Let us define objective consequentialism and subjective consequentialism, respectively, as follows: OC: S’s performing x is morally permissible if and only if, and because, there […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
Inspired a bit by Ralph's post critiquing Kant's view of unconditioned or fundamental goods, I've been investigating why Kant arrives at his (in my opinion) […] Read More
“Scheffler’s paradox” is a puzzling feature of the moral beliefs of most deontologists. According to these beliefs, it is wrong for you to kill an […] Read More
Many people teach their small children the myth of Santa Claus: that a magical being who lives at the North Pole brings presents on Christmas […] Read More
As a first pass, we may think of Consequentialist moral theories as those that specify the right in terms of the good. But these terms […] Read More
As I argued in my previous post, I think that ‘ought’ implies ‘securable’, and, from that, it follows that agents can only be required to […] Read More
I used to think that we ought to do the best we can. After debating the issue with Richard Chappell, doing some more research, and […] Read More
In Sir P.F. Strawson’s brilliant 1949 paper ‘Ethical Intuitionism’, I came across a short and seemingly powerful argument for the buck-passing accounts of value and […] Read More
Currently, I’m working on a book entitled Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality. (Click on the link to be taken to a web site where […] Read More