Suppose you are an ordinary virtuous agent. Up until now, you haven’t lived the kind of life that involves making any huge life or death […] Read More
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I’m starting to warm up to the objectivist form of act-consequentialism (partly because I think it lacks content) which Doug defended in the previous post. […] Read More
Leave it to our colleagues in economics to find an efficient way to speed up the journal review and publication process. Inside Higher Ed reports […] Read More
Let us define objective consequentialism and subjective consequentialism, respectively, as follows: OC: S’s performing x is morally permissible if and only if, and because, there […] Read More
PeaSoupers may be interested to read a series of essays sponsored by the Templeton Foundation on the question, "Does Moral Action Depend on Reasoning?" […] Read More
In Nature, psychologist Paul Bloom has published a short rejoinder to 'social intuitionist' claims that rational deliberation has no role in shaping our moral convictions. […] Read More
One objection to Humean views about motivation, and to the 'Standard Model' of intention on which intentions are complexes of desire and belief, is that […] Read More
Brian Leiter has posted a short essay developing a Nietzschean argument for moral scepticism on the web site of the National Humanities Center On the […] Read More
I'm reading Wedgwood's discussion of Normative Judgement Internalism (NJI), which has prompted me to think the following: Philosophers often refer to all-things-considered judgments about what […] Read More