For a very long time, many philosophers thought that knowledge is justified true belief. But Gettier pointed out how one can have justified true belief […] Read More
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Just something to pass along: I conducted several tests of PEA Soup’s URL at a most interesting site, Great Firewall of China. The site determines […] Read More
I have a bleg. Can anyone recommend papers in ethics — preferably on value-theory or meta-ethics — that (i) are good pieces of philosophy, (ii) […] Read More
Several of you might have heard of this excellent philosophical time waster before, but it’s new to me (apparently it was first devised by Wilfrid […] Read More
How much does it cost a department to interview job candidates at the Eastern APA? And is the information about the job candidates that one […] Read More
The standard view of Kantianism has been that it firmly denies that the right is grounded in the good.
Does anyone hold the following view? If so, who? Where? When? Why? The notion of desire is to be understood/analyzed in terms of the notion […] Read More
Does moral theory drive philosophy of action? Here’s what I mean. A main question of philosophy of action is what an action is. It seems […] Read More
Suppose Unrestricted Desire Satisfactionism is true. (UDS, is roughly, the view that how well one’s life is going for oneself is determined by the extent […] Read More