Suppose that a subject, S, is in some less-than-ideal epistemic position with respect to both the relevant normative facts and the relevant non-normative facts – […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
Five years ago I was up-to-date on virtue ethics. I've been ignoring it for a few years, so please forgive me if what I'm about […] Read More
Suppose I wanted to get up to speed on the buck-passing-account literature. What three to five things would you say are "must reading"?
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong has given us a new argument for consequentialism (“How strong is this obligation? An argument for consequentialism from concomitant variation,” Analysis 69 (2009): […] Read More
UPDATE, June 26, 2009: Anyone interested in how I ended up developing this argument should check out the paper just published in PPR. One of […] Read More
Perhaps three isn't too many, but it does feel unwieldy. Nevertheless, it seems to me these are all different distinctions in value, even though many […] Read More
First, thanks to Doug and the other editors for the invitation! I'm happy to be here. For my first post, I wanted to share an […] Read More
I apologise for this but I want to return to the Doctrine of Double Effect. One thing that Tim Scanlon said in the comments was […] Read More
Sometimes I hear people (well, philosophers) compare the goodness of one thing with the badness of another. They say, for example, the goodness of pleasure […] Read More