Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics We are excited to be co-directing an NEH Summer Seminar Traditions Into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics, to take […] Read More
Author: David Shoemaker
I'm a Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Murphy Institute at Tulane University. I specialize in agency and responsibility, personal identity and ethics, and I occasionally dabble in social & political philosophy.
It’s taken to be a platitude of folk morality that I can only be morally responsible for my own actions. Call this The Platitude. Sometimes […] Read More
The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers concerning any period, methodological approach, and/or topic in political theory, political […] Read More
Congratulations to our own Troy Jollimore for the very positive review he just got in this past Sunday’s NY Times for his book of poems […] Read More
Timed with the current national release of Michael Moore’s Sicko, I have a (fairly) honest question: why do political libertarians reject the idea of state-financed […] Read More
We’re pleased to announce another new member to the list of PEA Soup contributors, Elisa Hurley. Elisa is currently a Greenwall post-doc fellow at Johns […] Read More
It turns out our fellow PEA Souper Troy Jollimore has been doing a little non-philosophical dabbling on the side: he just won the National Book […] Read More
In James Rachels’ famous article, “Active and Passive Euthanasia,” he argues that, if the only relevant difference between active and passive euthanasia is that the […] Read More
I’m happy to announce the addition of John Oberdiek to our list of contributors. John is a co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and […] Read More