As everyone knows, David Chalmers argues in The Conscious Mind against materialism and for dualism about phenomenal properties. On this view, conscious experiences are a […] Read More
Author: Jussi Suikkanen
Dale Jamieson and Robert Elliot (hereafter J&E) have recently formulated a new version of consequentialism. It’s called ‘progressive consequentialism’ (this is in Philosophical Perspectives 2009). […] Read More
HERE IS A LINK to a video dialogue between two PEA Soupers, Jamie Dreier and Mark Schroeder. This is on the recently launched online 'Philosophy TV […] Read More
According to Bernard Williams, what is true about relativism is that the more distant cultures are historically and culturally, the less willing we are to […] Read More
I’ve been thinking of new ways to make progress in the cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism debate. Suppose that I sincerely judge that eating meat is wrong […] Read More
Anyone doing the UK summer conference tour should consider stopping at a great-looking workshop on Theoretical and Practical Reasons which Ulrike Heuer has put together […] Read More
I’m starting to warm up to the objectivist form of act-consequentialism (partly because I think it lacks content) which Doug defended in the previous post. […] Read More
As most of you know, Daniel Star and Stephen Kearns have recently made an interesting, original proposal of what reasons are generally speaking (see, for […] Read More
Moral epistemology is an area of metaethics that I feel most uneasy about. I’ve done the least research in this area, and I’m never quite […] Read More