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Folke Tersman has revised his SEP-entry on Moral Disagreement, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disagreement-moral/

The author on Uppsala University's pages, www.uu.se/en/contact-and-organisat...

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Arthur Ionescu, The Consequentialist Judgment Paradox - PhilPapers In normative ethics, some of the oldest and still lively debates revolve around the question of consequentialism. The question is not so much about making a binary decision between consequentialism an...

A moral philosophy paper recently written by me, presenting a new liar paradox-like argument about consequentialism.

It would be great if you could share this to promote my work, thank you :

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#philosophy #ethics #consequentialism #deontology #metaethics #utilitarianism

A moral philosophy paper recently written by me, presenting a new liar paradox-like argument about contradictions within consequentialism:

https://philpapers.org/rec/IONCJP

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A nice video about moral dialetheism :
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A nice video about moral dialetheism :
https://youtu.be/bWdJ8BRl9lA?si=sYOEggapwwGCpy92

#philosophy #analyticalphilosophy #continentalphilosophy #metaethics #moralphilosophy #ethics

(PDF) Consequentialist Judgment Paradox PDF | In normative ethics, some of the oldest and still lively debates revolve around the question of consequentialism. The question is not so much... | Find, read and cite all the research you need o...

CAN PHILOSOPHY SAVE HUMANITY IF AI->AGI?

While not one mention of "AI" in this paper, there are certain implications that may be worth an ☕ of contemplation.

#philosophy #ai #ethics #agi #law #order #judgement #systems #consequentialism #metaethics #errtling

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Does the Size of the Universe Matter to Whether Anything Objectively Matters? “The universe is old, big, and empty. In comparison, we are new and small.” So begins an interesting and fun article on a big question of perennial popular concern by Luke Elson (University of Reading) in the latest issue of Ethics. Observations of the vastness of the universe in comparison to tiny little us—the “cosmic disparity”—are familiar from common complaints about meaninglessness. “How could anything matter in a huge, cold, empty universe like this?” goes the cliché. Philosophers have tended to reject inferences from the size of the universe to its lack of objective evaluative properties, as it’s unclear what one has to do with the other. But Elson aims to defend a version of the cliché. He doesn’t argue that the size of the universe directly implies that nothing objectively matters. Rather, his position is that the universe’s immensity weakens the evidence against robust realism, the idea that “there are sui generis evaluative or other ethical properties.” In other words, contrary to what many philosophers believe, size¹ matters². Here’s the skeleton of Elson’s argument, which he calls the “Abductive-Evidential Argument Against Robust Realism”: Robust Realism gains support from its explanation of our evaluative judgments. The parsimony cost of its sui generis ontology counts against Robust Realism. The cosmic disparity. Our evaluative judgments form a very small part of the total evidence base. In a smaller cosmos, our evaluative judgments would form a larger part of the total evidence base. Scale matters. Insofar as a partial theory offers a good explanation or account of some part of the evidence base (or “set of facts”),this carries more theoretical weight, as that part is a larger portion of the total evidence base. So, the cosmic disparity weakens the evidential support for Robust Realism provided by our evaluative judgments. That support is weaker in this cosmos than it would be in a smaller cosmos. (From 1, 3, and 4.) The size of the universe doesn’t affect any of the other considerations for or against Robust Realism, such as the parsimony cost of its sui generis ontology. So, all things considered, the cosmic disparity weakens the evidence for Robust Realism. (From 5 and 6.) For a further explanation of the argument and a defense of.. The post Does the Size of the Universe Matter to Whether Anything Objectively Matters? first appeared on Daily Nous.

Are you on the nice list or the naughty list this #ChristmasEve? (And what exactly might that mean?) 🎅📜

The contents of your stocking on Christmas morning might depend on Santa's stance on #metaethics. To understand the debate, read this article:

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Essay: Disagreement Without Referees I’ve just published a new preprint on Zenodo: Disagreement Without Referees: Ontological Incommensurability and the Limits of Moral Adjudication 📄 This paper grows out of a frustration that will be…

Some disagreements don’t persist because people won’t listen.
They persist because there is no shared ground to converge on.
Essay on moral incommensurability:
📝 philosophics.blog/2025/12/16/e...

#philosophy #metaethics #moraldisagreement #politicalphilosophy #epistemology #blog #essay #podcast

Truth → Rhetoric: Why Access Determines Authority I do not assume that normative assertions function as descriptive truths. Realism is compelling because it promises that moral disagreement has a fact of the matter beyond persuasion. The argument …

Truth → Rhetoric: Why Access Determines Authority.
👉 philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/t...
It poses an important question to Realists™.

