Metaethics
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Nine years ago I defended My dissertation and then I promptly forgot about it. Part of the reason was that I… Read more.
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In celebration of my ten years of blogging I have been collecting some of my posts into thematic meta-posts. The… Read more.
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Is pleasure an intrinsic good according to Aristotle? Let’s say that something is intrinsically good when it is valuable just… Read more.
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Richard Marshall, a writer for 3am Magazine, has been interviewing philosophers. After interviewing a long list of distinguished philosophers, including… Read more.
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As you may have guessed from the last post, I am in the middle of teaching an ethics course in… Read more.
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I am no Kant scholar (thankfully!) but I do regularly teach ethics and so am constantly re-reading the Groundwork of… Read more.
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On my view a moral judgement consists in a moral emotion or sentiment as well as a belief about the… Read more.
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via Brian Leiter via Thom Brooks I saw this neat interview with Dancy on particularism and the role of moral… Read more.
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I have presented at two of these conferences and each time it has been a fun and rewarding experience. I… Read more.
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Expressivist like Blackburn like to invoke deflationary accounts of truth as a way to save the common sense intuition that… Read more.
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