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Author: Richard Yetter Chappell

Preferring Side Constraints and the Paradox of Deontology

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onFebruary 27, 2020 / (8) Comments

Setiya argues that moral side-constraints (e.g. against killing as a means) are best understood as agent-neutral: “In general, when you should not cause harm to one in a way that will benefit others,  » …Read more

Ambiguously Normative Testimony

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onJune 5, 2019June 5, 2019 / (6) Comments

Suppose that a reliable Oracle tells us that there’s a non-natural property shared by most but not all of the things we antecedently believed to be bad (and that no other non-natural property more closely tracks our beliefs about badness).   » …Read more

CfA: The Ethics of Giving

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onDecember 4, 2016 / (0) Comments

Submission deadline: January 9, 2017

Conference date(s): May 23, 2017 – May 25, 2017  [Go to the conference’s page]

The conference will feature talks by Peter Singer,  » …Read more

Do we have Vague Projects?

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onAugust 11, 2016September 15, 2016 / (23) Comments

Tenenbaum and Raffman (2012) claim that “most of our projects and ends are vague.” (p.99)  But I’m not convinced that any plausibly are.    » …Read more

CFP: Climate Ethics and Climate Economics: Discounting the Future

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onNovember 9, 2015August 4, 2016 / (0) Comments

The first of six ESRC-funded workshops exploring issues where the ethics and economics of climate change intersect will be held at Oxford University’s Martin School on 13-14 January 2016.  » …Read more

Satisficing by Effort

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onDecember 1, 2011 / (18) Comments

[I'm never quite sure when it's appropriate to cross-post things from philosophyetc.net here, but Doug suggested that this post  » …Read more might be of broader interest,

Fitting Consequentialist Agents

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onJanuary 3, 2011 / (14) Comments

I’m interested in defending consequentialism against allegations that it represents an inherently perverse perspective, or that the consequentialist agent would have a morally bad character.  » …Read more

Analyzing Act, Rule, and Global Consequentialism

Richard Yetter Chappell / On Posted onDecember 16, 2009 / (19) Comments

As a first pass, we may think of Consequentialist moral theories as those that specify the right in terms of the good.  But these terms occlude some important structure that can be brought out by further analysis.   » …Read more

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