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PEA Soup

A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia

Author: Peter A. Graham

Ideas Posted onApril 7, 2016September 8, 2016

A Degrees-of-Moral-Wrongness Argument that the Numbers Do Count

John Taurek (1977) argued that in conflict situations–situations in which we can save some people only by failing to save some others–the numbers don’t count–i.e., […] Read More

Ideas, Normative Ethics Posted onSeptember 10, 2015August 3, 2016

Does Actualism Have A Problem With Supererogation?

Actualism, as I understand it, is the view according to which in determining what it is permissible to do at a time, t, one should […] Read More

Ideas, Normative Ethics Posted onApril 20, 2015August 5, 2016

Moral Theory and “Action-Guidingness”

All over there are arguments that employ the following premise: Necessarily, the true moral theory is action-guiding. I must confess that I don’t really have […] Read More

Ideas, Uncategorized Posted onApril 4, 2015August 5, 2016

An Argument Against Subjectivism about Moral Wrongness

Here’s an argument against subjectivism about moral wrongness I’ve been kicking around. (By ‘subjectivism’ here I just mean any theory which is not “objective”—that is, […] Read More

Normative Ethics Posted onAugust 18, 2012

No Pro Tanto Duty to Keep A Promise

I have a very short argument to the effect that the promising-relevant pro tanto moral obligation is not a pro tanto moral obligation to keep […] Read More

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