Many philosophers doubt the possibility of unknowable moral truths. E.g. Thomas Nagel said (in The View from Nowhere, p. 139): I do not believe that […] Read More
Author: Ralph Wedgwood
Brian Leiter has posted a short essay developing a Nietzschean argument for moral scepticism on the web site of the National Humanities Center On the […] Read More
At the end of this month, I am due to respond to Brian Leiter's essay "Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche", on the National […] Read More
In a couple of conversations that I’ve had recently, I’ve been surprised to find that several moral philosophers believe that when we are morally obliged […] Read More
The Pope has recently launched an attack on the UK's anti-discrimination legislation. The Pope seems to be referring to certain provisions in the government's Equality […] Read More
“Scheffler’s paradox” is a puzzling feature of the moral beliefs of most deontologists. According to these beliefs, it is wrong for you to kill an […] Read More
Unlike many other readers, I am inclined to read Kant as a kind of realist (rather than a “constructivist”) about goodness. Nonetheless, Kant holds a […] Read More
In “Oughts, Options, and Actualism” (Philosophical Review 1986), Frank Jackson and Robert Pargetter defended the “actualist” view that, for every act-type A, you ought to […] Read More
Here is an inconsistent triad of propositions: There are certain pure “ticking bomb” cases (e.g. of the sort that I considered in my last post […] Read More