Publicly Available: The 3rd Annual Metaethics Workshop: CHRIS HEATHWOOD, Fitting Attitudes and Welfare WILLIAM FITZPATRICK, Robust Ethical Realism, Non-Naturalism and Normativity […] 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.
Procurable from the author: Simon Keller, Self-Effacement in Ethical Theory — It is often argued that consequentialism and deontology, but not virtue ethics, are self-effacing, […] Read More
Here’s what Scanlon says: “the purely teleological conception of reasons…[holds that,] since any rational action must aim at some result, reasons that bear on whether […] Read More
Procurable from the author: Pamela Hieronymi, The Will as Reason (pdf, updated 8/4/06) I here defend an account of the will as practical reason—or, using […] Read More
(This marks the eleventh of twelve “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we […] Read More
If one of your papers (or a new draft) has recently become available online and you would like me to link to it in the […] Read More
(If one of your papers has recently become available online and you would like me to link to it in the next Ethics Alert, then […] Read More
There’s going to be a conference on Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain at the University of Reading in November entitled "Parfit Meets Critics — Critical Evaluations […] Read More
The following is a Pareto principle that concerns reasons for actions as opposed to the standard preferences for outcomes. I call it The Pareto Reasons […] Read More