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2024 10

  1. Why Values are Always Apt for Technological Disruption
  2. Are Seatbelt Mandates Unduly Paternalistic?
  3. Generative AI and the Future of Equality Norms
  4. The Ethics of Personalised Digital Duplicates: A Minimally Viable Permissibility Principle
  5. Mind the Anticipatory Gap: Genome Editing, Value Change and Governance
  6. The Structure of Academic Writing: Lessons from John McPhee
  7. Automation, Utopia and Everything In Between
  8. Do Counterfeit Digital People Threaten the Cognitive Elite?
  9. Technology and the Dematerialisation of Sex
  10. What is Equality of Opportunity? A Framework for Analysis

2023 29

  1. Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed
  2. TITE 10 - Bonus Episode: Audience Q and A
  3. TITE 9 - Human-Technology Futures
  4. TITE 8 - Machines as Colleagues, Friends and Lovers
  5. TITE 7 - Can Machines be Moral Patients?
  6. TITE 6 - Moral Agency in Machines
  7. TITE 5 - Technology and Responsibility Gaps
  8. TITE 4 - Behaviour Change and Control
  9. TITE 3 - Value Alignment and the Control Problem
  10. TITE 2: The Methods of Technology Ethics
  11. New Podcast Series - 'This is Technology Ethics'
  12. The Ethics of Academia (Podcast Series)
  13. 110 - Can we pause AI Development? Evidence from the history of technological restraint
  14. Mechanisms of Techno-Moral Change: A Taxonomy and Overview
  15. 109 - How Can We Align Language Models like GPT with Human Values?
  16. Oxford Philosophy Mid-20th Century: A Five Book Review
  17. Generative AI Entails a Credit-Blame Asymmetry
  18. Artificial General Intelligence and the Problem of Cognitive Inflation
  19. 108 - Miles Brundage (Head of Policy Research at Open AI) on the speed of AI development and the risks and opportunities of GPT
  20. 107 - Will Large Language Models disrupt healthcare?
  21. The GPT Podcast Sequence: What should we think about LLMs?
  22. 106 - Why GPT and other LLMs (probably) aren't sentient
  23. 105 - GPT: Higher Education's Jurassic Park Moment?
  24. Moral Uncertainty and Our Relationships with Unknown Minds
  25. 104 - What will be the economic impact of GPT?
  26. Should harmful speech be restricted? More on Mill and Free Speech
  27. 103 - GPT: How worried should we be?
  28. Mill's Harm Principle: What is Harm and Does it Matter?
  29. Uncoupling Cost and Benefit: How Technology Transforms Morality

2022 36

  1. 102 - Fictional Dualism and Social Robots
  2. Debating Meritocracy: Arguments For and Against
  3. 101 - Pistols, Pills, Pork and Ploughs: How Technology Changes Morality
  4. Did the Resurrection Happen? A Sceptical Perspective
  5. Hume on Miracles (Series Index)
  6. 100 - The Past and Future of Transhumanism
  7. 99 - Trusting Untrustworthy Machines and Other Psychological Quirks
  8. The Normative Significance of Future Moral Revolutions (New Paper)
  9. Aquinas's Second Way: An Analysis
  10. Ethics of Academia (12) - Olle Häggström
  11. Ethics of Academia (11) - Jessica Flanigan
  12. Ethics of Academia (10) - Jesse Stommel
  13. Why do academic publications lack rigour? Taylor on the problem of woozles
  14. Technology and Moral Change: the Transformation of Truth and Trust
  15. Ethics of Academia (9) - Jason Brennan
  16. The Nature of Moral Progress: Definitions, Types and Measures
  17. Ethics of Academia (8) - Zena Hitz
  18. Ethics of Academia (7) - Aaron Rabinowitz
  19. Ethics of Academia (6) - Helen de Cruz
  20. Ethics of Academia (5) - Brian Earp
  21. The Argument from the Debasement of Ideal Value: The Case of Sex Work
  22. Ethics of Academia (4) - Justin Weinberg
  23. Ethics of Academia (3) - Regina Rini
  24. "We and the Robots" - Conversation with Anthony Morgan
  25. Ethics of Academia (2) with Michael Cholbi
  26. The Ethics of Academia Podcast (Episode 1 with Sven Nyholm)
  27. 98 - The Psychology of Human-Robot Interactions
  28. Techno-Optimism: An Analysis, An Evaluation and A Modest Defence
  29. Darwin's Logical Argument for Natural Selection
  30. Criticisms and Developments of Ethical Behaviourism
  31. How Can Algorithms Be Biased?
  32. 97 - The Perils of Predictive Policing (& Automated Decision-Making)
  33. AI and the Future of the Work Ethic
  34. Tragic Choices and the Virtue of Techno-Responsibility Gaps (New Paper)
  35. What is (institutional) racism?
  36. Understanding Legal Argument (2): Proving Facts in Law

2021 36

  1. 96 - How Does Technology Mediate Our Morals?
  2. The Academic Parent's Dilemma: Should I spend less time doing research?
  3. What Should we do with the Art of Moral Monsters?
  4. 95 - The Psychology of the Moral Circle
  5. Axiological Futurism and Moral Revolutions (Index)
  6. 94 - Robot Friendship and Hatred
  7. Ethical Behaviourism and the Moral Risks of Human-Robot Relationships
  8. 93 - Will machines impede moral progress?
  9. 92 - The Ethics of Virtual Worlds
  10. 91 - Rights for Robots, Animals and Nature?
  11. The Shape of Techno-Moral Revolutions: Lessons from Carlota Perez
  12. Axiological Futurism: The Systematic Study of the Future of Values
  13. Interviews about Automation and Utopia
  14. The Technological Future of Love
  15. The Trouble with Teaching: Is Teaching a Meaningful Job?
  16. Flipping the Script: When do technologies disrupt morality?
  17. What Matters for Moral Status: Behavioural or Cognitive Equivalence?
  18. Failure: A Philosophical Analysis
  19. Virtual Reality and the Meaning of Life
  20. 90 - The Future of Identity
  21. Has Technology Changed the Moral Rules Regarding Sex and Marriage?
  22. The Self as Narrative: Is it good to tell stories about ourselves?
  23. From Mind-as-Computer to Robot-as-Human: Can metaphors change morality?
  24. Technology and the Value of Trust: Can we trust technology? Should we?
  25. 89 - Is Morality All About Cooperation?
  26. The Importance of Collective Intelligence in a Sustainable Future
  27. The Ethics of Teacher-Student Relationships
  28. Understanding Legal Argument (1): The Five Types of Argument
  29. 88 - The Ethics of Social Credit Systems
  30. The Technological Mediation of Morality: Explained
  31. Does Parenting Style Shape Our Moral Culture?
  32. A Taxonomy of Possible Moral Changes
  33. The Moral Problem and Nozick's Theory of Value
  34. The Argument from Religious Experience: An Analysis
  35. What must parents do for their children? A Critique of Outcome-Oriented Parenting
  36. The Parent-Child Relationship: Can it justify becoming a parent?

2020 49

  1. 87 - AI and the Value Alignment Problem
  2. 86 - Are Video Games Immoral?
  3. Should I Become an Academic? Academia and the Ethics of Career Choice
  4. Automation, Work and the Achievement Gap
  5. Wedding Cakes and Discrimination: An Analysis
  6. Deepfakes and Sexual Fantasies: Are they both impermissible?
  7. Technology and the End of Reality: Is the infocalypse imminent?
  8. 85 - The Internet and the Tyranny of Perceived Opinion
  9. 84 - Social Media, COVID-19 and Value Change
  10. 83 - Privacy is Power
  11. Artificial Intelligence and Legal Disruption: A New Model for Analysis
  12. In Defence of the Hivemind Society (New Paper)
  13. 82 - What should we do about facial recognition technology?
  14. 81 - Consumer Credit, Big Tech and AI Crime
  15. 80 - Bias, Algorithms and Criminal Justice
  16. 79 - Is There A Techno-Responsibility Gap?
  17. Is Morality All About Cooperation?
  18. 78 - Humans and Robots: Ethics, Agency and Anthropomorphism
  19. The Mechanics of Moral Change
  20. 77 - Should AI be Explainable?
  21. The Duty to Rescue (Sample Class)
  22. Technological Change and Human Obsolescence: An Axiological Analysis
  23. Robots, AI and the Moral Culture of Patiency
  24. Mindscape Podcast Interview on Automation and Utopia
  25. Will COVID-19 Spark a Moral Revolution? Eight Possibilities
  26. 76 - Surveillance, Privacy and COVID-19
  27. The Future of Humanity: Automation and Utopia
  28. 75 - The Vital Ethical Contexts of Coronavirus
  29. The Epistemic Puzzle of Rashomon
  30. Pandemics and Collective Grief
  31. 74 - How to Understand COVID 19
  32. Can We Morally Judge the Past? On Williams's Relativism of Distance
  33. 73 - The Ethics of Healthcare Prioritisation during COVID 19
  34. 72 - Grief in the Time of a Pandemic
  35. FUTURES Podcast - Cyborg or Virtual Utopia?
  36. 71 - COVID 19 and the Ethics of Infectious Disease Control
  37. 70 - Ethics in the time of Corona
  38. COVID-19 and the Impossibility of Morality
  39. A Defence of Sexual Inclusion (Preprint)
  40. The Moral Problem of Grading: An Extended Analysis
  41. 69 - Wood on Sustainable Superabundance
  42. 68- Earp on the Ethics of Love Drugs
  43. How Should we Regulate Child Sex Robots: Restriction or Experimentation?
  44. London Futurists Talk
  45. Freedom in an Age of Algocracy
  46. Two Recent Podcasts about Automation and Utopia
  47. Is Everything Too Politicised? Some Thoughts on Talisse's Overdoing Democracy
  48. Moral Revolution, Moral Reform and Moral Drift
  49. New Books in Philosophy Podcast - Automation and Utopia

