A lot of interesting work has been done recently on what makes lives meaningful. One brilliant example of this is Susan Wolf’s recent wonderful book […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
I’ve pasted the survey questions and results below. Note that not everyone saw the whole survey. Since the point of the survey was to test […] Read More
I have a new survey that will test your moral intuitions. It should take no more than five minutes (probably less). Please consider taking it. […] Read More
The Third Annual Arizona Workshop on Normative Ethical Theory will be held in Tucson, Arizona on January 5-7, 2012. Abstracts are welcome in any area or […] Read More
I know that many deontic logicians would consider the following argument to be valid: If you’re going to behead Jones, then you ought to behead […] Read More
Before I get to the results, let me say what issue I’m interested in and what I think about the cases in the survey. The […] Read More
I'm interested in people's intuitions concerning whether and when the fact that an agent will actually perform some future action bears on what she is, […] Read More
I want to try to develop an argument against deontological libertarian moral principles that treat a wide range of our basic rights as flowing from […] Read More
One of my favourite objections is the conditional fallacy. It reveals a structural flaw in theories which attempt to give a philosophical account of something in terms […] Read More