On behalf of all of us here at PEA Soup, I extend a warm welcome to Jason Kawall, who has graciously accepted our invitation 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.
Let’s start off with a rough characterization of what a normative reason (hereafter, simply “reason”) is. The fact that p will be the case if […] Read More
According to the fitting-attitudes analysis of value (the FA analysis), to be valuable is to be a fitting object of a pro-attitude. For instance, on […] Read More
It seems that a life that gets progressively better (the Uphill Life or UHL) is often preferable to one that gets progressively worse (the Downhill […] Read More
On behalf of all of us here at PEA Soup, I extend a warm welcome to Scott Wilson, who has graciously accepted our invitation to […] Read More
Ben at OrangePhilosophy and Jonathan at Fake Barn Country have been discussing whether it’s more harmful to the victim if (1) a three-week-old baby is […] Read More
On behalf of all of us here at PEA Soup, I extend a warm welcome to Troy Jollimore, who has graciously accepted our invitation to […] Read More
I’ve always been puzzled by the standard account of posthumous harm that we find in the literature. The standard account of posthumous harm—the one expounded […] Read More
As Michael Slote (1984) has rightly pointed out, “ordinary moral thinking seems to involve an asymmetry regarding what an agent is permitted to do to […] Read More