Consider the following scenario: MINERS: 10 miners are trapped in a flooding mine; they are either all in shaft A or all in shaft B. […] Read More
Category: Metaethics
The next discussion in our collaboration with Ethics will be on Mark van Roojen’s “Moral Rationalism and Rational Amoralism,” which is now freely available here. We […] Read More
The program for the Madison Metaethics Workshop is up. Looks great. I've put it here below the fold; for the program and more information about […] Read More
I’ve been thinking of new ways to make progress in the cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism debate. Suppose that I sincerely judge that eating meat is wrong […] Read More
Anyone doing the UK summer conference tour should consider stopping at a great-looking workshop on Theoretical and Practical Reasons which Ulrike Heuer has put together […] Read More
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
As most of you know, Daniel Star and Stephen Kearns have recently made an interesting, original proposal of what reasons are generally speaking (see, for […] Read More
Moral epistemology is an area of metaethics that I feel most uneasy about. I’ve done the least research in this area, and I’m never quite […] Read More