Many people teach their small children the myth of Santa Claus: that a magical being who lives at the North Pole brings presents on Christmas […] Read More
Category: Discussions
As a first pass, we may think of Consequentialist moral theories as those that specify the right in terms of the good. But these terms […] Read More
As I argued in my previous post, I think that ‘ought’ implies ‘securable’, and, from that, it follows that agents can only be required to […] Read More
I used to think that we ought to do the best we can. After debating the issue with Richard Chappell, doing some more research, and […] Read More
In Sir P.F. Strawson’s brilliant 1949 paper ‘Ethical Intuitionism’, I came across a short and seemingly powerful argument for the buck-passing accounts of value and […] Read More
All professional philosophers are invited to participate in a survey on publishing in philosophy. It should take about 10 minutes. It will be useful to […] Read More
We are very pleased to announce a new partnership between PEA Soup and the distinguished journal, Ethics. In addition to our regular postings, PEA Soup's […] Read More
We’ve been having a reading group on Gibbard’s Thinking How to Live. It’s been really interesting to go back to it after there having been […] Read More
Currently, I’m working on a book entitled Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality. (Click on the link to be taken to a web site where […] Read More