2019 78

  1. Academic Publications 2019
  2. Some recent media and podcasts
  3. 67 - Rini on Deepfakes and the Epistemic Backstop
  4. What causes moral change? Some reflections on Appiah's Honour Code
  5. Ten Years of Philosophical Disquisitions
  6. 66 - Wong on Confucianism, Robots and Moral Deskilling
  7. Will we ever have fully autonomous vehicles? Some reasons for pessimism
  8. Anticipating Automation and Utopia
  9. 65 - Vold on How We Can Extend Our Minds With AI
  10. The Case Against Righteous Anger
  11. The Future of Automation? Video Interview about Automation and Utopia
  12. Mass Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence and New Legal Challenges
  13. Embrace the Void Podcast Interview
  14. Some Recent Critiques of My Work
  15. Futureproof Extra: Automation and Utopia
  16. Robot Betrayal: A Guide to the Ethics of Robotic Deception
  17. Recent Promotion for Automation and Utopia
  18. Escaping Skinner's Box: AI and the New Era of Techno-Superstition
  19. Assessing the Moral Status of Robots: A Shorter Defence of Ethical Behaviourism
  20. Automation and Utopia is Now Available!
  21. Should we create artificial moral agents? A Critical Analysis
  22. #64 - Munthe on the Precautionary Principle and Existential Risk
  23. Are robots like animals? In Defence of the Animal-Robot Analogy
  24. Is there a liberal case for no-platforming?
  25. Does Technology Induce Nihilism?
  26. Making Sense: The Art of Philosophical Living (Index)
  27. #63 - Reagle on the Ethics of Life Hacking
  28. Understanding Praiseworthiness: Does more effort equal more praise?
  29. Intoxicated Consent and Intoxicated Responsibility: Is there a paradox?
  30. A Moral Duty to Share Data? AI and the Data Free Rider Problem
  31. Self Sacrifice Devices and Self Driving Cars: Should we do it?
  32. The Types and Harms of Victim-Blaming
  33. The Robotic Disruption of Morality
  34. Eternal Recurrence and Nihilism: How Can We Add Weight to Our Decisions?
  35. Nietzschean Nihilism and the Highest Values
  36. Automation, Space and Utopia: Making the Utopian Case for Space
  37. #62 - Häggström on AI Motivations and Risk Denialism
  38. Welcoming Robots into the Moral Circle: A Defence of Ethical Behaviourism
  39. Giving Talks: Thirteen Tips from a Conference Nihilist
  40. #61 - Yampolskiy on Machine Consciousness and AI Welfare
  41. Human Nature and Human Enhancement: Some Quick Thoughts
  42. The Ethics of Algorithmic Outsourcing in Everyday Life (New Preprint)
  43. Epicureanism and the Problem of Premature Death (Audio Essay)
  44. The Problem of Self-Esteem: Comparison and Competition
  45. Discrimination and Fairness in the Design of Robots
  46. #60 - Véliz on How to Improve Online Speech with Pseudonymity
  47. Old Age and Decline: Some Philosophical Reflections
  48. AI and Sexuality (New Paper)
  49. #59 - Torres on Existential Risk, Omnicidal Agents and Superintelligence
  50. Possible Worlds and Possible Lives: A Meditation on the Art of Living
  51. Who Should Explore Space: Robots or Humans?
  52. #58 - Neely on Augmented Reality, Ethics and Property Rights
  53. Understanding Hume on Miracles (Audio Essay)
  54. The Ethics of Designing People: The Habermasian Critique
  55. The Argument for Medical Nihilism
  56. #57 - Sorgner on Nietzschean Transhumanism
  57. Does Consciousness Matter from an Ethical Perspective?
  58. #56 - Turner on Rules for Robots
  59. Are we in the midst of an ongoing moral catastrophe?
  60. The Optimist's Guide to Schopenhauer's Pessimism (Audio Essay)
  61. Is there such a thing as moral progress?
  62. #55 - Baum on the Long-Term Future of Human Civilisation
  63. The Moral Problem of Accelerating Change (Audio Essay)
  64. LOVE: ROBOTS Video (Medicine Unboxed 2018)
  65. The Ambitious Academic: A Moral Evaluation
  66. Episode #54 - Sebo on the Moral Problem of Other Minds
  67. Episode #53 - Christin on How Algorithms Actually Impact Workers
  68. Fading Away: Does the shape of life matter?
  69. Once in a Lifetime: Should you plan your life?
  70. The Philosophical Case for Robot Friendship
  71. The Collapse of Complex Societies: A Primer on Tainter's Theory
  72. Episode #52 - Devlin on Sex Robots and Moral Panics
  73. New Paper - On the Wisdom of Algorithmic Markets: Governance by Algorithmic Price
  74. New Paper - Regulating Child Sex Robots: Restriction or Experimentation?
  75. Why You Should Love/Hate Moralists
  76. Episode #51 - Moen on the Unabomber's Ethics
  77. The Politics of Sexual Exclusion: Notes on Srinivasan's 'Does Anyone Have a Right to Sex?'
  78. The Wisdom of Regret and the Fallacy of Regret Minimisation

2018 76

  1. Academic Publications 2018
  2. The Top Twelve Blog Posts of 2018
  3. Measuring What Matters: On the Tyranny of Academic Metrics
  4. Episode #50 - Loi on Facebook, Justice and Data as the New Oil
  5. Hume, Miracles and the Many Witnesses Objection
  6. Algorithmic Governance in Transport: Some Thoughts
  7. Fifteen Books I Enjoyed in 2018
  8. The Frenetic Standstill: On Technological Change and Institutional Inertia
  9. Episode #49 - Maas on AI and the Future of International Law
  10. Does Life Have Meaning if the Self Does not Exist?
  11. Mill's Argument for Free Speech: A Guide
  12. Am I a Hypocrite? A Philosophical Self-Assessment
  13. Morality and the Separateness of Persons: Some Radical Possibilities
  14. Nine Philosophical Lessons about Life and Death
  15. Episode #48 - Gunkel on Robot Rights
  16. What do I believe? A thematic summary of my academic publications
  17. Episode #47 - Eubanks on Automating Inequality
  18. Robots and the Expanding Moral Circle
  19. The Automation of Policing: Challenges and Opportunities
  20. Episode #46 - Minerva on the Ethics of Cryonics
  21. The Philosophy of Space Exploration (Index)
  22. Artificial Intelligence and the Constitutions of the Future
  23. Episode #45 - Vallor on Virtue Ethics and Technology
  24. The Institutional Critique of Effective Altruism (1): What is it?
  25. The Robot Rights Debate (Index)
  26. The Optimist's Guide to Schopenhauer's Pessimism
  27. The Case for Irrational Optimism: A Pessimistic Perspective
  28. This Week in Law #432 - Freeing Frigid Farrah
  29. Is the criticism of cultural appropriation self-defeating? Thoughts on the paradox of cultural appropriation
  30. Episode #44 - Fleischman on Evolutionary Psychology and Sex Robots
  31. Does Identity Politics Foster Intolerance and Irrationalism?
  32. Thomas Hobbes in Space: The Problem of Intergalactic War
  33. Robot Sex Paperback Edition and Some Blog Updates
  34. Episode #43 - Elder on Friendship, Robots and Social Media
  35. Episode #42 - Earp on Psychedelics and Moral Enhancement
  36. Episode #41 - Binns on Fairness in Algorithmic Decision-Making
  37. Tranhumanism as Utopianism: A Critical Analysis
  38. Building Better Sex Robots: Lessons from Feminist Pornography
  39. Towards an Ethics of AI Assistants: An Initial Framework
  40. Episode #40: Nyholm on Accident Algorithms and the Ethics of Self-Driving Cars
  41. Radical Algorithmic Domination: How algorithms exploit and manipulate
  42. Algorithmic Micro-Domination: Living with Algocracy
  43. Legal Loopholes and Voting Paradoxes: A Theory
  44. Episode #39 - Re-engineering Humanity with Frischmann and Selinger
  45. Recent Media on the Ethics of Sex Tech
  46. Why You Should Hate Your Job and The Case Against Work
  47. Is it Too Soon? The Ethics of Recovery from Grief
  48. Coping with Grief: A Series of Philosophical Disquisitions
  49. The Badness of Grief: A Moderate Defence of the Stoic View
  50. The Goodness of Grief: Is it Integral to the Well-Lived Life?
  51. Epicureanism and the Problem of Premature Death
  52. The Intellectual Case for Manned Space Exploration
  53. The Trouble with Instrumentalism: On the Quest for Ultimate Purpose
  54. Running to Stay Still: The Vice of Delayed Gratification
  55. Episode #38 - Schwartz on the Ethics of Space Exploration
  56. Unjust Sex and the Opposite of Rape (2)
  57. AEON Article - Embracing the robot: is a human-robot relationship wrong?
  58. The Foundations of Conscientious Objection: Against Freedom and Autonomy
  59. Unjust Sex and the Opposite of Rape (1)
  60. Should we care about inequality? A Critical Analysis of Pinker's Optimism
  61. The Extended Mind, Ethical Parity and the Replaceability Criterion: A Critical Analysis
  62. Episode #37 - Yorke on the Philosophy of Utopianism
  63. But is it cheating? Some thoughts on robots and sexual infidelity
  64. Taking the Relational Turn: How should we think about the moral status of animals, robots and Others?
  65. The Quantified Relationship: Target Article with Replies
  66. Procreative Beneficence and the Non-Identity Problem
  67. The Moral Duty to Explore Space (2): Criticisms and Replies
  68. Episode #36 - Wachter on Algorithms, Explanations, and the GDPR
  69. Papers on the Ethics of Sex Technology (Index)
  70. Episode #35 - Brundage on the Case for Conditional Optimism about AI
  71. 3 Podcasts about Bitcoin and the Blockchain
  72. The Utopia of Games: Intelligible or Unintelligible?
  73. The Moral Duty to Explore Space (1): The Positive Case
  74. Episode #34 - Lin on the Rise of Cyborg Finance
  75. The Final Frontier: Space Exploration as a Utopian Project
  76. Popper's Critique of Utopianism and Defence of Negative Utilitarianism

