I’m very happy to announce that our long-time commenter, Jussi Suikkanen, has agreed to join us as a regular contributor. Jussi’s in the U.S. at Chapel Hill for the year, but he’s finishing up theses in both Helsinki and Reading. Welcome aboard!
This got to be too long to be a comment on Michael C’s post. People sometimes criticize utilitarianism for being "inapplicable," or for entailing that you shouldn’t try to use it as a decision procedure. I don’t think there is any way to interpret this […] Read More
The latest Ethics Alert appears below the fold.
Normative theories are occasionally criticized for being esoteric. A theory T is esoteric iff (T is true (or correct, or superior to its rivals, etc.), but it is better that T not be generally believed or accepted.) Examples of allegedly esoteric philosophical theories include:• "Sophisticated" […] Read More
The latest ethics alert appears below the fold.
The latest ethics alert appears below the fold.
My previous formulation of TCR, left something to be desired. Here’s what I hope is a better formulation: TCR: (1) S has better reason to do x than to do y if and only if S has better object-given reasons to intrinsically prefer Ox to […] Read More
Well, since the comments on my last post were so interesting and helpful, let’s see how things go with this, another apparent problem with Chisholm’s views. Chisholm (in 1978) defined intrinsic goodness in terms of a generic account of intrinsic value states (e.g., either intrinsic […] Read More
Here’s a problem with Roderick Chisholm’s well-known account of intrinsic goodness I’d like solved, and I bet some of you will know how to solve it.