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May 23, 2025ethics

Alasdair MacIntyre (1929 – 2025)

The wonderful Dorothy Emmet was Alastair MacIntyre’s advisor. Obituary here. alastair macintyreCatholicismDorothy EmmetethicsPolitical philosophy

March 17, 2013ethics

The Moral Philosophy of T.H. Green

It’s been some 25 years since my chum Geoff Thomas’ book was published. It holds the unusual distinction of being one of the very few Phds to be recommended to the OUP committee to publish as a book and it stands the test of time. The recommendation came from none other than Tony Quinton. Examining Thomas…

July 15, 2012bernard williams, Christine Korsgaard, derek parfit, ethics, kant, moral philosophy

Treating people as ends in themselves

Christine Korsgaard interview. John Rawls

June 6, 2012artificial intelligence, ethics, moral philosophy, robotics, robots

Welcome to the machine

Lead article from the latest Economist. Cognitive scienceDriverless carInternational Committee for Robot Arms ControlIsaac AsimovThree Laws of Robotics

June 4, 2012adam smith, empathy, ethics, freedom, hayek, liberalism, libertarianism, liberty, moral philosophy, moral psychology, philosophy of economics, philosophy of social science, political philosophy, spontaneous orders

Morals and markets

Sandel plugging his latest. The journalist’s quote below has much resonance to me. Even to a toddler’s mind, the logic of the transaction was evidently clear – if he had to be bribed, then the potty couldn’t be a good idea – and within a week he had grown so suspicious and upset that we…

June 4, 2012Andrew Sneddon, Embedded, enaction, enactivism, ethics, extended mind, externalism, hume, kant, moral philosophy, moral psychology

Like-Minded: Externalism and Moral Psychology

A recent book in the EM genre. CognitionCognitive neuroscienceCognitive scienceExtended MindMoral psychologyMoral responsibilitymoralityphilosophical psychologyPhilosophy of mindPsychologySocial Sciences

April 6, 2012a priori, Daisy Radevsky, ethics

Gilbert Harman Interview

Gilbert Harman on Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Ethics. CognitionEpistemologygilbert harmanPhilosophy of LanguagePhilosophy of mindstatistical learning theory

October 19, 2011ethics, hayek, liberalism, libertarianism, liberty, moral philosophy, political philosophy, thomas scanlon

Scanlon on Libertarianism and Liberty

Thomas Scanlon in the Boston Review on “How Not to Argue for Limited Government and Lower Taxes“

April 17, 2011david livingstone smith, essentialism, ethics, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, less than human, neurophilosophy, neuroscience

Less Than Human

My chum David Livingstone Smith’s latest book is getting some good coverage. The latest review of Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others can be found in Scientific American.

April 9, 2011Christian Onof, ethics, kant

Moral Worth and Inclinations in Kantian Ethics

Check out my chum and occasional collaborator Chris Onof’s paper Moral Worth and Inclinations in Kantian Ethics just published at Kant Studies Online. There are few philosophers around today that write with such exacting precision, such intimacy with their topic and with such philosophical breadth that Chris Onof does.