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Author: Campbell Brown

Uncategorized Posted onAugust 21, 2007

Worries about Wide-scoping

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 […] Read More

Value Theory Posted onJuly 26, 2007

A life worth living

Update (13 August, 2007). I’ve now written a very short paper on this issue: How to Live a Life Worth Living. As you’ll see, it […] Read More

Normative Ethics Posted onDecember 18, 2006

Taxonomy in Ethics

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 […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onNovember 2, 2005

Was I Ever a Fetus?

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 […] Read More

Uncategorized Posted onOctober 27, 2005

Where the PEA-Soupers Are

Following Brian’s lead at TAR, I thought it might be fun to locate all the PEA Soup readers on a Frappr map. You can join […] Read More

Normative Ethics, Value Theory Posted onJune 4, 2005

Actualist Utilitarianism and Practical Impotence

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. (By […] Read More

Normative Ethics Posted onJune 1, 2005

Praise in Poker and Ethics

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, among […] Read More

Normative Ethics, Value Theory Posted onMay 22, 2005

More Supererogation for Maximisers

In an earlier post, Supererogation for Maximisers, I tried to reconcile two apparently irreconcilable claims: first, that maximising consequentialism is true; and, second, that supererogatory […] Read More

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