I’m wondering if people think there are plausible cases in which a person’s life would be prudentially better if they were to turn out to […] Read More
Category: Moral Psychology
I greatly enjoyed reading Youngsun Back’s intriguing paper, ‘Are animals moral?: Zhu Xi and Jeong Yakyong’s views on nonhuman animals’. Back discusses the views of […] Read More
Much of the ever-growing conversation concerning empathy’s moral significance has centered around cases where the target of our empathy is another person’s suffering. Today, I […] Read More
Chap. 2 of J. S. Mill’s Utilitarianism is widely interpreted as defending qualitative hedonism, as a view about the nature of personal well-being. On views of […] Read More
Charlie Kurth’s new book The Anxious Mind is just out with MIT Press, and we’re pleased to have him aboard today to talk a bit about […] Read More
I’m very pleased to be able to introduce our next featured philosopher: Heidi Maibom. Take it away Heidi! Years ago, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong invited me to […] Read More
Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Rachana Kamtekar’s Plato’s Moral Psychology (OUP 2018), reviewed by Nicholas Smith. Excerpts from the blurb and the review are below, but you […] Read More
Very pleased today to be able to introduce our next fantastic featured philosopher: Alex Guerrero. Take it away Alex: Much of my work has focused […] Read More
From Reid Blackman: I recently founded VIRTUE, an ethics consultancy. VIRTUE helps businesses identify where they are at risk of ethical misconduct that threatens their […] Read More