I have a test case that I’d like to get responses to, one that tests a certain kind of utilitarian intuition, mixed however, with an […] Read More
Author: Alec Walen
Professor of Law & Philosophy, Rutgers University
Some of the world’s greatest philosophers will visit Rutgers University–New Brunswick over the next five years to present public lectures, hold workshops with faculty and […] Read More
Helen Frowe wrote me yesterday to try to understand better my position on how to count the agent’s interest in a trolley switching case. The […] Read More
It’s been a couple of days since the Senate released the torture report. The discussion in the press seems to concern (a) whether it really […] Read More
The Institute for Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University is sponsoring a workshop on Deontological Principles and the Criminal Law. (More below the fold.)
A friend sent me a link to a New Yorker piece–link below–that pointed out that the self-driving cars that Google is developing will sometimes have […] Read More
At a recent symposium on Victor Tadros's book The Ends of Harm, Victor and I were debating whether the Means Principle (MP) is best thought […] Read More