Sitemap - 2022 - Bentham's Newsletter
A Defense of the Term Minor Attracted Person and Destigmatization of Non-Offending Pedophiles
Published Defenses of Eating Meat Fail: Part 1
The U.S. Has a Horrible, Murderous, Ineffective Foreign Policy
Many Things That Sound Racist or Transphobic Aren't
Anti-Burkean Progressivism at the Margins
The Economic and Moral Case for You Giving Me Money
An Objection to This Whole Supererogation and Obligation Business
Why I'm An Atheist Despite Psychophysical Harmony
I Debated Block About Lots of Things
Contra Block on Animals: Part 2
Contra Block on Animals: Part 1
The Debate Community Is an Insane Cesspool of Madness and Vitriol
The Idiots That Sneer at Vegans
Tell Me the Difference Between Bestiality and Eating Animals
The World's Most Dangerous Population Ethics
Politics is a battle of who you love and who annoys you
Deontological Prisoners Dilemmas
The Case Against the Case Against Consequentialism Reconsidered
Consequentialism only Justifies Good Things
Go Read About a New, Devastating Paradox of Deontology
Chomsky's Foot In Mouth Moment About Utilitarianism
The Pro-life View in Conjunction With the Thesis That Replacement Is Bad Is Implausible
The Chicago School of Philosophy
The Zombie Impairment Argument
Reading Aloud Contra Huemer on Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 44: The Replacement Argument
My School Paper Didn’t Want to Publish This Article, so I Decided to Publish It Here
Defending My Article Defending the Pro-life View Even Though I’m Pro-choice
Steelmanning the Pro-Life View
Philosophical Zombie Hunter is Wrong About Utilitarianism
Let's Get Rid of the Word Eugenics
Retributivism and Pareto Optimality
Contra Andersen on Longtermism
Utilitarianism Is Better Than Near Utilitarian Alternatives
Hedonism and Objective List Theory May be Climbing the Mountain from Two Sides
When Factory Farm Representatives Squirm
A Religious Conservative Case for (Mostly) Veganism
Parodying the Way Various People Talk and Write
Why a Hedonist Might Not Plug Into the Experience Machine
Why the Experience Machine is Evidence for Hedonism
All the Reasons to Be a Virtue Ethicist
There’s Nothing That Could Convince Me of Theism
Maybe We Are Just Receptacles of Value
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 43: Replying to the Deceived Businessman Objection to Hedonism
Presenting Chapter 6 of My Book in Progress
A New and Arguably Better Way of Doing Things
An Open Letter To Tree Huggers
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 42: The Symmetry Argument For Hedonism
Contra Bush on Moral Fetishism
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 41: Well-Being From the Shoulders of Giants
Michael Egnor: Snarky, Arrogant, Confused, and Full of Errors
The Objective List Just Got A Whole Lot Longer
Milk Pours Are A Very, Very Poor Idea
Heads I Win, Tails Anti-Realism Is True
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 40: Non-consequentialists Think You Should Do Bad Things
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 39: Sadistic Pleasure Is Good Actually!
A Problem For Moral Naturalism
I Really Don't Understand Type A Physicalists
Why You Shouldn't Be Very Confident About Politics
The Third Best Argument For God
The Anthropic Argument Against Being A Brain In A Vat
A Simpler Argument For Completeness
Kieran Setiya's Incorrect Moral Mathematics
Defending My Moral Realism Article
Nathan Robinson's Idiotic Hit Piece About Effective Altruism
A Paradox for Some Views That Hold That Appreciating the Good Is Especially Good
The Agony Challenge For Objective List Theory
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 37: Killing Those With Negative Utility
My Up To Date Case for Hedonism
Selling Nonsense: How Émile Torres Misrepresents Longtermism
When I Was Young and Full of Zeal
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 36: The Golden Rule
Several More Philosophically Illiterate Morons Attack Peter Singer
Contra Diamond on Number of Legs
One of My Articles That You Should Read
Contra DeBoer On Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 35: An Argument For Consequentialism
All My Writings On Utilitarianism Part 2
Second Rebuttal For My Debate With Arjun Panickssery
Contra Chef Contra Me On Physicalism
Unfit For Normative Theorizing: Why Fitness Isn't The Sole Normative Primitive
First Rebuttal For My Debate With Arjun Panickssery
Attacking Argumentation Ethics
Responding to Ben Burgis, Responding to Me
Utilitarianism Is Not Like Libertarianism
Opening Statement For the Organ Harvesting Debate With Ben Burgis
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 34: Should You Kill One So You Don't Kill Five?
