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Category: Metaethics

Metaethics Posted onMarch 18, 2009

Expressivism and Self-Refutation

Here is a worry for (pure) expressivism.  I think it is new.  I am not sure how cogent it is, and this is probably not […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onFebruary 15, 2009

G. E. Moore and his young godson

There’s a story that I heard from my father many years ago, which I’m tempted to share with PEA Soupers. G. E. Moore was a Cambridge […] Read More

Metaethics, Moral Psychology Posted onJanuary 30, 2009

Expressivism and Moral Certitude

I’ve been reading Krister Bykvist’s and Jonas Olson’s wonderful paper entitled ‘Expressivism and Moral Certitude’ (HERE). Krister and Jonas argue that ecumenical forms of expressivism […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onJanuary 15, 2009

Are relationships intrinsically valuable?

This is my first attempt at a PEA Soup post…thanks for reading this far! It is very common to see philosophers say that special relationships […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onDecember 8, 2008

Well-being and Coherence

I'm attracted to a view of well-being with (roughly) the following structure: x is intrinsically good for y if and only if y believes that […] Read More

Practical Rationality Posted onNovember 7, 2008

The Paper Towel Dispenser Puzzle

Let me be the first PEA Souper to follow the blogging trend of linking to FAILBlog, and direct you to this real-life instance of the […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onNovember 6, 2008

Moral Utterances, Nihilism and the Negation Problem

David Faraci, from Bowling Green State University, has asked me to run the following post on his behalf (he’ll be responding to comments directly): I […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onOctober 29, 2008

Expressivism and Buck-Passing

I’ve been recently reading Gibbard’s and Schroeder’s new books (both brilliant) on expressivism. I’ve started to wonder whether there is a connection between expressivism and […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onSeptember 22, 2008

Experimental Metaethics

Steve Campbell from Michigan kindly directed my attention to a new paper that uses the methods of experimental philosophy to investigate the objectivity-question in metaethics. […] Read More

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