Alexander Pruss's Blog

A moral relativist has a fundamental choice whether to define moral concepts in terms of moral beliefs or non-doxastic moral attitudes such ...

Many, but not all, theorists think that racially based discrimination only counts as racism, and its perpetrators as racists, when the discr...

Bob is deciding whom to hire for a job where race is clearly irrelevant to job performance. There are two clear front-runners. Bob hires the...

Consider forty rational people each individually keeping track of the ethnicities and virtue/vice of the people they interact with and hear ...

Consider: Case 1: A child is drowning in a dirty pond. You can easily pull out the child. But you’ve got cuts all over your dominant arm an...

Consider three cases of inappropriate pains: The deep sorrow of a morally culpable racist at social progress in racial integration. Someone...

From How I Found Livingstone , by Sir Henry M. Stanley : We drew our canoe ashore here, and, on a limited area of clean sand, Fer...