Family History
When I received my maternal grandfather’s birth certificate from the General Register Office in London, I found that the space for the mother’s signature had been completed in the same official han...
Read ItWhen I received my maternal grandfather’s birth certificate from the General Register Office in London, I found that the space for the mother’s signature had been completed in the same official han...
Read ItKant argued that suicide is immoral when committed for the purpose of escaping from unhappiness. I have tried on one or two occasions to reconstruct Kant’s argument, by offering a particular interp...
Read ItGetting cancer changed my feelings about people who smoke. I remember hearing a fellow philosopher expound, with a wave of his cigarette, on his right to choose whether to live and die smoking, or...
Read ItIn this chapter I argue that a widely recognized right to die would have the paradoxical effect of harming some people who never exercise it as well as some who exercise it and are better off for d...
Read ItFigure 1. The Arab of the Future book cover. © 2014 Riad Sattouf Abstract This article offers a reading of Riad Sattouf's graphic novel The Arab of the Future (Two Roads, London, UK, 2016). Followi...
Read ItHeavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. – Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1895 Peter Pan sprinkles fairy dust on Wendy, Michael, and John, saying, “Now you can fly, but only...
Read ItPrologue: “All Out Judgment” [T]he event whose occurrence makes ‘I turned on the light’ true cannot be called the object, however intentional, of ‘I wanted to turn on the light’. If I turned on t...
Read ItIntroduction As a philosopher of action, I might be expected to believe that the will is a good thing. Actually, I believe that the will is a great thing—awesome, in fact. But I’m not thereby comm...
Read ItIn his 1970 paper “How is Weakness of the Will Possible?” Donald Davidson introduced his solution to the philosophical problem of akrasia by framing it as a problem about the self: [2] The image w...
Read ItIntroduction There are several reasons for being interested in the fact—if it is a fact—that belief aims at the truth. I am going to argue that it’s a fact. But first, the reasons for taking an i...
Read ItBy “deciding how to decide”, I mean using practical reasoning to regulate one’s principles of practical reasoning. David Gauthier has suggested that deciding how to decide is something that every r...
Read ItLiterally sharing a single intention is easier than it seems—and fortunately so, since it seems quite impossible, at least to some philosophers. Philosophical puzzlement about how to share an inte...
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