The Enemy of the Good: Towards a Theory of Moral Progress

Project Information

PROGRESS

Grant agreement ID: 851043

DOI

10.3030/851043

Project closed

EC signature date 20 September 2019

Start date 1 November 2019

End date 31 October 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (15)

The effect of cognitive load, ego depletion, induction and time restriction on moral judgments about sacrificial dilemmas: a meta-analysis

Author(s): Paul Rehren
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1388966

Another Brick in the Wall? Moral Education, Social Learning, and Moral Progress

Author(s): Paul Rehren, Hanno Sauer
Published in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Issue 27, 2024, Page(s) 25-40, ISSN 1386-2820
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10677-022-10351-3

Pistols, pills, pork and ploughs: the structure of technomoral revolutions

Author(s): J. K. G. Hopster, C. Arora, C. Blunden, C. Eriksen, L. E. Frank, J. S. Hermann, M. B. O. T. Klenk, E. R. H. O’Neill, S. Steinert
Published in: Inquiry, Issue 68, 2025, Page(s) 264-296, ISSN 0020-174X
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2022.2090434

Recent Work on Moral Revolutions

Author(s): Michael Klenk, Elizabeth O’Neill, Chirag Arora, Charlie Blunden, Cecilie Eriksen, Lily Frank, Jeroen Hopster
Published in: Analysis, Issue 82, 2023, Page(s) 354-366, ISSN 0003-2638
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/analys/anac017

Moral Judgement and Moral Progress: The Problem of Cognitive Control

Author(s): Michael Klenk, Hanno Sauer
Published in: Philosophical Psychology, Issue 34, 2021, Page(s) 938-961, ISSN 0951-5089
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2021.1931670

The end of history

Author(s): Hanno Sauer
Published in: Inquiry, 2022, Page(s) 1-25, ISSN 0020-174X
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2022.2124542

It's Only Natural!

Author(s): Charlie Blunden
Published in: Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Issue 29, 2025, ISSN 1559-3061
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.26556/jesp.v29i2.3316

Vindicating universalism: Pragmatic genealogy and moral progress

Author(s): Charlie Blunden, Benedict Lane
Published in: European Journal of Philosophy, 2024, ISSN 0966-8373
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/ejop.12975

Moral progress: Recent developments

Author(s): Hanno Sauer, Charlie Blunden, Cecilie Eriksen, Paul Rehren
Published in: Philosophy Compass, Issue 16, 2023, ISSN 1747-9991
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
DOI: 10.1111/phc3.12769

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves: we have no idea if moral reasoning causes moral progress

Author(s): Paul Rehren, Charlie Blunden
Published in: Philosophical Explorations, Issue 27, 2024, Page(s) 351-369, ISSN 1386-9795
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2024.2363876

Butchering Benevolence Moral Progress beyond the Expanding Circle

Author(s): Hanno Sauer
Published in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Issue 22/1, 2019, Page(s) 153-167, ISSN 1386-2820
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-09983-9

Has philosophy become more ‘Scientific’? A citation analysis

Author(s): Paul Rehren, Till Armbruster
Published in: Synthese, Issue 205, 2025, ISSN 1573-0964
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04896-2

Against moral judgment. The empirical case for moral abolitionism

Author(s): Hanno Sauer
Published in: Philosophical Explorations, Issue 24, 2023, Page(s) 137-154, ISSN 1386-9795
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13869795.2021.1908580

The Dynamics of Moral Revolutions – Prelude to Future Investigations and Interventions

Author(s): Cecilie Eriksen
Published in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Issue 22/3, 2019, Page(s) 779-792, ISSN 1386-2820
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10677-019-10005-x

Knowledge Versus Understanding: What Drives Moral Progress?

Author(s): Petar Bodlović, Karolina Kudlek
Published in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2024, ISSN 1386-2820
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10677-024-10465-w

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Moral framing effects within subjects

Author(s): Paul Rehren, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Published in: Philosophical Psychology, 2021, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 0951-5089
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2021.1914328

Between Market Failures and Justice Failures: Trade-Offs Between Efficiency and Equality in Business Ethics

Author(s): Charlie Blunden
Published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2021, ISSN 0167-4544
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10551-021-04767-7

Monographic books (1)

Moral Teleology

Author(s): Hanno Sauer
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003375753