The Character Project at Wake Forest University is very excited to launch its funding competition entitled "New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Character." This $300,000 […] Read More
Category: Moral Psychology
I’ve been thinking of new ways to make progress in the cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism debate. Suppose that I sincerely judge that eating meat is wrong […] Read More
PeaSoupers may be interested to read a series of essays sponsored by the Templeton Foundation on the question, "Does Moral Action Depend on Reasoning?" […] Read More
In Nature, psychologist Paul Bloom has published a short rejoinder to 'social intuitionist' claims that rational deliberation has no role in shaping our moral convictions. […] Read More
One objection to Humean views about motivation, and to the 'Standard Model' of intention on which intentions are complexes of desire and belief, is that […] Read More
I'm reading Wedgwood's discussion of Normative Judgement Internalism (NJI), which has prompted me to think the following: Philosophers often refer to all-things-considered judgments about what […] Read More
I'm working on a paper about the ontology of reasons and have some questions about motivating reasons that I was hoping some readers here might […] Read More
I’ve just been reading Christine Korsgaard’s new book Self-Constitution – Agency, Identity, and Integrity. It’s a marvelous book, one of the best I’ve read in […] Read More
Tim Scanlon's new book Moral Dimensions provides an elegant account according to which an agent's mental states are relevant to the question as to whether that agent […] Read More