Blogs about: Metaethics
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Acting on p when you know you don't know p
It looks like I’m going to give blogging another go. I got a lot of useful feedback last summer when I returned to blogging. A certain kind of case has been bugging me for a month or so. Here is… more →
The Excluded Middle
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Tom wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve been back in St Andrews this last week to attend the Arché/CSMN graduate conference and a … more →
Objections to Moral Realism Part 4: Moral Beliefs Can't Motivate
James Gray wrote 2 weeks ago: There is evidence that moral values involve desires. When we say “human life has intrinsic val … more →
A Brief Overview Of My Dissertation
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Daniel Fincke wrote 3 weeks ago: Nietzsche’s writings on morality are famously provocative and controversial. His criticisms of mora … more →
Objections to Moral Realism Part 3: Argument from Queerness
James Gray wrote 3 weeks ago: If morality is irreducible to nonmoral facts, it might still be part of the materialist worldview li … more →
Objections to Moral Realism Part 2: Intuition is Unreliable
James Gray wrote 1 month ago: Many ethicists agree that moral philosophy requires the use of intuition. My argument for moral real … more →
Objections to Moral Realism Part 1: The Is/Ought Gap
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James Gray wrote 1 month ago: Although I have already discussed several objections to moral realism, some of them are worth discus … more →
An Argument for Moral Realism
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James Gray wrote 1 month ago: There is more work to be done in order to prove that moral realism is plausible. Perhaps the best wa … more →
'Nuff Said Award Winner: An Andrew Sullivan Reader On A Darwinist Response To Evil
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Daniel Fincke wrote 1 month ago: Just great stuff (from a very long e-mail you should read in full): You want a secular account of ev … more →
Philosophical Ethics: Kant, The Good Will, And Rational Actions
Daniel Fincke wrote 1 month ago: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for th … more →
Prescriptive Metaethics
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Steve C. wrote 1 month ago: By and large, metaethicists have focused on descriptive questions about the nature of our moral disc … more →
"It's Wrong to Promote Moral Fictionalism"
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tnm8 wrote 1 month ago: Well, sort of. Maybe. Consider a certain kind of moral fictionalism — let’s call it Naiv … more →
Philosophical Ethics: Does Calling Someone Evil Explain Anything About Them?
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Daniel Fincke wrote 1 month ago: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for th … more →
Philosophical Ethics: J.L. Mackie's Error Theory And Jonathan Harrison's Critique Thereof
Daniel Fincke wrote 1 month ago: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for th … more →
"It's A Fact. And There's No Morality In A Fact."
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Daniel Fincke wrote 2 months ago: via PZ Myers: Your Thoughts? … more →
The Integral Role Of Emotions In Good Decision Making
Daniel Fincke wrote 2 months ago: Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio on the indispensable connection between emotions and value assessment … more →
Philosophical Ethics: Bruce Russell On Theories About What Makes An Action Rational Or Not
Daniel Fincke wrote 2 months ago: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for th … more →
Philosophical Ethics: R.M. Hare On Moral Consistency As A Form Of Logical Consistency
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Daniel Fincke wrote 2 months ago: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for th … more →
A Moral Anti-Realist Perspective
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James Gray wrote 2 months ago: There are many different moral anti-realist perspectives. On one extreme an anti-realist could just … more →
Philosophical Ethics: A.J. Ayer And The Emotivism Of A Positivist
Daniel Fincke wrote 2 months ago: In a series of posts this semester, I am going to blog all (or almost all) the lecture topics for th … more →
