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Category: Normative Ethics
Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting and productive discussion of Gerard Vong‘s “Weighing up Weighted Lotteries: Scarcity, Overlap Cases, and Fair […] Read More
Setiya argues that moral side-constraints (e.g. against killing as a means) are best understood as agent-neutral: “In general, when you should not cause harm to […] Read More
We’re delighted to kick off the discussion of Alexis Elder’s article, “Conversations from Beyond the Grave? A Neo-Confucian Ethics of Chatbots of the Dead.” We […] Read More
Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Holly Smith‘s Making Morality Work (OUP 2018), reviewed by Andrew Sepielli. The book abstract: Moral theories can play both […] Read More
In a famous passage in What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon introduced a case where we have to choose between saving one person […] Read More
Welcome to our book forum on Jennifer Morton‘s new book Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility. Below is a brief introduction to […] Read More
Critical Précis of “Human Nature and Moral Sprouts: Mencius on the Pollyanna Problem” by Richard T. Kim by John Hacker-Wright It is a pleasure to […] Read More
“Trolley Follies” by Kerah Gordon-Solmon is the winner of the July Normative Ethics Prize! Congratuations! Second prize is split between Travis Timmerman’s “A Dilemmas for […] Read More