2017 91

  1. Academic Publications in 2017
  2. The Top Ten Posts of 2017
  3. Work as Unjust Private Government: An analysis
  4. The Structural Injustice of Private Debt
  5. New Paper: Mind uploading and the Social Construction of Identity
  6. Basic Income Experiments and the Case for the UBI: What can we learn?
  7. Why is understanding more valuable than knowledge?
  8. The Ethics of Apologies: Why, when and how
  9. The Rise of the Robots and the Crisis of Moral Patiency
  10. Episode #33: McArthur and Danaher on Robot Sex
  11. Ethical Behaviourism in the Age of the Robot
  12. Is Technology Value-Neutral? New Technologies and Collective Action Problems
  13. The Problem with Hate Speech Laws
  14. Robot Sex in the Media (Updated August 2018)
  15. A Dilemma for Anti-Porn Feminism
  16. Episode #32 - Carter and Palermos on Extended Cognition and Extended Assault
  17. Video Interview about Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications
  18. Should Robots Have Rights? Four Perspectives
  19. Episode #31 - Hartzog on Robocops and Automated Law Enforcement
  20. Should robots be granted the status of legal personhood?
  21. New Paper - The Law and Ethics of Virtual Sexual Assault
  22. Podcast Interview - Singularity Bros #114 on Robot Sex
  23. Freedom and the Unravelling Problem in Quantified Work
  24. Some things you wanted to know about robot sex* (but were afraid to ask)
  25. Episode #30 - Bartholomew on Adcreep and the Case Against Modern Marketing
  26. Algorithmic Governance: Developing a Research Agenda Through Collective Intelligence
  27. How to Build and Rawlsian Algorithm for Self-Driving Cars
  28. Episode #29 - Moore on the Quantified Worker
  29. The Moral Problem of Accelerating Change
  30. Episode #28 - Walch on the Misunderstandings of Blockchain Technology
  31. New papers on Moral Enhancement and Brain-Based Lie Detection
  32. The 'In Principle' Objection to Privatisation
  33. Does Human Nature Exist? On the Philosophy of Human Nature
  34. The Reality of Virtual Reality: A Philosophical Analysis
  35. Podcast - Why we should create artificial offspring
  36. New Paper: In Defence of the Epistemological Objection to Divine Command Theory
  37. Episode #27 - Gilbert on the Ethics of Predictive Brain Implants
  38. The Everlasting Check: Understanding Hume's Argument Against Miracles
  39. The Argument from Irreducible Complexity
  40. Episode #26 - Behan on Technopolitics and the Automation of the State
  41. Slaves to the Machine: Understanding the Paradox of Transhumanism
  42. Likelihood Arguments for Design
  43. The Intrinsic Value of Achievements
  44. The Tell-Tale Brain: The Effect of Predictive Brain Implants on Autonomy
  45. Episode #25 - McNamara on Fairness, Utility and High Frequency Trading
  46. Understanding Ideologies: Liberalism, Socialism and Conservatism
  47. The Quantified Relationship
  48. Can we derive meaning and value from virtual reality? An Analysis of the Postwork Future
  49. Episode #24 - Bryson on Why Robots Should Be Slaves
  50. Why we should create artificial offspring: meaning and the collective afterlife
  51. Advice on Publishing Peer Review Articles
  52. Episode #23 - Liu on Responsibility and Discrimination in Autonomous Weapons and Self-Driving Cars
  53. The Right to Attention in an Age of Distraction
  54. Robots and Retribution (Podcast Interview)
  55. Cognitive Scarcity and Artificial Intelligence: How Assistive AI Could Alleviate Inequality
  56. The Art of Academia (Index)
  57. Forthcoming in September 2017
  58. Episode #22 - Wellman and Rajan on the Ethics of Automated Trading
  59. Extended Cognition and the Possibility of Extended Personal Assault
  60. New Paper - Building a Postwork Utopia
  61. Free Will Skepticism and Meaningful Personal Relationships
  62. The Ethics of Crash Optimisation Algorithms
  63. Episode #21 - Mark Coeckelbergh on Robots and the Tragedy of Automation
  64. Heersmink's Taxonomy of Cognitive Artifacts
  65. The Art of Lecturing: Four Tips
  66. Abortion and the People Seeds Thought Experiment
  67. New Paper - Could there ever be an app for that? Consent Apps and the Problem of Sexual Assault
  68. Robot Rights: Intelligent Machines (Panel Discussion)
  69. BONUS EPISODE - Pip Thornton on linguistic capitalism, Google's ad empire, fake news and poetry
  70. Abortion and the Violinist Thought Experiment
  71. How to Plug the Robot Responsibility Gap
  72. TEDx Talk: Symbols and Consequences in the Sex Robot Debate
  73. Virtual Sexual Assault: A Classificatory Scheme
  74. Episode #20 - Karen Yeung on Hypernudging and Big Data
  75. Is Judicial Review Compatible with Democracy?
  76. The Carebot Dystopia: An Analysis
  77. Are we ready for robot relationships? (Video Debate)
  78. Episode #19 - Andrew Ferguson on Predictive Policing
  79. Can you be friends with a robot? Aristotelian Friendship and Robotics
  80. The Ethics of Trigger Warnings: A Review of the Arguments
  81. Pornography and the Philosophy of Fiction
  82. Understanding the Algorithmic Self (Videos)
  83. Symbols and Consequences in the Sex Robot Debate (TEDxWHU)
  84. Episode #18: Jonathan Pugh on Bio-Conservatism and Human Enhancement
  85. Understanding the Experience Machine Argument
  86. Algorithmic Freedom as Non-Domination
  87. Episode #17- Steve Fuller on Transhumanism and the Proactionary Imperative
  88. Algocracy as Hypernudging: A New Way to Understand the Threat of Algocracy
  89. Moral Arguments for God (2): Non-Evidential Forms
  90. Hume's Objections to the Design Argument (Part Two)
  91. Hume's Objections to the Design Argument (Part One)

2016 100

  1. Top Ten Posts of 2016
  2. Podcasts and other Media Appearances 2016
  3. The Algocracy and Transhumanism Podcast (Episodes 2016)
  4. Academic Papers Published in 2016
  5. Moral Arguments for God (1): Evidential Forms
  6. Episode #16 - Anders Sandberg on the Ethics of Time Compression in Computing
  7. A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism: a short podcast from Pip Thornton
  8. The Shame of Work
  9. Why Communication is Needed for Consent
  10. Understanding Hayek's Knowledge Argument (2): Uncertainty and the Narrative Fallacy
  11. The Philosophy of Social Constructionism
  12. Understanding Freedom as Independence
  13. The Logical Space of Algocracy (Redux)
  14. Episode #15 - Nicole Vincent on Neurointerventions and Human Happiness
  15. Understanding Hayek's Knowledge Argument (1): Prices as Signals
  16. What is Utopia? The Meta-Utopian Argument
  17. Jeff Lowder on Naturalism vs Theism
  18. Technological Unemployment and the Search for Meaning: Should we retreat from reality?
  19. Episode #14 - Aaron Wright on Blockchains and the Law
  20. Does Death Make us the Lucky Ones? Existential Luck and the Consolations of Atheism
  21. Is Game-Playing the Highest Ideal of Human Existence?
  22. Episode #13: Laura Cabrera on Human Enhancement, Communication and Values
  23. Why Non-Natural Moral Realism is Better than Divine Command Theory
  24. Pornography and Subordination: The Contextual View
  25. How do we Enhance Cognition through External Representations? Five Ways
  26. Episode #12 - Rick Searle on the Dark Side of Transhumanism
  27. Pushing Humans off the Loop: Automation and the Unsustainability Problem
  28. Competitive Cognitive Artifacts and the Demise of Humanity: A Philosophical Analysis
  29. Philosophical Disquisitions Newsletter 1st Edition
  30. Is Robust Moral Realism a kind of Religious Belief?
  31. Episode #11 - Sabina Leonelli on whether Big Data will revolutionise science
  32. Will human enhancement cause problems for interpersonal communication?
  33. Talking about Algocracy and Transhumanism on the Singularity Bros Podcast
  34. Computers and Law Special Edition on Algorithmic Governance
  35. Episode #10 - David Gunkel on Robots and Cyborgs
  36. Who knows best? Personal Happiness and the Search for a Good Life
  37. Phenomenological Coupling, Augmented Reality and the Extended Mind
  38. Episode #9 -Rachel O'Dwyer on Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Digital Commons
  39. New paper: Why Internal Moral Enhancement Might be Politically Better than External Moral Enhancement
  40. Episode #8 - Karen Levy on the Rise of Intimate Surveillance
  41. Is Death the Sculptor of Life or an Evil to be Vanquished?
  42. Piketty on Free Higher Education and the Value of Meritocracy
  43. Moral Enhancement and Moral Freedom: A Critical Analysis
  44. Episode #7 - Brett Frischmann on Reverse Turing Tests and Machine-like Humans
  45. Reverse Turing Tests: Are Humans Becoming More Machine-Like?
  46. Interview on Robot Overlordz Podcast about Algocracy
  47. Moral Uncertainty and Moral Enhancement
  48. Some Recent Media - Sex Robots, Robot Personhood and A Future Without Work
  49. Negative Feedback on Blogging and Podcasting?
  50. The Machine Made me Do It: Human responsibility in an era of machine-mediated agency
  51. Episode #6 - Deborah Lupton on the Quantified Self
  52. Episode #5: Hannah Maslen on the Ethics of Neurointerventions
  53. The Ethics of Algorithmic Outsourcing: An Analysis
  54. Getting Better: From Naive to Deliberate Practice
  55. The Philosophical Merits of Effective Altruism (Index)
  56. Episode #4 - Evan Selinger on Algorithmic Outsourcing and the Value of Privacy
  57. Should Remorse Mitigate a Criminal Sentence?
  58. New Paper - An Evaluative Conservative Case for Biomedical Enhancement
  59. Does Self-Tracking Promote Autonomy? An Initial Argument
  60. Is Effective Altruism Fair to Small Donors? (Guest Post by Iason Gabriel)
  61. Algocracy: Opportunities and Risks (videocast with Adam Ford)
  62. Interview with Futurezone about Technological Unemployment and the Meaning of Life
  63. Is Effective Altruism actually Effective?
  64. New paper - Should we use commitment contracts to regulate student use of cognitive enhancement drugs?
  65. The Life Cycle of Prescriptive (Legal) Theories
  66. Is Effective Altruism Methodologically Biased?
  67. Vacancy - Research Assistant on the Algocracy and Transhumanism Project
  68. Episode #3 - Sven Nyholm on Love Enhancement, Deep Brain Stimulation and the Ethics of Self Driving Cars
  69. New Paper - Robots, Law and the Retribution Gap
  70. Episode #2: James Hughes on the Transhumanist Political Project
  71. The Ethics of Intimate Surveillance (2): A Landscape of Objections
  72. New Podcast - Ep 1 Tal Zarsky on the Ethics of Big Data and Predictive Analytics
  73. The Ethics of Intimate Surveillance (1)
  74. Blockchains and the Emergence of a Lex Cryptographia
  75. Informal Group Work in Class: Four Tips
  76. The Evolution of Social Values: From Foragers to Farmers to Fossil Fuels
  77. Are we heading towards a singularity of crime?
  78. Blockchains and DAOs as the Modern Leviathan
  79. Exploitation, Commodification and Harm: The Ethics of Commercial Surrogacy (Video Talk)
  80. Algocracy and Transhumanism - Project Website
  81. New Technologies as Social Experiments: An Ethical Framework
  82. Body-based Trades and the Ethics of Divided Labour
  83. Understanding Exploitation: Unfair advantage and the lack of consent
  84. What do the best college teachers do? Bain's six habits
  85. New Paper - Will life be worth living in a world without work?
  86. Technological Growth, Inequality and Property Price Increases: An Explanation?
  87. Should we be grateful for death?
  88. What's happening inside the black box? Three forms of algorithmic opacity
  89. Dennett's Advice to Philosophers
  90. Should we experience existential gratitude?
  91. Symbols and their Consequences in the Sex Robot Debate
  92. Podcast Interview - Is High Tech Turning Turning Us Into the Borg?
  93. The Value of Deep Work and How to Prioritise It
  94. Reality Transducer or Omniscience Engine? Five Metaphors for the Internet of Things
  95. Powerful Nonsense Ep 95 - Finding meaning in an automated world
  96. Justice-Related Objections to Effective Altruism
  97. Robot Overlordz: Ep 237 The Sofalarity and the Future of Work
  98. The Goods of Work (other than Money) in a Postwork Future
  99. Is Resistance Futile? Are we already Borg?
  100. Effective Altruism: A Taxonomy of Objections

