The Proto-Frege-Geach Problem

When I first met Jonathan Dancy three years ago, I remember him mentioning the early emotivist papers in Analysis. One night year and a half ago, I was working at the library and things weren’t really going anywhere so I thought I’d check those out. […] Read More

Teaching metaethics to undergraduates

Greetings, all.  Sorry that my first official post will be so mundane, but here goes.  I’ll be teaching an upper-level undergraduate course in metaethics for the first time this fall.  I’m wondering if anyone who has taught metaethics at this level can recommend an anthology […] Read More

Call for Papers – BSET 2008

CALL FOR PAPERSTHE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY2008 CONFERENCEUniversity of Edinburgh, UK14-16th July 2008Invited Speakers: Barbara Herman (UCLA), Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)Papers are invited for the annual conference of the British Society for EthicalTheory, to be held at the University of Edinburgh. The subject area is […] Read More

Incoherentism

File this under “meta-meta-ethics” Don Loeb and Michael Gill currently defend a ‘variability thesis’, the view that ordinary moral thought and language contains both cognitivist and non-cognitivist elements.

Agency Conference

PEA Soup readers may be interested in this conference on Agency.  Agency at the Intersection    We are pleased to announce the 2007 Conference on Agency and Responsibility, to be held at Indiana University, Bloomington on September 13-15, 2007.

Part II, Expressivism and Logic

Thank you all for helping me, in the previous thread, to clarify what is at stake in being able to provide, for expressivism, a logic based on the preservation of content rather than one based on the (ir)rationality of holding certain combinations of attitudes. In this […] Read More

Expressivism and Logic

I have started in on a paper in which I show how expressivists can use a certain kind of semantic theory. The semantic theory, which originated with Kirk Ludwig, is based on the story Kirk and I tell here about the semantics for nondeclaratives and, […] Read More