being conscious is a basic liberty,” and infer from this that without informed consent, deep sedation, by intruding upon one’s consciousness, is an in...
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  2. Shapelessness and predication supervenience: a limited defense of shapeless moral particularism.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2013 - Philosophical Studies 166 (S1):51-67.
    Moral particularism, on some interpretations, is committed to a shapeless thesis: the moral is shapeless with respect to the natural. (Call this version of moral particularism ‘shapeless moral particularism’). In more detail, the shapeless thesis is that the actions a moral concept or predicate can be correctly applied to have no natural commonality (or shape) amongst them. Jackson et al. (Ethical particularism and patterns, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000) argue, however, that the shapeless thesis violates the platitude ‘predication supervenes on (...)
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    (1 other version)Biomedical Moral Enhancement in the Face of Moral Particularism.Pei-Hua Huang & Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2018 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 83:189-208.
    Biomedical moral enhancement, or BME for short, aims to improve people’s moral behaviors through augmenting, via biomedical means, their virtuous dispositions such as sympathy, honesty, courage, or generosity. Recently, it has been challenged, on particularist grounds, however, that the manifestations of the virtuous dispositions can be morally wrong. For instance, being generous in terrorist financing is one such case. If so, biomedical moral enhancement, by enhancing people’s virtues, might turn out to be counterproductive in terms of people’s moral behaviors. In (...)
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  4. Moral Particularism.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2013 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Is Moral Perception Essentially Rule-Governed? A Critical Assessment of Generalism and a Limited Defense of Particularism.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2021 - Critica 52 (156).
    Moral perception, for the purposes of this article, is taken to be the perception of moral properties, unless contexts dictate otherwise. While both particularists and generalists agree that we can perceive the moral properties of an action or a feature, they disagree, however, over whether rules play any essential role in moral perception. The particularists argue for a ‘no’ answer, whereas the generalists say ‘yes’. In this paper, I provide a limited defense of particularism by rebutting several powerful generalist arguments. (...)
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  6. Defending Particularism from Supervenience/Resultance Attack.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2011 - Acta Analytica 26 (4):387-402.
    I take the debate between the particularists and the principlists to be centered on the issue of whether there are true moral principles. One argument the principlists often appeal to in support of their claim that there are true moral principles is the argument from supervenience. Roughly, the argument is made up of the following three statements: (P1) If the thesis of moral supervenience holds, then there are true moral principles. (P2) The thesis of moral supervenience holds. (C) There are (...)
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    Can the AFR Approach Stand Up to the Test of Reasonable Pluralism?Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2018 - American Journal of Bioethics 18 (3):61-62.
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    Reason Holism, Individuation, and Embeddedness.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2018 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (5):1091-1103.
    The goal of this paper is to promote what I call ‘the embedded thesis’ as a general constraint on how moral reasons behave. Dancy’s reason holism will be used as a foil to illustrate the thesis. According to Dancy’s reason holism, moral reasons behave in a holistic way; that is, a feature that is a moral reason in one context might not be so in another or might even be an opposite reason. The way a feature manages to switch its (...)
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  9. Can Morality Be Codified.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2010 - Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 11 (1-2):145-154.
    In this paper, I will examine the debate between the principlists and the particularists with special focus on the question of whether there is any true and coherent set of moral principles that codifies the moral landscape metaphysically speaking. My stance on this issue is an extreme sort of particularism which gives a ‘no’ answer to the above question. Yet it is significantly different from the positions of other extremists like John McDowell, Jonathan Dancy and Margaret Little. In section 2, (...)
     
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    Biomedical Moral Enhancement in the Face of Moral Particularism – Addendum.Pei-Hua Huang & Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2019 - Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 85:271-271.
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    Particularism in Ethics.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2018 - Oxford Bibliographies Online.
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    Embeddedness and the Psychological Nature of Default Reason: On How Particularists Should Address the Flattening Objection.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly.
