BBC has estimated that, in the UK, about 85.000 women were raped in the year 2006. In the US, during the same year, 92.455 rapes were reported […] Read More
Category: Discussions
In my recent thinking about the ethics of suicide, I've been compelled to confront a methodological issue in practical ethics that I'd not really given […] Read More
We've all had our own horrible experiences with journals — long delays, sloppy or uncharitable referee reports, apparently hasty or otherwise defective decisions, etc. You […] Read More
The following comment, from an anonymous NEH reviewer, was posted over at IHE due to some (length-related?) problem with posting it here. It is worth […] Read More
Workshop: "Naturalism: Ethical and Metaphysical"University of LeedsSeptember 18-19, 2009 This workshop brings together researchers interested in issues concerning naturalism in moral philosophy and in metaphysics […] Read More
Once again the NEH has announced the “Enduring Questions” grant competition: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/EnduringQuestions.html The announcement raises many troubling questions.
One thing I’ve become much more aware of in Leeds is the distinction between semantics and metasemantics. There is a worry that ignoring this distinction is creating […] Read More
UPDATE, June 26, 2009: Anyone interested in how I ended up developing this argument should check out the paper just published in PPR. One of […] Read More
One of the more serious attempts to provide an expressivist semantics for moral terms (broadly construed) is Gibbard’s. The basic idea is that they express […] Read More