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
Category: Metaethics
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and Rationality UM-St. Louis May 23-25, 2010 Moonrise Hotel The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to […] Read More
I'm working on a paper about the ontology of reasons and have some questions about motivating reasons that I was hoping some readers here might […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau has the 2010 Workshop announcement up. Here is Russ's note: Dear Colleague,I’m pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Seventh Annual […] Read More
In Sir P.F. Strawson’s brilliant 1949 paper ‘Ethical Intuitionism’, I came across a short and seemingly powerful argument for the buck-passing accounts of value and […] Read More
We’ve been having a reading group on Gibbard’s Thinking How to Live. It’s been really interesting to go back to it after there having been […] Read More
Currently, I’m working on a book entitled Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality. (Click on the link to be taken to a web site where […] Read More
Jamie and Mark have already had some very helpful things to say about this in email correspondence. I wanted to open up the discussion and […] Read More
There is a powerful argument that is frequently used in metaethics (and elsewhere). It’s based on the idea that disagreement requires shared concepts. Thus, by […] Read More