Options Without Constraints
Richard Yetter Chappell
The paradox of deontology counsels against including constraints in our fundamental moral theory. Consequentialists are generally suspicious of the associated asymmetries, e.g. between doing and allowing, or killing and letting die. » …Read more
Here. Looks tasty. Notes of wildflower, woods, and cheshire, with a full-bodied Australian finish (alongside two actual Finnishers). » …Read more
Chap. 2 of J. S. Mill’s Utilitarianism is widely interpreted as defending qualitative hedonism, as a view about the nature of personal well-being. On views of this sort, your level of well-being is determined by certain facts about your pleasures and pains. » …Read more
It is Normative Ethics Month at PEA Soup. Today’s post is by Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (Sam Houston State University). Take it away Benjamin:
Doing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reasons
There are two senses in which a piece of conduct may be “immoral.” On the one hand, » …Read more
Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Errol Lord‘s The Importance of Being Rational (OUP 2018), reviewed by Nathan Howard. Excerpts from the blurb and the review are below, but you can read both in their entirety via OUP’s website and Ethics, » …Read more
A Dilemma for Effective Altruism
This post focuses on an underappreciated debate in normative ethics, viz. the actualism/possibilism (A/P) debate and a problem that I believe it poses for effective altruists (EAs). Roughly, EAs implicitly assume contradictory positions in this debate and, moreover, » …Read more
Kristina Grob and Nathan Nobis have a new, open access ( = free) “public philosophy” book on abortion:
It engages lots of common concerns and arguments about abortion that most philosophical and legal writings don’t address. » …Read more