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Response posted on October 23, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
Your question raises many issues. Here are three:1) If something is natural for humans, isn't it permissible? 2) If someone performs an action, or a group has a practice, that enables them to survive under exceptionally harsh conditions, isn't...
Animals, Ethics Show

Response posted on September 12, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
I don't agree with Soble's claim that "without rigor, philosophy is nothing." Philosophy can be a source of insight, a glimpse into a completely different way of thinking about things, a moment of doubt, an invitation to reflection, the...
Happiness, Philosophy, Rationality Show

Response posted on September 12, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
There's a lot that has been and can be said about this issue, but maybe I can suggest one helpful thought. There are really two different questions implicit in your question. One is whether anyone or anything has...
Ethics Show

Response posted on September 12, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
Another issue here is whether someone "has the right" to eat meat, even if they know full well where it came from. Suppose Smith claims to "have the right" to eat a slab of beef because she killed the...
Animals, Ethics Show

Response posted on July 30, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
There are a few points that may be relevant to your thinking:1) There is a substantial difference between 32 weeks and 36 weeks in terms of development, long term prognosis, etc. It is also uncommon for a newborn to...
Abortion, Ethics Show

Response posted on July 6, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
I think it is useful to consider the claim in historical context. The idea that there is a (metaphysical?) hierarchy of human worth or value has been very influential at times. People born into certain groups have, by...
Ethics Show

Response posted on March 20, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
It seems to me that the legislator is misrepresenting the argument for charging young men more than young women. The argument is that insurance companies calculate risks based on statistics they gather about groups. Even though the brother...
Feminism Show

Response posted on January 22, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
There are at least two different sorts of moral questions one might ask about prostitution and modeling. On one hand one might ask about the moral status of a particular agent's engaging in modeling or prostitution, and whether one...
Ethics, Sex Show

Response posted on January 16, 2009 by Sally Haslanger
I think there are probably two main reasons: (1) Philosophers don't generally speak to or write for the general public, and most are not suited to the role of public figure . Religious leaders (pastors, priests, ministers) have an...
Ethics, Philosophy, Religion Show

Response posted on December 4, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
There are two separate questions here, one more general and the other more specific. On the general question about whether it is wrong to do something to someone (or for someone?) if they desire it but don't consent to...
Ethics Show

Response posted on December 4, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
In addition to Allen's points, it should be noted that not everyone agrees that the issue of abortion boils down to the issue of whether the fetus is a person. Judith Thomson has famously argued that other persons do...
Abortion Show

Response posted on November 29, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
Good question. If race is a morally irrelevant feature of persons, to what extent should it matter (if at all) in deciding how to act? To begin, it is worth noting that there is huge controversy about what...
Race Show

Response posted on July 24, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
I'm not a Kant scholar so can't say much helpful about your interpretation of Kant (the contradiction test has always puzzled me), but there is an assumption in your argument that seems worth questioning. You suggest that if everyone...
Philosophers Show

Response posted on June 26, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
Good questions! I've been a vegetarian for 38 years and believe that humans should not kill animals for food, clothing or sport. One way to think about this is to ask what it is that makes life valuable....
Animals, Ethics, Existence Show

Response posted on June 11, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
On this topic, I have always been intrigued by Simone de Beauvoir's comments in the introduction to The Second Sex. She says:But we do not confuse the idea of private interest with that of happiness, although that is another common...
Happiness, Value Show

Response posted on March 30, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
There are lots of complex issues here (as in the previous question r#1796 referred to). In response to the earlier question, I focued on rights and obligations because those were the terms in which the question was asked. ...
Ethics, Sex Show

Response posted on February 26, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
As you might expect, the answer to your question depends on what conception of justice you hold. One sort of utilitarian maintains, for example, that the right distribution will be the one that maximizes the greatest amount of welfare...
Justice Show

Response posted on February 26, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
This isn't really an answer to your question but, rather, a point I find interesting about the framing of your question. (You could still ask your question in slightly different terms, of course...) Although the idea of a...
Ethics, Religion, Value Show

Response posted on February 26, 2008 by Sally Haslanger
I don't know anything about Anglophone philosophy programs in Vietnam, but I would guess that if the websites don't have English translations, the program isn't an Anglophone program. If you are interested in translations, one way to find a...
Education Show

Response posted on December 6, 2007 by Sally Haslanger
My first thought in response is that you ar raising an empirical question about human psychology that philosophers aren't in a very good position to answer. It is very hard to tell what is true of human psychology,...
Religion Show




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