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Category: Normative Ethics
There are many ethical theories that think of right and wrong in terms of what consequences the general adoption of moral principles would have. Contractualists […] Read More
I was just reading the bit of Gibbard's Thinking How to Live where he talks extensively about the good and the desirable—specifically, about its being […] Read More
Ben Eggleston and I are putting the final touches on the manuscript for The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism, forthcoming from… well, you know. Now that […] Read More
The program for the Princeton conference on the topic of Weighing Reasons put together by Errol Lord and Barry Maguire has now been finalized. The […] Read More
I have a very short argument to the effect that the promising-relevant pro tanto moral obligation is not a pro tanto moral obligation to keep […] Read More
Errol Lord and Barry Maguire are organizing a two day workshop (Nov. 30- Dec. 1) dedicated to developing/criticizing systematic accounts of weighing reasons. Invited Speakers: […] Read More
The program is available from the workshop’s website: http://ethics.arizona.edu/program.html. Registration is free and open to all. You may register by emailing Mark Timmons — see […] Read More
I am currently working on a manuscript in which sophisticated consequentialism (SC) plays a role, and I want to make sure I characterize the view […] Read More