Philosophy, et cetera

While new substantive posts go  on the substack , I plan to keep (cross-)posting annual review posts here, for ease of archiving. [Past annu...

I started this blog 18 years ago, as a second-year undergraduate philosophy major.  The first couple years were... very undergrad-y... but I...

Matthew Adelstein kindly invited me & Michael Huemer to hash out our disagreements about utilitarianism  over on his YouTube channel.  T...

At Daily Nous, there's a discussion of Tech Advice for a New Philosophy Grad Student .  There's some dispute about whether or not it...

Epiphenomenalism and Idealism are two of the most maligned views in philosophy of mind. So it's kind of funny that Helen defends both. ...

Those put-off by the putative counterexamples to Act Consequentialism  may consider Rule Consequentialism a more appealing alternative. Mich...

Evan Dawson-Baglien wrote to me with some interesting thoughts on the challenge of incorporating non-persons into (non-total views of) popul...

In ' Why I Am Not a Utilitarian ', Michael Huemer objects that "there are so many counter-examples, and the intuitions about th...

In ' Emergence and Incremental Impact ', I argued (contra Kingston and Sinnott-Armstrong ) that emergent properties do nothing to un...

In ' Against Longtermism ', Eric Schwitzgebel writes: "I accept much of Ord's practical advice. I object only to justifying...