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Metaethics Posted onAugust 10, 2010

There are unknowable moral truths

Many philosophers doubt the possibility of unknowable moral truths. E.g. Thomas Nagel said (in The View from Nowhere, p. 139): I do not believe that […] Read More

Normative Ethics Posted onAugust 8, 2010

What does ‘ought’ implies ‘can’ imply about moral dilemmas?

I've had moral dilemmas on my mind lately, and I'm troubled by a common argument given against the possibility of genuine moral dilemmas. I'm hoping […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onAugust 4, 2010

Supervenience, Properties, and Relations

Supervenience-based arguments for moral naturalism have tended to apply only to moral properties, not to relations.  One might have thought that they could easily be generalised so […] Read More

Discussions Posted onAugust 2, 2010

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Mikhail (Mike) Valdman’s “Outsourcing Self-Government,” with commentary by Steve Wall

We are pleased to present the fourth installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from an […] Read More

Discussions Posted onJuly 27, 2010

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Mikhail (Mike) Valdman’s “Outsourcing Self-Government”

We are pleased to announce the fourth installment of our collaboration with Ethics, in which PEA Soup hosts a discussion of one article from each […] Read More

Applied Ethics Posted onJuly 21, 2010

Personal Identity and Bioethics Essays

Some of our readers may be interested in this new collection of essays just published in Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics on the general topic of […] Read More

News and Events, Normative Ethics Posted onJuly 17, 2010

Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics, January 2011

Mark Timmons has posted the program for the first annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics. I've put the whole program below the fold; you can […] Read More

Discussions Posted onJuly 17, 2010

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: July Installment

On the heels of the quality discussion of Mark van Roojen's article, Ethics yesterday released (online) its current July issue.  We are pleased to announce […] Read More

Discussions Posted onJuly 12, 2010

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Mark van Roojen’s “Moral Rationalism and Rational Amoralism,” with commentary by Russ Shafer-Landau

We are pleased to present the third installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from an […] Read More

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