Robert Talisse, a political philosopher at Vanderbilt, recently launched New Books in Philosophy, which interviews philosophers about their recently published books. I was interviewed in the summer about The Ethics…
Even if we grant for the sake of argument that some people deserve to die, it does not follow that the state may be authorized to kill them. For a…
In various places I have argued that a person can exercise civic virtue without any engagement in politics whatsoever. The duties of citizenship and the goal of promoting the common…
Interesting article in the NY Times about the so-called “argumentative theory of reasoning.” The claim, in a nutshell, seems to be that reason developed evolutionarily in order to allow us…
It is a truism among medical ethicists that patients or research subjects must do more than merely say “I consent” in order to morally authorize treatment. Genuine consent must be…
I agree with Matt that describing Obamacare as slavery is a bad analogy. However, I think it is important to insist on using the term “slavery” when it properly applies…