Atheist Ethicist

If you are trying to defend desirism, and you come across somebody who has a good idea of what she is doing, she is going to summon Roger Cr...

Introduction Desirism is concerned centrally with what an agent ought to desire. in fact, it says that this is the central question of mor...

There is a view in metaethics that holds that “X is good” is reducible in some way to “Agent(s) ought to have a positive attitude towards X”...

In Thomas Hurka's book British Ethical Theorists , Hurka has the British Ethical Theorists (BETs) presenting an impressive argument agai...

In the beginning, I was told that "emotivism" is a non-cognitivist moral theory. This means that it does not allow for the possibi...

This series of posts will concern the topic of the second course I am taking this semester - Metaethics. The text we are using is Cahn, Stev...

Thomas Hurka reported in his book British Ethical Theorists that the British Ethical Theorists (BETs) believed that rightness is independen...

What is the relationship between what an agent ought to do and what is good? I have already reported on Thomas Hurka's thesis that the...

If you have a moral theory that requires that a person get a PhD in philosophy and learn a technical moral language before they can decide w...

Thomas Hurka argued in his book, British Ethical Theorists , that they were conceptual minimalists. They did not like all of these evaluativ...

I am looking at the ways in which the British Ethical Theorists (BETs) of 1850-1950 sought to eliminate all concepts of "ought" ex...

Thomas Hurka argued that the British Ethical Theorists (BETs) he discussed in his book British Ethical Theorists were conceptual minimalist...

The previous post brought up the fact that the British Ethical Theorists currently under discussion all seemed to think that "thick eva...