When teaching ethics courses, I often spend some time with students going over some of the relevant social psychological literature. Studies like the Milgram experimients, […] Read More
Category: Discussions
Why is Setiya’s principle vulnerable to the problems that I listed in my previous post? What exactly is the diagnosis? I suggest that the diagnosis […] Read More
I’m supposed to be writing a review of Kieran Setiya’s book, Reasons without Rationalism (Harvard UP, 2007). Even though I disagreed with a lot of […] Read More
Folks who work on oppression often distinguish oppression attributable to individuals from oppression attributable to institutions. Thus, there’s a lot of discussion about institutional racism […] Read More
Even though I’m not a real expert on his work (and his new book is way too expensive), I’m a huge fan of Timothy Williamson. […] Read More
So here’s an idea I’ve been fiddling with for a while and would be interested to hear if anyone thinks that further exploration of this […] Read More
You are offered a choice between two experience machines. Machine A is just like the ones you already know about. You’ll be on the experience […] Read More
I find Frank Jackson’s arguments against non-naturalist realism in his From Metaphysics to Ethics fascinating. So I think that, over a longer period of time, […] Read More
Last year about this time, Kris McDaniel posted some important questions about the nature of the hiring process in philosophy, particular with respect to APA […] Read More