May will be a busy month here at the PEA Soup. After a discussion of Jennifer Hawkins's excellent paper on 5th of May, we have our first discussion […] Read More
Author: Jussi Suikkanen
It is often thought that one central advantage of expressivism over subjectivism is that expressivism can make sense of moral disagreements. Whereas according to subjectivism, […] Read More
My collegue Jeremy Williams is organising two cracking conferences this summer here at Birmingham. The first one of these, Ethics, War and Intervention, will be […] Read More
This is merely a request for information. I know that there are lots and lots of applied ethics journals covering bioethics, health care ethics, global ethics, environmental […] Read More
I’ve been recently interested in subjectivism and how serious the objections to it are in the end. In part, this is a project of thinking […] Read More
I know that a lot philosophers I have met and a lot of you who read this blog are avid readers of novels. Because of […] Read More
There are many ethical theories that think of right and wrong in terms of what consequences the general adoption of moral principles would have. Contractualists […] Read More
All of you are of course aware that here in the UK there has been huge phone hacking scandal. This scandal lead to the Leveson Inquiry on Culture, Practice, […] Read More
Moore, of course, thought that intrinsic value is the central evaluative property. Admittedly, specifying what counts as an intrinsic property is an interesting and difficult […] Read More