In “Two Distinctions in Goodness” (Philosophical Review 1983), Christine Korsgaard argued that the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic goodness should not be conflated with the […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
I’m interested in defending consequentialism against allegations that it represents an inherently perverse perspective, or that the consequentialist agent would have a morally bad character. […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Reasons of Love
International Conference
Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
30 May-1 June 2011
Dale Jamieson and Robert Elliot (hereafter J&E) have recently formulated a new version of consequentialism. It’s called ‘progressive consequentialism’ (this is in Philosophical Perspectives 2009). […] Read More
I've had moral dilemmas on my mind lately, and I'm troubled by a common argument given against the possibility of genuine moral dilemmas. I'm hoping […] Read More
Mark Timmons has posted the program for the first annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics. I've put the whole program below the fold; you can […] Read More
Suppose that you know that your opening a certain safe is what would maximize the good. But suppose that you don’t know what the correct […] Read More
Suppose you are an ordinary virtuous agent. Up until now, you haven’t lived the kind of life that involves making any huge life or death […] Read More
I’m starting to warm up to the objectivist form of act-consequentialism (partly because I think it lacks content) which Doug defended in the previous post. […] Read More