Consider absolute-level satisficing consequentialism: ALSC: “There is a number, n, such that: An act is morally right iff either (i) it has a utility of […] Read More
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I once heard someone maintain something absolutely absurd: A life in prison is just the price for committing murder, he said, and you are "free" […] Read More
I just read a chapter about slave reparations by my colleague David Boonin. David presents an interesting and surprisingly strong argument in favor of reparations. […] Read More
Conference: Human Rights in Theory and Practice Date: Friday, October 3rd, 2008 Location: Rutgers University School of Law-Camden Description: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights […] Read More
The "recognitional view" of practical rationality – as I shall use the term – is the view that all requirements of practical rationality are justified […] Read More
I’m sympathetic to the following view, which I call moral rationalism: MR: If S is morally required to do x, then S has decisive reason […] Read More
I greatly admire the work of Harry Frankfurt. More recently, he has argued that love and caring, in the form of volitional necessities, are the […] Read More
I’m an editor for Blackwell’s International Encyclopedia of Ethics, and my current (and first) task is to help make sure the IEE will have the […] Read More
There are at least two possible ways we might conceive of the too demanding objection: (1) a moral theory is too demanding if it demands […] Read More