Moral epistemology is an area of metaethics that I feel most uneasy about. I’ve done the least research in this area, and I’m never quite […] Read More
Category: Discussions
In a couple of conversations that I’ve had recently, I’ve been surprised to find that several moral philosophers believe that when we are morally obliged […] Read More
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and Rationality UM-St. Louis May 23-25, 2010 Moonrise Hotel The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to […] Read More
I'm working on a paper about the ontology of reasons and have some questions about motivating reasons that I was hoping some readers here might […] Read More
The Pope has recently launched an attack on the UK's anti-discrimination legislation. The Pope seems to be referring to certain provisions in the government's Equality […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau has the 2010 Workshop announcement up. Here is Russ's note: Dear Colleague,I’m pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Seventh Annual […] Read More
Over at The Business Ethics Blog, Chris MacDonald has a very interesting post on ethical issues surrounding the labor dispute at the Westin St. Francis, […] Read More
“Scheffler’s paradox” is a puzzling feature of the moral beliefs of most deontologists. According to these beliefs, it is wrong for you to kill an […] Read More
Here’s the familiar hard case: At 50, younger-Meredith (YM), just diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, signs an advance directive (AD) expressing her preference that her doctors do […] Read More