Philosopher releases 'Walking the Walk' draft after 8 years: on ethicists who don't live their principles
eschwitz · x · 2026-09-12
Philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel released a draft of 'Walking the Walk,' on ethicists who advocate moral principles without living by them. Worked on since 2018 through endless redrafts, the paper argues that everyday choices offer richer concrete examples of broad moral principles than paragraph-length thought experiments, and that principles like vegetarianism are hard to fully grasp without living by them—his own research tradition on ethicists' actual behavior continues here.
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