In his paper “Why Abortion is Immoral”, Don Marquis urges a reorientation of the abortion debate. Metaphysical issues concerning the personhood of fetuses, which previously […] Read More
Category: Discussions
Over the past few years, I’ve become aware of some interesting ethical dilemmas for editors and referees. I present five such dilemmas below: D1-D5. Some […] Read More
Broadly construed, a theory is consequentialist (or teleological, if you prefer) iff it takes the deontic status of an action to be solely a function […] Read More
A number of ethical theorists in southern California (myself included) have recently convened a reading group to consider Derek Parfit’s unpublished manuscript Climbing the Mountain. […] Read More
Olle Blomberg has compiled this fine bibliography on cognitive science and ethics. It’s very thorough, with many papers available online. It seems Olle can no […] Read More
I’m curious what people think about the specialty ethics journals – which ones do you read? Which ones do you think are good? Which ones […] Read More
I’ve been meaning to post this question for a while, but kept thinking that I ought to do some proper research on the topic. Fortunately, […] Read More
In this article , Rebecca Saxe reviews three areas of experimental psychological research bearing on questions of moral psychology. The first are the various experiments, […] Read More
It seems to me that there are not only reasons for action, but also reasons for belief and even reasons for having certain feelings and […] Read More