This looks like a great conference but I couldn’t help feeling irked that here was another conference with no women on the program. I’m never quite sure what to do about this since by the time these are announced it’s too late to do much. […] Read More
In the previous post, I applied Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument to argue for the claim that there must be some moral truths that cannot be known. Now I want to look at one of the best arguments against the view at the other end of the […] Read More
Sharon Lloyd, the noted Hobbes scholar, has started a new blog, Hobbes Today, focusing on Hobbes’ moral and political philosophy. There are already intriguing posts about Hobbes’ theories of human nature and of political sovereignty, and given the usual quality of Sharon’s work, I’m sure […] Read More
Intuitively, it’s clear that ‘wrong’ entails ‘ought not’; and the term ‘right’ seems simply to be the contradictory of ‘wrong’ (after all, ‘It’s not right’ seems at first glance to entail ‘It’s wrong’, and obviously nothing can be both right and wrong). But then it […] Read More
The UT-Austin philosophy department is pleased to announce a week-long graduate student workshop on philosophical methodology, August 12 – August 16. Possible workshop subtopics include (but are not limited to) intuition, conceptual analysis, reflective equilibrium, reduction, and ontological commitment. Already confirmed speakers include Julia Driver […] Read More
As I understand it, an obligation dilemma exists where an agent faces a choice situation in which two (or more) of her available act alternatives are morally obligatory and yet it is impossible for her to perform both of those two act alternatives. Does anyone […] Read More
Rumor has it that there’s a presidential election scheduled in the U.S. this fall, which raises the perennial ethical question: Is there a duty to vote? Harry Brighouse provides some excellent arguments for there not being such a duty, but here I’ll lay out a […] Read More
THICK CONCEPTS: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK 3rd-5th July, 2009.
Geoff Sayre-McCord chatting about free will, metaethics, and stuff HERE.