Apropos our earlier conversation about price gouging, I’ve written up a full length paper on the topic. I got quite a bit out of the our discussion in the comments section even if, presumably, I didn’t get what many of you wanted me to get […] Read More
At a conference in Santa Barbara, California, that I went to recently, David Velleman gave a very interesting talk that focused on the following puzzle. Suppose that Karen, a 14-year old girl, decides to conceive a child. Having a child at such a young age […] Read More
Studies in the History of Ethics has announced calls for papers for two future symposia. Details follow.
You are offered a choice between two experience machines. Machine A is just like the ones you already know about. You’ll be on the experience machine until you are 120 years old, getting lots of various sorts of pleasure. Machine B offers exactly the same […] Read More
Dale Miller’s recent post on Mill’s theory of value (and subsequent discussion) was quite enlightening. And it set me thinkin’ about qualitative hedonism and perfectionism, and in particular the relationship between them. During our previous discussion, we appeared to be treating “Mill is a hedonist” […] Read More
I find Frank Jackson’s arguments against non-naturalist realism in his From Metaphysics to Ethics fascinating. So I think that, over a longer period of time, I would like to post a couple of things about them. Today, I am puzzled about the one that has […] Read More
Last year about this time, Kris McDaniel posted some important questions about the nature of the hiring process in philosophy, particular with respect to APA interviews. I’d like to resurrect one of Kris’s questions for a new round of discussion as well as add another.
Two quick announcements, for those who haven’t seen these. First, Russ Shafer-Landau has sent out the Call for Abstracts for the Fifth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held September 12-14th at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The full call for abstracts appears below the fold. […] Read More
David Lieberman sends along a call for papers for the International Society for Utilitarian Studies… The Tenth Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will be held on 11-14 September 2008, at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California, U.S.A.). The meeting is co-hosted […] Read More