Atheist Ethicist

Sometimes, it is useful to try to express an argument in new ways. What is confusing in one expression may be clear in another. So, let...

355 days until I start classes. I have an active dislike of the idea of going to graduate school with the idea that I have this philosophy...

Twice, now, Republican Presidential Nominee pulled a stunt that I consider far outside the bounds of morality, and generated very little com...

357 days until the first day of classes. In addition to continuing with the Philosophy Bites podcasts, I have been looking at some works o...

The Value of Continued Existence Imagine that you were to learn that, shortly after your death, the human race would be destroyed. Let...

360 days until the start of class, and what have I done recently in the service of philosophy. I have often benefitted a great deal by goi...

Friends, readers, lurkers, lend me your ears, for I have come not to praise desire utilitarianism, but to bury it. Desire utilitarianism w...

We are now at 362 days until the start of classes. As a part of my continuing project to worm my way into the philosophical community, aft...

In my last post , I gave reasons for rejecting moral intuitions as a reliable source of moral knowledge. This, then, raises the question: ...

363 days until I will be attending my first graduate school class. I finally managed to get to a presentation at the University of Colorad...

364 days from today and I will be sitting in my first class. I hope. There is still some uncertainty about that. If somebody wants to just g...

368 days until the first day of classes. My recent discussion about the fact that I have interests that a person with good desires would n...

372 days until the first day of classes. I have been writing about time - that I do not have enough of it , and I waste some of it playing...

373 days until the start of class as I return to graduate school. In yesterday's post, I lamented that shortage of time. I reported wa...

Speaking about needing more time (the subject of my last post , today's list of Philosophy Bites podcast episodes while I exercised lef...

374 days until the first day of classes. Time! I need more time! Not “time” in terms of days, but “time” in terms of hours within a day....