Atheist Ethicist

Classes start in 321 days. I have requested official transcripts, and now need to start working on verifying my in state status. Meanwhi...

321 days until my first class. This morning I listened to a discussion on Reason and Rhetoric: The Ethics of Public Discourse from the Lo...

There is a view that holds that moral statements are commands - statements like "close the window" or "go stand in the corner...

IT is time to return to my presentation on desirism. First, let's just remember where we left off. I wrote a summary piece on the fi...

322 days (a.k.a. 46 weeks) until I will be sitting in my first university class in 24 years. I have been on vacation. I hoped to do some w...

325 days until the start of class. I recently encountered a meme on Facebook that compared the Wikipedia entries for Black Pride, Gay Prid...

327 days until classes start. I have finished Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments , and I have begun Henry Sidgwick's Methods ...

I have been looking at this year's presidential election through the eyes of a moral philosopher, and have found it distressing. First...

Yesterday, as my wife and I walked to the grocery store, we walked over a footbridge that has a "fence" over it - probably to prev...

Class begins in 329 days. What can I accomplish in 329 days? I would actually like to write a couple of papers - papers that I can later...

In 331 days, I am sitting in my first class. I am quite anxious to get started. Attending a couple of lectures and being able to share so...

Can Desirism help a person to live a better life? In my last post I looked at some self-help philosophies and tried to express them in mo...

333 days until my first classes and, as promised, a blog post on self-help philosophy. A couple of posts ago , I distinguished between mor...

334 days until the start of class. I tried to get a posting on self-help philosophy in yesterday, but I failed to finish it. Not enough ...

The first day of class is now 335 days away. The final episodes of Philosophy Bites exposed me to a pair of interviews that brought up the...