Many philosophers doubt the possibility of unknowable moral truths. E.g. Thomas Nagel said (in The View from Nowhere, p. 139): I do not believe that the truth about how we should live could extend radically beyond any capacity that we might have to discover it […] Read More
I've had moral dilemmas on my mind lately, and I'm troubled by a common argument given against the possibility of genuine moral dilemmas. I'm hoping people can help diagnose what's troubling me. And I apologize in advance for the disorganized thinking. Here's the argument: Suppose […] Read More
Supervenience-based arguments for moral naturalism have tended to apply only to moral properties, not to relations. One might have thought that they could easily be generalised so as to apply to relations as well. However, as I'll argue here, this may not be so easy.
We are pleased to present the fourth 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 120, Issue 4 is Mikhail (Mike) Valdman's "Outsourcing Self-Government" (open access […] Read More
We are pleased to announce the fourth installment of our collaboration with Ethics, in which PEA Soup hosts a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal makes a copy of that article freely available (for a limited time) to […] Read More
According to Bernard Williams, what is true about relativism is that the more distant cultures are historically and culturally, the less willing we are to make moral appraisals that concern them. We don’t think that their ethical views are incorrect, and we won’t adopt reactive […] Read More
The 3rd Annual Miami Workshop on Ethics and Mind will take place on November 20th-21st, 2010, at the University of Miami. We are pleased to announce that the Keynote speaker will be John Doris. Graduate students are hereby invited to submit essays of 5000-10000 words […] Read More
Some of our readers may be interested in this new collection of essays just published in Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics on the general topic of personal identity and bioethics. There are excellent papers by Eric Olson, Marya Schechtman, Tim Campbell & Jeff McMahan, James Delaney […] Read More
Congratulations to our own Christian Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University, who is Principal Investigator and Project Leader for The Character Project, which has recently been awarded a $3.67 million dollar grant from the Templeton Foundation […] Read More