Agency, Oughts and Economics
The other day while mentioning The Triumph of Practice over Theory in Ethics I’d discussed Sterba’s use of the “ought implies can” principle. I suggested that I think where problems occur in his attempts to reconcile Utilitarianism with Kantian approaches is over how “liberally” one should take that principle. One could say that so long [...]
Ethics and an Other Book
I forgot to mention in that last post an other book I’m reading. This one is a bit of an oddity for me as it’s in the field of ethics. Now I’m an ethics skeptic. Outside of a bit of Levinas the only real style of Ethics I like is Moore’s. However I just have [...]
World Inequality
We talk a lot about inequality however it seems to me that the way Americans talk about it is fairly distorted due to it being focused on inequities within America. Not that such inequality doesn’t matter. It does. But this graph I saw at Marginal Revolution ought give one pause.
Liberty vs. Equality
This fall has been even more ridiculous than my already insanely busy summer. So I’ve not been able to write much. However Bill Vallicella has up two posts that caught my attention. They are on Liberty vs. Equality. (Part 1 and Part 2) As regular readers know I’ve not done much in philosophical ethics – [...]
Being Ethical
There was a pretty interesting Bloggingheads TV this week featuring Joshua Knobe and one of my favorite bloggers Eric Schwitzgebel. Eric of course runs The Splintered Mind. The dialog between the two largely goes over what Eric has been posting on the past few years regarding whether reasoning about ethics makes one more ethical. Most [...]
On Ethics
Paul Ennis has up a good post on Heidegger and the Social. It’s really a kind of reflection on intellectual development. It got me thinking though about my own engagement with Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida and Ethics. Now regular readers know I have a somewhat disparaging view of philosophical ethics. Part of that is more [...]
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