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
Category: Discussions
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
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
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