My local library fines its patrons ten cents per overdue book per day. They will let you continue to borrow books as long as your […] Read More
Author: Heath White
This post was inspired by a story in the WaPo, the relevant detail of which is that, due to the economic hardship in Greece, some […] Read More
Supererogatory actions are those which are (1) morally meritorious or praiseworthy, but (2) not the fulfillment of a moral obligation or duty. I was having […] Read More
Does moral responsibility require the ability to do otherwise? For example, must one have been able to refrain from an evil deed if one is […] Read More
A conference announcment / call for papers that PeaSoupers might want to know about: see here for the official flyer. The goal of this conference […] Read More
PeaSoupers may be interested to read a series of essays sponsored by the Templeton Foundation on the question, "Does Moral Action Depend on Reasoning?" […] Read More
Many people teach their small children the myth of Santa Claus: that a magical being who lives at the North Pole brings presents on Christmas […] Read More
One of the more serious attempts to provide an expressivist semantics for moral terms (broadly construed) is Gibbard’s. The basic idea is that they express […] Read More
Here is a worry for (pure) expressivism. I think it is new. I am not sure how cogent it is, and this is probably not […] Read More