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
Category: Discussions
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
Thank you all for helping me, in the previous thread, to clarify what is at stake in being able to provide, for expressivism, a logic […] Read More
I have started in on a paper in which I show how expressivists can use a certain kind of semantic theory. The semantic theory, which […] Read More
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
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