Category: Metaethics

Josh’s post about Russ Shafer-Landau’s moral nonnaturalism and a strand in Michael’s post about Mackie and disagreement brought back to me something that I have […] Read More

Here at PEA Soup, Jason Kawall recently raised the possibility that moral realism might be open to a Euthyphro Dilemma kind of objection, which got […] Read More

I recently completed an independent study with a student interested in Mackie’s error theory, and we spent a good deal of time discussing Mackie’s argument […] Read More

The series on “The Embedding Objection” continues. The first post explained what I take expressivism to be. The second post distinguished four main kinds of […] Read More

I have been asked by several people to post my “official” formulation of the metaethical theory that I favor, what I call “Expressive-Assertivism.” (You can […] Read More

This is the third of a series of posts in which I try to make clear the different embedding difficulties that, as a family, are […] Read More

There have been a number of very interesting and insightful comments on my original post about responsibility and identity (regarding the fission case). In order […] Read More

This is the second of a series of posts in which I try to make clear the different embedding difficulties that, as a family, are […] Read More

It is taken to be a platitude that one person can’t be morally responsible for the actions of someone else (see, e.g., Ted Sider’s book […] Read More