Moral Status Weighting (Kagan)

Kagan's framework where moral weight of an interest is multiplied by the moral status of the subject

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

thinker

Shelly Kagan
introduces
Dissent from the necessity of consciousness for moral standing; also on welfare and ill-being.

concept

Super-Patient
supports
A being with superhuman moral status, distinguished from super-beneficiary by how moral claims arise

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Moral Statusconcept0.782
The property of being an entity whose interests matter in their own right, not merely as tools of humans
Moral Standingconcept0.729
The property of mattering morally in one's own right, meriting concern and respect.
MoralBenchmethod0.726
Benchmark for moral understanding in language models; cited as relevant existing evaluation tool
Can Consciousness And Moral Status Be Attributed Toquestion0.696
Both welfare subjectivity and autonomy can confer moral status.claim0.695
Central thesis of the paper.
How Can We Gauge Moral Responsibility And Ourquestion0.693
No moral value attaches to any particular state.claim0.692
Insists that graphical relations are value-neutral in themselves.
Equal Weightingframework0.691
Baseline MTL approach minimizing sum of task losses with equal weights; suffers from task balancing