Philosophy, et cetera

J.S. Mill famously held that 'higher pleasures' are lexically prior to 'lower pleasures' in the utilitarian calculus. (...

Sidgwick was no fan of pluralism: he objected to 'intuitionism' or common-sense morality on the grounds that the various prima faci...

[I]n a sense, as Butler observes, any impulse is natural, but it is manifestly idle to bid us follow Nature in this sense... How then are we...

When you are angry, for example, the anger you feel contains the thought that (e.g.) some other person has done you an injury... and ought t...

[My worries about history requirements reminded me of this old draft from a couple of years ago that I never got around to publishing. Bett...

Should graduate coursework be subject to distribution requirements? I certainly approve of having wide-ranging interests and a broad philoso...

Following Alonzo Fyfe , I once accepted the following thesis: (BDI) People always act so as to fulfill their most and strongest desires, gi...

Perhaps the most interesting question in metaphysics, to my mind, is whether identity facts are among the base facts ; whether worlds or the...

Timothy once suggested that I should write a series of posts clearing up "common philosophical misconceptions". An obvious place...

Thomas Pogge's 'How Should Human Rights Be Conceived?' traces the interesting development from "natural law" through ...