Many philosophers believe that suicide is permissible in at least some circumstances. Others go further and claim that there are circumstances in which suicide is […] Read More
Category: Discussions
There’s an approach to a number of different domains in ethics, which we can call “specificationism”, that is seldom explicitly discussed but that I think […] Read More
I’d like to return to one of the favourite topics of Pea Soup for a bit, i.e., the Zombies. Couple of years ago we had […] Read More
Many of you will likely recall my post last fall on esoteric normative theories. That was a wonderfully provocative discussion, one I’d like to pursue […] Read More
Suppose that what ultimately matters is the objective goodness of what you do – where the objective goodness of an action is determined by the […] Read More
Classical decision theory is built around a central "representation theorem": so long as an agent’s preferences meet certain basic conditions of coherence, we can construct […] Read More
Practical conditionals are a problem. We all use conditionals like, “If you want a great steak, you ought to go to Manny’s Steak House.” But […] Read More
Currently, epistemologists seem to be very interested in practical reasons and practical rationality. One good example of this is an interesting new paper entitled ‘Knowledge […] Read More
Update (13 August, 2007). I’ve now written a very short paper on this issue: How to Live a Life Worth Living. As you’ll see, it […] Read More