It is my pleasure to introduce our next Featured Philosopher, John Deigh. John is a Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Texas, […] Read More
Author: Brad Cokelet
I'm an Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas and my research interests include virtue, human flourishing, moral worth, and reasons. I have growing interests in empirical psychology, early critics of Kantian ethics, and Chinese ethics.
In The Possibility of Altruism Thomas Nagel introduces a distinction between motivated and unmotivated desires that has since become standard in discussions of action theory […] Read More
I am happy to announce that our next featured philosopher is the insightful and creative Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern). Her post, titled "More than Words Can […] Read More
I am pleased to introduce the next PEA Soup Featured Philosopher, Miranda Fricker. Profesor Fricker is currently the Director of the Mind Association, the author […] Read More
Some time ago I argued that a problem with a certain sort of virtue ethics might not be fixable (in “Virtue and Right”). The banner […] Read More
I am happy to announce that our next Featured Philosopher is Robert Johnson, from the University of Missouri. His post titled "Virtue and Right Revisited" will […] Read More
Over the last decade, I have been developing an interconnected set of claims and arguments concerning the second-personal character of central moral phenomena. My focus […] Read More
I am happy to announce that our next Featured Philosopher is Stephen Darwall, who is currently the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale […] Read More
Sharon Street has argued that (prominent versions of) quasi-realist expressivism (“expressivism,” for short) has a knowledge problem. Others, such as Allan Gibbard and Jamie Dreier, […] Read More