•  2466
    Why Aren’t I Part of a Whale?
    Analysis 83 (2): 227-234. 2023.
    We start by presenting three different views that jointly imply that every person has many conscious beings in their immediate vicinity, and that the number greatly varies from person to person. We then present and assess an argument to the conclusion that how confident someone should be in these views should sensitively depend on how massive they happen to be. According to the argument, sometimes irreducibly de se observations can be powerful evidence for or against believing in metaphysical th…Read more
  •  483
    This is about the rights and wrongs of bringing people into existence. In a nutshell: sometimes what matters is not what would have happened to you, but what would have happened to the person who would have been in your position, even if that person never actually exists.
  •  424
    Take the sugar
    Analysis 70 (2): 237-247. 2010.
    (No abstract is available for this citation)
  •  251
    Should We Wish Well to All?
    Philosophical Review 125 (4): 451-472. 2016.
    Some moral theories tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay argues that such theories are mistaken. Go ahead and do what is expectedly best for everybody. The argument is based on the thought that when interacting with an individual it is fine for you to act in the expected interests of the individual and that many interactions with individuals may compose an interaction with a …Read more
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    Obligations to Merely Statistical People
    Journal of Philosophy 109 (5-6): 378-390. 2012.
  •  158
    Self-Bias, Time-Bias, and the Metaphysics of Self and Time
    Journal of Philosophy 104 (7): 350-373. 2007.
    This is about the metaphysics of the self and ethical egoism. It can serve as a preview for my manuscript-in-progress below.
  •  147
    Realism About Tense and Perspective
    Philosophy Compass 5 (9): 760-769. 2010.
    On one view of time past, present and future things exist, but their being past, present or future does not consist in their standing in before‐ and after‐relations to other things. So, for example, the event of the signing of the Magna Carta is past, and its being so does not consist in, or reduce to, its coming before the events of 2010.In this paper I discuss arguments for and against this view and view in its near vicinity, perspectival realism. I suggest that perspectival realism is a bette…Read more
  •  110
    The ethics of morphing
    Philosophical Studies 145 (1). 2009.
    Here's one piece of practical reasoning: "If I do this then a person will reap some benefits and suffer some costs. On balance, the benefits outweigh the costs. So I ought to do it." Here's another: "If I do this then one person will reap some benefits and another will suffer some costs. On balance, the benefits to the one person outweigh the costs to the other. So I ought to do it." Many influential philosophers say that there is something dubious about the second piece of reasoning. They say t…Read more
  •  108
    Rationality and the distant needy
    Philosophy and Public Affairs 35 (2). 2007.
    This is my argument for the claim that morality is very demanding indeed. In a nutshell: being consistent is harder than you think.
  •  104
    A puzzle about other-directed time-bias
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2). 2008.
    Should we be time-biased on behalf of other people? 'Sometimes yes, sometimes no'—it is tempting to answer. But this is not right. On pain of irrationality, we cannot be too selective about when we are time-biased on behalf of other people.
  •  89
    Torture – Does Timing Matter?
    Journal of Moral Philosophy 11 (4): 385-394. 2014.
  •  80
    On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects
    Dissertation, Princeton University. 2003.
    In this dissertation I spell out, and make a case for, egocentric presentism, a view about what it is for a thing to be me. I argue that there are benefits associated with adopting this view. ;The chief benefit comes in the sphere of ethics. Many of us, when we think about what to do, feel a particular kind of ambivalence. On the one hand we are moved by an impartial concern for the greater good. We feel the force of considerations of the form: 'all things considered, doing...will make things be…Read more
  •  71
    Perfectly balanced interests
    Philosophical Perspectives 23 (1): 165-176. 2009.
  •  64
    The Limits of Kindness
    Oxford University Press. 2013.
    Caspar Hare presents a bold and original approach to questions of what we ought to do, and why we ought to do it. He breaks with tradition to argue that we can tackle difficult problems in normative ethics by starting with a principle that is humble and uncontroversial. Being moral involves wanting particular other people to be better off
  •  55
    Risk and radical uncertainty in HIV research
    Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (2): 87-89. 2017.
  •  35
    Review of Saul Smilansky, Ten Moral Paradoxes (review)
    Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (5). 2009.
  •  30
    Time – The Emotional Asymmetry
    In Adrian Bardon & Heather Dyke (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Time, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
    In this chapter on time‐the emotional asymmetry, the author addresses two questions concerning future‐bias. The first is with respect to the sorts of things are people future‐biased. Do people want all things that they regard as bad to be in the past, or just some of them? Second, are people justified in being future‐biased? The second question has received a good deal of attention from philosophers. The author aims to survey different answers to the question, and to give a sense of how things p…Read more
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    4 Clarifications
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 41-56. 2003.
  •  15
    On Myself, and Other, Less Important Subjects
    Princeton University Press. 2009.
    Caspar Hare makes an original and compelling case for "egocentric presentism," a view about the nature of first-person experience, about what happens when we see things from our own particular point of view. A natural thought about our first-person experience is that "all and only the things of which I am aware are present to me." Hare, however, goes one step further and claims, counterintuitively, that the thought should instead be that "all and only the things of which I am aware are present."…Read more
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    Index
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 111-114. 2003.
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    References
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 107-110. 2003.
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    6 The Solution
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 73-90. 2003.
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    Notes
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 99-106. 2003.
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    7 Skepticism and Humility
    In On Myself, and Other, Less Important, Subjects, Princeton University Press. pp. 91-98. 2003.