Here is another great looking conference, this time organised by Brad Hooker. The topic is deontology and this is at the University of Reading on […] Read More
Author: Jussi Suikkanen
Pekka Vayrynen has put together a workshop on Value Concepts at the University of Leeds on 5-6 March. The programme looks great:Matti Eklund (Cornell) […] Read More
In Sir P.F. Strawson’s brilliant 1949 paper ‘Ethical Intuitionism’, I came across a short and seemingly powerful argument for the buck-passing accounts of value and […] Read More
We’ve been having a reading group on Gibbard’s Thinking How to Live. It’s been really interesting to go back to it after there having been […] Read More
There is a powerful argument that is frequently used in metaethics (and elsewhere). It’s based on the idea that disagreement requires shared concepts. Thus, by […] Read More
BBC has estimated that, in the UK, about 85.000 women were raped in the year 2006. In the US, during the same year, 92.455 rapes were reported […] Read More
Workshop: "Naturalism: Ethical and Metaphysical"University of LeedsSeptember 18-19, 2009 This workshop brings together researchers interested in issues concerning naturalism in moral philosophy and in metaphysics […] Read More
One thing I’ve become much more aware of in Leeds is the distinction between semantics and metasemantics. There is a worry that ignoring this distinction is creating […] Read More
I’ve just been reading Christine Korsgaard’s new book Self-Constitution – Agency, Identity, and Integrity. It’s a marvelous book, one of the best I’ve read in […] Read More