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
After having contributed one whole substantive post to this blog, I’m now going to take selfish advantage of the power of this public forum to request our readers’ help with an issue I’ve been working on. I have an idea that seems original to me, […] Read More
Advocates of moral dilemmas claim that there are possible cases in which no action open to an agent is morally permissible. If we translated this into Gibbard-speak, it would come out roughly, “Sometimes there’s nothing it is okay to do.” But such a claim cannot […] Read More