Sometimes philosophy can be even fun. One way to make it fun is to come up with absurd consequences of otherwise plausible views. This time I don’t mean blatantly false consequences but more just funny ones. The other day I was talking with Antti about […] Read More
Does moral theory drive philosophy of action? Here’s what I mean. A main question of philosophy of action is what an action is. It seems to me that the answer to this question is strongly influenced by what type of moral theory one accepts.
Suppose Unrestricted Desire Satisfactionism is true. (UDS, is roughly, the view that how well one’s life is going for oneself is determined by the extent to which one’s desires are satisfied or frustrated.) I have some naive questions about harm given UDS, and some parallel […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Michelle Mason has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here at PEA Soup. Michelle is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota and specializes in ethics, moral psychology, and theories of practical reason. It’s great to […] Read More
The latest ethics alert appears below the fold.
Our US readers are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. The inaugurators of this holiday conceived of it as a time for giving thanks to God for the various good things of this life. In a secular culture—or rather, for secular people—is there anything to […] Read More
There’s been a great discussion on an earlier thread about expressivism. I don’t want to kill it off, but I do want to raise a diferent worry about expressivism. It appears below the fold.
Talking of perhaps irrational features of the philosophical world, sometimes I’m worried that there are certain kinds of double standards in our community. What goes for you, does not go for me, what goes for those people, does not go for certain other group, and […] Read More
Expressivism, or more generally moral anti-realism, is an area of tremendous philosophical endeavor these days, despite being counterintuitive to plain persons and a research program which has a history of making progress only at the cost of eliminating distinctions between itself and its rivals. (OK, […] Read More