There has come to be some consensus amongst political scientists and legal theorists that a major source of over-incarceration in the United States is (mostly […] Read More
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As has been widely discussed both here (at least a couple of times) and elsewhere, there are numerous problems with traditional publishing models. Some of these […] Read More
Suppose you are sitting at your desk, reflecting on a moral question. Now suppose that as you are reflecting on this question, you happen to be […] Read More
Tenenbaum and Raffman (2012) claim that “most of our projects and ends are vague.” (p.99) But I’m not convinced that any plausibly are. On my own […] Read More
HERE is the programme of the first New Methods of Ethics Conference, which will be held here at the University of Birmingham in September (15th and […] Read More
My local library fines its patrons ten cents per overdue book per day. They will let you continue to borrow books as long as your […] Read More
Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting discussion of Joshua Gert‘s “A Fitting End to the Wrong Kind of Reason Problem.” The paper is published in […] Read More
Suppose that there is both an objective ‘ought’ and a subjective ‘ought’. Which of these two kinds of ‘ought’ figures in the anti-akrasia principle that […] Read More