You Oughta Know: A Defence of Obligations to Learn

Teresa Bruno-Niño; Preston J. Werner

doi:10.1080/00048402.2018.1547915

You Oughta Know: A Defence of Obligations to Learn

Teresa Bruno-Niño
, Preston J. Werner

Department of Philosophy

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Abstract

Most of us spend a significant portion of our lives learning, practising, and performing a wide range of skills. Many of us also have a great amount of control over which skills we learn and develop. From choices as significant as career pursuits to those as minor as how we spend our weeknight leisure time, we exercise a great amount of agency over what we know and what we can do. In this paper we argue, using a framework first developed by Carbonell [2013], that in many real-world circumstances we have moral obligations to develop some skills rather than others.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	690-700
Number of pages	11
Journal	Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Volume	97
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2018.1547915
State	Published - 2 Oct 2019

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expertise
knowledge
learning
obligation
scope of morality

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