One thing I’ve become much more aware of in Leeds is the distinction between semantics and metasemantics. There is a worry that ignoring this distinction is creating some confusion. Metaethicists have traditionally claimed to be doing moral semantics whereas in fact they have mainly been doing metasemantics. […] Read More
Mark Timmons has posted the program for the first annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (first announced in this call for papers). I've put the whole program below the fold; you can also just go to the workshop web site for the program and more […] Read More
Some time ago, I started the Philosophy Journal Wiki. But as has been rightly pointed out here, the Philosophy Journal Wiki leaves a lot to be desired. Thankfully, Andrew Cullison has taken it upon himself to come up with a better version. I think that what he has in […] Read More
UPDATE, June 26, 2009: Anyone interested in how I ended up developing this argument should check out the paper just published in PPR. One of the more difficult issues for Kantian moral theorists is how, if at all, our moral obligations should be sensitive to […] Read More
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