Some Questions About Moral Paradoxes 1
What is a moral paradox? First let’s see what a paradox is. Broadly speaking, there are two opinions. One is lax; it is common among non-philosophers, but occasionally comes up in philosophy as well....
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How can we tell moral paradoxes from non-paradoxes? In my previous post I proposed that we follow a fairly clear understanding of what a paradox is. A paradox needs to have premises we agree with,...
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Where do moral paradoxes come from? In the first post we asked what is a paradox, and in the second how to distinguish moral paradoxes from non-paradoxes (such as curiosities or puzzles). But where do...
View ArticlePrepunishment in the Garden
There is an excellent discussion on prepunishment going on in the Garden of Forking Paths blog. Normally I wouldn’t refer to discussions there as free will is a distinct topic, but this discussion is...
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What should we do about moral paradoxes? By now we should have a reasonably good idea of what a moral paradox is, of how a moral paradox differs from other things that might seem like it but are not,...
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What can we learn from moral paradoxes? While each of the questions of my four previous posts in this series could be answered fairly decisively, this question is naturally more open. So I will be able...
View ArticleWhy do ethicists write such long papers?
I’ve been looking through the recent issue of Analysis. It has 13 papers, of which one is on meta-ethics, and there’s nothing in either normative or applied ethics. This is a fairly typical showing....
View ArticleShould we all be sorry that we exist?
Things have been philosophically very quite over here, so I thought that some of you might like to ponder the question whether you should be sorry that you exist. Some background explanation: Jean...
View ArticlePhilosophy in funny places
An invited piece of mine on philosophy in Israel, “Letter from Israel“, has just come out in The Philosopher’s Magazine (TPM); naturally it has an ethical dimension and some of you might find it...
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