We are very pleased to now begin our announced Ethics discussion of Jennifer Hawkins' piece, “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia." Here is Valerie Tiberius' critical précis to kick off the discussion, posted below the fold. Thanks in advance to everyone who participates, and we're looking forward to it being a great discussion! ———————————————————————————————
Just a quick reminder that we'll be featuring Jennifer Hawkins' piece, “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia," published in Ethics, tomorrow Monday May 5th. Stay tuned for Valerie Tiberius' critical précis to open the discussion!
In many of the normative and evaluative branches of philosophy, philosophers have devised “ideal theories”—e.g. theories of what it is for an agent to be ideally virtuous, or of what it is for someone to think in an ideally rational way, or of what it […] Read More
Can be found here. Looks very interesting.
May will be a busy month here at the PEA Soup. After a discussion of Jennifer Hawkins's excellent paper on 5th of May, we have our first discussion of a Philosophers' Imprint paper scheduled for the end of the month. We'll be discussing Jack Woods's (Bilkent University) equally amazing […] Read More
We're very pleased to announce that our next discussion of a paper published in Ethics will be on Jennifer Hawkins' piece, “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia". Valerie Tiberius has kindly agreed to write a critical précis to open the discussion on Monday May 5th. We're looking […] Read More
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It is often thought that one central advantage of expressivism over subjectivism is that expressivism can make sense of moral disagreements. Whereas according to subjectivism, people end up talking past one another, expressivism enables speakers to express disagreements in attitude as Stevenson famously put it. […] Read More
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