In my post on the semantics of ‘ought’, I intimated that my end-relational analysis of ‘ought’ could also handle categorical uses, but tried to bracket […] Read More
Category: Metaethics
For my first post, here’s something on the semantics of ‘ought’ that I’ve been working on. I’m pretty excited about it, so maybe someone can […] Read More
I had to choose between two mutually exclusive courses of action, A and B. I judged that doing A was better, all things considered, than […] Read More
I’ve been meaning to post this question for a while, but kept thinking that I ought to do some proper research on the topic. Fortunately, […] Read More
If there are moral experts, this would seem to have important implications for a number of issues in philosophical ethics. So who is a moral […] Read More
Value objectivists like myself tend to think of practical reasoning as the process by which an agent forms beliefs about what things have value, and […] Read More
I promise to avoid bad puns in future titles. David Copp advances a “society-centered” theory (SCT) of the justification of moral standards in Morality, Normativity, […] Read More
In Madison, Jamie, echoing Nicholas Unwin, posed a problem for expressivists generally, and for Gibbard specifically. As I understand it, the problem is that expressivists […] Read More
Jason was in Syracuse yesterday, and told me about this interview with Simon Blackburn from a couple of years ago: http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/ethic@/ETICA1~1.PRN.pdf Blackburn’s explanation of quasi-realism […] Read More