If appropriate, please cast your vote in the following polls. Once I have a fair bit of data, I’ll explain why I’m interested in people’s […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
Consider absolute-level satisficing consequentialism: ALSC: “There is a number, n, such that: An act is morally right iff either (i) it has a utility of […] Read More
I once heard someone maintain something absolutely absurd: A life in prison is just the price for committing murder, he said, and you are "free" […] Read More
Conference: Human Rights in Theory and Practice Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Location: Rutgers University School of Law-Camden Description: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights […] Read More
There are at least two possible ways we might conceive of the too demanding objection: (1) a moral theory is too demanding if it demands […] Read More
A personal constraint is a constraint on action that arises from certain associative relations, such as kinship, friendship, etc. Typically, they are injunctions to treat […] Read More
You are offered a choice between two experience machines. Machine A is just like the ones you already know about. You’ll be on the experience […] Read More
In the comments on Jussi’s thread, a side discussion developed about Mill’s theory of value. Dale Dorsey indicated that he has concluded that Mill is […] Read More
Some thought-experiments just grab you and so you think about them for months. Here’s one that I’ve been pondering about for awhile now. It’s from […] Read More