Much of the ever-growing conversation concerning empathy’s moral significance has centered around cases where the target of our empathy is another person’s suffering. Today, I […] Read More
Category: Ideas
Explorations in ethics.
I want to introduce what I think is a new puzzle and get your feedback. I might have an answer, but I’m curious to hear […] Read More
Suppose that a reliable Oracle tells us that there’s a non-natural property shared by most but not all of the things we antecedently believed to […] Read More
The following post is by Eyal Aharoni, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience at Georgia St. University: Troubled by the state of criminal punishment […] Read More
Undoubtedly, philosophers do make moral judgments about particular cases. For example, they make judgments about actual historical cases – as G.E.M. Anscombe famously judged that […] Read More
Finally, we get to questions of the fundamental nature of Soup.
I’ve always thought that Philosopher’s Annual thing that puts out a top 10 articles of the year list tries to come up with such a […] Read More
Most contemporary work in population ethics operates within the framework of welfarism – the assumption that individual welfare is the fundamental value. But this framework is […] Read More
In this post, I shall argue for the conclusion that there is no such thing as moral vagueness. The argument rests on a certain assumption, […] Read More