Works In Progress:
SELVES AND SACRIFICES
- Summary: Some people think they are morally obligated to make significant self-sacrifices to promote the good, but that other people are not. They think other people might even be morally prohibited from making comparable self-sacrifices to promote comparable goods. Is this a defensible thing to think? In this paper, I argue that it is.
EXPERTS AT SOLITUDE: REFLECTIONS ON LOVE AND EGOISM
- Summary: In this paper, by way of a close reading of Ursula K. Le Guin's story "Nine Lives," I argue that rational egoists must be committed either to a deeply counterintuitive account of personal identity, or to an objectionable account of reasons to love.
LINGERING VALUE AND FUTURE BIAS
- Summary: Critics of future bias have argued that it is irrational to discount the value of past events simply because they are in the past. For, if we were to say otherwise, we would have to accept deeply counterintuitive implications about the value past events that are non-hedonically good. In a recent paper, Samuel Scheffler proposes an account of non-hedonic goodness that, he suggests, avoids these counterintuitive implications. In this paper, I argue against Scheffler's proposed account of non-hedonic goodness. His account, I argue, has deeply counterintuitive implications of its own.