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PEA Soup

A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia

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.
Applied Ethics Posted onJune 1, 2019

How Should We Evaluate Deaths?

Link here.

Agency and Responsibility, Ideas, Philosophy of Law Posted onMay 29, 2019May 28, 2019

Autonomy in Sentencing: Lessons from a 10-year-old child (Guest Post by Eyal Aharoni)

The following post is by Eyal Aharoni, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience at Georgia St. University: Troubled by the state of criminal punishment […] Read More

Agency and Responsibility, Philosophy of Law, The Real World Posted onMay 27, 2019May 29, 2019

Amicus Brief on Insanity Defense in Kansas Case (Gideon Yaffe): UPDATE: Signatures Needed by 4 p.m. TODAY (May 29)!!

Gideon Yaffe (Yale) writes with the following very important information: I’m writing to ask for your signature on this amicus brief which concerns Kahler v. […] Read More

Applied Ethics April Posted onMay 23, 2019

Winner of Applied Ethics April Prize

I’m very pleased to announce that the winner of the $250 “Applied Ethics April” prize is Kian Mintz-Woo, for the post “How Would We Know […] Read More

Metaethics Posted onMay 14, 2019

Bart Streumer on Error Theory

Here.

Announcements, Normative Ethics Posted onMay 5, 2019May 5, 2019

Invitation to be Experimented On

From Joachim Horvath & Alex Wiegmann: We would like to invite you to an online experiment on moral judgments. In the experiment, you will be […] Read More

Agency and Responsibility, Announcements Posted onMay 4, 2019

NOWAR 5 Program Out!

The program for the November 14-16, 2019 meeting of the fifth New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 5) is now out, posted here. […] Read More

Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics April Posted onApril 24, 2019April 6, 2019

A Case for Removing Confederate Monuments (Guest Post by Travis Timmerman for Applied Ethics April)

I am interested in the question of whether the relevant government officials and members of the public who together can remove the Confederate monuments, are […] Read More

Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics April Posted onApril 22, 2019April 6, 2019

Finding the Deontological Threshold (Guest Post by Mats Johansson for Applied Ethics April)

Threshold deontology is a theory which holds that some act which is intrinsically wrong even if it produces the best consequences, can still be morally […] Read More

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