One venerable objection against the principle that all motivation derives from desire points to the motive of duty, or practical necessity, as phenomenological evidence of […] Read More
Category: Discussions
Like many other philosophers, I reject consequentialism in favour of a more deontological approach to ethics. That is, I favour a moral theory that implies […] Read More
Many Kantians have reservations about Kant’s rather strident view concerning self-killing. In the Lectures on Ethics in particular, Kant’s rhetoric pulls no moral punches. Kant […] Read More
Reasons are facts that count in favor of some intentional attitude, such as a belief, a desire, or an intention to act. And reasons to […] Read More
I had a conversation earlier this year with a faculty member who was recently appointed to emeritus status at a research university, a story that […] Read More
When I first met Jonathan Dancy three years ago, I remember him mentioning the early emotivist papers in Analysis. One night year and a half […] Read More
Greetings, all. Sorry that my first official post will be so mundane, but here goes. I’ll be teaching an upper-level undergraduate course in metaethics for […] Read More
File this under “meta-meta-ethics” Don Loeb and Michael Gill currently defend a ‘variability thesis’, the view that ordinary moral thought and language contains both cognitivist […] Read More
It is often supposed that people are not morally responsible for their behavior when that behavior is the product of non-culpable ignorance, but the issue […] Read More