Is it inappropriate for me to link to this?  It’s on a public website, but perhaps it’s supposed to be private.  Anyway, it’s a video from the newest PEA Souper‘s website.  The audio is sort of surreal.

[This post may change significantly over time.] Define "ODS Consequentialism" as follows: ODS Consequentialism: One ought always act in such a way as to maximize value.  Only satisfaction of desire has value — and the stronger a desire, the more value is produced by its satisfaction. I have previously argued that something like ODS consequentialism…

Jacqueline recently summarized her moral views as follows: (J1) Knowingly harming someone or their property through force or fraud is immoral.  Aiding in this harm is immoral.  The exception to this is necessary force for self defense. (J2) Harming someone accidentally (without knowledge that your actions would cause harm), allowing someone to come to harm…

The Philosophers’ Carnival yesterday generated something like 500 visits.  The vast majority of these arrived via Leiter’s blog.  It was fun to write the Carnival; I read a lot of posts I probably wouldn’t have read otherwise.  Thanks to Richard for having me host it, and thanks to everyone else for reading.

I initially considered using Borges’s famous taxonomy of animals to classify the posts in this Carnival.  I decided against this for three reasons: (1) Some people might be offended by having their posts classified as "belonging to the emperor"; (2) nearly all of these posts "look from a long way off like flies";  and (3)…

Here are four claims: (1) Any outcome of any action is either more valuable than, less valuable than, or equally as valuable as any other outcome of any other action.(2) When choosing among possible actions, one ought to do that action whose outcome has the greatest value.(3) When choosing among possible actions, it is one’s…

My apologies for the lack of posts.  I’ve been a little busier than normal recently.  Regular posting will resume shortly.

The next Philosophers’ Carnival will be up on the 28th, hosted here at E.G.  If you’d like to submit a post, you can do so here.

In this post, I won’t really answer any of the insightful objections that have been raised against my "Stolen Photo" argument.  I’m writing this post in order to improve my own understanding of what is at stake in the problem or pseudo-problem of "Stolen Photo."  I hope none of those who have offered objections to…

Fake badgers are now officially below the median.  I’m afraid this is my fault, at least in part.