Omnivore - Moral Coherence and Other Issues in Morality

From Bookforum's Omnivore blog, here is an interesting collection of links on morality in all its many contemporary (and ancient) forms. Just for fun, here is the abstract to one of the more interesting papers linked to in this collection:

Moral Coherence and Principle Pluralism

Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo Department of Philosophy

August 14, 2012
Journal of Moral Philosophy (2013)

Abstract:

This paper develops and defends a conception of moral coherence that is suitable for use in contexts of principle pluralism. I argue that, as they are traditionally understood, coherence methods stack the deck against pluralist theories, by incorporating norms such as systematicity – that the principles of a theory should be as few and as simple as possible. I develop and defend an alternative, minimal, conception of coherence that focuses instead on consistency. It's been suggested that consistency in this context should aim at the avoidance of conflict, but I argue against this: what matters is "case consistency," or judging consistently from one case to another. This means judging in accordance with morally relevant similarities and differences. I defend my proposal of minimal coherence from objections having to do with complexity and arbitrariness.

Citation:
Marino, P. (2013) Moral Coherence and Principle Pluralism. Journal of Moral Philosophy. DOI: 10.1163/17455243-4681032. Available at SSRN.


Moral Coherence

Sep 19 2013
9:00AM

• From Essays in Philosophy, a special issue on Cartesian virtue and freedom. 
• Josh May (Monash): Does Disgust Influence Moral Judgment? 
• Ryan Conree Preston-Roedder (UNC): A Better World. 
• Alexander Peysakhovich (Harvard) and David G. Rand (Yale): Habits of Virtue: Creating Norms of Cooperation and Defection in the Laboratory. 
• Patricia Marino (Waterloo): Moral Coherence and Principle Pluralism. 
• Leon R. Calleja (Brooklyn): Reconciling the Self and Universalism. 
• Benjamin M. Eidelson (Yale): Treating People as Individuals. 
• David O. Brink (UCSD): Situationism, Responsibility, and Fair Opportunity. 
• Cristian Constantinescu (Birkbeck): Moral Vagueness: A Dilemma for Non-Naturalism. 
• Zachary Horne (Illinois): Belief Updating in Moral Dilemmas. 
• Michael Lynch (UConn): Truth in Ethics. 
• Graham Hubbs (Idaho): Answerability without Answers. 
• Thomas Scanlon on what is morality. 
• Are intelligent people better at morality? Katja Keuchenius on whether good brains reach high moral stages. 
• Bernard Yack reviews Aristotle's Politics: Living Well and Living Together by Eugene Garver. 
• Crowding out virtues: JP O’Malley interviews Michael J. Sandel. 
• From Bleeding Heart Libertarians, a symposium on Michael Huemer’s The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey. 
• You're joking, right, you haven't really made a musical based on John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice, have you?