University of Sydney, Aug 6-7Organizer: Richard Joyce (richard.jo…@arts.usyd.edu.au) SPEAKERS: David Copp (UC Davis)Justin D'Arms (Ohio State)Janice Dowell (Nebraska-Lincoln)Jamie Dreier (Brown)Josh Gert (Florida State)Daniel Jacobson (University of Michigan)Don Loeb (Vermont)David Sobel (Nebraska-Lincoln)Kim Sterelny (ANU) Further info, including venue, will be announced in due course. There is […] Read More
One of the more serious attempts to provide an expressivist semantics for moral terms (broadly construed) is Gibbard’s. The basic idea is that they express plans. “I should pack” expresses my plan to pack; “You should pack” expresses a contingency plan for the (unlikely) case […] Read More
Let's get a little down to earth here at PEA Soup: I may have to confront an actual ethical quandary in a few months, and I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts about how I ought to respond. Budget woes in the California State University […] Read More
Russ has released the program for the 2009 Madison Metaethics Workshop. Needless to say, it looks good.
Perhaps three isn't too many, but it does feel unwieldy. Nevertheless, it seems to me these are all different distinctions in value, even though many people write as if they are the same: 1. Extrinsic-intrinsic 2. Conditional-unconditional 3. Priceable-priceless Whether something has extrinsic or intrinsic […] Read More
First, thanks to Doug and the other editors for the invitation! I'm happy to be here. For my first post, I wanted to share an issue that has been puzzling me. Ultimately, this relates back to issues in voting ethics, but I want to submit […] Read More
We're pleased to announce that Jason Brennan has accepted our invitation to become a contributor. Here's a brief biography, which I borrow from his web site: "JASON BRENNAN (Ph.D., 2007, University of Arizona) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Research, at Brown University, and a member […] Read More
Thanks to everyone for sharing their intuitions about the cases in my previous post. Here I’m going to back up and say something about my interest in the cases. Among linguists, the canonical view about modal expressions like “might”, “may” and “must” is that they […] Read More
I’ve just been reading Christine Korsgaard’s new book Self-Constitution – Agency, Identity, and Integrity. It’s a marvelous book, one of the best I’ve read in long time. It presents an appealing picture of actions, agency, practical deliberation, normativity, morality, and interpersonal relations, it draws from […] Read More