A personal constraint is a constraint on action that arises from certain associative relations, such as kinship, friendship, etc. Typically, they are injunctions to treat […] Read More
Category: Discussions
In the previous post, I applied Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument to argue for the claim that there must be some moral truths that cannot be known. […] Read More
Intuitively, it’s clear that ‘wrong’ entails ‘ought not’; and the term ‘right’ seems simply to be the contradictory of ‘wrong’ (after all, ‘It’s not right’ […] Read More
As I understand it, an obligation dilemma exists where an agent faces a choice situation in which two (or more) of her available act alternatives […] Read More
Rumor has it that there’s a presidential election scheduled in the U.S. this fall, which raises the perennial ethical question: Is there a duty to […] Read More
Geoff Sayre-McCord chatting about free will, metaethics, and stuff HERE.
When teaching ethics courses, I often spend some time with students going over some of the relevant social psychological literature. Studies like the Milgram experimients, […] Read More
Why is Setiya’s principle vulnerable to the problems that I listed in my previous post? What exactly is the diagnosis? I suggest that the diagnosis […] Read More
I’m supposed to be writing a review of Kieran Setiya’s book, Reasons without Rationalism (Harvard UP, 2007). Even though I disagreed with a lot of […] Read More