Traditional rule consequentialism faces a problem sometimes called the ideal world objection—the worry that by looking only at the consequences in worlds where rules are universally adhered to, the ...

Twenty-six-year-old Jane Goodall watched a chimpanzee named David Greybeard strip leaves from a grass stem, creating a tool to fish for termites. This moment would redefine our understanding of what ...

Bernard Williams, the 20th-century moral philosopher, once considered the case of a painter who leaves his young family to devote himself to his art. Certainly the painter deserves criticism because ...