There are three conferences coming up for those of us with interests in the ethics of children and families. The first is one I organized […] Read More
Category: Discussions
The following is conceivable: the features that make an action right are not the features which one ought to attend to when reasoning about whether […] Read More
In his new book, Moral Value and Human Diversity, Robert Audi introduces a brand-new ethical theory called pluralist universalism. It is not altogether new but […] Read More
What was later called expressivism about ethics, and what we can call Wittgensteinian approaches to religion, had their origin in the same place: empiricist theories […] Read More
Welfare Egalitarianism (hereafter, Egalitarianism) is the view that it is intrinsically good for people to be equally well off. Or more generally: it is intrinsically […] Read More
Many philosophers want to use desires to account for rationality, reasons, well-being, and so on. Few of them use actual desires in this project. This […] Read More
I have a question regarding Buck-Passing about good — two questions, really — and Doug kindly gave me guest poster status so I could ask […] Read More
As reported by Leiter HERE , our fellow Pea-Souper David Sobel has accepted an offer from University from Nebraska, Lincoln to become a ‘Chambers Professor […] Read More
Many philosophers today are pursuing a program according to which the notion of a “normative reason” is the most fundamental normative notion. Thus, these philosophers […] Read More