Atheist Ethicist

I need to add a bunch of brief notes to catch up on things I have learned. (1) I have been praising Rosalind Hursthouse's defense of t...

The decision to return to graduate school has paid another dividend. A graduate student at the University of Colorado, Zak Kopeikin, point...

Rosalind Hursthouse defines a "right action" as: P.r. An action is right iff it is what a virtuous agent would characteristicall...

A recent email exchange with a fellow graduate student has caused me to look at the idea of "intrinsic value". This graduate stu...

I had dinner with Jonathan Spelman yesterday. He's the graduate student whose PhD dissertation, Moral Obligation, Evidence, and Belief ...

In my studies of Rosalind Hursthouse's virtue ethics, I have moved on to her 1999 book On Virtue Ethics . In this book, Hursthouse goe...

The global poor, and anybody who cares about the global poor, has many and strong reasons to condemn those global wealthy whose goal is to b...

I am continuing with my commentary on Rosalind Hursthouse, “Normative Virtue Ethics,” from Roger Crisp, ed., How Should One Live? (Oxford ...

Through a round-about series of links, I was made aware of a video that reports to be the first in a series discussing moral realism. The ...

I should start keeping track of the number of days until my Master's Thesis needs to be finalized. I do not think there is a hard due da...

It seems that all I needed was to confront my concern about a thesis topic, and I got my answer. In 1993, when I was considering the basic...

When I think about moral philosophy, one perspective that I like to adopt is something I tend to call the Philosophy of Union Station. In do...

I have read Jonathan Spelman's dissertation on moral objectivity and subjectivity and wrote a commentary that I have published in the ...

Tomorrow, I am going to attend a PhD dissertation defense by a University of Colorado graduate student, Jonathan Spelman. When I learned t...

Imagine, if you will, a community living on a large island. A group of strong-men living on the island has been spending years accumulatin...

As a part of my attempt to step outside of my particular intellectual bubble, I regularly listen to the podcast EconTalk hosted by Russ Rob...

In 80 days and some change, I will be attending class. In the mean time my current activities have involved getting through the History of...

I have been spreading the following moral analogy concerning President Trump's decision to have America leave the Paris Agreement: [I]...

I am starting my next paper. This one seeks to promote the virtue of seeking true and relevant beliefs in deciding on courses of action that...