First, let me apologize to my fellow bloggers at PEA Soup for taking so long to break my silence. I agreed to join a couple of days before leaving for an extended vacation on the East Coast, and upon my return, the great weather we […] Read More
Let’s start off with a rough characterization of what a normative reason (hereafter, simply “reason”) is. The fact that p will be the case if S Xs is a reason for S to X if and only if that p will be the case if […] Read More
It’s widely believed that maximising consequentialism implies that supererogatory action is impossible. And many philosophers, finding the idea of supererogation intuitively plausible, regard this as a reason to reject maximising consequentialism (and perhaps to adopt some form of “satisficing” consequentialism instead). As I shall argue, […] Read More
According to the fitting-attitudes analysis of value (the FA analysis), to be valuable is to be a fitting object of a pro-attitude. For instance, on one version of the FA analysis, what it is for an object to be valuable for its own sake is […] Read More
I’m happy to welcome Campbell Brown as a new contributor to PEASoup. Campbell’s just finishing up his Ph.D. in philosophy from Australian National University, and he’s a Visiting Professor this year at Bowling Green State University. Welcome aboard!
Michael Cholbi’s recent post on the “murderer at the door” case brought up the issue of duties to self, which reminded me of a paper idea I’ve been meaning to develop, and which I thought I’d run by this crowd first. In contrast to current […] Read More
Well, after a long drive, a tense week in a motel, an extended unpacking period, and a series of orientation sessions at BGSU, I’m happy to say I’m back on the blogosphere again. I wanted to extend a belated welcome to our recent additions Scott, […] Read More
This is the fifth of a series of posts about the different embedding difficulties that, as a family, are thought to present the most pressing objection to expressivism and the different kinds of expressivism toward which each difficulty is most forcefully directed. The first post […] Read More
All of us here at PEA Soup are always looking for ways to make the blog a better resource for those working in ethics. So, we would like to borrow a couple of good ideas from the folks over at The Garden of Forking Paths. […] Read More