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I suspect I’ve just wandered into a longstanding dispute, but I’m curious what people think about the nature of wrong acts, and in particular about whether an agent incapable of perceiving the relevant wrongness/rightness reasons can nevertheless perform wrong acts. Here’s a representative quote from […] Read More
Fifth Annual Tennessee Value and Agency (TVA) Conference September 30 — October 2, 2016 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Keynote Speakers: Michael Brady (Glasgow) and Peter Railton (Michigan)
Hoping to hear people’s intuitions about this case: A corruptible good samaritan, Sam, is planning on saving several people who are dying. Let me stipulate that Sam is not required to do so and the dying have no claim on his aid. I follow Sam […] Read More
This post was written by Nomy Arpaly: I’ll never forget the old guy who asked me, at an APA interview: “suppose I wanted to slap you, and suppose I wanted to slap you because I thought you were giving us really bad answers, and I […] Read More
Welcome to what will hopefully be a very interesting discussion of Dale Dorsey‘s “Moral Distinctiveness and Moral Inquiry”. The paper is published in the most recent edition of Ethics and available to read through open access here. Kathryn M Lindeman has kindly contributed a critical précis, and it appears immediately below. […] Read More
We’re excited to announce our next Ethics discussion on Dale Dorsey‘s “Moral Distinctiveness and Moral Inquiry.” The paper is available through open access here. Kathryn M Lindeman has kindly agreed to contribute a critical précis. Join us on April 18-20!
John Taurek (1977) argued that in conflict situations–situations in which we can save some people only by failing to save some others–the numbers don’t count–i.e., it is not morally wrong to save the smaller group instead of the larger group. His argument is controversial. Here […] Read More
We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for the Inaugural Marc Sanders Award for Public Philosophy. We hope that this award will incentivize and draw attention to excellent new long-form public philosophy. Essay: We invite submissions of unpublished essays (minimum 3,000 words, maximum […] Read More
John Brunero and I are running a conference on Practical Reason and Metaethics, here in Lincoln, Nebraska on April 21st to 23rd. Speakers include Michael Bratman (Stanford), Stephen Darwall (Yale), Jonathan Drake (Texas), Amelia Hicks (Kansas State), Chris Howard (Arizona), Sarah McGrath (Princeton), Barry Maguire […] Read More