The fact that only humans above a certain age can be morally virtuous, rather than babies or cats, means that that being moral requires some cognitiv…

- Nomy Arpaly

I think that if your tenure case depends on your proving what you thought was a mathematical theorem and the proposed theorem turns out to be false j…

- Nomy Arpaly

If I make a stupid decision but don't execute it because I'm, say, lazy, then I'm lucky, not rational. However, at other times a person acts for good…

- Nomy Arpaly

A very tall man once asked a question after my talk. Before beginning his question, he explained that the reason he was standing up is not to be inti…

- Nomy Arpaly

Moral virtues and intellectual virtues are very different from each other, and moral virtue has to do with motivation, not cognition. Moral virtue re…

- Nomy Arpaly

Sometimes we deliberate - for example when we plan a long trip or - if we are not math wizards - when we solve long division problems. However, if we…

- Nomy Arpaly

When you find yourself reluctant to sit on a chair because it had unexpectedly collapsed in the past you might shake your head and think "there, I'm …

- Nomy Arpaly

I am an atheist. I don't think there's anything divine. Beautiful, impressive, awe-inspiring - sure, but not divine.

- Nomy Arpaly

For those of us who want to have control over all our mental states, compatibilist substitutes - such as desiring what we desire to desire - will alw…

- Nomy Arpaly