We’ve got a few openings for liaison positions with various journals. One, for example, is the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. Others will be political-philosophy-oriented. Liaisons put together discussion forums on an article in an issue of the journal, no more than twice/year. If you’re […] Read More
I’ll try to keep this brief, and so will likely run roughshod over important points. I’m curious about what’s doing the work on our intuitions in so-called manipulation cases when people deploy them to theorize about responsibility. These are cases in which someone is one […] Read More
Here. It’s a true mess, with lots of flights into the city cancelled, and now many members at one main hotel downtown unable to get across the river to the convention center to attend and participate in today’s sessions.
Welcome to our NDPR Forum on Kit Wellman’s “Rights Forfeiture and Punishment,” which was recently reviewed by David Dolinko in NDPR. Kit has agreed to kick off this forum by contributing a new post on one of the issues raised in his book, namely, on […] Read More
Number 5: Chrisoula Andreou’s “Decisive Reasons and Rational Supererogation” Number 4: David Sobel’s “(Additional) Reasons to Rule Out Initiating Sexual Relationships with Those You Have Power Over” Number 3: NDPR Forum: Jason Brennan’s Against Democracy Number 2: By far our most-read original discussion post of the […] Read More
Continuing on with our look back at the most-viewed discussions this past year: In March, Molly Gardner’s JMP paper “On the Strength of the Reason Against Harming” generated a lot of excellent comments. In April we had a lively discussion of Paulina Sliwa’s Ethics paper, “Moral […] Read More
What a year! Our first full year on the new site and under the guidance and financial support of the Prindle Institute seemed to have brought many new readers to the scene, as well as many new features and lots of excellent philosophy. Over the […] Read More
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What are the wrong-making features in this case? These are what seem to be the relevant details: “According to British news reports, Mr. Bramhall, 53, admitted to using an argon beam — an electrified gas jet that liver surgeons typically employ to stanch bleeding or […] Read More