As I argued in my previous post, I think that ‘ought’ implies ‘securable’, and, from that, it follows that agents can only be required to […] Read More
Author: David Sobel
David Sobel works in ethics, practical reason, theory of value, and political philosophy. His book From Valuing to Value was published by OUP in 2016. He co-edits Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. His dog is better than your dog.
I used to think that we ought to do the best we can. After debating the issue with Richard Chappell, doing some more research, and […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYSOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE MAY 20-22, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS: The fourth annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford campus of Felician College on Saturday, April […] Read More
Currently, I’m working on a book entitled Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality. (Click on the link to be taken to a web site where […] Read More
Suppose that a subject, S, is in some less-than-ideal epistemic position with respect to both the relevant normative facts and the relevant non-normative facts – […] Read More
“The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University is pleased to announce residential Faculty Fellowships for the Incomparability and Measurement of […] Read More
Mission PEA Soup is a blog designed to provide a forum for discussing philosophy, ethics, and academia. Its mission is to transcend geographical barriers so […] Read More
The Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a residential fellow for the academic year 2010-11. For more info, see here: http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/call-for-applications.php.