In “Two Distinctions in Goodness” (Philosophical Review 1983), Christine Korsgaard argued that the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic goodness should not be conflated with the distinction between final and instrumental goods. As it happens, I believe that she is entirely right that these two distinctions […] Read More
When: Thursday July 16th– Friday July 17th, 2011 Where: University of Auckland Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2011
See here: http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/nmarkos/BSPC/BSPC2011/BSPC_2011/Call_for_Papers.html.
There's a workshop at Princeton on Moral Expertise to be held April 29-May 1, 2011. More info can be found here: http://www.princeton.edu/~smcgrath/meconf.html.
At first sight, there seems to be a blatant contradiction between Bernard Williams’s two central theories: his view about thick concepts and his existence-internalism about reasons (many others have hinted at this too – Gibbard and Scanlon, for instance). I want to quickly sketch what that […] Read More
I’m interested in defending consequentialism against allegations that it represents an inherently perverse perspective, or that the consequentialist agent would have a morally bad character. For example, critics allege that the consequentialist agent would have ‘one thought too many’, that they would treat others as […] Read More
[My apologies if this is well-trodden ground. I am pretty ignorant of the ought-implies-can literature, and quick check over articles didn't reveal anybody discussing what I'm about to write.] In general, philosophers take it for granted that a person morally ought to X if and […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS FROM FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS. NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, MAY 19-21, 2011 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: PHILIP PETTIT AND R. JAY WALLACE SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The deadline is February 15, 2011.
We are pleased to present the latest installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from an issue of the journal. The article selected from Volume 121, Issue 1 is Gunnar Björnsson and Stephen Finlay, "Metaethical Contextualism […] Read More