Reading Group Metaethics
Beginning at the beginning of FS 09 and ending at the end of August 09, the Reading Group Metaethics met to discuss texts dealing with metaethical issues. The sessions were open for anyone interested and took place once a week from 18h15 - 20h00 at the Seminarraum of the department of philosophy. The reading agenda was published here in advance.
Reading
We were concerned with the following texts:
- A. Gibbard: Thinking How to Live, chapter 7
- A. Gibbard: Thinking How to Live, chapter 8, missing page 177
- J. Dreier: Expressivist Embeddings and Minimalist Truth
- R. Boyd: How to Be a Moral Realist
- A. Gibbard: Thinking How to Live, chapter 2
- A. Gibbard: Thinking How to Live, chapter 1
- D. Parfit: Reasons and Motivation
- N. L. Sturgeon: Moral Explanations
- R. Joyce: Morality, Schmorality
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, chapter 11
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, chapter 10
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, chapter 9
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, chapter 4
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, chapter 3
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, chapter 2
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, chapter 1
- G. Harman: The Nature of Morality, Preface
- D. Velleman: A Rational Superego
- G. Seel: Wie weit kann man den Naturalismus in der praktischen Philosophie treiben?
- P. Kitcher: Biology and Ethics
- D. Jacquette: [...] "Ought" Implies "Can"
- P. Vranas: I Ought, therefore I Can
- P. Railton: Morality, Ideology, and Reflection
- P. Railton: Moral Realism
- M. Black: The Gap between "Is" and "Should"
- R.M. Hare: How to Decide Moral Questions Rationally
- R.M. Hare: The Promising Game
- J. Searle: How to Derive "Ought" from "Is"
- A.J. Ayer: Critique of Ethics and Theology
- B. Williams: Interne und externe Gründe
Questions will be answered by leugger AT philo DOT unibe DOT ch.
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