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
Category: Discussions
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
I apologise for this but I want to return to the Doctrine of Double Effect. One thing that Tim Scanlon said in the comments was […] Read More
Sometimes I hear people (well, philosophers) compare the goodness of one thing with the badness of another. They say, for example, the goodness of pleasure […] Read More
Here is a worry for (pure) expressivism. I think it is new. I am not sure how cogent it is, and this is probably not […] Read More
At the moment, I’m interested in imperfect duties and, in particular, the duty of beneficence, and I need some help tracking down the relevant literature […] Read More