I woke up this morning to discover that I’m a 3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Prize 2009 Finalist. The contest started […]

This story showed up on Tech Crunch about a week ago. I’m just now getting around to reading it. It’s […]

I just posted Helen’s introductory level talk “Saving the Greatest Number” over at the Young Philosophers site.

Joshua Knobe has run a series of experiments that suggest that our intuitions about whether or not an action was […]

UPDATE: I think Mike Almeida is right. The response I lay out won’t work. Suppose you have the option of […]

There are a few things I don’t quite understand about the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE). I think most of […]

Helen Frowe is giving two talks this week as part of our Young Philosophers Podcast Lecture Series.Her first talk is […]

I’ve been asked to present at a campus Earth Week event on open source software, the environment, and social justice. […]

My paper “Three Millian Ways to Resolve Open Questions” was just published today! Here’s the link to the online version. […]

Consider two trolley cases. In the first case, you can save your life, by flipping a switch. However, the blast […]