Over the past few years, an interesting development in experimental philosophy has been work on the “ought implies can” principle (OIC) in commonsense morality. Several research teams have investigated whether patterns in commonsense moral judgment are consistent with a commitment to OIC, » …Read more
Lying is an important social and moral category. We react negatively to liars and their lies. » …Read more
I communcate with lots of academics regularly, as I'm sure most readers of this blog do. This is not surprising. But what I do find surprising is how frequently academics simply do not respond to, » …Read more
I have funding to support two graduate students to work with me on
SSHRC-funded projects: one on the norms of assertion and related
issues in epistemology, » …Read more
The contemporary debate over the constitutive norms of assertion, as well as related debates about the norms of belief and action, and the nature of epistemic value, » …Read more
Clayton posted here and linked from there. I'll post there and link from here. » …Read more
Jamie and Mark have already had some very helpful things to say about this in email correspondence. I wanted to open up the discussion and see what others think. » …Read more