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PEA Soup

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Author: Campbell Brown

Normative Ethics Posted onApril 12, 2005

A Question for Kantians

Recently I gave some lectures on Kant’s moral philosophy in my introductory ethics class. After explaining the “first formulation” of the Categorical Imperative — act […] Read More

Normative Ethics Posted onDecember 3, 2004

A Puzzle about Utilitarianism

What is utilitarianism? That may seem like an easy question — the kind of thing one might include on a quiz in one’s Intro to […] Read More

Value Theory Posted onSeptember 22, 2004

Failing the Envy Test

Ronald Dworkin argues, in two lengthy papers (“What is Equality? Parts 1 and 2”, P&PA 1981), that, if we care about equality at all, then […] Read More

Normative Ethics, Value Theory Posted onSeptember 2, 2004

Supererogation for Maximisers

It’s widely believed that maximising consequentialism implies that supererogatory action is impossible. And many philosophers, finding the idea of supererogation intuitively plausible, regard this as […] Read More

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