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Deontic Ambiguity

The Best of All Possible Multiverses

Axiology, Deontics, and the Telic Question

3 Travel Tips for Families

Why I give🔸10%

Remedying Ideological Capture

Refusing to Quantify is Refusing to Think

Public Lecture in Richmond, VA (Nov 14)

QB: Effective Altruism and Meaning in Life

Nagel on Cultural Liberalism

Theses on Mattering

How I'd like Democrats to Change

QB: Business and Beneficence

Two-level Deontology?

QB: Can Philanthropy Be Undemocratic?

Deontology and Preferability

QB: How Much do Future Generations Matter?

The Anti-Advisory Paradox

QB: Is Self-Sacrifice Especially Virtuous?

When are political donations worth it?

Seeking Ripple Effects

QB: How Important is Beneficence?

Tracking Philosophical Impact

Questioning Beneficence: Excerpts

Good Judgment with Numbers

Utilitarianism.net Updates

Philosophers should blog!

It's OK to Read Anyone

The Singer/Crary EA Debate

Genetic Reproductive Freedom

Explicit Ethics

Suggested Readings

Slater's Objections to Satisficing

Kolber's Punishment for the Greater Good

Chat With Richard Chappell

Adversarial Ethics

Beyond Right and Wrong

Worker Protections against Cancel Mobs

Stakes Can be High

Imperfection is OK!

What Permissibility Could Be

The Value of an Action

Woke Axiology

Blog updates

Astronomical Cake

Against Tautological Motivations

Non-Fungible Hedonism

Types of Replaceability

Reflections on Peter Singer

Beneficentric Virtue Ethics

How Intention Matters

Naïve Instrumentalism vs Principled Proceduralism

What am I most wrong about?

Utopian Enemies of the Better

Discussion Notes

Three Recent Papers I Liked

Anti-Philanthropic Misdirection

What "Effective Altruism" Means to Me

Moral Misdirection

Risk Aversion as a Humility Heuristic

Hypothetical Imperatives and Normativity

Contestable vs Question-Begging Arguments

Voting Systems for Academic Departments

An extract from my latest book: The Buddhist and The Ethicist

The Utilitarian Tradition is Conceptually Stunted

The Profoundest Error in Population Ethics

Philosophy's Digital Future

Harman, Harm, and the Non-Identity Problem

Recent Media Appearances

The Dangers of a Little Knowledge