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
If one of your papers (or a new draft) has recently become available online and you would like me to link to it in the next Ethics Alert, then please send me an email or an email attachment (.doc or .rtf) with the relevant information. […] Read More
This marks the 10th of 11 virtual meetings on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain. First, though, a programming note: next week, we’ll be discussing chapter 12 of the latest version of Parfit’s manuscript, available here. As it turns out, though, there’s a 13th chapter in […] Read More