Philosophical Disquisitions

( Part One ) This is the second part in a brief series of posts looking at consequentialist justifications for punishment. The series ...

I’ve recently been reading Michael Zimmerman’s book The Immorality of Punishment . As one might guess from the title, the book presents ...

( Part One , Part Two ) This post is part of a series on the ethics of pre-punishment. The series looks at whether it is permissible t...

Earlier in the year I did a series of posts on the ethics of performance enhancement in sports (and education). Since the Olympic Games...

( Part One ) This series of posts is looking at the ethics of pre-punishment. That is, at the moral propriety of punishing people for ...

Scene from Minority Report One of my favourite science fiction films of the past decade — despite the presence of Tom Cruise as lead —...

This post is about the importance of information hiding in epistemic systems. It argues (though “argues” may be too strong a word) that ...