I go through Chalmers’ paper Verbal Disputes and propose an alternative that does not rely on Chalmers’ dubious idea of ‘beliefs about meanings’.

Abstract: Van Inwagen (1990) paraphrased sentences about macroscopic inanimate objects into sentences that mention only simples in order to show that the truth of these...

Many hold that ignorance, whether factual or moral, can excuse wrongdoing. However, recently, some have argued that only factual ignorance, but not moral ignorance, excuses...

Abstract: Kevin asked me to talk about Chalmers’ paper on Verbal disputes. So the first part of this talk is in a presentation of Chalmers’...