I have a test case that I’d like to get responses to, one that tests a certain kind of utilitarian intuition, mixed however, with an […] Read More
Category: Value Theory
In this little exercise in analytic existentialism, I’m going to contrast two kinds of stories we can live through, and suggest that the transition from […] Read More
I am interested in knowing whether consequentialists have thought and whether they should think that the shape of an outcome matters when it comes to […] Read More
In this post, I want to raise a problem for a kind of theory of welfare that has recently been on the rise. I will […] Read More
Some philosophers – let’s call them “teleologists” – believe that there is an intimate connection between deontic terms like ‘required’, ‘ought’, and ‘permissible’, on the one hand, […] Read More
Helen Frowe wrote me yesterday to try to understand better my position on how to count the agent’s interest in a trolley switching case. The […] Read More
I very much love Michael Smith’s recent paper “A Constitutivist Theory of Reasons: Its Promise and Parts” (Law, Ethics and Philosophy 2013, also available on […] Read More
Consider the question “Can regret be appropriate even apart from any belief that one’s choice was misguided or irrational if a monistic theory of the […] Read More
Supererogatory actions are those which are (1) morally meritorious or praiseworthy, but (2) not the fulfillment of a moral obligation or duty. I was having […] Read More