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
Category: Discussions
I’ve long been a believer in the principle that if you ought to do something, then it has to be the case that you are […] 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
As Michael Slote (1984) has rightly pointed out, “ordinary moral thinking seems to involve an asymmetry regarding what an agent is permitted to do to […] Read More
A while ago, there was a healthy debate in the Proceedings of the APA about the amount of time that journals take to get a […] Read More
So I was composing a reply to pressing comments from both Brad Hooker and Doug Portmore on the original post on this topic (which can […] 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
According to Hooker’s version of rule-consequentialism (RC), the criterion of rightness is as follows: “An act is wrong if and only if it is forbidden […] Read More