There’s an interesting interview with Peter Singer in todays Salon.com. The webpage is posted beneath the fold.
Re: Putnam’s Introduction to Ethics Without Ontology In this post, I’ll briefly discuss the main moves made by Putnam in the introductory chapter. I’ll focus on some of the things that struck me as interesting or provocative.
Hi Friends, I’ll be reading Putnam’s relatively new book, Ethics without Ontology over the next month, and will post summaries and commentaries on each chapter here. My goal is to post on a chapter a week. My first post will be on the Introduction, […] Read More
A recent issue of the New Yorker has Malcolm Gladwell’s discussion of the recent book Why? by Columbia sociologist Charles Tilly. Since I’ve not read the book, I can only comment based on the discussion, but Tilly’s book might have implications for how we understand […] Read More
The On-line Philosophy Conference has officially begun. Check it out using the link here or the one under "Other Blogs" below.
Here’s the link to what looks like a very good conference on moral contextualism at the University of Aberdeen on July 4-5, 2006 (among the confirmed speakers are Berit Brogaard, John Greco, John Hawthorne, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Alan Thomas, and Ralph Wedgwood).
Let’s say a theory in normative ethics is subjectivist just in case, according to it, what one ought to do is determined ultimately by the attitudes of some subject or group of subjects, such as the agent himself, the agent’s society, some ideal observer, or […] Read More
In Mike Almeida’s recent post, this topic came up: what is it for a person to harm someone? I’m interested in a more general question: what is it for an event or state of affairs to harm someone? Here’s the view I like best: (H) […] Read More
In his seminal paper, “Death”, Nagel writes the following: Someone who holds that all goods and evils must be temporally assignable states of the person may of course try to bring more complicated cases into line by pointing to the pleasure or pain that the […] Read More