Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 125 (2) of
Psychological Review (see record 2018-15704-001). The copyright attribution was …

crossing the border into the moral domain changes moral thinking in two ways:(1) the facts
at hand become “anthropocentric” facts not easily open to revision, and (2) moral reasoning …

Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost-benefit
analysis in our social lives and in our ethical theories. This account of the plurality of values …

Consequentialism, as its name suggests, is simply the view that normative properties
depend only on consequences. This historically important and still popular theory embodies …

This is intended as a characterisation of the kind of property which moral wrongness is. Like
philosophical utilitarianism, it will have normative consequences, but it is not my present …

War is about individuals maiming and killing each other, and yet, it seems that it is also
irreducibly collective, as it is fought by groups of people and more often than not for the sake …

A defence of ethical intuitionism where (i) there are objective moral truths;(ii) we know these
through an immediate, intellectual awareness, or'intuition'; and (iii) knowing them gives us …

What does the idea of taking'the point of view of the universe'tell us about ethics? The great
nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to …

For millennia, philosophers have speculated about the origins of ethics. Recent research in
evolutionary psychology and the neurosciences has shed light on that question. But this …

Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up
everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among …