Atheist Ethicist

I have survived the first week of class. I have nothing of substance to report in the Environmental Philosophy class yet, since we devote...

In my readings for my environmental philosophy class, I have been reading Thinking Like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy After the End of Na...

Today is the first day of my new life, as it is the day of my first official event as a graduate student - grad student orientation. It is...

I try to avoid being a part of the echo chamber. If those likely to read what I write already agree, then I see no reason to write it. And t...

In 22 days, I will be in class. One of those classes, I strongly believe, will begin with an evaluation of Henry Sidgwick's Methods of...

One of the things I do for entertainment is listen to the New Books in Philosophy podcast. The most recent episode interviews Alejandra ...

This is the month in which I return to graduate school. My first departmental meeting is in 24 days, and my first class is in 27 days. Ove...

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...