Studies in the History of Ethics, a web-based, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high quality research and reviews in the history of ethics, announces a special call for papers for a symposium to be published in winter 2006. TOPIC: Mill’s Ethics (in commemoration of the […] Read More
A question for those better tutored in (or perhaps more sympathetic to) consequentialism than I: How are we to understand the claim that consequentialists count the "value of the action itself" as part of the value of an outcome? I’ve encountered this claim numerous times, […] Read More
The latest ethics alert can be found below the fold.
Publicly Available: The 3rd Annual Metaethics Workshop: CHRIS HEATHWOOD, Fitting Attitudes and Welfare WILLIAM FITZPATRICK, Robust Ethical Realism, Non-Naturalism and Normativity GEOFF SAYRE-McCORD, Hume on Practical Morality and Inert Reason MARION HOURDEQUIN, A Naturalist Account of External Reasons TOM […] Read More
Procurable from the author: Simon Keller, Self-Effacement in Ethical Theory — It is often argued that consequentialism and deontology, but not virtue ethics, are self-effacing, and that this is a reason to prefer virtue ethics. I argue that virtue ethics is self-effacing too, and that […] Read More
Here’s what Scanlon says: “the purely teleological conception of reasons…[holds that,] since any rational action must aim at some result, reasons that bear on whether to perform an action must appeal to the desirability or undesirability of having that result occur, taking into account also […] Read More
This is the last installment of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain. As Dave noted a couple of weeks ago, the most recent version of the manuscript includes a new final chapter, Chapter 13. We hadn’t built this chapter into our […] Read More
Procurable from the author: Pamela Hieronymi, The Will as Reason (pdf, updated 8/4/06) I here defend an account of the will as practical reason—or, using Kant’s phrase, as “reason in its practical employment”—as against a view of the will as a capacity for choice, in […] Read More
(This marks the eleventh of twelve “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we will discuss the final chapter, Chapter 13, of the July 22nd version of the manuscript, which can be found here.) […] Read More