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Friday, December 30, 2022

2022 in review

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While new substantive posts go  on the substack , I plan to keep (cross-)posting annual review posts here, for ease of archiving. [Past annu...
Friday, May 06, 2022

Moving to Substack

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I started this blog 18 years ago, as a second-year undergraduate philosophy major.  The first couple years were... very undergrad-y... but I...
Sunday, May 01, 2022

Utilitarianism Debate with Michael Huemer

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Matthew Adelstein kindly invited me & Michael Huemer to hash out our disagreements about utilitarianism  over on his YouTube channel.  T...
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Writing Papers with Pandoc

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At Daily Nous, there's a discussion of Tech Advice for a New Philosophy Grad Student .  There's some dispute about whether or not it...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Rescuing Maligned Views in Phil Mind [HYC]

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Epiphenomenalism and Idealism are two of the most maligned views in philosophy of mind. So it's kind of funny that Helen defends both. ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Objections to Rule Consequentialism

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Those put-off by the putative counterexamples to Act Consequentialism  may consider Rule Consequentialism a more appealing alternative. Mich...
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Thursday, February 10, 2022

Guest Post: Animal Population Ethics

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Evan Dawson-Baglien wrote to me with some interesting thoughts on the challenge of incorporating non-persons into (non-total views of) popul...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Utilitarianism and Reflective Equilibrium

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In ' Why I Am Not a Utilitarian ', Michael Huemer objects that "there are so many counter-examples, and the intuitions about th...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Emergence and Incremental Probability

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In ' Emergence and Incremental Impact ', I argued (contra Kingston and Sinnott-Armstrong ) that emergent properties do nothing to un...
Thursday, January 06, 2022

Longtermism Contra Schwitzgebel

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In ' Against Longtermism ', Eric Schwitzgebel writes: "I accept much of Ord's practical advice. I object only to justifying...
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