2015 100

  1. Should we stop killer robots? (2) - The Right Reason Objection
  2. Stoicism, Psychological Suffering and Disengagement
  3. Most-Viewed Posts of 2015
  4. Interviews, Talks and Debates 2015
  5. Academic Papers 2015
  6. Should we stop killer robots? (1) - The Anti-Codifiability Objection
  7. New Paper - The Threat of Algocracy: Reality, Resistance and Accommodation
  8. Podcast - Does Life Have Meaning in a World Without Work?
  9. Why do symbols matter and how much do they matter?
  10. Understanding Symbolic Value: A Taxonomy
  11. Sixth Anniversary of Philosophical Disquisitions
  12. Understanding Nihilism: What if nothing matters?
  13. The Ethical Significance of Symbolic Meanings
  14. Will technological unemployment lead to human disenhancement?
  15. Theory and Application of the Extended Mind (Series Index)
  16. The Philosophy of Games and the Postwork Utopia
  17. Is Anyone Competent to Regulate Artificial Intelligence?
  18. Blockchain Technology, Smart Contracts and Smart Property
  19. The Campaign Against Sex Robots: A Critical Analysis
  20. Is there Trouble with Algorithmic Decision-making? Fairness and Efficiency-based Objections
  21. Understanding the Threat of Algocracy
  22. Demanding a Post-Work World: Technological Unemployment and the Human Future
  23. Philosophy of Consent and Sexual Assault (Index)
  24. Commercial Surrogacy Debate - Opening Statement
  25. The Ethics of Commercial Surrogacy: Gender Inequality Arguments
  26. The Ethics of Commercial Surrogacy: Three Standard Objections
  27. Does Money Poison Everything? Sandel and the Corruption Effect
  28. Are there some things money shouldn't buy? Two Anti-Commercialisation Arguments
  29. Is Transnational Surrogacy Exploitative? (1) Kirby's Argument
  30. Polanyi's Paradox: Will humans maintain any advantage over machines?
  31. Automation and Income Inequality: Understanding the Polarisation Effect
  32. Technological Unemployment and the Value of Work (Series Index)
  33. Sexual Assault, Consent Apps and Technological Solutionism
  34. Philosophers' Carnival ♯179
  35. Why haven't robots taken our jobs? The Complementarity Effect
  36. Interview about Superintelligence, the Orthogonality Thesis and AI Doomsday Scenarios
  37. A Rawlsian Approach to Intoxicated Consent to Sex?
  38. Beginning to Exist and the Kalam Cosmological Argument
  39. 'Proper Good Innit Bruv': A Philosophical Look at Writing Styles
  40. The Argument from Abandonment and Suffering
  41. On the Limitations of General Skeptical Theism
  42. Is God the source of meaning in life? Four Critical Arguments
  43. Assessing the Philosophical Apologetics of William Lane Craig (Series Index)
  44. The Shape of an Academic Career: Some Reflections on Thaler's Misbehaving
  45. The Art of Academic Reading: Strategies and Tactics
  46. Does God guarantee meaning in life? A Novel Argument for Atheism
  47. Did my brain make me do it? Neuroscience and Free Will (2)
  48. Did my brain make me do it? Neuroscience and Free Will (1)
  49. The Psychology of Revenge: Biology, Evolution and Culture
  50. How to Study Algorithms: Challenges and Methods
  51. Epistemology, Communication and Divine Command Theory
  52. The Philosophical Importance of Algorithms
  53. How should you title an academic article?
  54. New Paper - Human Enhancement, Social Solidarity and the Distribution of Responsibility
  55. The Case for a Marriage-Free State
  56. Is effective regulation of AI possible? Eight potential regulatory problems
  57. Humanism, Transhumanism, and Speculative Posthumanism
  58. Technological Unemployment and Personal Well-being: Does work make us happy?
  59. The Logic of Surveillance Capitalism
  60. Drunken Consent to Sex and Personal Responsibility
  61. How might algorithms rule our lives? Mapping the logical space of algocracy
  62. Four Concepts of Consent and their Relevance to Sexual Offences
  63. Voluntary Intoxication and Responsibility
  64. Intoxicated Consent to Sexual Relations: A Map of Moral Claims
  65. Hume's Argument Against Miracles (Part Two)
  66. A Framework for Understanding our Ethical Relationships with Intelligent Technology
  67. Hume's Argument Against Miracles (Part One)
  68. New Paper - Common Knowledge, Pragmatic Enrichment and Thin Originalism
  69. Interview on the Ethics of Moral Enhancement
  70. Arif Ahmed's Case Against the Resurrection
  71. Are AI-Doomsayers like Skeptical Theists? A Precis of the Argument
  72. The Extended Mind and the Coupling-Constitution Fallacy
  73. Is Automation Making us Stupid? The Degeneration Argument Against Automation
  74. The Automation Loop and its Negative Consequences
  75. The Ethics of Having Children: Deontological Arguments
  76. The Ethics of Robot Sex: Interview on Robot Overlordz Podcast
  77. Should libertarians hate the internet? A Nozickian Argument against Social Networks
  78. New Paper - The Epistemic Costs of Superintelligence
  79. Bitcoin and the Ontology of Money
  80. Psychopaths and Moral Blame: Empirical and Philosophical Issues
  81. God, Immortality and the Futility of Life
  82. Should prospective parents have to apply for licences? An Ethical Debate
  83. Three Practical Hurdles to a Universal Basic Income
  84. Interview on Robot Overlordz Episode 150: Tech Unemployment and Enhancement
  85. Human Life and the Quest for Immortality
  86. Two Interpretations of the Extended Mind Hypothesis
  87. How I Write for Peer Review
  88. The Logical Space of Democracy: A Map
  89. The Democratic Trilemma: Is Democracy Possible?
  90. Pettit on the Infrastructure of Democracy
  91. Does Work Undermine our Freedom?
  92. A Guide to Skinner's Genealogy of Liberty
  93. Neuroenhancement and the Extended Mind Hypothesis
  94. Longer Lives and the Alleged Tedium of Immortality
  95. Enhancement and authenticity: Is it all about being true to our selves?
  96. New Paper - The Normativity of Linguistic Originalism: A Speech Act Analysis
  97. Pereboom's Case for Hard Incompatibilism (Series Index)
  98. Pereboom's Four Case Argument against Compatiblism
  99. The Disappearing Agent Objection to Free Will Libertarianism
  100. The Free Will Debate: Sourcehood or Alternative Possibilities?

