ethical theory

Adversarial Ethics

When autonomy and beneficence conflict

Jul 25 •

Richard Y Chappell

Beyond Right and Wrong

An outline of my next book

Jul 24 •

Richard Y Chappell

Stakes Can be High

Moral norms can't rely on low stakes

Jul 15 •

Richard Y Chappell

What Permissibility Could Be

Justifications vs excuses for letting children die

Jun 19 •

Richard Y Chappell

The Value of an Action

And how the baseline may depend upon fitting attitudes

Jun 10 •

Richard Y Chappell

Non-Fungible Hedonism

A subtle improvement, as far as it goes?

May 25 •

Richard Y Chappell

Beneficentric Virtue Ethics

On the good intentions behind utilitarianism and effective altruism

May 16 •

Richard Y Chappell

How Intention Matters

Why you might care about quality of will

May 11 •

Richard Y Chappell

Naïve Instrumentalism vs Principled Proceduralism

Not your standard consequentialism-deontology distinction

Apr 30 •

Richard Y Chappell

Risk Aversion as a Humility Heuristic

Considering higher-order uncertainty

Mar 29 •

Richard Y Chappell

The Utilitarian Tradition is Conceptually Stunted

There are normative concepts besides goodness

Mar 12 •

Richard Y Chappell

The Dangers of a Little Knowledge

Paired Mistakes in Protective Equilibria

Jan 1 •

Richard Y Chappell

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