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...
Perhaps my earliest memory (I must have been two or three) places me on the floor of an aunt’s gloomy sitting room, staring passively at a framed print which hung on one of the walls. An eerie image, it depicted a merry-go-round on which a handful of stiff, almost...
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...
