I’m a huge fan of sixties and seventies soul. I also love many of these songs for their lyrics. Some of them offer philosophical insights […] Read More
Category: Discussions
In “Contractualism and Utilitarianism” Scanlon introduces what he calls “philosophical utilitarianism” (PU). PU is the view that “the only fundamental moral facts are facts about individual […] Read More
Winter is a good time for a bit of navel-gazing. Blogging is an interesting medium of philosophical discourse; its virtues and vices, it seems to […] Read More
Having just taught Aristotle’s ethics, I want to discuss an element of his ethical theory that I find plausible but lack a satisfactory account of […] Read More
Al, Betty, Carla, Dan, and Ed accept the claim, “Utilitarianism is true.” They accept it because they have been told it by their revered professor, […] Read More
The great discussion on the previous posting got so much off the topic that I thought I’d start another threat just on the interesting issue […] Read More
Here’s an interesting quote from Stephen Darwall’s entry on “Normativity” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: On one popular view, morality is normative for action […] Read More
As everyone knows, I ‘Reealy’ like Scanlon’s What We Owe to Each Other. One good thing about the book is that every time you read […] Read More
Lately I’ve been thinking about taxonomy of philosophical views, especially in the area of normative ethics. Here’s a fragment of a common taxonomy of ethical […] Read More