The discussion in the media in the wake of the leaked draft opinion making it plain that Roe v. Wade will fall has focused on […] Read More
Category: Ideas
Explorations in ethics.
After a mere 17 years at the helm at Soup, Dave “Slacker” Shoemaker is taking a month off—probably because he thinks he is a big […] Read More
This is a post on moral philosophy, not politics. In a recent op-ed for the Stone at the New York Times, Sasha Mudd argues that […] Read More
What fundamentally exemplifies the property of practical rationality? According to atomism, it is fundamentally each particular intention that an agent might have at a time […] Read More
Dear Virtuous Vegetarian, I heard you forgot to pack a lunch today. I just bought a chicken sandwich, but something came up, and I will […] Read More
To set the stage for our discussion, we start with this assumption: unless a society has completely eradicated the COVID-19 virus in its borders, […] Read More
A sneak peak: “… [W]e start with this assumption: unless a society has completely eradicated the COVID-19 virus in its borders, any decision to re-open […] Read More
I assume that many philosophy departments will be having their department talks in the fall take place via Zoom. If so, that raises some questions […] Read More
In a famous passage in What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon introduced a case where we have to choose between saving one person […] Read More