Philosophy, et cetera

Philosophers are sometimes prone to excessive skepticism , especially in the face of persisting disagreement. People often seem really bothe...

It's generally recognized that our (American) response to the Covid-19 pandemic was disastrous. But I think far fewer appreciate the ful...

Given how many academic papers are out there, it would be useful to have more filtering and discovery mechanisms for helping us to find the ...

Singer argues that, just as we're obliged to save a drowning child at modest cost to ourselves (e.g. ruining an expensive suit), so we...

It seems to me that the famed "separateness of persons" objection to consequentialism rests on the confused assumption that commen...

Satisficing Consequentialism aims to capture the intuitive idea that we're not morally obligated to do the best possible , we merely nee...

Warren Quinn's (1993) 'Puzzle of the Self-Torturer' can be described as follows : Suppose someone — who, for reasons that will ...

In chapter 9 of his forthcoming book The Limits of Kindness (cited with permission), Caspar Hare offers an ingenious argument for the view ...

[This is something of a manifesto for my current research project...] Critics of consequentialism often object to how a consequentialist age...

I'm beginning to think that global consequentialism isn't really a distinctive position in its own right. It may be better underst...

How do we distinguish intrinsic ( final ) value from merely instrumental value? Simon Keller argues that relationships are of merely instru...

[I might end up expanding the following sketch into a real paper at some point, so any feedback would be most welcome...] In 'Skepticism...

So far we have established that a legitimate conceivability-possibility inference must start from the ideal conceivability of a semantical...

Meta-ethical naturalists hold that normative claims, e.g. 'You ought to phi', state purely natural facts, e.g. phi-ing would maximiz...

[Significantly updated and moved-to-front from Feb 7.] Suppose Adam wrongly - i.e. without sufficient reason - kills Bob. Though there'...

Intellectual virtue lies between the two extremes of dogmatism and radical skepticism. The irrationality of dogmatism is generally apprecia...

How should we understand Parfit's example of the hedonist with future Tuesday indifference ? Sharon Street ('In Defense of Future Tu...

Paul is unimpressed with non-ideal theory that takes into account agents' own moral failings or unreliability when prescribing what the...

The value of freedom sometimes calls for constraint: against selling oneself into slavery , for example. Is there an intellectual analogue o...

The epistemic issues that arise when considering how to rationally respond to evidence of one's own bias are, I think, exactly the same...