Ethics Reading Party Kicks Off!

Interested in normative ethics, metaethics, moral psychology, or related topics? Feel free to join the SU22 ethics reading party. 

The party’s first meeting will kick off at 5:30pm this Sunday May 22, and will be a potluck/picnic on the south campus quad.

After some agenda-setting items, organizer Yahui Chen will lead the reading party through a discussion of Richmond Campbell’s (2007) paper, ‘What is moral judgment?‘, which was published in the volume 104 issue 07 of the Journal of Philosophy. Here is an abstract:

Moral knowledge appears to require moral judgments to be states of belief, yet they must at the same time be states of desire and feeling if they embody the motivation that we feel when we make moral judgments. How can the same judgment be a state of belief and a state of desire or feeling, simultaneously? This problem may be resolved, I shall contend, by understanding moral judgments to be complex multifunctional states that normally comprise both states of belief that represent possible moral truths and states of emotion and motivation.

Volunteers are invited to lead the next discussion, which will be on Bernard Williams’s (1981) paper, ‘Utilitarianism and moral self-indulgence‘ on Sunday May 29th.