Below the fold are most of the ethics-related sessions at the upcoming Pacific Division APA. It’s surprising how many more ethics-related sessions there are at the Pacific than at December’s Eastern meeting. If I’ve missed any session that you think should be added to the […] Read More
The deadline for submitting papers to the Online Philosophy Conference, which looks like it will be an exciting electronic event, has been extended to January 31. (I’m guessing there’s still a need for commentators as well.)
Stephen Darwall has advanced the rational care theory of welfare, a metaethical thesis about the meaning of welfare judgments. Somewhat informally, here’s the view: RCTW: to say that some state of affairs x would be good for someone is to say that anyone who cares […] Read More
My previous pre-vital nonexistence is not, and was not, bad for me. My previous pre-vital nonexistence is relevantly similar to my forthcoming post-mortem nonexistence—that is, just as it is true to say that my going out of existence sooner than I might have means that […] Read More
It’s holiday time, and lots of good food is being ingested, so I figured this might be a good opportunity to explore an issue that’s caused me significant moral squirming over the past several years. I’m a carnivore. Yes, I said it. But I’m finding […] Read More
We’ve had past discussions here at PEA Soup about agenda-setting books in ethics and important articles. But like most of you, I’m overwhelmed by the amount of material published. (My fantasy is to hire someone who knows my interests, concerns, predilections, and the like, who […] Read More
Suppose you find yourself in a situation in which you can either save A and B or save C. A, B and C are relevantly similar – all are strangers to you, none is more deserving of life than any other, none is responsible for […] Read More
So here’s something fun. You can take a "moral sense" quiz, through a project at Harvard, by clicking here. It takes about 15 minutes, and you can also register for updates at the end. It’s testing your reactions to various moral scenarios, some of which […] Read More
In my post on the semantics of ‘ought’, I intimated that my end-relational analysis of ‘ought’ could also handle categorical uses, but tried to bracket that claim and those uses out of the conversation. Kris has invited me to explain, however, and so here I […] Read More