Archive - Good Thoughts

What am I most wrong about?

Apr 23 •

Richard Y Chappell

Utopian Enemies of the Better

Lesser evils should be preferred over greater ones

Apr 20 •

Richard Y Chappell

Discussion Notes

My informal replies to academic papers

Apr 15 •

Richard Y Chappell

Three Recent Papers I Liked

Spanning metaethics, fitting emotions, and population ethics

Apr 8 •

Richard Y Chappell

Anti-Philanthropic Misdirection

When anti-EAs resemble anti-vaxxers

Apr 5 •

Richard Y Chappell

What "Effective Altruism" Means to Me

Nothing obviously objectionable?

Apr 4 •

Richard Y Chappell

Moral Misdirection

Honest communication aims to increase importance-weighted accuracy

Apr 3 •

Richard Y Chappell

March 2024

Risk Aversion as a Humility Heuristic

Considering higher-order uncertainty

Mar 29 •

Richard Y Chappell

Hypothetical Imperatives and Normativity

If you want normativity on the cheap...

Mar 26 •

Richard Y Chappell

Contestable vs Question-Begging Arguments

They're not the same thing!

Mar 24 •

Richard Y Chappell

Voting Systems for Academic Departments

What works best?

Mar 15 •

Richard Y Chappell

An extract from my latest book: The Buddhist and The Ethicist

Co-written by Peter Singer and Shih Chao-Hwei | Published by Text Publishing, Melbourne & Shambhala, Boulder, Colorado

Published on Bold Reasoning with Peter Singer • Mar 15

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