{"id":12402,"date":"2024-09-27T23:08:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/moral-philosophy-reading-group-160\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T23:08:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:08:59","slug":"moral-philosophy-reading-group-160","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/moral-philosophy-reading-group-160\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Philosophy Reading Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">This week we are discussing Pamela Hieronymi&#8217;s \u2018Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism\u2019.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(23, 78, 134)\">Here is the abstract: In his 1982 article, T. M. Scanlon noted that, despite the widespread attention to Rawls\u2019 A Theory of Justice, the appeal of contractualism as a moral theory had been under-appreciated. It seems to me that, nearly thirty years later, despite the widespread attention to Scanlon\u2019s work, this appeal is still largely under-appreciated. In this paper, I try to present Scanlon\u2019s appealing answer to what he once called \u201cthe question of motivation\u201d and the relation of this answer to the more metaethical \u201cquestion of subject matter.\u201d I then defend Scanlon\u2019s view against various, standard objections, which, I claim, typically misunderstand it. I close by considering what it would take to wed Scanlon\u2019s attractive answer to the question of motivation to another, non-contractualist, theory. I conclude that, even if the marriage could be arranged, a good part of the appeal of contractualism would inevitably be lost. In particular, the marriage would sacrifice the central place in Scanlon\u2019s theory for what might be called liberty of conscience.<\/div>\n<p><strong>Location<\/strong>: Edgecliffe G03<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we are discussing Pamela Hieronymi&#8217;s \u2018Of Metaethics and Motivation: The Appeal of Contractualism\u2019. Here is the abstract: In his 1982 article, T. M. Scanlon noted that, despite the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[38],"class_list":["post-12402","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-reading-group","cat_reading-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12410,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12402\/revisions\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12402"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}