What is Ethics? Pt 3: Normative Ethics
In the last post we covered metaethics, and in this post we’re going to cover normative ethics. Metaethics largely centered around the nature and meaning of ethics and moral content,…
What is Ethics? Pt 2: Issues in Metaethics
In this second post on ethics, we’ll be going into greater detail regarding topics in metaethics. Metaethics defined simply To outsiders and newcomers to philosophy, metaethics is likely large, abstract,…
Environmentalism and Environmental Ethics: Where Does Value Come from?
This April marked the 48th anniversary of the first Earth Day, and a lot has changed since then. Our understanding of our role in shaping ecosystems and climate systems has…
The Philosophical Lens (June 2018): Why Defining Suicide is Difficult
This month I’ve decided to try something new. Rather than do a round-up of stories from various philosophy related publications, I’ve decided to develop a new segment covering a broad…
What is Ethics?
Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites,…
What Are Gettier Cases?
Readers of this blog will likely recall that in an earlier epistemology post one of the given definitions of knowledge defined it as “justified true belief.” Well, that definition is…
Philosophy in the News (March 2018 Edition)
Philosophy in the News is a segment which covers articles with both direct and indirect relevance to philosophy. In this month’s post we’ll be covering stories from March of 2018. You…
What are Philosophical Zombies?
Philosophical zombies sound like something from a meme, but philosophers have been thinking about zombies longer than most horror movie buffs and for good reason. They believe looking at zombies…
A Brief Introduction to the Discourse of African Philosophy
With February being Black History Month in the US, I wanted to take on a philosophical project that would teach me something I didn’t know. Over the past month, I’ve…
Why Does Socrates Call Love Madness?
In Phaedrus, a very famous dialogue written by Plato, Socrates explains that “love is a madness.” At the same time, he also expresses that love is one of the greatest…