#Philosophy #MetaEthics #Ethics #MoralRealism #Rhetoric #Ontology #CriticalTheory #Leadership #OrganisationalLife #Normativity #Writing #Truth #Rhetoric

Got my copy of New Essays on Normative Realism (Oxford University Press), edited by Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke. I contributed an invited chapter to the volume, co-authored with Michael Tomasello. Our chapter is in good company. #Metaethics
Book 👉 academic.oup.com/book/60797

Sixth Groningen Metaethics Workshop The sixth Groningen Metaethics Workshop will take place on Friday 10 April 2026 at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Our keynote speaker will be Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm University). There will be five slots for submitted papers. We invite submissions of abstracts on any topic in metaethics or metanormativity. Abstracts can be up to 1000 words and should be anonymised. They should be suitable for a thirty minute talk, which will be followed by thirty minutes of discussion. You can submit your abstract by emailing it as a PDF file to groningenmetaethicsworkshop@gmail.com. Please include your name, your email address, and the title of your abstract in a separate PDF file. Submission deadline: 23 January 2026.

Sixth #Groningen #Metaethics #Workshop, April 10, 2026. #CfP until January 23. All details here: https://philevents.org/event/show/143053

#CallForPapers #Philosophy #Conference

Interested in Ethics? Check out Andy Cullison's interview about his work and doing a PhD in philosophy @uofcincy!

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#Ethics #Metaethics #Seemings #Bioethics #Philosophyofreligion

Monism and Pluralism in Axiology and the Semantics of Evaluative Language – LOGOS

Tomorrow (26 Nov): LOGOS Colloquium
Pekka Väyrynen (U. of Leeds)
*Monism and Pluralism in Axiology and the Semantics of Evaluative Language*
🕒 15:00–17:00
📍 Seminari de Filosofia (UB, 4th floor)
👉 www.ub.edu/grc_logos/ac...

#Philosophy #Axiology #Metaethics #UB
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On Ethical Systems and Superheroes — TienSwitch Are superheroes driven by utilitarian values? Or the moral duties of deontology? Or perhaps something in between. Let’s take a look into superhero ethics.

A fun #blogpost about #superheroes and #ethics. I talk about ethical systems and superheroes like I'm some sort of philosophy expert or something (I'm not). But big deep thoughts are fun, so let's explore together.

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#superheroblog #blogging #philosophy #metaethics

What If the Frege–Geach Problem Isn’t? The Frege–Geach problem was one of the impetuses for finishing my Language Insufficiency Hypothesis. From the first encounter it felt off, as though someone were trying to conjure depth from a pudd…

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all? Switch grammars, and the paradox dissolves.

👉 philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/w...

#Philosophy #Psychology #Language #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Metaphysics #Logic #LanguageTheory #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #LIH #blog

from James and the Giant Peach, the rhinoceros in the animated movie

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different […]

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We challenge the architecture of truth itself. #MetaEthics

We challenge the architecture of truth itself. #MetaEthics #InvestigativePhilosophy

MDPI just published my essay, "Is Divine Law Indispensable to Moral Obligation? A Reply to Elizabeth Anscombe" in the peer-reviewed journal, "Religions". See www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/16...

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#philosophy #metaethics #atheism #theism #apologetics

Does Atheism Mean that Hitler Just Had Bad Molecules? Materialism & Objective Morality: Refuting "Bad Molecules" & Is/Ought Arguments.

Does Atheism Mean that Hitler Just Had Bad Molecules?

#atheism #metaethics

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What we call “objectivity” in social and moral life is scaffolding: provisional, rhetorical, maintained through care, reciprocity, and revolt.

New essay👉 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

#philosophy #metaethics #truth #ethics #psychology #sociology #humancondition #humanity #truth #rhetoric

Stop Pretending We Live in Marble Halls I’ve just published Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning, an essay that began as this blog post. I’m sharing the ‘official’ link and thi…

Objectivity isn’t granite — it’s scaffolding. Stop pretending we live in marble halls.

My latest essay:
👉 philosophics.blog/2025/09/24/s...

#philosophy #ethics #objectivity #truth #MetaEthics #SocialEpistemology #CriticalTheory

Metaethics is moral metacognition: thinking about how we think about right and wrong.

When I judge my judgment, I see the machinery - belief, bias, desire - sparking beneath the halo.

Morality is not just choice, but awareness of choosing, doubled back on itself.

#metaethics

Ethics is theater: the costumes deceive, yet the play changes the world.

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Facts don't bleed; values do. That's why they move us.

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Setting the Record Straight: A Reply to John D. Mueller’s Atheism: Pro and Con In March 2022, John D. Mueller published an essay titled Atheism: Pro and Con at the Ethics & Public Policy Center (EPPC). That piece is fr...

Setting the Record Straight: A Reply to John D. Mueller’s Atheism: Pro and Con

naturalisticatheism.blogspot.com/2025/09/sett...

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#atheism #philosophy #metaethics #cosmology

Beyond Euthyphro: The Quadrilemma Against Theistic Grounding of Moral Values Here's a sketch of an argument against the necessity of God for (objective) moral values. Consider the following position: DNT-A: Moral valu...

Beyond Euthyphro: The Quadrilemma Against Theistic Grounding of Moral Values

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#philosophy #metaethics #moralvalues

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