I’m currently working on a paper about terrorism, and I decided my first post would concern one of the main issues in that paper. It […] Read More
Category: Discussions
The title of this post is a bit overstated; what I’m really wondering is whether Virtue Ethics and Contractualism are not viable. I take it […] 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
Blogging on PEA Soup has been light lately, which I’ll armchair-diagnose as a symptom of getting slammed with various other tasks at the moment. (At […] 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
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