What is utilitarianism? That may seem like an easy question — the kind of thing one might include on a quiz in one’s Intro to […] Read More
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Jason was in Syracuse yesterday, and told me about this interview with Simon Blackburn from a couple of years ago: http://www.cfh.ufsc.br/ethic@/ETICA1~1.PRN.pdf Blackburn’s explanation of quasi-realism […] Read More
This is the sixth of a series of posts in which I try to make clear the different embedding difficulties that, as a family, are […] Read More
In his recent Moral Realism: A Defence, Russ Shafer-Landau argues that “moral facts are themselves intrinsically reason-giving, i.e. supply reasons for action regardless of the […] Read More
It continues to be fairly quiet here at the Soup, and I suspect at least part of the reason is that the kind of posts […] Read More
Been a little slow here at the Soup, so I thought I’d let you know a little about what I’ve been reading, namely, Hilary Putnam’s […] Read More
Here’s a news item (login required [free account]) that some readers might find interesting: the CDC has set up a permanent ethics panel on the […] Read More
Here’s another entry on the paradox of deontology (the first was here). Let a deontological restriction be what Jeffrey Brand-Ballard has appropriately called a nonminimizing […] Read More
A couple of months ago, on Orangephilosophy, I posted descriptions of the following two lives: Baby. A three-week-old baby, Baby, dies in an accident. Had […] Read More