Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin
Biographic Data
| ID | 8995612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell-Yellin |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL-YELLIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7348-083X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Racism Is Necessarily Immoral
Almost everyone in the philosophical literature, no matter their account of racism, adopts one of two views about the immorality of racist conduct. They either take it to be a function of the attitudes that issue in it or of the societally-imposed harms that result from it. This article seeks to show that neither view captures the complete picture. To properly account for the full range of cases, it helps to invoke a distinction between two sense…
Deprivationism
Deprivationism is the label given to the rather intuitive view that death is bad for the deceased because it deprives them of future goods. This paper considers two versions of this view, the one typically found in the literature and the one originally offered by Thomas Nagel. After laying out the key differences between them, it is argued that we have good reasons to prefer Nagel’s deprivationism to the typical version. Along the way, considerat…
Reflections on Meaning and Immortality
This article revisits Bernard Williams’s influential argument that an immortal human life would be meaningless and argues for a shift in focus. There’s good reason to keep Williams’s framework for evaluating the prospects of meaning in continued life. But there’s also good reason to abandon the conception of human psychology that he, and most of the vast literature in response, uses to fill in that framework. Focusing on values, as opposed to des…
A View of Racism
This article takes a close look at familiar philosophical analyses of racism and argues that they have two shortcomings: (1) they do not offer proper guidance in combating racism, and (2) they misrepresent the analytical relationship between race and racism. A different view of racism, one that adopts a genealogical, as opposed to analytical, approach is laid out. And it is argued that this view is better able to account for what racism is and gu…
Aligning with the Good
In “Constructivism, Agency, and the Problem of Alignment,” Michael Bratman considers how lessons from the philosophy of action bear on the question of how best to construe the agent’s standpoint in the context of a constructivist theory of practical reasons. His focus is “the problem of alignment”: “whether the pressures from the general constructivism will align with the pressures from the theory of agency.” He thus brings two lively literatures…
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Aligning with the Good
In “Constructivism, Agency, and the Problem of Alignment,” Michael Bratman considers how lessons from the philosophy of action bear on the question of how best to construe the agent’s standpoint in the context of a constructivist theory of practical reasons. His focus is “the problem of alignment”: “whether the pressures from the general constructivism will align with the pressures from the theory of agency.” He thus brings two lively literatures…
A View of Racism
This article takes a close look at familiar philosophical analyses of racism and argues that they have two shortcomings: (1) they do not offer proper guidance in combating racism, and (2) they misrepresent the analytical relationship between race and racism. A different view of racism, one that adopts a genealogical, as opposed to analytical, approach is laid out. And it is argued that this view is better able to account for what racism is and gu…
Reflections on Meaning and Immortality
This article revisits Bernard Williams’s influential argument that an immortal human life would be meaningless and argues for a shift in focus. There’s good reason to keep Williams’s framework for evaluating the prospects of meaning in continued life. But there’s also good reason to abandon the conception of human psychology that he, and most of the vast literature in response, uses to fill in that framework. Focusing on values, as opposed to des…
Deprivationism
Deprivationism is the label given to the rather intuitive view that death is bad for the deceased because it deprives them of future goods. This paper considers two versions of this view, the one typically found in the literature and the one originally offered by Thomas Nagel. After laying out the key differences between them, it is argued that we have good reasons to prefer Nagel’s deprivationism to the typical version. Along the way, considerat…
Racism Is Necessarily Immoral
Almost everyone in the philosophical literature, no matter their account of racism, adopts one of two views about the immorality of racist conduct. They either take it to be a function of the attitudes that issue in it or of the societally-imposed harms that result from it. This article seeks to show that neither view captures the complete picture. To properly account for the full range of cases, it helps to invoke a distinction between two sense…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Racism (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Analytic philosophy (1 work) · Applied philosophy (1 work) · Contemporary philosophy (1 work)