Philosophy, et cetera

What do you think are the strongest objections to Consequentialism? (By 'Consequentialism' I roughly mean the unconstrained pursuit ...

People sometimes ask me why I'm a consequentialist . This is a difficult question to answer productively, since direct introspection me...

Is it wrong to kill embryos -- do they have ( morally significant ) interests that would be violated by their untimely death? I think that ...

Here I want to motivate and defend two Parfitian theses. The first is anti-haecceitism or 'reductionism' about identity: the qualita...

I think the world would be a much better place if public policy debates were more focused on cost-benefit analysis. Too often, people refus...

Now to summarize my thoughts on hedonistic theories of welfare (understood broadly, to include qualia preferentism and other views on which...

Bring out your [un]dead! After all my narrowly focused posts on the topic, it's time for a "big picture" review of the zombie ...

I had the pleasure yesterday of meeting Carl Shulman and Eliezer Yudkowsky (of Overcoming Bias fame) while they were in town, and hashing o...