(Moving to the front from Dec. 10) We are pleased to announce the next installment in our collaboration with Ethics, where we host a discussion […] Read More
Category: Discussions
This is the final call for abstracts for the next St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, meeting May 20-22, 2012 in the Moonrise Hotel. […] Read More
The "smoker" has been getting a lot of bad press and deservedly so. See here for some of the relevant links. I have a proposal. […] Read More
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
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