Here’s a philosophical problem I’ve been thinking about lately. The problem is that an ethical position I like conflicts with a metaphysical position I like. […] Read More
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After reading this interview in which Rev. John Paris, a bioethicist at Boston College, discusses the Terry Schiavo case, I began to wonder about the […] Read More
Proponents of intrinsic value have sometimes attempted to argue for its existence via the following sort of regress argument: Something is valuable; but […] Read More
In his classic paper “Moral luck,” Thomas Nagel claims that Kant denied the relevance of moral luck (i.e., Kant denied that any factor outside an […] Read More
This post over at E.G. got me thinking. E.G. writes: "Consider two demands: 1. A moral theory must be able to accommodate many or most […] Read More
In a recent article, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen presents an argument against “real self” views of autonomy and responsibility that, on its face, seems fairly troublesome ("Identification […] Read More
I recently received an e-mail from a former student proposing a good question: She had recently begun trying to read the contemporary literature in philosophical […] Read More
I promise to avoid bad puns in future titles. David Copp advances a “society-centered” theory (SCT) of the justification of moral standards in Morality, Normativity, […] Read More
In Madison, Jamie, echoing Nicholas Unwin, posed a problem for expressivists generally, and for Gibbard specifically. As I understand it, the problem is that expressivists […] Read More