Category Archives: metaethics

Wide Scope Philosopy Podcast – Episode 4

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Wide Scope Philosophy Podcast – Episode 3

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3QD Philosophy Prize 2009 Finalist

I woke up this morning to discover that I’m a 3 Quarks Daily Philosophy Prize 2009 Finalist. The contest started out with about 60 nominees, and now it’s down to 9 finalists. The finalists will be judged by Daniel Dennett. He’ll pick three winners and write up little comments about each of his choices. ThanksContinue Reading

Moral Perception Accepted for Publication

[UPDATE: Here's the new version of the paper] “Moral Perception” has just been accepted for publication in the European Journal of Philosophy. As Clayton once so eloquently put it – Huzzah! I have to make some stylistic changes. When I do that I’ll post a draft of the paper. For now, I’ll give you aContinue Reading

Emotions and Moral Skepticism

Nick Treanor was here last week for our Young Philosophers Lecture Series. I’ll be posting those talks over at Young Philosophers sometime within the next week. In his introductory level talk, he presented a view about emotions, according to which emotions could be rational or irrational. That talk was the inspiration for this argument. Warm-UpContinue Reading