Atheist Ethicist

A member of the studio audience . . . well, not really, it was really my Philosophy of Law professor . . . asked a question regarding the in...

Here is yet another episode in the continuing drama of "moral philosophers wasting their time." I know . . . it's still too ...

Welcome to another episode of "Moral Philosophers Wasting Their Time". Okay . . . that's too harsh and condescending. But,...

A useful Facebook discussion . . . Yes, such creatures apparently do exist. Don't interrupt. A useful Facebook discussion has given ...

I have heard from multiple sources that all conversation concerning causation starts with Hume. In An Inquiry Concerning Human Understandi...

Philosophers seem to have a pathological dislike of having their claims be comprehensible to real people. I am going to add “cause” to my ...

Who can we blame for the fact that Trump became President in 2016? In my previous post, I presented an account of practical causality. It ...

Yesterday, I mentioned that philosophers distinguish between the causation that occurs when there are no people (e.g., the meteor that cause...

It turns out that the ideas that I posted yesterday - my "pre-study" ideas of causation - turn out to be philosophically . . . um ...

The next section on my Metaphysics and Epistemology course is "causation". As I have reported earlier, I have studied value theo...

A recent facebook conversation brought up what seems to be a logical error with a current political strategy. The claim is that, if we pro...

A member of the studio audience asked a number of important questions. Alonzo Fyfe states that a desire is a proposition that attaches a v...

I am wondering about whether the claims made in yesterday's post can ultimately defeat one of the larger branches of moral philosophy. ...

What follow is the first draft of a paper I am writing for a philosophy course. It concerns propsitional attitudes. Readers familiar wit...

"This submerging superyacht is said to be the world’s most expensive private object" If this is what fulfills a person’s desires...

I want to start using my philosophy of value to create some lessons about life. An important way of dealing with global problems is to man...

I assert that you have an obligation to act in an epistemically responsible manner. The principles that I associate with this include: (...