Atheist Ethicist

Last week, I posted several articles on population ethics - the question of "How many people should there be?" Before moving on,...

There is a problem in the philosophy of morality called The Nonidentity Problem . A member of the studio audience, Evan Dawson-Baglien, aske...

Future desires do not count. This is not to say that future desires do not matter. They matter to some people. In fact, they happen to mat...

As a follow up to my last post, I gave been asked to compare another pair of possible worlds. [B]etween the following [pair] of worlds, w...

As a follow up to yesterday’s post, I have been asked [B]etween the following [pair] of worlds, which would desirism recommend ("neut...

I have been asked the following question from the studio audience. What's your view on it? Should we maximize fulfilled desires in the...

I have been asked, What is the [desirism] perspective on gun control? Which is a subject I have been thinking about recently along with ....

I am going to use a comment I got from my previous post to continue my discussion on criminal justice. I have been questioning the "...

I am having trouble coming up with a moral case for a "right to remain silent". If Person A can be compelled to come to court an...

I am going to do something new with this blog for a while. I am accustomed to writing about things which I have considered, and about whic...

Yesterday, I wrote about a couple of hundred thousand arrogant, ignorant, semi-barbarians gathering at a rally in Bangladesh demanding that ...

Pedophiles ought to be free to have sex with children. After all, pedophilia is not a choice. No person would choose pedophilia. If you thin...

Steven Pinker has proposed abandoning morality and replacing it with a project of attaching human sentiment to that which promotes human flo...

Steven Pinker and the Concept of Harm Steven Pinker proposed replacing "morality" with a project of directing our sentiments tow...

According to Steven Pinker, we should abandon morality and attach our sentiments to that which promotes human flourishing and minimizing har...

As I wrote yesterday, Steven Pinker claims that we ought to abandon morality and, instead, replace it with a system where we attach our sent...

Stephen Pinker and others like him are in the process of setting moral philosophy back 300 years. I mean this as a literally true statemen...