UPDATE!! SCIENTIFIC PROOF THAT A SUBSTANTIVE PROPERTY OF FINAL VALUE IS A PHILOSOPHER'S FANTASY (AND THAT EVEN PHILOSOPHERS DON'T TRULY BELIEVE IT). (Sorry for the […] Read More
Author: Steve Finlay
Los Angeles, May 20-22, 2013 Deontic or normative modality is a subject of common interest for researchers in several fields, including moral philosophy, metaethics, linguistic […] Read More
The seventh annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford Campus of Felician College on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at […] Read More
This conference will be in Los Angeles on May 20-22, 2013. Note that the deadline for submitting an abstract is extended by one week to […] Read More
Deontic or normative modality is a subject of common interest for researchers in several fields,including moral philosophy, linguistics, formal logic, and metaethics. However, over the […] Read More
I thought I might direct people’s attention to Brian Weatherson’s blog, Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, where the journal Philosophy Compass is trying out a new […] Read More
One venerable objection against the principle that all motivation derives from desire points to the motive of duty, or practical necessity, as phenomenological evidence of […] Read More
In my post on the semantics of ‘ought’, I intimated that my end-relational analysis of ‘ought’ could also handle categorical uses, but tried to bracket […] Read More
For my first post, here’s something on the semantics of ‘ought’ that I’ve been working on. I’m pretty excited about it, so maybe someone can […] Read More