You are offered a choice between two experience machines. Machine A is just like the ones you already know about. You’ll be on the experience […] Read More
Category: Value Theory
In the comments on Jussi’s thread, a side discussion developed about Mill’s theory of value. Dale Dorsey indicated that he has concluded that Mill is […] Read More
Some thought-experiments just grab you and so you think about them for months. Here’s one that I’ve been pondering about for awhile now. It’s from […] Read More
It’s fairly common to talk about welfare in three categories: hedonism, desire satisfaction, and objectivism (where this includes views like perfectionism and the objective list […] Read More
Anyone interested in metaethics should take a look at Antti Kauppinen’s brilliant slideshows at the University of St Andrews. They can be accessed from the […] Read More
Some philosophers opposed to consequentialism think that one of the basic mistakes that consequentialists make is to think that all value is located in states […] Read More
Update (13 August, 2007). I’ve now written a very short paper on this issue: How to Live a Life Worth Living. As you’ll see, it […] Read More
Consider the following passage from Scanlon: [B]eing good, or valuable, is not a property that itself provides a reason to respond to a thing […] 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