Over the past few years, I’ve become aware of some interesting ethical dilemmas for editors and referees. I present five such dilemmas below: D1-D5. Some of these are ethical dilemmas that I’ve had to deal with as a moral agent. Others are ethical dilemmas that […] Read More
Broadly construed, a theory is consequentialist (or teleological, if you prefer) iff it takes the deontic status of an action to be solely a function of some transitive ordering of outcomes in terms of their goodness or desirability. Now what I want to ask is: […] Read More
A number of ethical theorists in southern California (myself included) have recently convened a reading group to consider Derek Parfit’s unpublished manuscript Climbing the Mountain. The book appears to defend a normative ethical theory that borrows elements of contractualism (in the Scanlonian reasonable rejectability vein), […] Read More
Olle Blomberg has compiled this fine bibliography on cognitive science and ethics. It’s very thorough, with many papers available online. It seems Olle can no longer keep this bibliography current all by himself, so please e-mail him with suggestions for additional entries.
I’m curious what people think about the specialty ethics journals – which ones do you read? Which ones do you think are good? Which ones do you think other people read and think are good?
I’ve been meaning to post this question for a while, but kept thinking that I ought to do some proper research on the topic. Fortunately, I’ve now given up on that thought. So here’s the source of the question. I keep finding authors that seem […] Read More
Thomas Nadelhoffer has drawn my attention to an exciting event, the first On-Line Philosophy Conference.The conference is being held in April, and the list of invited speakers is impressive. Among the prominent ethics types are John Martin Fischer, Alfred Mele, Julia Driver, Anthony Duff, Thomas […] Read More
Those familiar with the satirical publication The Onion ("America’s Finest News Source") might have seen this already, but for those who haven’t, here’s a gem that hits close to home.
This past weekend’s metaethics conference in Madison was wonderful in a number of ways, and while we’ll post a brief recap once the link to pictures from the conference is available, for now I want to focus on just one of those wonderful aspects, namely, […] Read More