I’m curious what people think about the specialty ethics journals – which ones do you read? Which ones do you think are good? Which ones do you think other people read and think are good?
I’ve been meaning to post this question for a while, but kept thinking that I ought to do some proper research on the topic. Fortunately, I’ve now given up on that thought. So here’s the source of the question. I keep finding authors that seem […] Read More
Thomas Nadelhoffer has drawn my attention to an exciting event, the first On-Line Philosophy Conference.The conference is being held in April, and the list of invited speakers is impressive. Among the prominent ethics types are John Martin Fischer, Alfred Mele, Julia Driver, Anthony Duff, Thomas […] Read More
Those familiar with the satirical publication The Onion ("America’s Finest News Source") might have seen this already, but for those who haven’t, here’s a gem that hits close to home.
This past weekend’s metaethics conference in Madison was wonderful in a number of ways, and while we’ll post a brief recap once the link to pictures from the conference is available, for now I want to focus on just one of those wonderful aspects, namely, […] Read More
In this article , Rebecca Saxe reviews three areas of experimental psychological research bearing on questions of moral psychology. The first are the various experiments, conducted by Marc Hauser and others, soliciting individuals’ responses to Foot’s trolley problem. The results are surprisingly consistent across the […] Read More
Just a reminder of some upcoming ethics events. Feel free to post any upcoming ethics events that you think would be of interest to our readers. Second Annual Metaethics Workshop, September 16-18, 2005, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Click here for more information on the workshop. […] Read More
It seems to me that there are not only reasons for action, but also reasons for belief and even reasons for having certain feelings and attitudes. But even if you don’t accept that there are non-instrumental normative reasons to want something or to prefer one […] Read More
If there are moral experts, this would seem to have important implications for a number of issues in philosophical ethics. So who is a moral expert? Here are some thoughts of my own. [1] A moral expert is someone to whom one could go for […] Read More