When it comes to addressing trade offs, utilitarianism is typically considered to be the normative theory par excellence. Utilitarians are maximising consequentialists, meaning that they believe whether an act is right or wrong depends solely on its consequences and that we should choose to perform the acts that lead to...
I recently published a book called What Are They Thinking? Conversations with Australian Philosophers. One reason I did this was purely selfish—I wanted an excuse to keep having interesting philosophical conversations after finishing my PhD. Another reason was that having had some experience teaching philosophy to adults who had...
Dangerous Driving On Christmas Day of 2022, Marcellin Siliai got into an argument with Charlotte Tyrell, the mother of most of his children, which culminated in his accidentally running over and killing her. Here’s how the New Zealand Herald describes the incident: As Siliai started the car and began...
