I want to introduce what I think is a new puzzle and get your feedback. I might have an answer, but I’m curious to hear […] Read More
Category: Discussions
Welcome to what should be a fun and insightful discussion of Alison Toop’s “Is Marriage Incompatible with Political Liberalism?” Lori Watson (University of San Diego) […] 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
For PEA Soup: “You’re So Smug, I’ll Bet You Don’t Care This Post is About You” There is something distinctively infuriating about a kind of […] Read More
Here’s a variation on the classic trolley problem that I haven’t seen before: Five innocent people are trapped in the path of an oncoming trolley. […] Read More
“Philosophical Examples: The Stark and the Dense,” guest post by Vida Yao for Normative Ethics July.
Philosophical Examples: The Stark and the Dense by Vida Yao In “The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, and Ethics,” Bernard Williams draws a distinction between […] Read More
Options Without Constraints Richard Yetter Chappell The paradox of deontology counsels against including constraints in our fundamental moral theory. Consequentialists are generally suspicious of the associated asymmetries, […] Read More
Here. Looks tasty. Notes of wildflower, woods, and cheshire, with a full-bodied Australian finish (alongside two actual Finnishers).
Chap. 2 of J. S. Mill’s Utilitarianism is widely interpreted as defending qualitative hedonism, as a view about the nature of personal well-being. On views of […] Read More