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
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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
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