April 10, 2017
Against Attacking Syria
Fernando supports the US attack on Syria, if tentatively. I’m (even) less sure. Like Fernando, I think that the moral questions involved are complex. Unfortunately, many commentators fall back on…
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April 06, 2017
No, John Finnis, plagiarism is NOT “proper and accepted”.
There’s been some discussion here, here, and elsewhere over Neil Gorsuch’s plagiarism of Abigail Lawlis Kuzma’s 1984 article “The Legislative Response to Infant Doe” from *The Indiana Law Journal* in…
April 03, 2017
Moral Philosophy Needs a Moral License to Offend
Peter Singer and Jeff McMahan, two of the most prominent moral theorists alive, published a column at the New York Times about the Anna Stubblefield sexual assault case. Among other things, they question…
March 13, 2017
The Future of Work, Technology, and a Basic Income Conference, April 7th-8th
Bowling Green State University’s philosophy department is hosting a conference entitled, “The Future of Work, Technology, and a Basic Income” on April 7th and 8th. You can find a flyer…
January 18, 2017
Are You a Grandstander?
Philosophers Brandon Warmke and Justin Tosi have recently published some important new research on the social phenomenon known as grandstanding. You grandstand when you contribute to public discourse in order to convince others that you are…
January 13, 2017
Intervention and Revolution
I’ve been writing lately about war. Bas van der Vossen and I have a volume upcoming at Oxford University Press entitled Debating Humanitarian Intervention. Today I published a post over at…