Here are the main speakers at the next St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality, May 20-22, 2012. Keynote: Jonathan Dancy (Texas/Reading), "More Right than Wrong"
Category: Metaethics
I’ve been reading David Enoch’s great Taking Morality Seriously. Enoch defends Robust Realism according to which there are judgment-independent non-natural (causally inert) normative properties. One […] Read More
Consider that following plausible wide scope requirement, a requirement that many philosophers endorse (including, I believe, M. Bratman, G. Harman, J. H. Sobel, and J. […] Read More
Deadline for abstracts: January 20, 2012 (for instructions, see below) The relation between moral judgments and moral motivation is a central issue in ethical theory. According […] Read More
Subjunctive analyses of what we ought to do often appeal to what we would do (or what we would want ourselves to do) if we […] Read More
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and RationalityUM-St. LouisMay 22-24, 2011Moonrise Hotel The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to announce the program […] Read More
I want to discuss a problem for ethical intuitionism and an argument that seems to show that ethical intuitionists either have to embrace skepticism or […] Read More
From Russ Shafer-Landau: A call for abstracts for the Eighth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 16-18, […] Read More
In “Two Distinctions in Goodness” (Philosophical Review 1983), Christine Korsgaard argued that the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic goodness should not be conflated with the […] Read More