The Department of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln is hosting a conference on Practical Reason and Metaethics to be held April 22-23, […] Read More
Tag: Action Theory
In The Possibility of Altruism Thomas Nagel introduces a distinction between motivated and unmotivated desires that has since become standard in discussions of action theory […] Read More
Consider the question “Can regret be appropriate even apart from any belief that one’s choice was misguided or irrational if a monistic theory of the […] Read More
Tennessee Value and Agency “TVA” Conference 2014 Conference – November 6-9, 2014Practical Reason, Moral Judgment and Moral Sense, Sensibility and Sentiment in the Moral Life Call For Abstracts […] Read More
Many philosophers (such as J. H. Sobel, R. J. Wallace, G. Harman, M. Bratman, and J. D. Velleman) endorse something along the lines of the […] Read More
Warren Quinn’s puzzle of the self-torturer is supposed to show that cyclic preferences can be rational, and that, in cases where they are, rationality can […] Read More
Consider Newcomb’s Problem: “A psychology professor at your school has a reputation for being brilliant as well as possessed of an enormous fortune she has […] Read More
Brian Weatherson has posted a new paper in which he argues against "moral hedging" — roughly, refraining from A-ing on the grounds that there's a […] Read More
It is fairly common to give a conditional analysis of an option, e.g.: (CAO) Performing an act X at a future time t1 is an […] Read More