If (like me) you think that it’s more important to making the world a better place that people pay attention to the right things (rather than, say, that they hold the right beliefs), then you have to be struck by the differential in media attention […] Read More
Studies in the History of Ethics, a web-based, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high quality research and reviews in the history of ethics, announces a special call for papers for a symposium to be published in spring 2006. TOPIC: The Ethics of War and Peace […] Read More
Josh Dever is working on a Philosophy Family Tree. He has a new blog where he is collecting information. If you aren’t on the tree, you’re not really a philosopher, so check it out and get yourself on the tree!
Following our earlier discussion about the merits of particularism comes this review by Timonthy Chappell of Jonathan Dancy’s new book, Ethics Without Principles. Book reviewing, I’ve learned, is a genuine art, and this review is a rare achievement: biting, funny, and informative. Check it out!
A call for papers is out for a workshop on moral psychology and moral judgment in Helsinki in December. The invited speakers are Simon Blackburn and Jonathan Dancy, and the deadline for submissions is September 15. Thanks to Jussi Suikkanen for the pointer.
In a very nicely constructed recent paper (“Are ethical judgments intrinsically motivational? Lessons from ‘acquired sociopathy’”, Philosophical Psychology 16 (2003),) Adina Roskies offers a compelling argument against the position she dubs “motive internalism” (others have called it “belief internalism” or “judgment internalism”). Motive internalism states: […] Read More
A Conference at Bowling Green State University April 7-9, 2006
Satisficing consequentialism (SC) is the view that an act is morally right iff its consequences are “good enough.” Michael Slote came up with a few well-known examples in support of SC. One involves a fairy-tale hero who, when rewarded by the gods with whatever he […] Read More
The program for the Utilitarianism 2005 conference (Aug. 11-14 at Dartmouth) has now been posted. Participants include Peter Singer, Shelly Kagan, Frank Jackson, David Brink, Gerald Postema, Lori Gruen, Fred Feldman, Garrett Cullity, Alastair Norcross, Kryster Bykvist, Michael Zimmerman, and many others, including several PEA […] Read More