Author: Kris McDaniel

The summer fun continues.  Here’s a cool question raised by McT, quoted below: "Both good and evil are quantitative.  …. Good values then form a […] Read More

Folks, it’s time for some summer fun.  And everyone knows what that means — it means McTaggart! Here’s a question McTaggart wondered about.  McTaggart’s discussion […] Read More

I’m curious what people think of the following principle: (RIP): Suppose that some person x has intrinsic feature F; suppose that x has a moral […] Read More

I have a bleg.  Can anyone recommend papers in ethics — preferably on value-theory or meta-ethics — that (i) are good pieces of philosophy, (ii) […] Read More

How much does it cost a department to interview job candidates at the Eastern APA?  And is the  information about the job candidates that one […] Read More

Does anyone hold the following view? If so, who? Where? When? Why? The notion of desire is to be understood/analyzed in terms of the notion […] Read More

Suppose Unrestricted Desire Satisfactionism is true.  (UDS, is roughly, the view that how well one’s life is going for oneself is determined by the extent […] Read More

There’s been a great discussion on an earlier thread about expressivism.  I don’t want to kill it off, but I do want to raise a […] Read More

There’s an interesting interview with Peter Singer in todays Salon.com.  The webpage is posted beneath the fold.