Atheist Ethicist

A view of right and wrong, good and evil, in a universe without gods.

Monday, October 31, 2016

I Was Wrong: On the Aversion to Harming the Innocent

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301 days until the start of class. That’s 43 weeks. 4 days until I introduce myself to the Philosophy department. I have been busy rewri...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Rules Against vs. Aversions To Harming the Innocent

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304 days until classes start. 7 days until I introduce myself to the department. Yes, I get nervous. I had a realization this morning. I...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

A Moral Aversion to Harming the Innocent

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306 days until the first day of classes. Motivated by comments made by David Jocquemotte, I have made a couple of attempts to get my previ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Sam Harris and Peter Singer's External Moral Reasons

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A member of the studio audience pointed me to a podcast of a discussion between Sam Harris and Peter Singer, where they spent the first few ...

Punishment: Deterrance vs. Moral Aversion

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Classes start in 307 days. I am still working on Dr. Boonin's book, The Problem of Punishment . In previous posts, I presented what ...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Boonin's Definition of Punishment

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308 days until my first class. In our top story today, Atheistically Speaking has posted the podcast interview in which I comments on how ...
Friday, October 21, 2016

A Theory of Punishment

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311 days until classes start. I have officially started my project to have a paper written for Dr. Boonin on Punishment by the time I visi...
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Free Will and the Praise and Condemnation of Moral Projects

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312 days until classes start. On November 4, I shall go to the University to attend a "Center Talk" (put on at the Center for Va...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

The Pragmatic Error of Undefinable Terms

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What definition can we give of 'ought', 'right', and other terms expressing the same fundamental notion? To this I should an...
Monday, October 17, 2016

Desirism: Talking Points

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I had an opportunity over the weekend to address the question, "How would you describe and defend Desirism in quick and simple terms th...

Comments on Implicit Biases and the 2016 Election

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315 days until the start of classes. Yesterday, I was interviewed by Atheistically Speaking on my views regarding the 2016 election as exp...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

Taxing the Rich

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Taxing the Rich 317 days until classes start. The Spring 2017 classes were posted today. I made a tentative schedule just to see what my...
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Alonzo Fyfe
When I was in high school, I decided that I wanted to leave the world better off than it would have been if I had not existed. This started a quest, through 12 years of college and on to today, to try to discover what a "better" world consists of. I have written a book describing that journey that you can find on my website. In this blog, I will keep track of the issues I have confronted since then.
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