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.
The latest ethics alert appears below the fold.
The latest ethics alert appears below the fold.
I am an advisor to a student organization at my campus, and in order to recharter the organization, I recently had to sign a document stating that I had read and would agree to follow the university’s anti-hazing policy. It reads (in part):
The latest ethics alert and an important question appear below the fold.
Studies in the History of Ethics, a web-based, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high quality research and reviews in the history of ethics, announces a special call for papers for a symposium to be published in winter 2006. TOPIC: Mill’s Ethics (in commemoration of the […] Read More
A question for those better tutored in (or perhaps more sympathetic to) consequentialism than I: How are we to understand the claim that consequentialists count the "value of the action itself" as part of the value of an outcome? I’ve encountered this claim numerous times, […] Read More