Suppose I wanted to get up to speed on the buck-passing-account literature. What three to five things would you say are "must reading"?
Category: Discussions
At the "start of the year" college meeting last week our dean showed some Powerpoint slides listing the number of majors in each department over […] Read More
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong has given us a new argument for consequentialism (“How strong is this obligation? An argument for consequentialism from concomitant variation,” Analysis 69 (2009): […] Read More
As summer comes to a close and we get ready to return to the classroom, I’ve been thinking more about the different shapes my colleagues’ summers have taken, about how much we’ve written and how much real holidays we’ve taken. As a philosophy department chair, one of my responsibilities is chairing the department’s annual performance evaluation committee and each year I’m struck anew by how hard some of my colleagues work. I feel humbled by how much very high quality work some colleagues publish.
Coming to exist is always a harm. Or so argues David Benatar in his provocative book, Better Never to Have Been.A central pillar of Benatar's […] Read More
BBC has estimated that, in the UK, about 85.000 women were raped in the year 2006. In the US, during the same year, 92.455 rapes were reported […] Read More
In my recent thinking about the ethics of suicide, I've been compelled to confront a methodological issue in practical ethics that I'd not really given […] Read More
We've all had our own horrible experiences with journals — long delays, sloppy or uncharitable referee reports, apparently hasty or otherwise defective decisions, etc. You […] Read More