A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Holly Smith‘s Making Morality Work (OUP 2018), reviewed by Andrew Sepielli. The book abstract: Moral theories can play both a theoretical and a practical role. As theories, they provide accounts of which features make actions right or wrong. In […] Read More
We are very pleased to announce the winners of our “Agency & Responsibility October” prizes. First place ($150) goes to Neal Tognazzini, for his post “Weaponizing Blame.” A tie for second place ($50/each) goes to Marcela Herdova, for “Manipulation Cases: What’s doing the work?” and […] Read More
In a famous passage in What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon introduced a case where we have to choose between saving one person from a terrible harm and saving an enormous number of people from much smaller harms. This quickly inspired an enormous […] Read More
Welcome to our book forum on Jennifer Morton‘s new book Moving Up without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility. Below is a brief introduction to the book by Jennifer Morton. As a reminder, you do not need to have read the book to participate; feel […] Read More
and I welcome you to the discussion of Gerald (Jerry) Gaus‘s recent “Self-Organizing Moral Systems: Beyond Social Contract Theory” (also available here). To kick off the discussion, we have a précis from Jeppe von Platz and reply from Gaus. Please join us in the discussion! […] Read More
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I greatly enjoyed reading Youngsun Back’s intriguing paper, ‘Are animals moral?: Zhu Xi and Jeong Yakyong’s views on nonhuman animals’. Back discusses the views of two philosopher’s, Zhu Xi and Jeong Yakyong (aka Dasan), and draws some parallels, and points of difference, between views I […] Read More
[Our last contribution to Agency & Responsibility October comes from Rachel Fredericks and Jeremy Fischer. Take it away, folks!] Central to the experience of the victims of many serious crimes and moral wrongs is feeling that the perpetrator is creepy as hell. But moral psychologists […] Read More
Are you interested in questions about whether non-human animals can be moral and about how answers to that bear on questions about moral status? Are you interested in learning about Confucian debates on these topics? If you answer yes to either question, please click on […] Read More