I’ve been thinking about Mark Miller’s paintings (discussed in the previous post).  I think I might have been a little unfair to Miller in that post.  However, I think a case like that of Miller’s paintings can be constructed for the purpose of mounting an objection against consequentialism.  Here’s the kind of case I have…

[For Weatherson readers: You may also be interested in my follow-up post here, which is the one at which Richard’s objection is aimed.  And by the way, while you’re here: If one of you happens to provide a way to solve this problem, I will be much obliged.] Via CSOTD, I came across the website…

I came across this site maybe a year ago, when it was circulating around the internet.  It disappeared; I think it was an Angelfire page and was overloaded by the number of visitors.  But it’s back now.  Also, it seems that the same person has two other sites: The Serpent’s Wall and Stolen Election.

I don’t know the answer to this question.  I suspect the answer is no, but I hope the answer is yes. If a condition is "luminous," then if one is in that condition, one is in a position to know one is in that condition.  For instance: If "feeling cold" is a luminous condition, then…

[See also Richard’s response to this post at Philosophy, et cetera, Jonathan’s original post on this topic at Fake Barn Country, and my previous post on this topic.] The following post is deeply flawed.  Comments and criticisms are welcome. Some kinds of fictions (such as novels) come in the form of sentences, which (normally) represent…

This post on Lewis’s analysis of truth in fiction, by Jonathan at Fake Barn Country, is interesting.  I think it’s possible, though, that both Lewis and Jonathan might be doing more work than they need to do.  There is a straightforward analysis of truth in fiction.  On this analysis, when we say that a proposition…

R.M. Hare says that the "universalizability principle" requires of us that, when making moral judgments, we accept only those moral prescriptions which we are prepared to prescribe for all similar cases, no matter what position we ourselves occupy in them. This is a version of Kant’s Categorical Imperative, similar to one kind of utilitarianism; for…

Enwe says that today’s CP post on why many conservatives vote Republican is "too conservative," so she’s decided not to link to it. The post is definitely flawed.  For one thing, it includes this claim: The dilution of the institutional protection of marriage through marriage-like civil unions for unmarried couples is exactly the wrong step…

A group of undergraduate students is conducting an online survey of bloggers about blogging and ethics (i.e., the ethics of blogging — not blogging about ethics).  The survey is here. 

In this post, Don Herzog attacks the view he calls "Strict Construction."  Strict Construction is a view about the proper role of judges.  It says that judges ought to apply "the language of the Constitution to what it straightforwardly refers to," rather than use it as a "springboard to make stuff up."  Herzog’s view seems…