We wanted to tip you off — and remind you — about a few features upcoming at the Soup in the new year. First, Brad Cokelet has lined up a couple of Featured Philosophers in January he’ll tell you about soon. We also plan to have several journal discussions in the coming year, including from Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Philosophy & Public Affairs, and the Oxford Studies series.
We want to remind you of the First Annual PEA Soup Awards. There are numerous awards available, including best posts (for our official contributors), but also best comments (for anyone), and even for posts written elsewhere. We hope that in this New Year these will provide some more incentive to increase regular content on the blog.
Finally, we are introducing yet another new feature (the Soup cannot be stopped, it can only be contained!). We know that many of you are writing books in moral philosophy (which, of course, includes political philosophy, agency and responsibility, moral psychology, etc.), and we’d love to help you draw attention to those books when they’re out (or about to be out). To that end, our new Featured Authors series invites those with new books being published to write posts discussing a main argument in that book that we can then discuss. Authors can link to the book — likely causing a huge spike in sales and the crashing of the website — and authors will also be providing another source of discussion for PEA Soup. Mutual backscratching. If you thus have a book just out or forthcoming you’d like to talk about on the Soup, therefore, please let either of the Davids (Shoemaker or Sobel) know, and we’ll set it up. THIS INVITATION IS NOT RESTRICTED TO OFFICIAL PEA SOUP CONTRIBUTORS! It goes out to all of those in our audience who are working in the field.
Our first featured author will be Victor Tadros, whose new book Wrongs and Crimes has just been published by OUP. His discussion will occur the first week of February.