Registration is now open for the 2010 conference of the British Society for Ethical Theory, to be held at the University of Nottingham, Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th July. (This is the period directly before the 2010 Joint Session, in Dublin.) Details of the programme […] Read More
Suppose that you know that your opening a certain safe is what would maximize the good. But suppose that you don’t know what the correct combination is. Some critics (e.g., Wiland 2005 and Howard-Snyder 1997) allege that, despite your ignorance of the correct combination, objective […] Read More
Suppose you are an ordinary virtuous agent. Up until now, you haven’t lived the kind of life that involves making any huge life or death decisions, but you are kind to your friends and acquaintances, charitable to distant strangers in need, honest to everyone except […] Read More
I have just started studying Gibbard's Thinking How to Live, and have a question about it. Consider the following, apparently valid, argument: (1) Either it is before 5 or I should leave now (2) It is not before 5 Therefore, (3) I […] Read More
Thanks to the generous support of Tulane University's Murphy Institute, I'm very pleased to announce that the first New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NO WAR) will take place November 3-5, 2011 (yes, that's 2011, not 2010). I'm announcing this now so as to […] Read More
SOCIETY FOR BUSINESS ETHICSDOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD(Submissions due May 15, 2010) The Society for Business Ethics is soliciting dissertations completed between May 1, 2008, and April 30, 2010. While dissertations must focus on business ethics, work from all disciplines are welcome. Those wishing to be considered […] Read More
I’m starting to warm up to the objectivist form of act-consequentialism (partly because I think it lacks content) which Doug defended in the previous post. One worry people have is that this kind of a view severs the connection between what is right/wrong and how […] Read More
Leave it to our colleagues in economics to find an efficient way to speed up the journal review and publication process. Inside Higher Ed reports that authors whose papers are rejected by the American Economic Review, one of that discipline's most prominent journals, can opt […] Read More
Let us define objective consequentialism and subjective consequentialism, respectively, as follows: OC: S’s performing x is morally permissible if and only if, and because, there is no alternative that would produce more value than x would. SC: S’s performing x is morally permissible if and […] Read More