Garry Young

Fictional Immorality and Immoral Fiction

Garry Young

Book  |  2021

This book examines what, if anything, makes a depiction of fictional immorality--such as the murder, torture, or sexual assault of..

Individually Sufficient and Disjunctively Necessary Conditions for Moral Responsibility

Garry Young, Daniel Coren

Journal article  |  2020  |  Acta Analytica

Objections to the God Machine Thought Experiment and What they Reveal about the Intelligibility of Moral Intervention by Technological Means

Garry Young

Journal article  |  2020  |  Philosophia

The first aim of the paper is to proffer a series of objections to the God machine thought experiment, as presented by Savulescu a..

Knowledge How, Procedural Knowledge, and the Type-Token Action Clause

G Young

Journal article  |  2019  |  Acta Analytica

This paper argues that the propositions “S knowing how to Φ entails that S has the ability to Φ” and “S knowing how to Φ does not ..

An Expressivist Account of the Difference between Poor Taste and Immorality

G Young

Journal article  |  2019  |  Ethical Theory and Moral Practice

This paper considers whether proposition (P 1 ) – “x is not immoral but it is in poor taste” – is morally contradictory when consi..

How Would We Know If Moral Enhancement Had Occurred?

Garry Young

Journal article  |  2018  |  The Journal of Speculative Philosophy

Enacting immorality within gamespace: Where should we draw the line and why?

G Young

Book Chapter  |  2018

This chapter considers three arguments for the selective prohibition of representations of violent or otherwise taboo actions with..

Integrating Poor Taste into the Ongoing Debate on the Morality of Violent Video Games

Garry Young

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Computer Games Journal

Objections to Ostritsch's argument in "The amoralist challenge to gaming and the gamer's moral obligation"

Garry Young

Journal article  |  2017  |  Ethics and Information Technology

A Response to Coren's Objections to the Principle of Alternate Possibilities as Sufficient but not Necessary for Moral Responsibility

Garry Young

Journal article  |  2017  |  Philosophia