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 33: Intellectual Property Rights
My Motivation For and Worry About Written Debates About Utilitarianism
Response to Coase’s Ghost’s Criticism of My Article on Particularism
My Naturalism About Some Moral Concepts
Opening Statement For My Debate With Arjun Panickssery
Notes on My Conversation With Aaron
I'll Be Doing A Written Debate With Arjun Panickssery
Contra Bergman on Suffering Focused Ethics
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 32: Be An Eternal Oyster
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 31: Stay In Omelas
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 30: The Trolley Problem
Grokking History's Most Appalling Doctrine
A Linkpost of Something Frightening
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 29: Clearing Up Confusion
Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Wrong About Zombies
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 28: Responding To Objections
A Potent Objection To Desire Theory
A Quick Account Of Why Temporal Discounting Makes No Sense
Contra Herok On MacAskill On Bentham On Homosexuality
The Environmental Ethicists Are Worse Than The Stereotypes About Bioethicists
People Should Leave More Comments On This Blog
Bad Ideas Can Result In Infinite Misery
My Issue With The Way Lots Of Utilitarians Argue For Utilitarianism
Don't Forget The Victims Of al-Shifa
Transitivity Denial Is Crackpot Lunacy
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 27
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 26
Lots Of Bad Things Are Like Drunk Driving
Addressing A Bad Objection To Utilitarianism
Torres Is Wrong About Longtermism
A Bayesian Analysis Of When Utilitarianism Diverges From Our Intuitions
Caplan Is Wrong--You Should Happily Live Forever
All My Writings On Utilitarianism
My Tentative Solution To The Liar's Paradox
Here's A Debate You Should Watch About Utilitarianism
Ah Yes, Moral Anti-Realism Is Indeed Intuitive
Some Objections To Moral Particularism
Mencius Moldbug Is Not Not A Blithering Idiot
A Compilation Of My Reply To Swinburne
Against Negative Utilitarianism
Nearly Everything Is Evidence For Atheism
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 25
Average Utilitarianism Is Insane
10 Theories Better Than The Resurrection
Utilitarianism Debate Rebuttal Part 3
Utilitarianism Debate Rebuttal (Part 2)
My Opening Statement Arguing For Utilitarianism
I'll Be Doing A Written Debate About Utilitarianism
Faith in God Is Not the Only Coherent Basis for Reason
Egnor Drops the Ball on Personal Identity Reductionism
Egnor Fails On The Multiverse, Accidentally Takes The Kalam Down With Him
Response to Egnor on Divine Hiddenness
Why Does William Lane Craig’s Brain Fall Out When He Talks About the Moral Argument?
No Canadian Catholic, Evil God Is Not a Failed Thought Experiment
Erik Wielenberg and How Richard Carrier Keeps Missing the Point of Grounding Morality
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 24: Another Other Tricky Issue for Other Accounts
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 23: Another Other Tricky Issue for Other Accounts
Scott Alexander's Needless Doubts About Utilitarianism
A Rebuttal To Swinburn's The Existence Of God Part 4
Yes Effective Altruism Is Effective and Altruistic
A Rebuttal To Swinburn's The Existence Of God Part 3
A Rebuttal To Swinburn's The Existence Of God Part 2
A Rebuttal To Swinburn's The Existence Of God Part 1
The Unreasonable Ineffectiveness of the Argument From the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
Theron Pummer's Lopsided Lives Is One Of The Best Arguments For Hedonism
A Few Logical Problems Of Evil
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 22: Another Tricky Issue for Other Accounts
A Few Parody Ontological Arguments
William Lane Craig Fails to Address the Problem of Evil
How I would Rebut Craig's Opening Statement in a Debate
What My Opening Statement Would Be If I were Debating William Lane Craig
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 21: A Piece of Moral Data That Other Theories Can't Account For
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 20: Why Your Prior Should Be Higher
The Surprisingly Robust Case For Modal Realism
11 Brief Objections to Fine Tuning
McLatchie's Bayesless Argument From the Moral Arena
The Limited Efficacy of Rasmussen's Argument From Limits
Bailey and Rasmussen's Infinite Error
Theodicies About Free Will, Predictable Laws, and Souls Don't Work
Positing a Soul Will Not Defeat Arguments for Animal Liberation
God Has Not Revealed to Jonathan McLatchie a Solution to Divine Hiddenness
Some Notes on Some Articles Against the Historical Evidence for Jesus
11 Quick Objections to Skeptical Theism
Both the Basic Ontological Argument and the Modal Ontological Argument Don't Succeed
Another Deeply Terrible Article About Singer
Nathan Robinson Cannot be Trusted
A Tentative Solution To Infinite Ethics
Your Priest Will Not Solve the Trolley Problem
Utilitarianism Wins Outright Part 19: Cases, Cases, Cases
Evil -- The Facts That Need to be Explained
Responding to Some of Craig's arguments for theism
THIS Article Gives a Devastating Argument Against Egalitarianism
Another Failed Critique of Effective Altruism
Hsiao's defense of animal cruelty fails
Responding to dumb articles about veganism part 1
My current philosophical views on most things
What's wrong with Kant's formula of universal law
Another problem with deontology
Huemer's paradox of weak deontology is devastating
Is extreme deontology problematically impotent?
Is moderate deontology problematically explosive?
Effective altruism is good actually
We should do something about the thousands of children dying daily
Utilitarianism wins outright part 18
Utilitarianism wins outright part 17
Utilitarianism wins outright part 16
Utilitarianism wins outright part 15
Utilitarianism wins outright part 14
Bentham's bulldog stands with Kershnar
Utilitarianism wins outright part 13
Utilitarianism wins outright part 12
Utilitarianism wins outright part 11
Utilitarianism wins outright part 10
Utilitarianism wins outright part 9
Utilitarianism wins outright part 8
Utilitarianism wins outright part 7
Utilitarianism wins outright part 6
Utilitarianism wins outright part 5
Utilitarianism wins outright part 4
Utilitarianism wins outright part 3
Utilitarianism wins outright part 2
Utilitarianism wins outright part 1
Theists as advocates of hitting oneself with a baseball bat
Coherentism, Dutch Books, and Inadequate Data
Contra Huemer on utilitarianism part 10 Conclusions
Contra Huemer on utilitarianism part 9
Contra Huemer on Utilitarianism Part 8
Contra Huemer on utilitarianism part 6
Contra Huemer on utilitarianism part 4 (alternatively, a post to get me out of jury duty)
Contra Huemer on utilitarianism part 3
Contra Huemer on utilitarianism part 2