Atheist Ethicist

Another one of a set of questions from the studio audience: 3. Why is morality concerned with affecting malleable desires with praise, re...

A member of the studio audience pointed me to an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that contains the following passage critic...

In considering objections to desire utilitarianism, one class of objections that I have no concern with are those of the intuitionists. An...

The most recent set of questions I have received on desire utilitarianism contained the following two questions. 6. What do you think are ...

A member of the studio audience has sent in some more questions about desire utilitarianism that I wish to address. The first of these asked...

In my last post, I compared the view that holds that those who believe in God are, by that fact alone, morally superior to those who do not ...

A member of the studio audience had this to say about the relationship between atheism and immorality. Reason why Atheism allows for evil:...

A question from the studio audience reflects on the most common false assumption that gets in the way of somebody understanding the desire u...

I hold that questions of God’s existence – whether you believe in a god or not – are irrelevant to questions of morality. I look at the prop...

Allow me to step back a moment and put the posts of the last three weeks in a larger context. This series of posts started with a complain...

I have been spending the last several posts attempting to demonstrate how the desire utilitarianism account of right actions can explain a n...

The right act is the act that a person with good desires would have performed. Good desires, in turn, are desires that tend to fulfill oth...

The right act is the act that a person with good desires would have performed. Good desires, in turn, are desires that tend to fulfill oth...

The right act is the act that a person with good desires would have performed. Good desires, in turn, are desires that tend to fulfill oth...

The right act is the act that a person with good desires would have performed. Good desires, in turn, are desires that tend to fulfill oth...

The right act is the act that a person with good desires would have performed. Good desires, in turn, are desires that tend to fulfill oth...

The right act is the act that a person with good desires would have performed. Good desires, in turn, are desires that tend to fulfill oth...

The right act is the act that a person with good desires would have performed. Good desires, in turn, are desires that tend to fulfill oth...

I have been asked a question by a member of the studio audience that is going to touch off a series of posts. The question that would deci...

The debate among members of the studio audience has wandered into questions about objectivity and subjectivity. This is an area where I th...