There’s an interesting discussion on ethical relativism going on over at atopian.org. Said blog is written by Alex Gregory, who describes himself as “a philosophy student at a UK university,” and says that he “tend[s] to write on a combination of ethics and political philosophy, from a consequentialist perspective.” The discussion begins with an August 21st post entitled “What is relativism?” and is continued both in the comments section to that post, and in subsequent posts entitled “Justification” and “Ethics and Axioms.” The main topic is how the apparatus of contemporary analytic epistemology (the stuff where the main alternatives get labels like coherentism and foundationalism) might be relevant to moral philosophy.
Here’s some advice on a bit of Internet etiquette I’m never sure about. It’s called Rules on how to e-mail a blogger.
Will Buckingham of thinkBuddha.org offers his thoughts about free will (partially in response to Susan Blackmore) here.
Colleen Keating at Arbitrary Marks has an interesting post on the neural correlates of mystical experience.
The discussion on mind/body dualism at Maverick Philosopher has gone several more rounds. One of the more interesting new postings is this one, in which Bill Vallicella presents a more rigorous version of an antidualist argument he had considered earlier. Very informally, the objection is “How is it that my mind controls my body and not your body?”; Bill calls the more formalized version the “Pairing Objection.”
Here’s a useful bibliography on the Mahabharata.
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