Here’s an ethical issue (actually, a pair of them) which I’m sure all of us have faced, or will. Sometimes students come to instructors seeking […] Read More
Author: Troy Jollimore
Value objectivists like myself tend to think of practical reasoning as the process by which an agent forms beliefs about what things have value, and […] Read More
Perhaps everyone is already aware of this, but I just wanted to mention that Harry Frankfurt is going to be on Comedy Central’s The Daily […] Read More
Moral luck obtains wherever the moral evaluation of an agent is affected by circumstances beyond that agent’s control. But the judgment that the moral evaluation […] Read More
A number of philosophers have argued that there can be actions that are at one and the same time immoral and admirable. These philosophers sometimes […] Read More
A common picture of value determination with respect to pains, pleasures and other such mental states seems to be the following: the intrinsic value of […] Read More
I’m currently working on a paper about terrorism, and I decided my first post would concern one of the main issues in that paper. It […] Read More