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Category: Ideas

Explorations in ethics.

Ideas, NDPR Discussion Forum, Philosophy of Law Posted onJanuary 1, 2018December 29, 2017

NDPR Forum: Kit Wellman’s “Rights Forfeiture and Punishment,” with new post by Kit Wellman

Welcome to our NDPR Forum on Kit Wellman’s “Rights Forfeiture and Punishment,” which was recently reviewed by David Dolinko in NDPR. Kit has agreed to […] Read More

Applied Ethics, Ideas Posted onDecember 16, 2017

Ethics in the News: The Initials-Etching Surgeon

What are the wrong-making features in this case? These are what seem to be the relevant details: “According to British news reports, Mr. Bramhall, 53, […] Read More

Ideas Posted onNovember 20, 2017

Cliched Thanksgiving Post: What moral philosophy are YOU thankful for?

As Thanksgiving rolls around, it’s time to pause and take stock of how you got to be who you are, at least as a moral/political […] Read More

Ideas, Metaethics, NDPR Discussion Forum, Normative Ethics Posted onSeptember 21, 2017

The Point of Moral Philosophy: An NDPR Forum with Ingmar Persson

Welcome to another in our regular series providing forums for authors reviewed in NDPR to respond and discuss features of their new books. We are […] Read More

Experimental Philosophy, Featured Philosophers, Ideas, Moral Psychology Posted onSeptember 6, 2017August 7, 2023

‘I Love Women’: The Conceptual Inadequacy of ‘Implicit Bias’ (by Yao and Reis-Dennis)

Hi everyone! Thanks very much for the opportunity to discuss our work-in-progress, “‘I Love Women’: The Conceptual Inadequacy of ‘Implicit Bias.’” Tests for implicit bias, […] Read More

Applied Ethics, Featured Philosophers, Ideas, Political Philosophy Posted onAugust 7, 2017August 7, 2023

Why Bad People Will Find it Hard to be Patriotic (by Featured Philosopher Derek Baker)

Re-posting after a technical glitch this morning (eds.) 1. Current events are reminding us that patriotism, at least of the sort that gets publicly acknowledged, […] Read More

Experimental Philosophy, Ideas, Moral Psychology, Moral Responsibility Posted onJuly 20, 2017July 20, 2017

How “ought” exceeds but implies “can”

Over the past few years, an interesting development in experimental philosophy has been work on the “ought implies can” principle (OIC) in commonsense morality. Several […] Read More

Ideas, Normative Ethics, Political Philosophy, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality Posted onMay 23, 2017

Conversion Stories

Much is made these days of ideological bubbles and commitment cocoons (OK, I made up that one), in which people stick to their beliefs regardless of any […] Read More

Ideas, Moral Psychology, The Profession Posted onApril 28, 2017April 28, 2017

The Happy Coincidence Defense and The-Most-I-Can-Do Sweet Spot (by Eric Schwitzgebel)

Eric Schwitzgebel writes: Here are four things I care intensely about: being a good father, being a good philosopher, being a good teacher, and being […] Read More

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