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Note: This post concludes our review of Tyler Cowen’s new book “Stubborn Attachments.” Although we have expressed deep skepticism about moral discourse (especially utilitarian or consequentialist theories of ethics), we have also taken the position that if we must talk … Continue reading →

Note: This is our penultimate post reviewing Tyler Cowen’s beautiful new book “Stubborn Attachments.” Thus far, we have focused on only one aspect of Tyler Cowen’s new book: the novel claim that we may owe moral duties to future generations. … Continue reading →

Note: This is part six of our review of “Stubborn Attachments.” We restated Tyler Cowen’s “six critical issues” and discussed three of these issues in our previous post. Here, we shall consider the other three issues: rules, rights, and common … Continue reading →

Note: This is part five of our review of Tyler Cowen’s new book “Stubborn Attachments.” Also, we won’t be blogging this weekend, so our next post will appear on Monday (12/3). As we mentioned in our previous post, Tyler Cowen … Continue reading →

Note: This is part four of our review of Tyler Cowen’s new book “Stubborn Attachments.” We now find ourselves on the horns of a dilemma! On the one hand, we have resolutely dismissed utilitarian theories of population ethics. (To sum … Continue reading →

Note: This is part three of our review of “Stubborn Attachments.” In our previous post we rechristened the basic premise of population ethics as Cowen’s Axiom (the notion that we may owe moral duties to future generations) in honor of … Continue reading →

Note: This post is part two of our review of “Stubborn Attachments.” We posed the following question in our previous post: What ethical, moral, or legal duties, if any, do we owe to future generations? We also noted that this … Continue reading →

This fascinating question takes center stage in Tyler Cowen’s beautiful new book Stubborn Attachments (pictured below). Professor Cowen, a polymath who teaches economics at George Mason University, combines a branch of moral philosophy called “population ethics” (pioneered by the late … Continue reading →

Via @MarcEdelman: how about selecting Alabama, Clemson, Notre Dame, and Central Florida (#UCF) — the only four undefeated Division I teams this late into the 2018 college football season — to play in the college football championship?

A meta-thread of some of my favourite Twitter threads! — Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) November 12, 2018 Hat tip: The Amazing Tyler Cowen.