Expressivism, or more generally moral anti-realism, is an area of tremendous philosophical endeavor these days, despite being counterintuitive to plain persons and a research program […] Read More
Category: Discussions
After having contributed one whole substantive post to this blog, I’m now going to take selfish advantage of the power of this public forum to […] Read More
Advocates of moral dilemmas claim that there are possible cases in which no action open to an agent is morally permissible. If we translated this […] Read More
As we all know saving the differences is difficult. Distinguishing between realists and anti-realists is coming increasingly difficult. For me, this is a fascinating topic. […] Read More
Sometimes you wonder whether your own philosophical convictions block your ability to fairly evaluate the arguments of others. In my case, my anti-relativism is one […] Read More
Below Matt Zvolinski argued that in teaching and researching applied ethics systematic moral theory should play only a small role and can even be confusing […] Read More
There is an intuitionistic view in Metaethics that is often ridiculed (Mackie is a good laugh at this point, so is Blackburn). Already for that […] Read More
The following are some thoughts I’ve been mulling over in anticipation of a lecture I will be giving at CSU Long Beach’s Applied Ethics Center […] Read More