2014 118

  1. Review of 2014: Favourite and Most Viewed Posts
  2. Academic Papers 2014
  3. Stopping the innocent from pleading guilty: Can brain-based recognition detection tests help?
  4. Meaning, Value and the Collective Afterlife: Must others survive for our lives to have meaning?
  5. Should we criminalise robotic rape and robotic child sexual abuse?
  6. Fifth Anniversary
  7. Brain-based Lie Detection and the Mereological Fallacy
  8. The Philosophy of Sex (Series Index)
  9. Are we innate retributivists? Review of the Psychological Evidence
  10. The Epistemological Objection to Divine Command Theory
  11. The Legal Challenges of Robotics (2): Are robots exceptional?
  12. Critiquing the Kalam Cosmological Argument (Series Index)
  13. Podcast Interview - Review the Future on the Threat of Algocracy
  14. Is there a defensible atheistic account of moral values?
  15. Three Types of Moral Supervenience
  16. The Legal Challenges of Robotics (1)
  17. The Philosophy of Intelligence Explosions and Advanced Robotics (Series Index)
  18. Yes means Yes: The Case for an Affirmative Consent Standard in Sexual Offences
  19. Procedural Due Process and the Dangers of Predictive Analytics
  20. One Million Pageviews
  21. Algocracy and other Problems with Big Data (Series Index)
  22. The Journal Club #4: Puryear on Finitism and the Beginning of the Universe
  23. How can you make your writing more coherent? Four Tips
  24. Sousveillance and Surveillance: What kind of future do we want?
  25. Should we abolish work?
  26. Dawkins and the "We are going to die"-Argument
  27. Can blogging be academically valuable? Seven reasons for thinking it might be
  28. Media Coverage of my article "Sex Work, Tech Unemployment and the Basic Income Guarantee"
  29. Chalmers vs Pigliucci on the Philosophy of Mind-Uploading (2): Pigliucci's Pessimism
  30. Chalmers vs Pigliucci on the Philosophy of Mind-Uploading (1): Chalmers's Optimism
  31. Are hierarchical theories of freedom and responsibility plausible?
  32. Steven Pinker's Guide to Classic Style
  33. Teaching Documents Online
  34. Next Journal Club: Finitism and the Beginning of the Universe
  35. Do Cognitive Enhancing Drugs Actually Work?
  36. The Journal Club ♯3 - Street on Why the Price of Theism is Normative Skepticism
  37. Are we morally obliged to eat some meat? (Part Two)
  38. Are we morally obliged to eat some meat? (Part One)
  39. The Journal Club ♯2 - Karlsen on God and the Benefits of Existence
  40. Bostrom on Superintelligence (6): Motivation Selection Methods
  41. Are we heading for technological unemployment? An Argument
  42. An Ethical Framework for the Use of Enhancement Drugs
  43. Finally...The Next (Two) Journal Clubs
  44. Philosophers' Carnival ♯166
  45. Bostrom on Superintelligence (5): Limiting an AI's Capabilities
  46. Bostrom on Superintelligence (4): Malignant Failure Modes
  47. Bostrom on Superintelligence (3): Doom and the Treacherous Turn
  48. Bostrom on Superintelligence (2): The Instrumental Convergence Thesis
  49. Bostrom on Superintelligence (1): The Orthogonality Thesis
  50. Bostrom on Superintelligence (0): Series Index
  51. Does the Irish constitution imply the existence of unenumerated rights? (Part Three)
  52. The Philosophy of Mind-Uploading (Series Index)
  53. Does the Irish constitution imply the existence of unenumerated rights? (Part Two)
  54. Does the Irish constitution imply the existence of unenumerated rights? (Part One)
  55. Philosophy and the Basic Income (Series Index)
  56. Should we have a right not to work?
  57. Feminism and the Basic Income (Part Two)
  58. Feminism and the Basic Income (Part One)
  59. Widerquist on Freedom and the Basic Income
  60. Parasitic Surfers and the Unconditional Basic Income: A Debate
  61. New Paper: The Comparative Advantages of Brain-Based Lie Detection - The P300 CIT and Pre-Trial Bargaining
  62. Radcliffe-Richards on Sexual Inequality and Justice (Part Two)
  63. Radcliffe-Richards on Sexual Inequality and Justice (Part One)
  64. New Job and the Next Journal Club
  65. The Ethics of Benign Carnivorism (Part Two)
  66. The Ethics of Benign Carnivorism (Part One)
  67. Is Modern Technology Creating a Borg-like Society?
  68. Book Recommendation ♯16: The City and the City by China Mieville
  69. The Journal Club ♯1 - Kodaj's Problem of Religious Evil
  70. Is a Longer Life a Happier Life? Stoicism and Happiness
  71. The Ethics of Suicide: A Framework
  72. Enforcing Morality through Criminal Law (Part Three)
  73. Enforcing Morality through Criminal Law (Part Two)
  74. Enforcing Morality through Criminal Law (Part One)
  75. Book Recommendation ♯15: The Mind Body Problem by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  76. Announcing: The Philosophical Disquisitions Journal Club
  77. Is Transhumanism Compatible with Anarchism?
  78. The Image World and the Ethics of Virtual Acts
  79. The Ethics of Virtual Rape
  80. Radical Enhancement and Perpetual Childhood
  81. Does radical enhancement threaten our sense of self?
  82. Will sex workers be replaced by robots? (A Precis)
  83. Should we bet on radical enhancement?
  84. Veridical Engagement and Radical Enhancement
  85. The Badness of Death and the Meaning of Life (Updated - Series Index)
  86. The Objective and Anthropocentric Ideals of Enhancement
  87. Equality, Fairness and the Threat of Algocracy: Should we embrace automated predictive data-mining?
  88. The Achievementist View of Meaning in Life
  89. Thoughts on Agar's Truly Human Enhancement (Series Index)
  90. Game Theoretical Analysis of the Duel
  91. Book Recommendation ♯14: Gratuitous Suffering and the Problem of Evil by Bryan Frances
  92. Plantinga vs. Peels on Naturalism and Moral Realism (Part Two)
  93. Plantinga vs Peels on Naturalism and Moral Realism (Part One)
  94. New Paper: Sex Work and Technological Unemployment
  95. William Lane Craig and the Argument from Successive Addition
  96. Are there problems with the metaphor of mind-uploading?
  97. Big Data and the Vices of Transparency
  98. William Lane Craig and the Ultimate Accountability Argument
  99. On Rubenfeld and the Riddle of Rape-by-Deception
  100. William Lane Craig and the "Nothing But" Argument
  101. What's the case for sousveillance? (Part Two)
  102. What's the case for sousveillance? (Part One)
  103. Joshua Greene's Modular Myopia Hypothesis
  104. Advanced Trolleyology and the Doctrine of Double Effect
  105. How Many Methods of Mind-Uploading?
  106. The Gamer's Dilemma: Virtual Murder versus Virtual Paedophilia (Part Two)
  107. The Gamer's Dilemma: Virtual Murder versus Virtual Paedophilia (Part One)
  108. Big Data, Predictive Algorithms and the Virtues of Transparency (Part Two)
  109. Book Recommendations ♯13: Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene
  110. Twitter n' stuff
  111. Big Data, Predictive Algorithms and the Virtues of Transparency (Part One)
  112. Does Criminal Law Deter? (Part Two)
  113. Does Criminal Law Deter? (Part One)
  114. Rule by Algorithm? Big Data and the Threat of Algocracy
  115. Book Recommendation ♯12: Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality by Nicholas Southwood
  116. Is mind-uploading existentially risky? (Part Three)
  117. Is mind uploading existentially risky? (Part Two)
  118. Is mind uploading existentially risky? (Part One)

