Challenges the claim that intuitions about genuine disagreement show anything about sameness of meanings of terms or sameness of concepts involved.
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PEA Soup: Against Actualism
Interesting post, and perhaps even more interesting comment thread, about Jackson and Pargetter's actualism about obligation.
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Mark Schroeder talks about "Slaves of the Passions"
On Bloggingheads.tv, Mark Schroeder (USC) and Will Wilkinson talk about Schroeder's book "Slaves of the Passions" which defends a version of the Humean Theory of Reasons
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PEA Soup: Experimental Metaethics
From the post: Steve Campbell from Michigan kindly directed my attention to a new paper that uses the methods of experimental philosophy to investigate the objectivity question in metaethics. This paper by Geoffrey Goodwin and John Darley is entitled 'The Psychology of Metaethics: Exploring Objectivism' (downloadable from HERE). I have a couple of questions below but I think I need to say little first about the paper.
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Emotions and Moral Skepticism
I'll throw one of my own posts into the mix. Here's an argument from some intuitively plausible principles about emotions against a kind of moral skepticism. Not sure what I think about the argument yet, but it seemed worth thinking about.
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moral fictionalism-ndpr
Nice review of Mark Eli Kalderon's Moral Fictionalism by Steve Finlay.
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the objective 'ought' and the three-envelope problem

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Geoffrey Sayre-McCord Discusses Metaethics on Bloggingheads
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord and Will Wilkinson discuss metaethics on bloggingheads.tv. There are lots of good videos featuring philosophers on this site.
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ought, ambiguity, and reasons
It is often said that ‘ought’ is ambiguous in the following kind of way. When one utters ‘A ought to \phi,’ one might mean that A morally ought to \phi, or that A prudentially ought to \phi, or A ‘chessly’ ought to \phi etc
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