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Philosophical Examples: The Stark and the Dense by Vida Yao In “The Women of Trachis: Fictions, Pessimism, and Ethics,” Bernard Williams draws a distinction between […] Read More
Options Without Constraints Richard Yetter Chappell The paradox of deontology counsels against including constraints in our fundamental moral theory. Consequentialists are generally suspicious of the associated asymmetries, […] Read More
It is Normative Ethics Month at PEA Soup. Today’s post is by Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin (Sam Houston State University). Take it away Benjamin: Doing the Wrong […] Read More
A Dilemma for Effective Altruism This post focuses on an underappreciated debate in normative ethics, viz. the actualism/possibilism (A/P) debate and a problem that I […] Read More
I have been wondering how difficult it would be for journals to permit authors to make an audio recording of their papers and allow that […] Read More
Kristina Gehrman (Tennessee, Knoxville), who was a public figure in the case against Searle, offers some reflections. Here now is Kristina: I want to share […] Read More
July’s Quarterly Topic at PEA Soup is Normative Ethics. We invite you to submit posts of no more than 1000 words on any topic in […] Read More
On the occasion of the death of Dr. John I propose that his “Make a Better World to Live In” become the official theme song […] Read More
We are pleased to remind you about the next PEA Soup Quarterly Topic (with Awards)!! Every third month, from here on out, we will invite […] Read More