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Why Metaethics Matters: psyche.co/ideas/marge-...

An article of mine where I try to convince a general audience that metaethics is cool (it is).

#philsky #philosophy #academicsky
Marge and Homer’s ice cream argument, or why metaethics matters | Psyche Ideas
Metaethics is about the meaning of our moral concepts, which are so consequential for moral debates and behaviour
psyche.co
September 29, 2023 at 8:54 AM
rachelahandley.com
It's #WorldPhilosophyDay so here's an article I wrote for a general audience about why metaethics matters with Psyche+/Aeon Magazine: psyche.co/ideas/marge-...

#philosophy #philsky #academicsky
Marge and Homer’s ice cream argument, or why metaethics matters | Psyche Ideas
Metaethics is about the meaning of our moral concepts, which are so consequential for moral debates and behaviour
psyche.co
November 21, 2024 at 2:39 PM
aidanmcglynn.bsky.social
"We've had ethics, yes. What about metaethics?"
A memed image of Pippin in the Fellowship of the Ring film, where he asks Aragorn about 'second-breakfast'.
February 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
noamchompers.bsky.social
been getting into metaethics, thinking a lot about the frege–anscombe's-husband problem
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
stevecooke.org
As I work on the introductory chapter to my next book, covering the value of sentient life and its connection with rights, I can sense myself edging closer to metaethics. I don’t want to write about metaethics. Metaethics is awful and hard. Philosophy is the worst.
November 19, 2024 at 9:54 AM
rachelahandley.com
It's World Philosophy Day!

Here is an article I wrote on ethics and metaethics. It's for a general audience. Do share if you enjoy reading it!

psyche.co/ideas/marge-...

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Marge and Homer’s ice cream argument, or why metaethics matters | Psyche Ideas
Metaethics is about the meaning of our moral concepts, which are so consequential for moral debates and behaviour
psyche.co
November 16, 2023 at 11:40 AM
wtftien.eurosky.social
“Metaethics, really Tien?”
December 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
rachelahandley.com
The teaching term begins today! My first class, an MPhil class on metaethics, starts tomorrow and I am EXCITED!

For anyone wondering what metaethics is, here is an article I wrote for a general audience: psyche.co/ideas/marge-...

#philsky #academicsky
January 22, 2024 at 10:41 AM
rachelahandley.com
Next week I'm travelling to Finland for the first time to give a paper on my work in metaethics. I'm very excited!
August 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
amiethomasson.bsky.social
Here is my latest paper. Thanks to St. Andrews, it's open access. I hope some people find it of interest. Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language - Thomasson - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still...
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May 4, 2026 at 12:24 PM
oldjerryfodor.bsky.social
Still don't buy the weird inverted metaethics. But it's hard to look around right now and not think that caring more about virtue is pretty badly needed
August 17, 2026 at 8:14 PM
jetilley.bsky.social
Mary Daly taught women-only college classes in feminist ethics & patriarchy. Her "Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism" discussed Chinese foot binding — the maiming of women by women in order to please men. IMO, the use of plastic surgery = the US patriarchy's version of foot binding.
January 19, 2026 at 1:13 AM
mutual-a.bsky.social
"saw but they debate kantian metaethics"
timgill924.bsky.social Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social · Jan 23
What. The. Fuck.

“…a serial killer in a woke university who captures professors and debates them. The topic: His moral right to kill them.”
January 23, 2024 at 4:55 AM
purekoor.art
Ah, there's definitely a term for that in philosophy. I can not recall it though. Probably somewhere in Metaethics
September 25, 2026 at 10:22 PM
impractknow.bsky.social
Extremely metal philosophy positions: Pain based metaethics
January 16, 2025 at 9:44 AM
karlschafer.bsky.social
"Intelligibility, Idealism, and Alienation in Post-Kantian Metaethics", now forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaethics

How to develop a post-Kantian metaethics via the idea that metaethical idealism best explains the essential intelligibility of the normative domain

