Let's get a little down to earth here at PEA Soup: I may have to confront an actual ethical quandary in a few months, and […] Read More
Category: Discussions
Russ has released the program for the 2009 Madison Metaethics Workshop. Needless to say, it looks good.
Perhaps three isn't too many, but it does feel unwieldy. Nevertheless, it seems to me these are all different distinctions in value, even though many […] Read More
First, thanks to Doug and the other editors for the invitation! I'm happy to be here. For my first post, I wanted to share an […] Read More
Thanks to everyone for sharing their intuitions about the cases in my previous post. Here I’m going to back up and say something about my […] Read More
I’ve just been reading Christine Korsgaard’s new book Self-Constitution – Agency, Identity, and Integrity. It’s a marvelous book, one of the best I’ve read in […] Read More
Right now I’m thinking about the proper descriptive semantics for bare, normative modal statements, statements that use expressions like “must”, “ought”, and “may” normatively but […] Read More
Tim Scanlon's new book Moral Dimensions provides an elegant account according to which an agent's mental states are relevant to the question as to whether that agent […] Read More
The distinction between the 'right' and 'wrong' kind of reasons is taken to play at least three important roles: 'right' kind but not 'wrong' kinds […] Read More