It seems the following is nowadays a popular view:
Wide scope view: sentences of the form “If p, then it ought to be the case that q” » …Read more
Author: Campbell Brown
Update (13 August, 2007). I’ve now written a very short paper on this issue: How to Live a Life Worth Living. » …Read more
Lately I’ve been thinking about taxonomy of philosophical views, especially in the area of normative ethics.
Here’s a fragment of a common taxonomy of ethical theories. » …Read more
In his paper “Why Abortion is Immoral”, Don Marquis urges a reorientation of the abortion debate. Metaphysical issues concerning the personhood of fetuses, which previously held center stage in philosophical discussions of the morality of abortion, » …Read more
Following Brian’s lead at TAR, I thought it might be fun to locate all the PEA Soup readers on a Frappr map. » …Read more
Actualist Utilitarianism (AU) is, roughly stated, the view that we ought to act so as to maximise the sum total of actual people’s utilities. » …Read more
Within consequentialism, it’s common to draw a distinction between two kinds of rightness: an act X is said to be objectively right just when, » …Read more
In an earlier post, Supererogation for Maximisers, I tried to reconcile two apparently irreconcilable claims: first, that maximising consequentialism is true; and, » …Read more