From Mark Timmons, here is a call for abstracts for the Fourth Annual ArizonaWorkshop in Normative Ethical Theory that will be held in Tucson, Arizona […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
Sam Wren-Lewis is organizing a conference on subjective well-being and public policy at Leeds in July that might be of interest to Peasoupers (indeed, several […] Read More
Imagine that you are walking home from the pub at night when two strangers suddenly pull out their guns clearly with the intention to kill […] Read More
Computers and smartphones sometimes autocorrect what you type, so that your words are properly spelled. We know that this doesn't work perfectly. Suppose it did. […] Read More
Suppose, for simplicity, that the basis for moral desert is virtue and what’s deserved is well-being. According to the Ratio View of Comparative Desert, for […] 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
Newman, Lockhart, and Keil recently published their finding that when judging a person’s overall moral goodness or badness across a lifetime, we seem biased toward […] Read More
Subjunctive analyses of what we ought to do often appeal to what we would do (or what we would want ourselves to do) if we […] Read More
Previously I have argued here (and here) that the Self-Ownership views associated with left and right-libertarianism have difficulties stemming from their failure to adequately differentiate […] Read More