Miscellaneous

Blogs, online discourse and other online miscellaneous

Why Do Ethicists Write Such Long Papers?

A discussion in Ethics-etc is here, followed by a poll and further discussion here.

The Paradox of Beneficial Retirement

discussions in the philosophical blogs Leiter Reports and In Socrates' Wake, and in the economics blog Marginal Revolution

An interview on some of my moral paradoxes

In The Dissentar, published June 2021 via YouTube

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Experimental philosophy study

An interesting study in experimental philosophy that attempts to refute my
free will Illusionism empirically

Hard determinism and punishment
(or funishment)

a discussion of my paper in the philosophy blog Flickers of Freedom and in the economics blog Marginal Revolution.

Flickers of Freedom (free will blog) November 2012 Featured Author

Still a compatibility-monist, after all these years?

Is it about time?

Compatibilism, the individuation of responsibility, and The Trap

Parfit on desert, punishment and fairness

Free will as a case of "Crazy Ethics"

Blackmail Paradox

The Paradox of Blackmail at the New Yorker

Paradox of Moral Complaint

An interesting discussion of my Paradox of Moral Complaint

Determinism and Prepunishment

two discussions of my papers from the blog Garden of Forking Paths, here and here.

Determinism and Prepunishment

The Comics Version

Some Questions About Moral Paradoxes
(a five-part series of informal posts that appeared in the blog Ethics-etc.)

What is a moral paradox?

How can we tell moral paradoxes from non-paradoxes?

Where do moral paradoxes come from?

What can we learn from moral paradoxes?

What should we do about moral paradoxes?

The Paradox of Non-Punishment

The Paradox of Non-Punishment in pursuit of the bankers

The Paradox of Non-Punishment

The Paradox of Non-Punishment: a discussion in the ethics blog PEA Soup

Haaretz interview

A short interview on 10 MORAL PARADOXES in the book supplement of Haaretz (in Hebrew)

The morality of prayer

A discussion of my paper in the Association for the Philosophy of Judaism blog

Jean Kazez on my paradoxical book in Talking Philosophy

Jean Kazez blogged on most of my paradoxical book in Talking Philosophy. Jean's discussion was perceptive; the comments were uneven, but some interesting points came up. I sometimes responded. The paradoxes discussed were chapters 1, 2, 3, 4,5, 6, 8, 9 from the book; and then some general comments.