There has come to be some consensus amongst political scientists and legal theorists that a major source of over-incarceration in the United States is (mostly […] Read More
Category: Ideas
Explorations in ethics.
Suppose you are sitting at your desk, reflecting on a moral question. Now suppose that as you are reflecting on this question, you happen to be […] Read More
Tenenbaum and Raffman (2012) claim that “most of our projects and ends are vague.” (p.99) But I’m not convinced that any plausibly are. On my own […] Read More
[UPDATED WITH A CORRECTION] In my recent summer orgy of refereeing, there were two occasions in which it seemed that an author had simultaneously submitted to […] Read More
My local library fines its patrons ten cents per overdue book per day. They will let you continue to borrow books as long as your […] Read More
Suppose that there is both an objective ‘ought’ and a subjective ‘ought’. Which of these two kinds of ‘ought’ figures in the anti-akrasia principle that […] Read More
I recently finished a paper about illegal immigration. Here is my question: Is it wrong to immigrate illegally? Added challenge: Assume (contrary to fact) that […] Read More
I suspect I’ve just wandered into a longstanding dispute, but I’m curious what people think about the nature of wrong acts, and in particular about […] Read More
Hoping to hear people’s intuitions about this case: A corruptible good samaritan, Sam, is planning on saving several people who are dying. Let me stipulate […] Read More