This got to be too long to be a comment on Michael C’s post. People sometimes criticize utilitarianism for being "inapplicable," or for entailing that […] Read More
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Normative theories are occasionally criticized for being esoteric. A theory T is esoteric iff (T is true (or correct, or superior to its rivals, etc.), […] Read More
My previous formulation of TCR, left something to be desired. Here’s what I hope is a better formulation: TCR: (1) S has better reason to […] Read More
I am an advisor to a student organization at my campus, and in order to recharter the organization, I recently had to sign a document […] Read More
A question for those better tutored in (or perhaps more sympathetic to) consequentialism than I: How are we to understand the claim that consequentialists count […] Read More
Here’s what Scanlon says: “the purely teleological conception of reasons…[holds that,] since any rational action must aim at some result, reasons that bear on whether […] Read More
In his “Meta-Ethics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism” (Philosophical Perspectives 18: 23-44), James Dreier poses an urgent question. (Well, as urgent as questions in […] Read More
The following is a Pareto principle that concerns reasons for actions as opposed to the standard preferences for outcomes. I call it The Pareto Reasons […] Read More
This marks the eighth of eleven e-meetings of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we […] Read More