2013 100

  1. The Year in Review: Best Posts of 2013
  2. Academic Papers 2013
  3. Freedom: Non-Frustration, Non-Interference and Non-Domination (Part Two)
  4. Freedom: Non-Frustration, Non-interference or Non-domination? (Part One)
  5. Pettit on Republicanism and the Basic Income
  6. Libertarianism and the Basic Income (Part Three)
  7. Libertarianism and the Basic Income (Part Two)
  8. Libertarianism and the Basic Income (Part One)
  9. The Ethics of Chemical Castration (Part Two)
  10. The Ethics of Chemical Castration (Part One)
  11. Are juries good at spotting liars? (Part Two)
  12. Four-year Anniversary
  13. Another new paper: Hyperagency and the Good Life
  14. Are juries good at spotting liars? (Part One)
  15. Can the mind stay young forever? (Part Two)
  16. Can the mind stay young forever? (Part One)
  17. New Paper: The Vice of In-Principlism and the Harmfulness of Love
  18. Are mental illnesses real? (Part Three)
  19. Are Mental Illnesses Real? (Part Two)
  20. Are mental illnesses real? (Part One)
  21. Life Extension and Distributive Justice
  22. Book Recommendations ♯11: Philosophical Devices by David Papineau
  23. New Paper: Necessary Moral Truths and Theistic Metaethics
  24. On Benatar's Two Views of Sexual Ethics
  25. The Ethics of Robot Sex
  26. Scientific Optimism, Techno-Utopianism and the Meaning of Life
  27. Prostitution and the Argument from Sexual Autonomy
  28. New Paper: The P300 Memory Detection Test and the Legal Trial
  29. The Ethics of Prostitution (Part Three)
  30. The Ethics of Prostitution (Part Two)
  31. The Ethics of Prostitution (Part One)
  32. Plea Bargaining and the Signalling Problem (Part Two)
  33. Plea Bargaining and the Signalling Problem (Part One)
  34. Some notes on consent and sexual offences (Part Two)
  35. Some notes on consent and sexual offences (Part One)
  36. New Paper: Skeptical Theism and Divine Permission - A Reply to Anderson
  37. Disambiguating Evil (Series Index)
  38. Maring on Evil and God's Authority (Part Two)
  39. Maring on Evil and God's Authority (Part One)
  40. Poston on Social Evil (Part Two)
  41. Poston on Social Evil (Part One)
  42. My New Paper on the Death Penalty
  43. Mizrahi on the Argument from Natural Inequality (Part Two)
  44. Mizrahi on The Argument from Natural Inequality (Part One)
  45. Interview: Enhancement in Sports and Education
  46. Hedrick on Hilbert's Hotel and the Actual Infinite (Part Two)
  47. Hedrick on Hilbert's Hotel and the Actual Infinite (Part One)
  48. The Ethics of Human Enhancement (Index to all Posts)
  49. Book Recommendations ♯10 - Books on How to Write
  50. Douglas on Moral Enhancement and Superficiality (Part Three)
  51. Douglas on Moral Enhancement and Superficiality (Part Two)
  52. Douglas on Moral Enhancement and Superficiality (Part One)
  53. Is Consequentialism Inescapable? (Part Two)
  54. Is Consequentialism Inescapable? (Part One)
  55. Can we upload our minds? Hauskeller on mind-uploading (Part Two)
  56. Are we cosmically insignificant?
  57. Can we upload our minds? Hauskeller on Mind-Uploading (Part One)
  58. Does pornography falsely construct women's natures? (Part Two)
  59. Does pornography falsely construct women's natures? (Part One)
  60. Must we pursue good causes to have meaningful lives? (Part Two)
  61. Must we pursue good causes to have meaningful lives? (Part One)
  62. How should we respond to moral risk? (Part Two)
  63. How should we respond to moral risk? (Part One)
  64. Raz and the Argument from Authority (Part Two)
  65. Raz and the Argument from Authority (Part One)
  66. Revisiting Nagel on the Absurdity of Life (Part Two)
  67. Revisiting Nagel on the Absurdity of Life (Part One)
  68. Book Recommendations ♯9: The Problem of Political Authority
  69. Is there a Case for Robot Slaves?
  70. Barnett on Originalism and Pragmatic Enrichment
  71. Pragmatic Enrichment and Legal Interpretation (Part Two)
  72. Pragmatic Enrichment and Legal Interpretation (Part One)
  73. Can the Giftedness Argument be Salvaged? (Part Three)
  74. Can the Giftedness Argument be Salvaged? (Part 2)
  75. Can the Giftedness Argument be Salvaged? (Part One)
  76. The Logic of Indirect Speech (Part Three)
  77. The Logic of Indirect Speech (Part Two)
  78. The Logic of Indirect Speech (Part One)
  79. Should pornography be considered "speech"? (Part Two)
  80. Should pornography be considered "speech"? (Part One)
  81. Nagel on the Burden of Enhancement (Part Two)
  82. Nagel on the Burden of Enhancement (Part One)
  83. A New Critique of Penal Substitution (Part Two)
  84. A New Critique of Penal Substitution (Part One)
  85. New Paper on Enhancement and the Common Good
  86. Feedback?
  87. AIs and the Decisive Advantage Thesis
  88. Is human enhancement disenchanting? (Part Two)
  89. Is human enhancement disenchanting? (Part One)
  90. WL Craig on Morality and Meaning (Series Index)
  91. The Golem Genie and Unfriendly AI (Part Two)
  92. The Golem Genie and Unfriendly AI (Part One)
  93. Should we thanatise our desires?
  94. The Lucretian Symmetry Argument (Part Two)
  95. The Lucretian Symmetry Argument (Part One)
  96. Book Recommendations ♯8: On Politics by Alan Ryan
  97. Is Craig's Defence of the DCT Inconsistent? (Part Two)
  98. Is Craig's Defence of the DCT Inconsistent? (Part One)
  99. The Singularity: Overview and Framework Redux
  100. Book Recommendations ♯7: The Ethics of Voting

2012 100

  1. My Favourite Posts of 2012
  2. The Singularity - Overview and Framework
  3. Pornography and Speech Acts (Part Two)
  4. Pornography and Speech Acts (Part One)
  5. Implicature and the Interpretation of the Law (Part Two)
  6. Implicature and the Interpretation of the Law (Part One)
  7. Schauer on (fMRI) Lie Detection in the Law (Part Two)
  8. Third Anniversary
  9. Schauer on (fMRI) Lie Detection in the Law (Part One)
  10. Can death be a fitting punishment?
  11. The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias
  12. Is the Death Penalty Irrevocable? (Part Two)
  13. Is the Death Penalty Irrevocable? (Part One)
  14. Should Recreational Drug Use be Decriminalised? (Part Four)
  15. Should Recreational Drug Use be Decriminalised? (Part Three)
  16. Divine Command Theory and the Metre-Stick Analogy (Part Two)
  17. Divine Command Theory and the Metre-Stick Analogy (Part One)
  18. Doping and Competitive Advantage: Chwang's Argument (Part Two)
  19. Doping and Competitive Advantage: Chwang's Argument (Part One)
  20. New Natural Law, Homosexuality and Religion (Part Two)
  21. New Natural Law, Homosexuality and Religion (Part One)
  22. The Polygrapher's Dilemma: Ethics and Lie Detection
  23. Update
  24. Should recreational drug use be decriminalised? (Part Two)
  25. Should Recreational Drug use be Decriminalised? (Part One)
  26. Would Immortality be Desirable? (Part Three)
  27. Would Immortality be Desirable? (Part Two)
  28. Would Immortality be Desirable? (Part One)
  29. The Paradox of Blackmail (Part Five)
  30. Are Lawyers Immoral?
  31. Should Incest be Decriminalised? (Part Three)
  32. The Paradox of Blackmail (Part Four)
  33. Should Incest be Decriminalised? (Part Two)
  34. The Paradox of Blackmail (Part Three)
  35. Should Incest be Decriminalised? (Part One)
  36. The Paradox of Blackmail (Part Two)
  37. The Paradox of Blackmail (Part One)
  38. Consequentialist Theories of Punishment (Part Three)
  39. Consequentialist Theories of Punishment (Part Two)
  40. Consequentialist Theories of Punishment (Part One)
  41. The Ethics of Pre-Punishment (Part Three)
  42. Doping, Cheating and the Olympic Games
  43. The Ethics of Pre-Punishment (Part Two)
  44. The Ethics of Prepunishment (Part One)
  45. Blinding, Information Hiding and Epistemic Efficiency
  46. Is Death Bad or Just Less Good? (Part 4)
  47. A Request
  48. Is Death Bad or Just Less Good? (Part 3)
  49. Eyewitness Enhancement and the Common Good
  50. Is Death Bad or Just Less Good? (Part Two)
  51. Is Death Bad or Just Less Good? (Part One)
  52. Peter on Pure Epistemic Proceduralism
  53. Maitzen on Why is there anything?
  54. Book Recommendations ♯6: God in the Age of Science?
  55. Dougherty on the Parent Analogy and Skeptical Theism
  56. Posts on the Ethics of Same-Sex Relations
  57. Corvino on the Definitional Objection to Same-sex Marriage (Part Three)
  58. Corvino on the Definitional Objection to Same-Sex Marriage (Part Two)
  59. Corvino on the Definitional Objection to Same-sex Marriage (Part One)
  60. Kramer on the Purgative Rationale for Capital Punishment (Part Two)
  61. Kramer on the Purgative Rationale for Capital Punishment (Part One)
  62. Solum on the Normative Arguments for Originalism (Part Two)
  63. Solum on the Normative Arguments for Originalism (Part One)
  64. Addiction and Responsibility (Part Three)
  65. Addiction and Responsibility (Part Two)
  66. Addiction and Responsibility (Part One)
  67. Solum on Semantic Originalism
  68. The Epistemic Objection to Torture (Part Two)
  69. The Epistemic Objection to Torture (Part One)
  70. Hauskeller on Enhancement for the Common Good
  71. Theism and the Meaning of Life (Part Two)
  72. Attempted Crimes and Changes of Mind
  73. Theism and the Meaning of Life (Part One)
  74. Changing to Disqus
  75. Morriston on God and the Ontological Foundation of Morality (Part 2)
  76. Morriston on God and the Ontological Foundation of Morality (Part One)
  77. Bostrom on Superintelligence and Orthogonality
  78. Book Recommendations ♯5: The Logic of Real Arguments
  79. Book Recommendations ♯4: Human Enhancement by Savulescu and Bostrom
  80. Tooley on Infanticide and Potential Personhood
  81. What the "After-Birth Abortion" Article Said (Part Two)
  82. What the "After-Birth Abortion" Article Said (Part One)
  83. The Cryonics Dilemma (0)
  84. Book Recommendations ♯3: The Art of Strategy
  85. Neuroscience-based Mind-Reading in the Law (Part Two)
  86. Neuroscience-based Mind-Reading in the Law (Part One)
  87. Update
  88. Should we freeze ourselves? (Index and Introduction)
  89. Book Recommendations ♯2: Contemporary Theories of Liberalism
  90. Attempt Liability and Moral Luck (Part Two)
  91. Attempt Liability and Moral Luck (Part One)
  92. Free Will, Punishment and Responsibility (Series Index)
  93. Book Recommendations (Index)
  94. Book Recommendations ♯1: Just the Arguments
  95. Facebook Page
  96. Enhancement and Education: Lessons from the Kobayashi Maru (Part Two)
  97. Enhancement and Education: Lessons from the Kobayashi Maru (Part One)
  98. Vincent on the Responsibility-Liability Gap
  99. Doping, Slippery Slopes and Moral Virtues
  100. Enhancement in Sports and Education (Index)

