Michael Cholbi’s recent post on the “murderer at the door” case brought up the issue of duties to self, which reminded me of a paper […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics
Well, after a long drive, a tense week in a motel, an extended unpacking period, and a series of orientation sessions at BGSU, I’m happy […] Read More
The title of this post is a bit overstated; what I’m really wondering is whether Virtue Ethics and Contractualism are not viable. I take it […] Read More
I’ve long been a believer in the principle that if you ought to do something, then it has to be the case that you are […] Read More
As Michael Slote (1984) has rightly pointed out, “ordinary moral thinking seems to involve an asymmetry regarding what an agent is permitted to do to […] Read More
So I was composing a reply to pressing comments from both Brad Hooker and Doug Portmore on the original post on this topic (which can […] Read More
According to Hooker’s version of rule-consequentialism (RC), the criterion of rightness is as follows: “An act is wrong if and only if it is forbidden […] Read More
Brad Hooker Week on PEA Soup continues… In Chapter 8 of his Ideal Code, Real World, Hooker considers some ways of dealing with the problem […] Read More
In the last post, I asked, following Dave and Josh’s lead, whether Hooker’s notion of the costs of internalizing a moral code left him with […] Read More