We're very pleased to announce that our next discussion of a paper published in Ethics will be on Jennifer Hawkins' piece, “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia". […] Read More
Category: Discussions
It is often thought that one central advantage of expressivism over subjectivism is that expressivism can make sense of moral disagreements. Whereas according to subjectivism, […] Read More
For those of you interested in nonideal/ideal theory debates in political philosophy, I thought I’d let you know that Bowling Green State University is hosting […] Read More
Imagine a person who is not at all motivated to help others. I don’t just mean a person who doesn’t care about others as much […] Read More
My collegue Jeremy Williams is organising two cracking conferences this summer here at Birmingham. The first one of these, Ethics, War and Intervention, will be […] Read More
Below is the program for the next SLACRR. You can learn more and register at the website. I hope to see you in St. […] Read More
Many philosophers (such as J. H. Sobel, R. J. Wallace, G. Harman, M. Bratman, and J. D. Velleman) endorse something along the lines of the […] Read More
Warren Quinn’s puzzle of the self-torturer is supposed to show that cyclic preferences can be rational, and that, in cases where they are, rationality can […] Read More
Welcome to our newest Ethics discussion, on Agnieszka Jaworska & Julie Tannenbaum's "Person-Rearing Relationships as a Key to Higher Moral Status"! The paper has been […] Read More