Setiya argues that moral side-constraints (e.g. against killing as a means) are best understood as agent-neutral: “In general, when you should not cause harm to […] Read More
Author: Richard Yetter Chappell
Suppose that a reliable Oracle tells us that there’s a non-natural property shared by most but not all of the things we antecedently believed to […] Read More
Submission deadline: January 9, 2017 Conference date(s): May 23, 2017 – May 25, 2017 [Go to the conference’s page] The conference will feature talks by […] Read More
Tenenbaum and Raffman (2012) claim that “most of our projects and ends are vague.” (p.99) But I’m not convinced that any plausibly are. On my own […] Read More
The first of six ESRC-funded workshops exploring issues where the ethics and economics of climate change intersect will be held at Oxford University’s Martin School […] Read More
[I'm never quite sure when it's appropriate to cross-post things from philosophyetc.net here, but Doug suggested that this post might be of broader interest, and […] Read More
I’m interested in defending consequentialism against allegations that it represents an inherently perverse perspective, or that the consequentialist agent would have a morally bad character. […] Read More
As a first pass, we may think of Consequentialist moral theories as those that specify the right in terms of the good. But these terms […] Read More