Journal article
Praiseworthiness and motivational enhancement: “no pain, no praise?”
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The view that exertion of effort determines praiseworthiness for an achievement is implicit in ‘no pain, no praise’-style objections to biomedical enhancement. On such views, if enhancements were to reduce the need for effort, agents would be less praiseworthy. Motivational enhancement would appear to be the most problematic in this respect, given that increased motivation reduces the need for agents to rally themselves and to exert effort in activity. We use the prospect of motivational enha...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Australasian Journal of Philosophy Journal website
- Volume:
- 98
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 304-318
- Publication date:
- 2019-06-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-03-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-6828
- ISSN:
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0004-8402
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:983499
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uuid:39ef15a5-7b77-4061-8459-3b0fb4fb3cc2
- Local pid:
- pubs:983499
- Deposit date:
- 2019-03-20
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- Copyright holder:
- Maslen, Savulescu, and Hunt
- Copyright date:
- 2019
- Rights statement:
- © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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