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I think it’s wrong for us to kill innocent people. Some fellow deontologists, however, think this prohibition should be restricted to say th...

Suppose that we have n objects α 1 , ...,  α n , and we want to define something like numerical values (at least hyperreal ones, if we can’...

Van Inwagen infamously suggested the possibility that at the moment of death God snatches a core chunk of our brain, transports it to a diff...

On the mere difference view of disability, one isn’t worse off for being disabled as such , though one is worse off due to ableist arrangeme...

In two recent posts ( this and this ) I argued that dignity does not arise from value. I think the general point here goes beyond value. S...

It is widely held that if you do wrong in culpable ignorance (ignorance that you are blameworthy for), you are culpable for the wrong you do...

I’ve been thinking a bit about the relationship between dignity and value. Here are four plausible principles: If x has dignity, then x ...

On desire-fulfillment (DF) theories of wellbeing, cases of fulfilled desire are an increment to utility. What about cases of unfulfilled des...

If it can be reasonable for a typical innocent human being to save lions from extinction at the expense of the human’s own life, then the l...

Years ago, I read a clever argument against physician assisted suicide that held that medical procedures need informed consent, and informed...

I’ve been thinking how best to define computationalism about the mind, while remaining fairly agnostic about how the brain computes. Here is...

If physician assisted suicide is permissible, then it would have been permissible for early Christians facing being tortured to death by th...

It is tempting to think that legitimate and illegitimate authorities are both types of a single thing. One might not want to call that singl...

Suppose that you very quickly crush the head of a very long stretched-out serpent. Specifically, suppose your crushing takes less time than ...

Some philosophers think that notwithstanding Special Relativity, there is a True Absolute Reference Frame. Suppose this is so. This referenc...