Does it make sense to say that someone would have been better off, had he never been born? Jim was born with a disease that has throughout the years caused him intense agony, and for which he has no hope of a cure. Jim has […] Read More
Click on this link to check out pictures from the recent Moral Phenomenology Workshop in Tucson (the photographer with the mad Ansel Adams-esque skills is yours truly).
Over at the Leiter Reports, there’s beena lively discussion about irresponsible (or even abusive) advising and teaching in philosophy graduate programs. But the larger question is what is to be done?
We frequently say: “he has a good life” and use this expression (pace: Shelly Kagan) interchangeably with “he is well-off”. When someone is doing poorly, when things are not going well for that person, we say “his life is not worth living”. When someone enjoys […] Read More
Campbell Brown and I, along with some BGSU graduate students, are currently reading through John Broome’s most recent book, Weighing Lives. In our most recent meeting, we discussed Broome’s latest attempt to solve the problem of interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing (it differs from his previous […] Read More
Rambling post alert! Over at Kieran Setiya’s interesting blog, there is a discussion about the meaning of life. Here’s the link: http://ideasofimperfection.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-does-it-all-mean-i.html#comments Here’s some of what I wrote in an earlier discussion thread, which I thought I’d reproduce here to stimulate discussion. I raise some […] Read More
Over at Desert Landscapes, Uriah has posted a wrap-up from the recent Moral Phenomenology Workshop outside of Tucson. We all had a great time, and there were some excellent presentations. Click here for the details.
We’re very happy to welcome Stephen Finlay as a new PEA Brain. Stephen is an assistant professor at USC and works on metaethics and ethics. Welcome aboard, Stephen!
I had to choose between two mutually exclusive courses of action, A and B. I judged that doing A was better, all things considered, than doing B, that I had more reason to do A than to do B, yet I did B. This is […] Read More