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 […] Read More
Category: Ideas
Explorations in ethics.
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
There is surprisingly little discussion about pain’s badness in the philosophical literature. One might think that it falls naturally out of any of the various […] Read More
Think of the most recent remarkable experience you’ve had. Perhaps it was reading an engrossing novel that opened your eyes to a new depth of […] Read More
Blackstone wrote that “it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”. Fortescue wrote “one would much rather that twenty guilty […] Read More
How well a person’s life is going (i.e., how high it is in welfare or well-being) is determined by how good or bad for that […] Read More
I came to philosophy motivated by a long-standing sense that there is something profoundly wrong with the way we live, a sentiment well expressed in […] Read More
A couple of years ago, I posted about an open letter about the ethics of compensating bone marrow stem cell donors. Peter M. Jaworski and […] Read More