This section contains critical discussions of philosophical theories, arguments, and books. Its main focus is on ethical and metaethical approaches, their assumptions, and their explanatory power.
The articles examine both classical positions and contemporary theories. They include criticism of Kant, ontic ethics, speech-act theory, and more recent approaches in moral philosophy. Some texts also review philosophical books and analyze their arguments.
Why happiness and the minimization of suffering fail as ultimate moral goals, and how the is–ought problem can be solved through an evolutionary reconstruction.
A critique of Hanno Sauer’s The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality: cherry-picking instead of scientific reconstruction, false game-theoretical foundations, a utopian basic attitude, and the contradiction to the evolutionary solution of the is-ought problem.
A critical (and slightly satirical) examination of formal 'proofs' of the impossibility of is-ought inferences, using Gillian Russell's 'How to Prove Hume's Law' as an example