    Particularism is widely conceived to endorse the view that moral reason is context-dependent. This being so, it is often accused of flattening the moral landscape—treating the feature of promise-keeping as constituting no more of a (moral) reason for action than the feature of wearing a yellow shoelace in advance of the considerations of the contexts. In reply, Dancy maintains that his particularism allows some features such as promise-keeping to have a reason status by default, ontologically speaking; it is just that (...)
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  13. Enhancing Eyewitness Memory in a Rape Case.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2010 - American Journal of Bioethics---Neuroscience 1 (3):41-42.
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    What Doesn’t Kill Primary Reason Atomism Will Only Make It Stronger: A Limited Defense.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2023 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 26 (3):431-446.
    Against the reason holists (e.g. Dancy 2014), it has been contended by many reason atomists that while many features might well change their reason statuses or valences in different contexts in the way suggested by reason holists, they are merely secondary rather than primary reasons. In these atomists’ scheme of things, there are features that function as primary reasons whose reason statuses remain invariant across contexts. Moreover, these features provide the ultimate source of explanations for why some features, qua secondary (...)
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  15. How the Ceteris Paribus Principles of Morality Lie.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2010 - Public Reason 2 (1):89-94.
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    On the Reconceptualization of Health.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2014 - American Journal of Bioethics 14 (7):16-17.
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    Reproductive Autonomy and Normalization of Cesarean Section.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2012 - American Journal of Bioethics 12 (7):61 - 62.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 7, Page 61-62, July 2012.
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    Of Primary Features in Aesthetics: A Critical Assessment of Generalism and a Limited Defence of Particularism.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2019 - British Journal of Aesthetics 59 (1):35-49.
    Contemporary analytic aesthetics has seen a heated debate about whether there are general critical principles that determine the merits/demerits of an artwork. The so-called generalists say ‘yes’, whereas the so-called particularists say ‘no’. On the particularists’ view, a feature that is a merit in one artwork might well turn out to be a defect in another, so critical principles purporting to define merits and defects are pretty much in vain. Against this, the generalists argue that while some features change their (...)
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    Can the Canberrans’ Supervenience Argument Refute Shapeless Moral Particularism?Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2016 - Erkenntnis 81 (3):545-560.
    Frank Jackson, Michael Smith, and Philip Pettit contend in their 2000 paper that an argument from supervenience deals a fatal blow to shapeless moral particularism, the view that the moral is shapeless with respect to the natural. A decade has passed since the Canberrans advanced their highly influential supervenience argument. Yet, there has not been any compelling counter-argument against it, as far as I can see. My aim in this paper is to fill in this void and defend SMP against (...)
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    Agent-Centered Prerogatives.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu (ed.) - forthcoming - Springer.
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    Correction to: Reason Holism, Individuation, and Embeddedness.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2018 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (5):1105-1105.
    The original version of this article unfortunately contained an error. The acknowledgement of the funding sources was inadvertently omitted by the author. The funding statement is shown below.
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  22. Can Virtue Be Codified? An Inquiry On the Basis of Four Conceptions of Virtue.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2017 - In Tsu Peter Shiu-Hwa (ed.), Virtue's Reasons. Routledge.
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    (1 other version)Essence as a Set of Co-occurring Features.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics---Neuroscience 2 (2):41-42.
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    Elimination of Pain Versus Elimination of Suffering: Why CDS Is Ethically Preferable to PAS.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics 11 (6):45 - 46.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 6, Page 45-46, June 2011.
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    Methylphenidate and Cigarettes.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2012 - American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 3 (2):38-39.
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    Marginally Represented Patients, Best Interests, and Ends-in-Themselves.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (2):57-59.
    Volume 20, Issue 2, February 2020, Page 57-59.
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    Traditional, Not the Usual: On Misrepresenting Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network Lower Tidal Volume Trial.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (1):54-56.
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    Two Sorts of Health Maximization: Average View and Total View.Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2011 - American Journal of Bioethics 11 (12):41-42.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 12, Page 41-42, December 2011.
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  29. Book Note on Principled Ethics: Generalism as a Regulative Ideal. [REVIEW]Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2008 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (3):521-524.
  30. The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study. [REVIEW]Peter Shiu-Hwa Tsu - 2011 - Philosophical Forum 42 (3):327.