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Action Theory (Philosophy of Action), Ideas, Metaethics, Practical Rationality, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality, Value Theory March 8, 2017March 8, 2017

Decisive Reasons and Rational Supererogation

I have a roughly formulated and half-baked inquiry: Suppose that rationality endorses maximizing utility, but there is room for rational supererogation, and so it is […] Read More

Ideas, Moral Psychology, Normative Ethics, Reasons and rationality March 7, 2017March 7, 2017

Can psychopaths make judgments of worth?

There’s a longstanding dispute about whether psychopaths are morally responsible. For our purposes, just stipulate that psychopaths are blind to moral reasons, that is, they […] Read More

Ideas, Metaethics, Practical Rationality, Reasons and rationality July 8, 2016September 8, 2016

Objective and subjective akrasia

Suppose that there is both an objective ‘ought’ and a subjective ‘ought’. Which of these two kinds of ‘ought’ figures in the anti-akrasia principle that […] Read More

Call For Papers, Practical Rationality, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality March 14, 2016August 7, 2023

SLACRR 2016 Program

Registering for the St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality is free and easy: http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/registration.html SLACRR 2016 Program All talks are in the Moonrise […] Read More