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Pleasure and Hedonism
Ethical hedonism is the view that the only intrinsic, fundamental good is pleasure, and the only intrinsic, fundamental evil is its contrary (which…
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Contra Bentham’s Bulldog on Conscious AI
Matthew Adelstein (‘Bentham’s Bulldog’) has recently defended the claim that AI can be conscious.
Dec 14, 2025
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Consequentialism Does Not Conflict With Intuitions About Rights
A common objection to utilitarianism (and act consequentialism more broadly) is that it conflicts with some of our moral intuitions.
Dec 5, 2025
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Rule of Law, Not Democracy
The actions of political leaders and governments are often criticized as anti-democratic.
Nov 5, 2025
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Against Arguments from Miracles
Some theists and religious apologists use accounts of miracles as evidence for the existence of God or a specific religion.
Oct 10, 2025
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Against Anarchism
Political anarchists argue that we should abolish the state.
Sep 12, 2025
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Metaethics Matters
Metaethics is the study of the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics (and the semantics of moral discourse).
May 26, 2025
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Moral Platonism
Moral non-naturalism is the view that there are stance-independent moral facts that are not reducible to non-moral facts.
May 15, 2025
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