I’m very pleased to announce that Eric Wiland has agreed to become a PEA Soup contributor. Eric, who has regularly commented on posts here before, is Associate Professor at University of Missouri–St. Louis. Welcome aboard, Eric! We look forward to your posts.
Eric, this is also great news. It’s wonderful to have you aboard!
Welcome Eric!
Welcome!
Hey, thanks for having me. This is a great blog, and I know I’ll get a lot from it, and I hope to give something back too.
I am especially enjoying all the recent posts and commments about esoteric theories and decision procedures. I have many muddled thoughts about those topics, so I am looking forward to refining them in light of the collective wisdom here.
I have been relcutant to participate in an endeavor like this, because all too frequently when I write something electronically, I regret it the next day. So please excuse me if you find me correcting myself post hoc. I usually blame the whiskey.
I might as well put my cards on the table, and announce that as far as moral philosophy goes, I have some (unoriginal) idiosyncracies. Here are three:
1) I think that the word “good” is always attributive.
2) I don’t know what the adjective ‘moral’ and the adverb ‘morally’ mean most of the time philosophers use those words.
[Put 1 and 2 together and you’ll see that I just go batty when people talk about “what’s morally good”.]
3) While I think I know what a good human action is, I have no idea how to make sense of the thought that some action-option is ‘right’ or the one you all-things-considered ought to do. I do HAVE those thoughts, but I can’t find a good account of them. I worry that I, like most others, am just confused when I try to express them.
So I’ve got some handicaps. I’ll try not to let them muddy up other discussions too much.
Go Cards!
It’s morally good to have you. Welcome aboard.
Doug, I knew I’d regret floating that meatball over the plate….
Yeah, c’mon Doug, that just wasn’t right. Oh, wait…
(Typepad can’t shut us down for excessive philosophy-geek jokes, can they?)