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Author: Kris McDaniel

Questions from McTaggart, Part 2

Kris McDaniel / On Posted onJuly 23, 2007 / (47) Comments

The summer fun continues.  Here’s a cool question raised by McT, quoted below:

"Both good and evil are quantitative.  …. Good values then form a series,  » …Read more

Questions from McTaggart, Part 1

Kris McDaniel / On Posted onJuly 20, 2007 / (11) Comments

Folks, it’s time for some summer fun.  And everyone knows what that means — it means McTaggart!

Here’s a question McTaggart wondered about.   » …Read more

Rights and Intrinsic Properties

Kris McDaniel / On Posted onJuly 11, 2007 / (35) Comments

I’m curious what people think of the following principle:

(RIP): Suppose that some person x has intrinsic feature F; suppose that x has a moral right to have F.   » …Read more

Bleg Time

Kris McDaniel / On Posted onMarch 6, 2007 / (12) Comments

I have a bleg.  Can anyone recommend papers in ethics — preferably on value-theory or meta-ethics — that (i) are good pieces of philosophy, (ii) are very clearly written,  » …Read more

Is the Eastern APA Worth It?

Kris McDaniel / On Posted onJanuary 12, 2007 / (25) Comments

How much does it cost a department to interview job candidates at the Eastern APA?  And is the  information about the job candidates that one acquires worth that money?   » …Read more

Desire Bleg

Kris McDaniel / On Posted onDecember 14, 2006 / (45) Comments

Does anyone hold the following view? If so, who? Where? When? Why?

The notion of desire is to be understood/analyzed in terms of the notion of preference,  » …Read more

Harm at a Distance?

Kris McDaniel / On Posted onNovember 26, 2006 / (30) Comments

Suppose Unrestricted
Desire Satisfactionism is true.  (UDS, is roughly, the view that how
well one’s life is going for oneself is determined by the extent to
which one’s desires are satisfied or frustrated.)   » …Read more

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