This marks the seventh 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
Category: Normative Ethics
(This marks the sixth of eleven "meetings" of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we […] Read More
I interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to ask whether the following objection to consequentialism is at all original: (Given the vast literature on consequentialism, I […] Read More
(This marks the fifth of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we […] Read More
This constitutes the fourth of 11 “meetings” to discuss Parfit’s new manuscript, Climbing the Mountain. First, though, a reminder announcement: all references will be to […] Read More
This marks the 3rd of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we […] Read More
In Mike Almeida’s recent post, this topic came up: what is it for a person to harm someone? I’m interested in a more general question: […] Read More
First, a sort of apology: this post is a bit lengthy, and it may be a bit more “metaphysicsy” than the usual on PEA Soup, […] Read More
Suppose you find yourself in a situation in which you can either save A and B or save C. A, B and C are relevantly […] Read More