Declan O'Gara

Brendan de Kenessey, Ethics and the Limits of Armchair Sociology - PhilPapers Contractualism and rule consequentialism both hold that whether a moral principle is true depends on what would happen if it were generally adopted as a basis for conduct. This paper argues ...

I'm not sure if this is what you have in mind but this is the paper I mention philpapers.org/rec/DEKEAT-5. There is someone who does the opposite (suggests that utilitarianism is an answer to the problem) but I have not read the paper yet philpapers.org/rec/JAQUFT.

I'll probably stick around for a couple of days just incase someone skeets a devastating objection

The Problem with the ‘Now What’ Problem - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice It has long been assumed that the moral error theory faces a ‘Now What’ problem. The error theory says that all moral judgments are false, and the ‘Now What’ problem asks what we should do with our mo...

Pausing my social media hiatus to say that my first paper 'The Problem with the 'Now What' Problem' is now out in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice! The paper is open access so anyone should be able to read it.

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everyone at this conference is so lovely

arrived in frankfurt for frankmeta.7!

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this is a truly excellent album open.spotify.com/album/3pVuoi...

pacers are good at coming back in the 4th quarter…who knew?

rocket man is already taken sadly

i for one am waiting for trump to give elon a silly nickname before weighing in

SGA scoring a lot of points, shocking

not an athlete but a manager, and I think slightly less fanatical than napoli-maradona, but alex ferguson basically walks on water as far as the red half of manchester is concerned

Can’t take it with you I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me

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misspelling the word typo is a new one

pretty notable that the fact magic admittedly cheated on his wife was pretty far behind homophobia and medical misunderstanding for reasons he left

even on that list more than half either been divorced, cheated on their wives or worse and i don’t think it negatively affected any of their careers

in what universe has being a family man ever been a prerequisite for being the face of a sport

yes i’ve noticed the type don’t zoom in

writing about conceptual truth ☹️

writing about conceptual truth with a nice little drink 😁

kc has corrected me that i’m just hunting one octopus singular

we’ve recently gotten into boardgames, currently hunting octopi

yeah i looked at sabon but its a derivative of garamond so i think it has the same wacky italics - leaning towards palatino i think!

i did just look at cambria, i don’t love it either. I quite like Palatino but idk if it’s too silly for a thesis

what font did you guys use for your thesis? the italics on garamond is starting to irritate me

currently have an entire library to myself

i think it’s because smartphones and ipads are so easy to use that they basically never had need to learn anything more complicated

Realising that you can just skip talks if you want at conferences really changed the game for me

i’m most of the way through TMU,my impression was that the next one would have more first order stuff but i must confess i don’t know loads about it. The fixed points themselves are first order though so I think TMU at least does 2 of the three

sorry to be replying to a month old skeet (i’ve been off here for a while and checked to see if anyone posted about metaethics) - if you’re still looking, Cuneo, Shafer-Landau and Bengson are currently attempting this kind of project but across 3 books

i wasn’t using blue sky at the time but this is proof that i’m still out here philosophising

final meeting coming up for the moral universe reading group