Tag Archives: Moral Realism

2 Brief Yet Excellent Introductions to Meta-Ethics!

Metaethics, Morality and Ethics March 24, 2020 Leave a comment

This first video above does a great job of presenting the basic contours of the field in an easy-to-follow manner. 

This second video below does a greater job of doing so while digging a little bit deeper on the details. 

If you get a chance, make sure to watch both!

‘Moral Blind Spots’ by Gerald Jones: A Brief Critique

Metaethics February 25, 2020 Leave a comment

Introduction and Overview

Gerald Jones has recently published a fascinating article in PhilosophyNow magazine entitled ‘Moral Blind Spots.’ Though the content of his article is multi-faceted (e.g. nodding to topics in transhumanism, historical revisionism, and metaethics) and ultimately addresses the moral imperatives behind veganism and vegetarianism, what piqued my interest was the extended analogy that Jones developed to compare physical deficiencies involving one’s eyesight with moral deficiencies. Continue reading →

What’s More Preposterous? A Survey of the Beliefs of Professional Philosophers

Epistemology, Morality and Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy February 17, 2020 Leave a comment

Recently, Brian Leiter (of the blog The Leiter Reports) published the results of an internet poll about various philosophical views. More specifically, this internet poll sought to rank the most to least preposterous philosophical belief systems or concepts (reread that again to make sure you got them in the right order). In total, over 1300 current professional philosophers were surveyed and the 6 philosophical belief systems or concepts that were utilized (and in this particular order) include…

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