Douglas W. Portmore is Professor of Philosophy in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Starting 2024, he'll be the Editor of Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political and Legal Philosophy. His research focuses mainly on morality, rationality, and the interconnections between the two, but he has also written on well-being, posthumous harm, moral responsibility, and the non-identity problem. His latest book entitled, Opting for the Best: Oughts and Options, came out with Oxford University Press in June of 2019. The book concerns what is, perhaps, the least controversial normative…

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