New substack on utilitarian ethics: Good Thoughts

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Hi everyone, I just wanted to introduce my new substack as of possible interest to folks here. I see that Pablo has already shared my post on ‘beneficentrism’, which is the one most explicitly relevant to EA. Some might also enjoy my latest post on Theory-Driven Applied Ethics, which is basically my attempt to make sense of how utilitarians can do bioethics (or applied ethics more broadly) in an interesting, non-trivial way. You can also see my debate with Michael Huemer on utilitarianism, with associated reflections on the role of intuitions in moral philosophy.

Future plans include series on (i) Parfit’s ethics, (ii) metaethical non-naturalism, and (iii) intuitions and philosophical methodology. (I won’t be cross-posting any of that stuff here, because it seems too off-topic from EA. But I mention it now in case it is of interest to some.)

Anyway, feel free to subscribe if it sounds of interest to you. (And I hope this brief announcement isn’t too bothersome for those to whom it’s not of interest.)