Think of the person who loves you more than anyone else in this world does. And now think about how that person would feel if […] Read More
Category: Discussions
I’d like to raise what I imagine may be a touchy subject but one worth the attention of those in the philosophy profession: We occasionally […] Read More
A lot of moral theorists are sceptics about Act Consequentialism (AC). For example, some of these sceptics think that we need to qualify AC with […] Read More
Here’s a quote from Scanlon: A rational person who judges that there to be sufficient grounds for believing that P normally has that belief, and […] Read More
Having posted on Mackie’s argument from relativity some time ago, I’d like to return to it now and ask whether the argument (or at least […] Read More
Consider the following passage from Scanlon: [B]eing good, or valuable, is not a property that itself provides a reason to respond to a thing […] Read More
I think Heath’s previous excellent post on the problems of expressivism brings up another problem – a version of the Frege-Geach problem, or a new […] Read More
As regular readers of this blog will no doubt have noticed, I have a continuing fascination with expressivism. It both attracts and repels me, much […] Read More
Something has always bothered me about Parfit’s treatment of Scanlon’s contractualism both in his "Justifiability to Each Other" and in the new Climbing the Mountain. […] Read More