In another thread, A.N. Prior’s attempted refutation of the is/ought gap came up. Here’s one of Prior’s examples: a. Tea-drinking is common in England.b. Therefore, […] Read More
Category: Discussions
I’ve been struggling with the question, What feature must a requirement exhibit in order to qualify as a categorical imperative?
I really liked BEARS, though it seems to be extinct now. Uriah and Josh contributed a few juicy PEARs some weeks ago. I like this […] Read More
In their recent “Moral Fictionalism vs. The Rest,” (Australasian J. Phil. 83 (Sept. 2005), 307-330), Daniel Nolan, Greg Restall, and Caroline West do a very […] Read More
The deadline for submitting papers to the Online Philosophy Conference, which looks like it will be an exciting electronic event, has been extended to January […] Read More
It’s holiday time, and lots of good food is being ingested, so I figured this might be a good opportunity to explore an issue that’s […] Read More
Suppose you find yourself in a situation in which you can either save A and B or save C. A, B and C are relevantly […] Read More
So here’s something fun. You can take a "moral sense" quiz, through a project at Harvard, by clicking here. It takes about 15 minutes, and […] Read More
In my post on the semantics of ‘ought’, I intimated that my end-relational analysis of ‘ought’ could also handle categorical uses, but tried to bracket […] Read More