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
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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
Moral luck obtains wherever the moral evaluation of an agent is affected by circumstances beyond that agent’s control. But the judgment that the moral evaluation […] Read More
Expressivism holds that moral judgments are, at least in part, expressions (in some appropriate sense of ‘express’) of pro- or con-attitudes. Since it is typically […] Read More
In a recent review essay, “Morality and Virtue: An Assessment of Some Recent Work in Virtue Ethics“, David Copp and PEA Soup’s own David Sobel […] Read More
Mackie’s queerness argument (QA), in its metaphysical part, goes something like this. Putative facts about our moral obligations supposedly involve objective values that carry normativity […] Read More