Atheist Ethicist

It is wrong to inject violence, threats of violence, or celebrations of violence into a discussion. This post concerns one of the major co...

Yes, but . . . Person A is accused of a wrongdoing. In order to block the charge of wrongdoing, a person may offer an excuse – a statement...

This post relevant to a major point of disagreement in the Atheist Plus discussion. As is often the case when such factions form, both sid...

Given that this blog was conceived of as an "atheism plus" site (Atheism plus morality) broadly defined seven years ago (not six, ...

I have actually been surprised in the past week to discover that there are atheists who think that atheism – and converting a person to athe...

I have been following some of these arguments about "atheism plus" - and I wish to comment on some of the arguments. Atheism plu...

If desirism is true, it not only gives us an account of biological morality, it tells us what we need for a machine morality.   Machine mor...

Morality requires determinism. It is often thought that morality requires free will. To say that an agent ought to have done something els...

There seems to be a new "Atheism Plus" or "A+" movement that aims to unite atheism with certain social justice issues - ...

I have defended desirism by arguing that it provides the best accounts of the practice of morality. By this, I do not mean our moral intui...

This is a test. This is a reposting of something I wrote a couple of months ago. I have rewritten it to be read by somebody with a Republi...

The discussion of negligence yesterday leads us to a discussion of a particular form of negligence, negligence in belief (aka, epistemic neg...