I want to try to develop an argument against deontological libertarian moral principles that treat a wide range of our basic rights as flowing from […] Read More
Category: Discussions
The Character Project at Wake Forest University is very excited to launch its funding competition entitled "New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Character." This $300,000 […] Read More
PIKSI 2011 GRADUATE ASSISTANT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The sixth annual meeting of Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) will take place from July […] Read More
One of my favourite objections is the conditional fallacy. It reveals a structural flaw in theories which attempt to give a philosophical account of something in terms […] Read More
I want to discuss a problem for ethical intuitionism and an argument that seems to show that ethical intuitionists either have to embrace skepticism or […] Read More
From Russ Shafer-Landau: A call for abstracts for the Eighth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 16-18, […] Read More
PITTSBURGH AREA PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUMSaturday, September 10, 2011Washington and Jefferson CollegeWashington, PennsylvaniaKeynote Speaker: Karl Schafer (University of Pittsburgh)
In “Two Distinctions in Goodness” (Philosophical Review 1983), Christine Korsgaard argued that the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic goodness should not be conflated with the […] Read More
At first sight, there seems to be a blatant contradiction between Bernard Williams’s two central theories: his view about thick concepts and his existence-internalism about […] Read More