In James Rachels’ famous article, “Active and Passive Euthanasia,” he argues that, if the only relevant difference between active and passive euthanasia is that the […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
Talking of perhaps irrational features of the philosophical world, sometimes I’m worried that there are certain kinds of double standards in our community. What goes […] Read More
After having contributed one whole substantive post to this blog, I’m now going to take selfish advantage of the power of this public forum to […] Read More
Below Matt Zvolinski argued that in teaching and researching applied ethics systematic moral theory should play only a small role and can even be confusing […] Read More
The following are some thoughts I’ve been mulling over in anticipation of a lecture I will be giving at CSU Long Beach’s Applied Ethics Center […] Read More
This got to be too long to be a comment on Michael C’s post. People sometimes criticize utilitarianism for being "inapplicable," or for entailing that […] Read More
A question for those better tutored in (or perhaps more sympathetic to) consequentialism than I: How are we to understand the claim that consequentialists count […] Read More
This marks the eighth of eleven e-meetings of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we […] Read More
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and I are running a series of experimental studies on the doing/allowing distinction, and we’d love to have your input on some of […] Read More