Alexander Dietz (USC): What We Together Ought to Do. Errol Lord (Penn): What You’re Rationally Required to Do and What You Ought to Do (are the Same Thing!). What we owe each other: Martin O’Neill on T. M. Scanlon’s egalitarian philosophy (and more). Matthew Talbert (West Virginia): Approaches to Moral Responsibility. Nathan Stout (Tulane): Reasons-Responsiveness and Moral Responsibility: The Case of Autism. In praise of desire and some: Richard Marshall interviews Nomy Arpaly on ethics, moral psychology, action theory, and free will. Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook): Two Dogmas of Moral Theory? Comments on Lisa Tessman’s Moral Failure. Seana Shiffrin (UCLA): The Moral Neglect of Negligence. Ned Dobos (UNSW): Two Concepts of Moral Injury: Moral Trauma and Moral Degradation. Caroline T. Arruda (UTEP): The Varieties of Moral Improvement, Or Why Metaethical Constructivism Must Explain Moral Progress.
Kieran Setiya (MIT): Selfish Reasons. Do self-interest and morality necessarily conflict? Naomi Goulder on how philosophers from Rousseau to Nietzsche have offered answers. Robert Mark Simpson reviews Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity by Larissa MacFarquhar and Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a Difference by William MacAskill. Life isn’t fair — so why do people behave as though it is? David McPherson (Creighton): Manners and the Moral Life. The moral tipping point: Ed O’Brien and Nadav Klein on why it’s hard to shake a bad impression.
James Andow (Reading): Expecting Moral Philosophers to be Reliable. Who needs moral experts anyway? The absence of courageous moral experts in our media has shifted the debates in favour of regression towards traditional cultural prejudices.
Science has next to nothing to say about moral intuitions. The trolley problem is the Internet’s most philosophical meme. Linch Zhang goes behind the absurd popularity of trolley problem memes.
