Having posted on Mackie’s argument from relativity some time ago, I’d like to return to it now and ask whether the argument (or at least […] Read More
Author: Michael Cholbi
Several of you might have heard of this excellent philosophical time waster before, but it’s new to me (apparently it was first devised by Wilfrid […] Read More
Having just taught Aristotle’s ethics, I want to discuss an element of his ethical theory that I find plausible but lack a satisfactory account of […] Read More
Normative theories are occasionally criticized for being esoteric. A theory T is esoteric iff (T is true (or correct, or superior to its rivals, etc.), […] Read More
I am an advisor to a student organization at my campus, and in order to recharter the organization, I recently had to sign a document […] Read More
Studies in the History of Ethics, a web-based, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high quality research and reviews in the history of ethics, announces a […] Read More
A question for those better tutored in (or perhaps more sympathetic to) consequentialism than I: How are we to understand the claim that consequentialists count […] Read More
I interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to ask whether the following objection to consequentialism is at all original: (Given the vast literature on consequentialism, I […] Read More
A recent issue of the New Yorker has Malcolm Gladwell’s discussion of the recent book Why? by Columbia sociologist Charles Tilly. Since I’ve not read […] Read More