Consider that following plausible wide scope requirement, a requirement that many philosophers endorse (including, I believe, M. Bratman, G. Harman, J. H. Sobel, and J. […] Read More
Category: Discussions
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
[I'm never quite sure when it's appropriate to cross-post things from philosophyetc.net here, but Doug suggested that this post might be of broader interest, and […] Read More
Deadline for abstracts: January 20, 2012 (for instructions, see below) The relation between moral judgments and moral motivation is a central issue in ethical theory. According […] Read More
As many of you know, for approximately the last four years the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy has been publishing shorter discussion notes. Starting […] 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
Subjunctive analyses of what we ought to do often appeal to what we would do (or what we would want ourselves to do) if we […] Read More
Previously I have argued here (and here) that the Self-Ownership views associated with left and right-libertarianism have difficulties stemming from their failure to adequately differentiate […] Read More
We are pleased to present the next installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from an […] Read More