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Magdalena Holy-Luczaj earned her Ph.D. at Jagiellonian University in Cracow in 2016. Her research interests include contemporary continental philosophy, in particular topics related to metaphysics, anthropology, and environmental ethics. She published in „Ethics and the Environment”, „Ruch Filozoficzny”, „Analiza i Egzystencja”, “Studia Philosophica Wratislaviensia”. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2013/2014.
The paper revisits metaphysical and deontological stances on moral considerability and offers a new criterion for it – “affectability”, that is a capacity of an agent to affect a considered entity. Such an approach results in significant changes in the scope of moral considerability and is relevant for discussing the human position in the Anthropocene. This concept, given especially the assumption of the directness of moral considerability, is also substantial for the decision making process on the ethical, as well as the political plane.