Articles
Short Articles
- Animal Rights: The Predator Problem
- Church and State: “In God We Trust”
- Church and State: “...One Nation, under God...”
- Church and State: “We” Means “We”
- Discrimination: Religious Bigotry in Judicial Nominations
- Discrimination: Without God, All Things are Permissible
- Economics: Environmental Regulations
- Economics: Minimum Wage
- Economics: Price Gouging
- Homosexuality: The “Choice” Argument
- Justice: Specific Deterrence
- Justice: The Fine Art of Morally Defensible Looting
- Mens Rea: Guilt by Statistical Association
- Mens Rea: Intellectual Recklessness
- Mens Rea: Morality and Intelligent Design
- Politics: Foreign Policy
- Politics: Like Hitler
- Politics: “My Country, Right or Wrong”
- Politics: Religious Sacrifice
- Free Speech: Calls to Do Harm
- Free Speech: Offense
- Stem Cells: The Slippery Slope Argument
- Value: Happiness
- Value: Preference Satisfaction and Desire Fulfillment
- Value: Survival
Philosophical Explanations
Desire Utilitarianism. I have always been an atheist. I have never had the thought that some immortal soul will carry my consciousness into the indefinite future, granting me immortality. So, if anything of me was to survive my death it would not be me, but it would be some influence that I have had on the world. I wanted to leave the world better than it would have otherwise been. more...
Defending Realism from ‘Error Theory’. It seems to me that one of the primary reasons why certain people reject moral realism is because they suffer from a misunderstanding of what moral realism requires. more...
Objectivity & Subjectivity in Ethics. The dispute between those who claim that morality is subjective, and those who claim that it is objective, as it stands now, has no hope of being resolved. This is because the very terms that people use in this debate are inconsistent and contradictory, and there will never be a way to legitimately resolve a contradiction.more...
Articles written for other publications
Against a Prohibition on Human Cloning. For The Reproductive Cloning Network. The technology of cloning provides a way to fulfill the hopes of many couples, including us. Yet, many are eager to prohibit this. If there were good reason to keep my wife from having her own biological child, then she would have to shrug and accept it. But none of the reasons offered against cloning are very good. And some of the reasons we hear for prohibiting Lesley from having her own child are far more frightening than cloning itself could ever become. more...