Tennessee Value and Agency “TVA” Conference 2014 Conference – November 6-9, 2014Practical Reason, Moral Judgment and Moral Sense, Sensibility and Sentiment in the Moral Life Call For Abstracts […] Read More
Category: Value Theory
Samuel Scheffler’s original and provocative Tanner lectures, now published as Death and the Afterlife (OUP 2013), have already stirred discussion about the importance of humanity’s […] Read More
It is an interesting fact about many of our most important choices, such as the choice of what kind of education to pursue, whether and […] Read More
I was just reading the bit of Gibbard's Thinking How to Live where he talks extensively about the good and the desirable—specifically, about its being […] Read More
I am currently working on a manuscript in which sophisticated consequentialism (SC) plays a role, and I want to make sure I characterize the view […] Read More
Sam Wren-Lewis is organizing a conference on subjective well-being and public policy at Leeds in July that might be of interest to Peasoupers (indeed, several […] Read More
Suppose, for simplicity, that the basis for moral desert is virtue and what’s deserved is well-being. According to the Ratio View of Comparative Desert, for […] Read More
Newman, Lockhart, and Keil recently published their finding that when judging a person’s overall moral goodness or badness across a lifetime, we seem biased toward […] Read More
A lot of interesting work has been done recently on what makes lives meaningful. One brilliant example of this is Susan Wolf’s recent wonderful book […] Read More