Atheist Ethicist

In the last post I argued that a desire fulfillment theory of a good life has a problem with actions of genuine self-sacrifice. Desire ful...

The topic under discussion is "A good life" or what it means to be doing well. Simple Desire Satisfactionism is a theory of a go...

I have been in discussion with some atheists recently regarding two of their more popular myths. By "myth", I mean false feel-go...

Against both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, I have claimed that being an intellectual lightweight is a fault. I placed it in a list that a...

It seems that the Republicans have selected Trump as their candidate for President of the United States. I was caught entirely by surp...

I did not make it to Chris Heathwood's presentation on Friday . . .   . . . Or, actually, I did and saw that the presentation was b...

I suspect that there are a number of readers who look at this life we are imagining in which Alph gathers stones, scatters them, and gathers...

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the foo...

I have been doing some homework recently . . . some advanced reading. Tomorrow (Friday, April 29) I intend to go to the University of C...

Let us imagine one world exceedingly beautiful....And then imagine the ugliest world you can possibly conceive. Imagine it simply one heap ...

Prejudice apart, the game of push-pin is of equal value with the arts and sciences of music and poetry. If the game of push-pin furnish mor...

There are people who say, "I will not vote for a black person" or "Women are not fit to be President." However, this i...

In the model I am using, we have one person (Alph) with one desire (to gather stones). This means that there is only one reason for intentio...

A has a reason to φ iff A has some desire the satisfaction of which will be served by his φ-ing. This is Bernard Williams’ theory of ...

Because Bernie Sanders lost the primary election in New York on April 19, there are people declaring that independents have a moral right to...

To the regular readers of my blog, I am sorry. I addressed Nozick's experience machine in a post outside this series just a few days ago...