I interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to ask whether the following objection to consequentialism is at all original: (Given the vast literature on consequentialism, I suspect it probably is, but I’m hoping those who know that literature better can tell me.)
(This marks the fifth of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we will discuss Chapter 7 of the June 7th version of the manuscript, which can be found here.) In his Formula […] Read More
This constitutes the fourth of 11 “meetings” to discuss Parfit’s new manuscript, Climbing the Mountain. First, though, a reminder announcement: all references will be to the June 7th version of the manuscript, and specifically to the PDF version of that manuscript. There are some page […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau has passed along the following announcement about the upcoming 3rd Annual Metaethics Workshop. Dear Colleagues, I’m pleased to announce that the program for the 3rd Annual Metaethics Workshop has been finalized. I am attaching a copy of it here. It should be posted […] Read More
This marks the 3rd of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we will discuss Chapter 5 of the latest version of the manuscript–the June 7th version–which can be found here. Recall that, […] Read More
This marks the 2nd of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we will discuss Chapter 4 of the latest version of the manuscript–the June 7th version–which can be found here. (Chapter 4 […] Read More
Since we started our virtual reading group on Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain, Parfit has sent us a new revised version of his manuscript. Since this new version contains some important revisions and additions, we feel compelled to switch to the new version midstream. I’ve now […] Read More
(This marks the first of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details.) This rich and interesting chapter contains a profusion of useful definitions and distinctions, but the main point is to argue that we should […] Read More
I wanted to alert everyone to the 2006 conference of the AAPNZ (this is of course for philosophy in general, rather than specifically ethics, so invite all your friends). The conference will be Dec. 3-7, and it is hosted by Vic. U. and held in […] Read More