My previous pre-vital nonexistence is not, and was not, bad for me. My previous pre-vital nonexistence is relevantly similar to my forthcoming post-mortem nonexistence—that is, […] Read More
Author: David Sobel
David Sobel works in ethics, practical reason, theory of value, and political philosophy. His book From Valuing to Value was published by OUP in 2016. He co-edits Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. His dog is better than your dog.
Pea Soup’s own Ben Bradley recently had his paper, "Against Satisficing Consequentialism" win the 2005 Dartmouth ISUS (International Society for Utilitarian Studies) Conference paper prize. […] Read More
Inspired by Uriah’s post below, I invent a new kind of zombie (a hedonic-zombie), draw a distinction between strong and weak internalism about the good […] Read More
Over the past few years, I’ve become aware of some interesting ethical dilemmas for editors and referees. I present five such dilemmas below: D1-D5. Some […] Read More
Broadly construed, a theory is consequentialist (or teleological, if you prefer) iff it takes the deontic status of an action to be solely a function […] Read More
It seems to me that there are not only reasons for action, but also reasons for belief and even reasons for having certain feelings and […] Read More
A Conference at Bowling Green State University April 7-9, 2006
Consequentialism, many philosophers have claimed, asks too much of us to be a plausible ethical theory. Indeed, consequentialism’s severe demandingness is often claimed to be […] Read More
The conference is on the philosophical challenge of naturalism, and it is being hosted by the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy. The conference will […] Read More