Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider the consent argument for antinatalism (the view that human reproduction is morally wrong) that we shouldn’t impose great risks on p...

Intuitively: It is permissible to deliberately have children. But there is a powerful Kantian antinatalist argument against (1). To deci...

It is hard to know that something is permissible, because an action is permissible provided that no moral consideration is decisive against ...

The usual way to argue that an action is permissible is to argue that the arguments against the action’s permissibility fail. But it would b...

Andrea Dworkin argued that sexual intercourse between a man and a woman is always wrong because it involves a violation of the woman's b...