According to what is now probably the standard view of (transactional) exploitation, it is a matter of someone taking unfair advantage of another (Wertheimer 1996). […] Read More
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For those of you who have not yet seen it, I'd like to encourage you to consider signing this petition, advocating for the inclusion of […] Read More
I know that many deontic logicians would consider the following argument to be valid: If you’re going to behead Jones, then you ought to behead […] Read More
Before I get to the results, let me say what issue I’m interested in and what I think about the cases in the survey. The […] Read More
I'm interested in people's intuitions concerning whether and when the fact that an agent will actually perform some future action bears on what she is, […] Read More
I want to try to develop an argument against deontological libertarian moral principles that treat a wide range of our basic rights as flowing from […] Read More
The Character Project at Wake Forest University is very excited to launch its funding competition entitled "New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Character." This $300,000 […] Read More
PIKSI 2011 GRADUATE ASSISTANT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The sixth annual meeting of Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) will take place from July […] Read More
One of my favourite objections is the conditional fallacy. It reveals a structural flaw in theories which attempt to give a philosophical account of something in terms […] Read More