According to the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE), there is a morally significant difference between (i) the consequences of an action that were intended by the […] Read More
Author: Ralph Wedgwood
There’s a story that I heard from my father many years ago, which I’m tempted to share with PEA Soupers. G. E. Moore was a Cambridge […] Read More
Many senior American philosophers strongly advise their graduate students that publishing while in graduate school is a bad idea, and hurts the students' chances on […] Read More
I don’t think about issues in applied ethics as much as many other people. But when I do, it sometimes turns out that I have […] Read More
As we all know, J. S. Mill claims that pleasures differ from each other, not only in quantity, but also in quality. Many commentators have […] Read More
Ever since I first read Kant’s Groundwork, I have been struck by a puzzle that I have never seen adequately explained. In a footnote in […] Read More
The "recognitional view" of practical rationality – as I shall use the term – is the view that all requirements of practical rationality are justified […] Read More
Intuitively, it’s clear that ‘wrong’ entails ‘ought not’; and the term ‘right’ seems simply to be the contradictory of ‘wrong’ (after all, ‘It’s not right’ […] Read More
Why is Setiya’s principle vulnerable to the problems that I listed in my previous post? What exactly is the diagnosis? I suggest that the diagnosis […] Read More