About a year ago, several family members, friends, and philosophical luminaries gathered at All Souls College to remember and celebrate the life of the great […] Read More
Category: Discussions
A theory of wellbeing contributes to explaining whether this or that state of affairs is a benefit or harm to a particular subject. A natural […] Read More
There is surprisingly little discussion about pain’s badness in the philosophical literature. One might think that it falls naturally out of any of the various […] Read More
Think of the most recent remarkable experience you’ve had. Perhaps it was reading an engrossing novel that opened your eyes to a new depth of […] Read More
Welcome to our NDPR Forum on Andrew Jason Cohen’s Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived (Routledge 2018), which was recently reviewed by Peter de Marneffe […] Read More
We are excited to host a discussion of Seana Valentine Shiffrin‘s article “The Moral Neglect of Neglicence,” Ch. 8 of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy Vol.3. Shiffrin’s […] Read More
This post is partly a “bleg” and partly an invitation for people to give their two cents on what strikes me as a very deep […] Read More
Steve Wall and I have been thinking together about what the best theory of well-being that claims that loving the (prudentially) good is itself (prudentially) […] Read More
For those who don’t know, Hanna Pickard has developed a very cool site, called “Responsibility Without Blame,” based on her famous article and advocacy. Her […] Read More