2011 133

  1. Overview of the Arguments Against Doping in Sport (Part Two)
  2. Overview of the Arguments Against Doping in Sport (Part One)
  3. Tannjso on Enhancement and the Ethos of Elite Sport
  4. Schermer on Enhancement and Cheating (Part Two)
  5. Schermer on Enhancement and Cheating (Part One)
  6. Schieber's Objection to the Kalam Argument
  7. Two Year Anniversary
  8. Taking Responsibility vs. Being Morally Responsible
  9. Waller's Argument Against Moral Responsibility (Part Two)
  10. Waller's Argument Against Moral Responsibility (Part One)
  11. The Problem of Punishing the Innocent
  12. Partridge on Performance-Enhancement in Swimming
  13. Madness, Badness and Neuroimaging-based Responsibility Assessments (Part Three)
  14. Madness, Badness and Neuroimaging-based Responsibility Assessments (Part Two)
  15. Madness, Badness and Neuroimaging-based Responsibility Assessments (Part One)
  16. Vincent's Structured Taxonomy of Responsibility Concepts
  17. Murphy on the Argument for Weak Natural Law (Part Two)
  18. Pinker and Per Capita Rates of Violence
  19. Murphy on the Argument for Weak Natural Law (Part One)
  20. Brooks on Retributivist Arguments against the Death Penalty (Part Two)
  21. Brooks on Retributivist Arguments against the Death Penalty (Part One)
  22. The Craig-Law Debate: Mapped
  23. What can Law's Evil God Challenge Do?
  24. Is there a connection between human nature and moral norms?
  25. Corvino on the PIB Argument (Part Three)
  26. Corvino on the PIB Argument (Part Two)
  27. Corvino on the PIB Argument (Part One)
  28. The Impeded-Function Argument against Gay Sex
  29. Theories of Desert
  30. John Harris on Chemical Enhancement
  31. List on Free Will and Determinism (Part Two)
  32. List on Free Will and Determinism (Part One)
  33. Morriston on Ethical Criticism of the Bible (Part Four)
  34. The Ethics of Torture (Part Two)
  35. The Ethics of Torture (Part One)
  36. Morriston on Ethical Criticism of the Bible (Part Three)
  37. Morriston on Ethical Criticism of the Bible (Part Two)
  38. The Ethics of the Death Penalty (Part One)
  39. Morriston on Ethical Criticism of the Bible (Part One)
  40. Moore on Justifying Retributivism (Part Two)
  41. Moore on Justifying Retributivism (Part One)
  42. Back in Action
  43. Update and Some Cool Stuff
  44. The Ethics of Pornography (Part 2)
  45. The Ethics of Pornography (Part 1)
  46. Updated: Posts on Common Sense Atheism (Index)
  47. PD Episode 12 - Hedonism and the Experience Machine
  48. The Ethics of Euthanasia (Part Four)
  49. Favourite Posts?
  50. The Ethics of Euthanasia (Part Three)
  51. iTunes Back Up and Running
  52. Podcast Episode 11 - The Future Like Ours Argument
  53. Posts on the Philosophy of Mind
  54. The Ethics of Euthanasia (Part Two)
  55. The Ethics of Euthanasia (Part One)
  56. The Virtues of False Belief - A Puzzle
  57. Game Theory (Part 7) - Functions, Limits and Derivatives
  58. Mind-Body Physicalism (Part Four): Absent and Inverted Qualia
  59. Mind-Body Physicalism (Part Three): The Knowledge Argument
  60. Mind-Body Physicalism (Part Two): Hempel's Dilemma
  61. Mind-Body Physicalism (Part One): The Argument from Past Explanatory Success
  62. Character and the Enhancement Debate (Part One): The Giftedness Argument
  63. Game Theory (Part 6) - The Penalty Kick Game
  64. Citizen Cyborg: Agar on Democratic Transhumanism (Part Two)
  65. Citizen Cyborg: Agar on Democratic Transhumanism (Part One)
  66. Substance Dualism (Part Five): Explanatory Impotence
  67. Substance Dualism (Part Four): The Problem of Interaction
  68. Substance Dualism (Part Three): The Problem of Other Minds
  69. Game Theory (Part 5) - Best Response and Expected Utility
  70. Substance Dualism (Part Two): Criticisms of The Basic Argument
  71. Substance Dualism (Part One): The Basic Argument
  72. Philosophy of Mind: Mapping the Theoretical Space
  73. Posts on Humanity's End by Nicholas Agar
  74. Twitter
  75. Who Wants to Live Forever? Agar on Negligible Senescence (Part Two)
  76. Who Wants to Live Forever? Agar on Negligible Senescence (Part One)
  77. Should we Upload Our Minds? Agar on Searle's Wager (Part Two)
  78. Should we Upload Our Minds? Agar on Searle's Wager (Part One)
  79. The Species-Relativist Argument: The Boundary Line
  80. The Species-Relativist Argument: An Introduction
  81. Five Features of the Enhancement Debate
  82. Thurow on Cognitive Science and Religious Belief (Part Three)
  83. Thurow on Cognitive Science and Religious Belief (Part Two)
  84. Thurow on Cognitive Science and Religious Belief (Part One)
  85. The Blogger Breakdown
  86. Harman on Benatar's Better Never to Have Been (Part Three)
  87. Harman on Benatar's Better Never to Have Been (Part Two)
  88. Harman on Benatar's Better Never to Have Been (Part One)
  89. Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Index)
  90. Game Theory (Part 4) - The Median Voter Theorem
  91. Griffiths and Wilkins on Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Part Two)
  92. Griffiths and Wilkins on Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Part One)
  93. Draper on God and Evil (Part Three)
  94. Draper on God and Evil (Part Two)
  95. Draper on God and Evil (Part One)
  96. Darwin and Moral Realism: The Survival of the Iffiest
  97. Cognitive and Behavioural Biases
  98. Math Notation
  99. On Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Part Three)
  100. Circular Reasoning: The Case of William Lane Craig
  101. On Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Part Two)
  102. On Evolutionary Debunking Arguments (Part One)
  103. Craig on Objective Morality (Part Two)
  104. Craig on Objective Morality (Part One)
  105. Some Thoughts on Theological Voluntarism
  106. Game Theory (Part 3) - Weak Dominance, Iterated Deletion and Common Knowledge
  107. The Frankfurt Counterexample Defended - Nucci
  108. Game Theory (Part 2) - The Formal Ingredients
  109. Course on Game Theory
  110. Game Theory (Part 1) - First Four Lessons
  111. God and Moral Autonomy - James Rachels
  112. The Problem of Worship - Aikin
  113. Exegetical Note: Aikin's "The Problem of Worship"
  114. The Possibility of Historical Evidence for Miracles (Part 3)
  115. The Possibility of Historical Evidence for Miracles (Part 2)
  116. The Possibility of Historical Evidence for Miracles (Part 1)
  117. The Problem of the Evil/Miracle Ratio (Part 2)
  118. The Problem of the Evil/Miracle Ratio (Part 1)
  119. Podcast Episode 10 - The Open Society and the Doctrine of Hell
  120. Addendum to “The End of Skeptical Theism?”: On What God Would Do
  121. The Devil's Lying Wonders (Part 3)
  122. The Devil's Lying Wonders (Part 2)
  123. The Devil's Lying Wonders (Part 1)
  124. Arguments to and from Miracles (Part 3) - Direct-acts, Inexplicability and Coincidence Miracles
  125. Arguments to and from Miracles (Part 2) - Two Arguments against Violation Miracles
  126. Arguments to and from Miracles (Part 1) - Hume and Violation Miracles
  127. Miracles (Series Index)
  128. Fischer, Frankfurt and Flickers of Freedom (Part 2)
  129. New Paper on Kantian Constructivism
  130. Fischer, Frankfurt and Flickers of Freedom (Part 1)
  131. Present Luck and Little Agents
  132. Action, Responsibility and the Ability to do Otherwise (Part 2)
  133. Action, Responsibility and the Ability to do Otherwise (Part 1)

