Atheist Ethicist

Professor Daniel N. Robinson suggests that any student of philosophy - at least that idea that philosophy is meant to be used in guiding one...

It is time for me to write a new book on desirism. I have thought about this quite a bit, and given considerable thought as to how to go a...

I have been distracted, as of late, by the political campaign. And I have been wasting significant amounts of time engaged in discussions ...

My previous post about civil disobedience sparked some comments about the practice of allowing only those people to speak at universities th...

An incident in New York seems to provide an excellent model for those who wish to engage in civil disobedience. Ted Cruz was invited to s...

When you want to know what a philosopher’s theory of normativity is, you must place yourself in the position of an agent on whom morality i...

The day will come, for most of us, when what morality commands, obliges, or recommends is hard: that we share decisions with people whose ...

I have often protested the fact that those who write on "reasons" fail to distinguish between "the reasons that a person has...

Caroline West, in "Business as Usual? The Error Theory, Internalism, and the Function of Morality" (in A World Without Values: Ess...

Democrats tend to raise strong objections to voter ID laws. Republicans claim that they want to impose voter ID laws because they wish to ...

This is quite uncharacteristic of me. In the last week, I have taken one of my philosophical ideas, written it up as best as I could, and ...

Now, where did I leave off when I was viciously assaulted by illness? (Actually, I had been ill since mid-January, but surrendered to it t...

It seems that a lot of people are unclear as to the requirements regarding the moral right of freedom of speech. The right to freedom of s...

Internalism not only represents a false belief. Internalism is one of those pernicious false beliefs that gets people killed - or brings t...

Are you a moral realist? Anti-realist? Cognitivist or non-cognitivist? Emotivist? Prescriptivist? Error-theorist? Objectivist? Absolutist? ...

With primary elections in several states tomorrow, it is my hope that Clinton pulls at least a little further ahead of Sanders for the Democ...