Thursday, August 16, 2018

RoME 2018 13: Desert

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The Sad and Untimely Death of Desert Stephen Kershnar Commentator: Spencer Case (University of Colorado, Boulder) Chair: George Sher (R...

RoME 2018 11: Ultimate Meaning

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Ultimate Meaning: We Don't Have It, We Can't Get It, and WE Should Be Very, Very Sad Rivka Weinberg Commentator: Chris Heathwood...
Wednesday, August 15, 2018

How Reasons Work

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The following are additional posts and comments that I have made on the Desirism facebook group. I am bringing up out of the depths of a c...
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

RoME 2018 08: Non-Identity Problem

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Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Session 08. Timothy Campbell ‘The Bullet-Biting Response to the Non-Identity Problem’ Commentator: Michael ...

Moral Realism

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Another post from the Desirism page on Facebook that I wanted to stash here for safe keeping. MORAL REALISM I claim that Desirism is a r...
Monday, August 13, 2018

RoME 2018 07: Moral Reasons

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Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Session 07: Anne Jeffrey How to Get Metaphysical About Moral Reasons Without Losing Your Mind Dependence” ...

RoME 2018 06: Praise

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Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Session 05: Nathan Stout “I Have To Praise You Like I Should” Commentator: T.M. Kwiatek (Cornell Universit...

Tolerance

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This is another post taken from the Desirism group site on Facebook [I]Tolerance. This is a sticky subject. Desirism is not a tolerant...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

RoME 2018 05: Good Reasons for Action

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Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Session 05: Keshav Singh “The Right “Right Reasons” Theory of Rationality” Abstract: According to an influ...

RoME 2018 03: Perfectionist Bads

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Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Session 03: Gwen Bradford “Perfectionist Bads?” Abstract: Pain, failure, and friendlessness, all make a li...
Friday, August 10, 2018

RoME 2018 02: Hedonism and Monism

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Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Session 02: Adam Shriver (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) “Is Hedonism a Version of Axiological M...

The Wrongness of Slavery

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I posted this on Facebook. I thought I would put a copy here for future reference: [I]From the dawn of civilization until about 150 years ...

RoME 2018 01: Resisting Oppression

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Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress Session 01: Tamara Fakhoury (UNC Chapel Hill) “Forbidden Projects and Harm Independent Grounds to Resist Op...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Bad Theories, Good People

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Having a bad moral theory does not make somebody a bad person. In other words, there are a lot of people who, in trying to understand mora...
Monday, August 06, 2018

Praise and Condemnation 06: Side Constraints

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In the pursuit of that which is good, there are certain things you are not supposed to do. The classic example discussed in the philosophi...

Praise and Condemnation 05: Negligence and Moral Indifference

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From the very first days of desirism, I have argued that one of the things that gives it a unique advantage is the way that it handles moral...

Praise and Condemnation 04: Side-Stepping Good and Ill Will

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I am I am trying to avoid filling this blog with content that will make a reader's eyes glaze over as they eagerly seek somewhere else t...