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Author: Ralph Wedgwood

An argument for holism about practical rationality

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onOctober 10, 2020 / (10) Comments

What fundamentally exemplifies the property of practical rationality?

  • According to atomism, it is fundamentally each particular intention that an agent might have at a time that counts as either rational or irrational for the agent to have at that time.
  •  » …Read more

Weighing Aggregative and Non-aggregative Considerations

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onNovember 18, 2019November 18, 2019 / (3) Comments

In a famous passage in What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon introduced a case where we have to choose between saving one person from a terrible harm and saving an enormous number of people from much smaller harms.  » …Read more

The quality of pains

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onJuly 12, 2019 / (9) Comments

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.  » …Read more

Ethical intuitions concern types of case, not particular cases

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onFebruary 17, 2019February 20, 2019 / (18) Comments

Undoubtedly, philosophers do make moral judgments about particular cases. For example, they make judgments about actual historical cases – as G.E.M. Anscombe famously judged that it was wrong of President Truman to order the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.  » …Read more

Non-Welfarist Population Ethics (by Ralph Wedgwood)

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onNovember 27, 2018November 27, 2018 / (14) Comments

Most contemporary work in population ethics operates within the framework of welfarism – the assumption that individual welfare is the fundamental value. But this framework is a straitjacket,  » …Read more

There is No Moral Vagueness

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onOctober 24, 2018October 24, 2018 / (28) Comments

In this post, I shall argue for the conclusion that there is no such thing as moral vagueness. The argument rests on a certain assumption,  » …Read more

Both Humeans and Kantians about Motivation are Wrong

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onJanuary 27, 2017January 27, 2017 / (3) Comments

Both Hume and Kant advocated extreme and implausible views of motivation; the same is also true of many of their contemporary followers. The truth about motivation lies in between these two extremes.  » …Read more

Objective and subjective akrasia

Ralph Wedgwood / On Posted onJuly 8, 2016September 8, 2016 / (7) Comments

Suppose that there is both an objective ‘ought’ and a subjective ‘ought’. Which of these two kinds of ‘ought’ figures in the anti-akrasia principle that it is irrational to do something at the same time as believing that one ought not to do it?  » …Read more

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