Why is Setiya’s principle vulnerable to the problems that I listed in my previous post? What exactly is the diagnosis? I suggest that the diagnosis […] Read More
Category: Metaethics
I’m supposed to be writing a review of Kieran Setiya’s book, Reasons without Rationalism (Harvard UP, 2007). Even though I disagreed with a lot of […] Read More
Even though I’m not a real expert on his work (and his new book is way too expensive), I’m a huge fan of Timothy Williamson. […] Read More
So here’s an idea I’ve been fiddling with for a while and would be interested to hear if anyone thinks that further exploration of this […] Read More
I find Frank Jackson’s arguments against non-naturalist realism in his From Metaphysics to Ethics fascinating. So I think that, over a longer period of time, […] 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
Anyone interested in metaethics should take a look at Antti Kauppinen’s brilliant slideshows at the University of St Andrews. They can be accessed from the […] Read More
There’s a debate rumbling away on Brian Leiter’s Legal Philosophy blog about whether or not American legal philosophers are remiss for paying so little attention […] Read More
The “Open Question Argument” is supposed to establish something important for (meta)ethics; namely, that the property of being good (or value, or of what one […] Read More