I am getting ready to teach logic again. It’s been a while, because I grew discontent with the standard curriculum. Maybe PEA Soupers can help […] Read More
Author: Heath White
Many philosophy departments require a course in the history of (usually early) modern philosophy for their majors. My impression of the way such courses are […] Read More
Yes, well, I realize that the genuine article is not transferable. I am teaching a 400-level course on virtue ethics next spring. I’m looking for […] Read More
The “Open Question Argument” is supposed to establish something important for (meta)ethics; namely, that the property of being good (or value, or of what one […] Read More
Practical conditionals are a problem. We all use conditionals like, “If you want a great steak, you ought to go to Manny’s Steak House.” But […] Read More
Many philosophers draw a distinction between moral and non-moral reasons for action, or motives, such that questions like, “Are moral reasons always overriding?” and “Can […] Read More
The following is conceivable: the features that make an action right are not the features which one ought to attend to when reasoning about whether […] Read More
What was later called expressivism about ethics, and what we can call Wittgensteinian approaches to religion, had their origin in the same place: empiricist theories […] Read More
As regular readers of this blog will no doubt have noticed, I have a continuing fascination with expressivism. It both attracts and repels me, much […] Read More