I hope Ralph won’t mind if I piggyback on his post, but I’m just getting started on a paper that’s partly about normative necessity, and […] Read More
Category: Ideas
Explorations in ethics.
In “Varieties of Necessity” (in Gendler and Hawthorne, Conceivability and Possibility, Oxford 2002), Kit Fine argued that we need to recognize that certain normative truths […] Read More
Photo credit: Tristan Schmurr Lying is an important social and moral category. We react negatively to liars and their lies. But what is it to […] Read More
As a part of a paper I am working on (very early stages and so the rest will be very sketchy), I would like to […] Read More
This is related to the Finlay thread, but I thought it might raise more general questions. One of the most famous sets of normative statements […] Read More
Thanks to Brad Cokelet and the PEA Soup crew for the invitation to join an illustrious line-up! Earlier this year my first book was published […] Read More
It’s been a couple of days since the Senate released the torture report. The discussion in the press seems to concern (a) whether it really […] Read More
I’m preparing a course on climate change ethics and as a part of this I am reading again John Broome’s fascinating Climate Matters – Ethics […] Read More
Hi, everyone. Meena Krishnamurthy has very generously allowed me to post a few prelimary thoughts on the above topic and I thought I’d shard the […] Read More