Why Critics of the PFA Need to Actually Read What NL Theorists WroteInk can be spilled without giving any good to reason to believe an argument is false. Such is the case with a recent attack on Timothy…Oct 30, 2021Oct 30, 2021
Why Jonathan Pearce’s Nominalist Critique of the Perverted Faculty Argument Doesn’t Even Get off…Move over William of Ockham. Jonathan Pearce has joined your ranks. According to Mr. Pearce dogs, cats, human beings, men, women…Mar 1, 20211Mar 1, 20211
Why Beards and Sugarless Chewing Gum Aren’t Refutations of the Perverted Faculty Argument (PFA)What makes human actions good or bad? Eagles are good when they fly and raise their young, oak trees are good when they grow to due size…Feb 3, 20211Feb 3, 20211
Natural Law Theory and Rightly Ordered Sexual Pleasure: Some SyllogismsDoes natural law ethics entail any sort of sexual pleasure is morally good? Traditionally nearly every major natural law theorist (and…Feb 1, 20211Feb 1, 20211
Some Thoughts on Jonathan Pearce’s Unsound Arguments on the Perverted Faculty ArgumentTimothy Hsiao has taken much time to defend what is famously called the perverted faculty argument. In its basic form the argument claims…Dec 21, 20201Dec 21, 20201
Sex and Sexuality: Defending Natural Law Against Pearce’s Straw-manThe natural law account of ethics has some pretty big names behind it: Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Thomas Aquinas, and John Locke to name…Apr 28, 2020Apr 28, 2020
