I’m very happy to announce that our long-time commenter, Jussi Suikkanen, has agreed to join us as a regular contributor. Jussi’s in the U.S. at […] 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.
This marks the 10th of 11 virtual meetings on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain. First, though, a programming note: next week, we’ll be discussing chapter […] Read More
Sorry folks, but I forgot to mention in my post yesterday that Parfit has sent along yet another updated manuscript, with the final chapter bearing […] Read More
This is the 9th of 11 virtual meetings on Derek Parfit’s book manuscript, Climbing the Mountain. In this pivotal chapter, Parfit finally ties together several […] Read More
I’m happy to announce that Joshua Knobe has agreed to become a contributor to PEA Soup. Joshua is an assistant professor of philosophy at U. […] Read More
This constitutes the fourth of 11 “meetings” to discuss Parfit’s new manuscript, Climbing the Mountain. First, though, a reminder announcement: all references will be to […] Read More
I’ve been doing work on a paper on the boundaries and nature of the moral community recently, and I’ve got a section in there on […] Read More
Here’s the link to what looks like a very good conference on moral contextualism at the University of Aberdeen on July 4-5, 2006 (among the […] Read More
First, a sort of apology: this post is a bit lengthy, and it may be a bit more “metaphysicsy” than the usual on PEA Soup, […] Read More