Steve Watson

      Information: Readings: Philosophical Notes

        G. E. M. Anscombe, 'Modern Moral Philosophy', Philosophy 33, No. 124 (January 1958)

                The uselessness of it. We need to start again from Aristotle.

        P. Foot, 'Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives', The Philosophical Review 81, No. 3 (July 1972) 305-316

                Kant is wrong: morality cannot be a system of categorical imperatives.

        W. V. O. Quine, 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism', Philosophical Review 60 (1951): 20-43

                Debunking the analytic/synthetic distinction and arguing for the hypothetical nature of logic.