2010 188

  1. Who's Still Afraid of Determinism? (Part 3)
  2. Who's Still Afraid of Determinism? (Part 2)
  3. Who's Still Afraid of Determinism? (Part 1)
  4. Free Will: A Conceptual Framework
  5. Religious Liberty and Tax Exemptions (Part 2)
  6. Religious Liberty and Tax Exemptions (Part 1)
  7. Julian Assange's Political Philosophy: An Analysis
  8. One-Year Anniversary
  9. Blogging Hiatus
  10. The End of Moral Realism? (Part 3)
  11. The End of Moral Realism? (Part 2)
  12. The End of Moral Realism? (Part 1)
  13. Rational Persuasiveness and Religious Arguments (Part 2)
  14. Rational Persuasiveness and Religious Arguments (Part 1)
  15. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 11) - Summing Up
  16. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 10) - Theism's Cognitive Blindspot
  17. Morals by Agreement (Part 4): Bargaining and Impartiality
  18. Morals by Agreement (Part 3): Some Examples of Gauthier's Bargaining Solution
  19. Morals by Agreement (Index)
  20. Morals by Agreement (Part 2): Minimax Relative Concession
  21. Morals by Agreement (Part 1): Gauthier's Approach
  22. Distributive Justice, Bargaining Theory and Morality (Index)
  23. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 9) - Warranted Beliefs and Epistemic Defeaters
  24. Axiomatic Bargaining, Moral Constructivism and Infant Mortality
  25. Egalitarian and Utilitarian Social Contracts
  26. The Nash Bargaining Solution
  27. The Dialectical Necessity of Morality: Methodology and Terminology
  28. The Dialectical Necessity of Morality: Introduction
  29. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 8) - A Safer Skepticism?
  30. Principles of Distributive Justice
  31. Episode 9 - Divine Evil
  32. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 7) - Theological and Evidential Skepticism
  33. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 6) - Goodness and a Good God
  34. Episode 8 - The Foundations of Religious Liberty
  35. Episode 7 - A Simple Argument Against Design
  36. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 5) - Wykstra and Alston
  37. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 4) - The Incoherence of ST
  38. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 3) - Extreme Moral Skepticism
  39. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 2) - Bergmann's Skeptical Theses
  40. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Part 1) - Rowe's Evidential Argument
  41. The End of Skeptical Theism? (Index)
  42. Episode 6 - The Absurd
  43. Episode 5 - Transcendence Without God
  44. Interruption to "Normal" Services
  45. Enoch on The Epistemological Challenge to Metanormative Realism (Part 3)
  46. Enoch on The Epistemological Challenge to Metanormative Realism (Part 2)
  47. Omnipotence (Part 4)
  48. Omnipotence (Part 3)
  49. Oppy on Disagreement (Part 3)
  50. Oppy on Disagreement (Part 2)
  51. Oppy on Disagreement (Part 1)
  52. Episode 4 - Theology and Falsification
  53. Surveillance and Moral Character: Kantian and Hobbesian Citizens
  54. Omnipotence (Part 2)
  55. Omnipotence (Part 1)
  56. The Podcast - Episode 3: A Semantic Attack on Divine Command Metaethics
  57. Enoch on The Epistemological Challenge to Metanormative Realism (Part 1)
  58. Podcast on iTunes
  59. Gwiazda on Swinburne: God's Properties
  60. The Podcast (Index)
  61. Gwiazda on Swinburne (Index)
  62. The Podcast - Episode 2: Cosmic Fine-tuning and the Goodness of Life
  63. Gwiazda on Swinburne: The Principle P
  64. Philosophical Disquisitions - The Podcast
  65. Gwiazda on Swinburne: Alternatives to God
  66. Gwiazda on Swinburne: Complexity Quotients and God's Simplicity
  67. Gwiazda on Swinburne: Introduction
  68. Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Rethink It (Part 4)
  69. Psychology of Religion (Index)
  70. Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Rethink It (Part 3)
  71. Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Rethink It (Part 2)
  72. Teehan on the Moral Function of God
  73. Five Features of Fundamentalism
  74. An Aristotelian Life (Part 2)
  75. An Aristotelian Life (Part 1)
  76. Wielenberg on the Meaning of Life (Part 2)
  77. Wielenberg on the Meaning of Life (Part 1)
  78. Objectivity and Truth: You'd Better Rethink It (Part 1)
  79. Constructivism with Sharon Street
  80. What Good is an Explanation? (Part 2)
  81. Constructivism about Reasons (Part 3) - Withstanding Scrutiny and More
  82. Constructivism about Reasons (Part 2) - First Steps to Metaethics
  83. Constructivism about Reasons (Part 1) - Introduction
  84. What is Constructivism in Metaethics? (Part 2)
  85. What is Contructivism in Metaethics? (Part 1)
  86. What Good is an Explanation? (Part 1)
  87. Erik Wielenberg on Morality and Meaning (Index)
  88. Dawes on Theism and Explanation (Index)
  89. Successful Theistic Explanations (Part 4) - Informativeness
  90. Successful Theistic Explanations (Part 3) - Simplicity and Ontological Economy
  91. Successful Theistic Explanations (Part 2) - Background Knowledge and Past Success
  92. Successful Theistic Explanations (Part 1) - Testability
  93. Wielenberg on Moral Realism and Theism (Part 3) - Mysterious Floating Values
  94. Wielenberg on Moral Realism and Theism (Part 2) - The Problem of Supervenience
  95. Wielenberg on Moral Realism and Theism (Part 1)
  96. Metaethical Strategies - Nihilism, Constructivism and Realism
  97. Psychology of Religion (Videos)
  98. Update
  99. Causal Models (Part 1): Constructing a Causal Model
  100. Potential Theistic Explanations: Optimality and its Discontents
  101. Potential Theistic Explanations: Sober Scepticism
  102. Potential Theistic Explanations: Introduction
  103. Explanations: Breadth and Depth
  104. The Psychology of Norms (Part 4): Research Questions
  105. The Psychology of Norms (Part 3): Psychological Architecture
  106. The Psychology of Norms (Part 2): Individual-Level Facts
  107. The Psychology of Norms (Part 1): Social-Level Facts
  108. How Does Society Work? (Index)
  109. What is a Cause? (Part 2) Crossing the Desert
  110. What is a Cause? (Part 1) The Counterfactual Approach
  111. Causal Models by Steve Sloman (Index)
  112. Expanding my Repertoire
  113. Must Goodness be Independent of God? (Part 3): Alston and the Divine Metre Stick
  114. Must Goodness be Independent of God? (Part 2): Craig on God's Nature
  115. Must Goodness be Independent of God? (Part 1): Solving the Euthyphro
  116. Hume on Morality (Part 2): Hume's Moral Psychology
  117. Argumentation Schemes (Part 2)
  118. Argumentation Schemes (Part 1)
  119. Hume on Morality (Part 1): Historical Background
  120. Hume on Morality (Index)
  121. Maitzen on Morality and Atheism (Index)
  122. Maitzen on Ordinary Morality and Atheism (Part 2)
  123. Maitzen on Ordinary Morality and Atheism (Part 1)
  124. Maitzen on Skeptical Theism and Moral Obligation (Part 2)
  125. Maitzen on Skeptical Theism and Moral Obligation (Part 1)
  126. Did God Command Genocide? (Part 4) The Case for the Prosecution
  127. Did God Command Genocide? (Part 3) Canaanite Wickedness
  128. Did God Command Genocide? (Part 2) Copan's Casuistry
  129. Did God Command Genocide? (Part 1) The Problem
  130. David Hume on Religion (Part 5): Natural Belief
  131. David Hume on Religion (Part 4): The Perversion of Morality
  132. David Hume on Religion (Part 3): The Credentials of Revelation
  133. David Hume on Religion (Part 2): The Design Argument
  134. David Hume on Religion (Part 1): Terminology, Structure and Interpretation
  135. Hobbes on Lust
  136. David Hume on Religion (Index)
  137. Sex by Raymond Belliotti (Part Two)
  138. Update
  139. Sex by Raymond Belliotti (Part One)
  140. Abortion (Part 2) by Mary Ann Warren
  141. Hobbes's Moral Theory (Part 2): Material Definitions
  142. In case you were wondering...
  143. Hobbes's Moral Theory (Part 1): Formal Definitions
  144. Hobbes's Moral Theory (Index)
  145. Macbeth and Time: Imagination and Memory
  146. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 9): The Argument from Convergence
  147. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 8): The Argument from Conscience
  148. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 7): The Argument from Heavenly Reward
  149. Table of Contents
  150. Evidence and Evolution (Index)
  151. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 6): The Argument from the Costs of Irreligion
  152. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 5): The Argument from the Need for Justice
  153. What if God Commanded Something Terrible? (Part 4): We Must Obey
  154. What if God Commanded Something Terrible? (Part 3): A Modified DCT
  155. What if God Commanded Something Terrible? (Part 2): Divine Essences
  156. What if God Commanded Something Terrible? (Part 1): The Structure of the Problem
  157. Morriston on Theistic Morality (Index)
  158. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 4): The Argument from Scripture
  159. Mechanisms, Experiments and Memories (Part 3): Interlevel Experiments and Integration
  160. Mechanisms, Experiments and Memories (Part 2): The Levels of the LTP Mechanism
  161. Mechanisms, Experiments and Memories (Part 1): The LTP Mechanism
  162. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 3): The Argument from Happiness
  163. Top-Down Causation (Part 3): Some Problem Cases
  164. Top-Down Causation (Part 2): Constitutive Relations
  165. Top-Down Causation (Part 1): Mechanisms and Their Levels
  166. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 2): The Argument from Virtue
  167. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Part 1): The Argument from Objective Values
  168. Oppy on Moral Arguments (Index)
  169. Taxonomising Theistic Arguments (Part 1)
  170. Religious Experience (Part 1): Argument vs. Experience
  171. When Mechanistic Models Explain (Part 3): Evaluating Models
  172. When Mechanistic Models Explain (Part 2): The Hodgkin-Huxley Model
  173. When Mechanistic Models Explain (Part 1): Models and Explanations
  174. Why be Moral?
  175. Thinking About Mechanisms (Part 3): Hierarchies, Schemata and Intelligibility
  176. Shakespeare's Philosophy
  177. Thinking about Mechanisms (Part 2): The Depolarisation Mechanism
  178. Bath by the Divine Comedy
  179. Thinking about Mechanisms (Part 1): Introduction to Mechanisms
  180. Neuroscientific Explanation with Carl Craver (Index)
  181. Promenade by The Divine Comedy: A Personal Reflection (Intro and Index)
  182. As You Like It (Part 2): The Pastoral Dream
  183. C.S. Lewis and Mere Christianity: An Overview
  184. God and Morality (Part 5): The Supervenience of Morality
  185. As You Like It (Part 1): Plot and Production
  186. God and Morality (Part 4): Ward and Trethowan
  187. God and Morality (Part 3): The Kantian Argument
  188. God and Morality (Part 2): Owing Duties and the Euthyphro Dilemma

2009 31

  1. Comedy, Tragedy and Tragicomedy
  2. Abortion (Part 1) by Mary Ann Warren
  3. God and Morality (Part 1): Is there a moral argument for God?
  4. Explanations: A Gentle Introduction
  5. Reformed Epistemology (Part 3): The Revenge of the Sceptic
  6. Reformed Epistemology (Part 2): The Attack of the Plantingas
  7. Reformed Epistemology (Part 1): The Foundationalist Menace
  8. The Rationality Assumption
  9. What is the Economic Analysis of Law?
  10. Musings on the Economic Analysis of the Law (Introduction)
  11. C.S. Lewis as Christian Apologist - The Rationality of Belief?
  12. C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (Index)
  13. Utility and the Good by Robert E. Goodin
  14. Christian Ethics by Ronald Preston (Part 2)
  15. Christian Ethics by Ronald Preston (Part 1)
  16. Jewish Ethics by Menachem Kellner
  17. Reasoning about God (Part 3): The Varieties of Reason and the Definition of God
  18. Reasoning about God (Part 2): Three Religious Objections to Reason
  19. Reasoning about God (Part 1): Philosophy and God
  20. Index for posts on The Non-Existence of God
  21. The Social Contract Tradition by Will Kymlicka (Part 2)
  22. The Social Contract Tradition by Will Kymlicka (Part 1)
  23. Egoism by Kurt Baier (Part 2)
  24. Index for Posts on The Blackwell Companion to Ethics
  25. Egoism by Kurt Baier (Part 1)
  26. Subjectivism by James Rachels
  27. Naturalism by Charles R. Pidgen
  28. Realism by Michael Smith (Part 2)
  29. Realism by Michael Smith (Part 1)
  30. Consequentialism by Philip Pettit
  31. Philosophy 101