Value objectivists like myself tend to think of practical reasoning as the process by which an agent forms beliefs about what things have value, and […] Read More
Category: Discussions
PEA Brain Dave Shoemaker, paraphrasing his colleague, Steve Wall, suggested only half in jest that all philosophers who are sports fans really want to write […] Read More
As many of you know, Michael Kelly, the executive director of the American Philosophical Association, recently resigned his position. This is just the latest evidence […] Read More
This is my Left2Right wanna-be post. Many evangelical Christians recently advocated various state measures that would have prolonged the life of Terri Schiavo. I doubt […] Read More
One of our readers has suggested that one of us post something on last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine piece on stem cells and animals. […] Read More
A quick alert to those who haven’t already seen it over at Fake Barn Country (or elsewhere): there’s a new ethics journal, the Journal of […] Read More
Recently I gave some lectures on Kant’s moral philosophy in my introductory ethics class. After explaining the “first formulation” of the Categorical Imperative — act […] Read More
All are invited to attend the tenth annual Cal Poly Ethics Conference, to be held May 5-6. (Yours truly is an organizer). The topic is […] Read More
Fred Feldman (Pleasure and the Good Life) and Chris Heathwood (“The Problem of Defective Desires”) point out the following paradox for desire satisfaction theory, which […] Read More