We are pleased to announce that Matt McGrath, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here in the Soup! Matt focuses on issues in epistemology and metaphysics, including how these issues relate to the objectivity […] Read More
Moral epistemology is an area of metaethics that I feel most uneasy about. I’ve done the least research in this area, and I’m never quite happy with what I read. However, I have tried to get at least started. So, this post is a Groundwork […] Read More
In a couple of conversations that I’ve had recently, I’ve been surprised to find that several moral philosophers believe that when we are morally obliged to do an act, this “act” that we’re obliged to do is an act-token, not an act-type. In my view, […] Read More
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and Rationality UM-St. Louis May 23-25, 2010 Moonrise Hotel The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to announce the first St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR), which will take place May 23-25, 2010. Information […] Read More
I'm working on a paper about the ontology of reasons and have some questions about motivating reasons that I was hoping some readers here might help me with. It's hard for me to say exactly what motivating reasons are for and so it's hard for […] Read More
Here is another great looking conference, this time organised by Brad Hooker. The topic is deontology and this is at the University of Reading on the Saturday 17th of April. The programme is: 10.00 David Owens (Univ. of Sheffield)11.45 Peter Vallentyne (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia)2.15 Philip […] Read More
Pekka Vayrynen has put together a workshop on Value Concepts at the University of Leeds on 5-6 March. The programme looks great:Matti Eklund (Cornell) “Misevaluation, Moral Semantics, and Moral Realism” Janice Dowell (Nebraska) “A Flexible, Contextualist Account of ‘Ought’” Antti Kauppinen (Amsterdam) […] Read More
The Pope has recently launched an attack on the UK's anti-discrimination legislation. The Pope seems to be referring to certain provisions in the government's Equality Bill which is currently being debated in Parliament — specifically, the provisions that clarify the conditions in which an employer […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau has the 2010 Workshop announcement up. Here is Russ's note: Dear Colleague,I’m pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Seventh Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 24-26, 2010. Stephen Darwall (Yale) will be […] Read More