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
Category: Discussions
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
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
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