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Karl Schafer, Intelligibility, Idealism, and Alienation in Post-Kantian Metaethics - PhilPapers
In this essay, I explore some avenues for developing Kantian views in metaethics in a more post-Kantian direction. In doing so, I focus on motivating a broadly idealist approach to metaethics ...
philpapers.org
July 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social
Out now 🦑✨

"Clearly-written and provocative. [The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics] makes an important contribution to the development and defence of neo-Aristotelian naturalism in meta-ethics." (Micah Lott, Boston College)

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3NNsxdF
Preview: https://bit.ly/3NIQCCq
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Book cover of 'The Metaethics of Virtue Ethics' by Jessy Jordan, published by Bloomsbury.
February 1, 2026 at 1:53 PM
rachelahandley.com
Started working on a new story and fatigue plus a headache appeared (bastards). Then, I gave a lecture on metaethics. (Yay metaethics!) Then I plodded home back to bed.
I feel wretched.

Send pizza
Send joy*

*cats.
October 3, 2023 at 5:27 PM
dmf84.bsky.social
Metaethics is largely irrelevant to first order normative ethics
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 PM
rollingstone.com
"At an event called 'Solve Metaethics,' I hear things like 'AI is wiser and kinder than us,' and 'flowers are moral progress,' and 'ethics is all engineering.'"

More: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
July 15, 2026 at 2:20 PM
oldjerryfodor.bsky.social
I know what will save us all: me reading several hundred pages on the metaethics of the convential/substantive norm distinction
March 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
rachelahandley.com
I've just arrived in Hamburg, hurrah! I'm very excited to be giving a talk at the University of Hamburg tomorrow, then guest lecturing on @elineg.bsky.social 's metaethics course, then exploring both Hamburg and Berlin!

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December 2, 2024 at 8:38 AM
karanslade.bsky.social
Oh, for literally 15 minutes I thought it was about metaethics as a subfield of philosophy, and was really impressed
lukeacl.com Luke @lukeacl.com · Aug 29
"Meta Ethics" is a trending topic about their distinct lack of ethics, like it's breaking news or something. 🙄

Meta will survive this just fine, like every other scandal. It doesn't matter what they do their loyal, blind, and ignorant user base will continue consume from the problematic teat.
August 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
joshstein.bsky.social
TBH, this Ph.D. dissertation sounds cool and relevant AF. Not all dissertations are fun, mine certainly isn't a read for anyone outside of deep metaethics.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22d
It was never going to stop with Jason Arday.
Our resident Bluesky creeper Ben Ryan is now turning his attacks onto Jason Arday's students--no doubt the fact that the student is a Black woman has nothing to do with Ryan and Wright's apparent concern for "academic rigor"
Post See new posts Conversation Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter Cambridge Said Jason Arday Was an ‘Aberration.’ So Why Was the Shaky PhD Thesis He Approved Sealed Until 2031? Substack link: https://benryan.substack.com/p/cambridge-says-jason-arday-was-an @SwipeWright and I obtained a Cambridge PhD thesis—one of questionable academic rigor—that Dr. Arday examined and that was put under a new, five-year embargo just after the scandal about Dr. Arday broke. The PhD thesis of a student in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education—in which the late Jason Arday held a professorial chair, in the sociology of education, until he resigned hours after Cambridge on Aug. 5 announced it was investigating him—has been put under what British and Canadian academics have told Colin Wright and me is a remarkably long embargo, shielding it from public view until 2031. Crucially, among the panelists who reviewed the thesis was Dr. Arday himself. The thesis, which we have obtained and which we review in this Substack, raises important questions about whether the Faculty of Education, including Dr. Arday’s own contributions, let down the basic standards of higher education. Written by Damilola Folayan, the thesis is entitled Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge—referring to the portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. It garnered her a coveted Cambridge PhD in 2025. Following what’s known as an autoethnographic style, it is in essence an epic poetry-slam interpretation of the plight of Dr. Folayan and three other black women at Oxbridge and their experiences navigating, with considerable ambivalence, these historically, and still overwhelmingly, white elite institutions. The sprawling thesis unabashedly thumbs its nose at the rigors and demands of academia even as it demands in return an elite PhD and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto.
September 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM