Chazal exhort us to strive for ever higher goals. It says in והילא יבד אנת הבר ) גכ : א ( ךכיפל דחאו דחא לכ םירמוא ויהי , בקעיו קחצי םהרבא השעמל יישעמ ועיגי יתמ . (When will my deeds equal those of my forefathers)? Likewise, the concept of shleimus ( " תומילש " ), which can be translated as perfection, is also an honored goal in chazal. On the other hand, clinical experience and research indica...

We introduce a simple solution to help consumers manage choices between healthy and unhealthy food options: vice-virtue bundles. Vice-virtue bundles are item aggregates with varying proportions of both vice and virtue, holding overall quantity constant. Four studies compare choice and perceptions of differently composed vice-virtue bundles relative to one another and to pure vice and pure virtu...

This essay extends my side of a discussion begun earlier with Duncan Pritchard, the recent author of Epistemic Luck. Pritchard’s work contributes significantly to improving the “diagnostic appeal” of a neo-Moorean philosophical response to radical scepticism. While agreeing with Pritchard in many respects, the paper questions the need for his concession to the sceptic that the neo-Moorean is ca...