When the four of us got together and started PEA Soup a couple of years ago, we all lived in Southern California and met regularly as part of a reading group. It seems fitting, then, to celebrate PEA Soup’s second birthday (coming up this June […] Read More
I’ve been doing work on a paper on the boundaries and nature of the moral community recently, and I’ve got a section in there on adults with high-functioning autism. In trying to work out the relation between guilt, moral motivation, and moral responsibility, I’ve found […] Read More
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