Hi everyone, and thanks to PEA Soup for providing this forum and inviting me to contribute. 1. The Issue Standard theories on normative reasons rarely […] Read More
Category: Ideas
Explorations in ethics.
In this little exercise in analytic existentialism, I’m going to contrast two kinds of stories we can live through, and suggest that the transition from […] Read More
With Donald Trump now president-elect, many people are concerned that something truly precious and fundamental is under threat. Though Americans disagree about many things, we […] Read More
Donald Trump loves himself. And while professional psychologists and psychiatrists cannot ethically diagnose him, many have made it quite clear that they think Trump has […] Read More
Consequentialism. Today we begin a new series, “I wish I knew then…,” which invites readers to comment on how, if they could, they would give […] Read More
I am interested in knowing whether consequentialists have thought and whether they should think that the shape of an outcome matters when it comes to […] Read More
I’ve been interested recently in the ways in which norms from some domains impinge on norms from other domains. To that end, I’ve been writing […] Read More
Whenever I have had a major life decision to make, it has always struck me as of central – indeed, definitive – importance to think […] Read More
Descriptive reality is not made the case by our take on it. Thinking that it is so or wanting it to be so does not […] Read More