Jamie and Mark have already had some very helpful things to say about this in email correspondence. I wanted to open up the discussion and […] Read More
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Suppose that a subject, S, is in some less-than-ideal epistemic position with respect to both the relevant normative facts and the relevant non-normative facts – […] Read More
Saul Smilansky's 10 Moral Paradoxes is a delightful book. The paradoxes are easy to appreciate and though it's written in a light and accessible style, […] Read More
There is a powerful argument that is frequently used in metaethics (and elsewhere). It’s based on the idea that disagreement requires shared concepts. Thus, by […] Read More
Five years ago I was up-to-date on virtue ethics. I've been ignoring it for a few years, so please forgive me if what I'm about […] Read More
In “Oughts, Options, and Actualism” (Philosophical Review 1986), Frank Jackson and Robert Pargetter defended the “actualist” view that, for every act-type A, you ought to […] Read More
Suppose I wanted to get up to speed on the buck-passing-account literature. What three to five things would you say are "must reading"?
At the "start of the year" college meeting last week our dean showed some Powerpoint slides listing the number of majors in each department over […] Read More
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong has given us a new argument for consequentialism (“How strong is this obligation? An argument for consequentialism from concomitant variation,” Analysis 69 (2009): […] Read More