If, like me, you've been frustrated with all that's going on in Philosophy (or not going on as the case may be) and want to […] Read More
Author: Samantha Brennan
We've started livestreaming some Rotman Institute of Philosophy talks and I thought PEA soup readers might be interested. Here's the next one: Join us this […] Read More
As summer comes to a close and we get ready to return to the classroom, I’ve been thinking more about the different shapes my colleagues’ summers have taken, about how much we’ve written and how much real holidays we’ve taken. As a philosophy department chair, one of my responsibilities is chairing the department’s annual performance evaluation committee and each year I’m struck anew by how hard some of my colleagues work. I feel humbled by how much very high quality work some colleagues publish.
Feminism, Science, and Values June 25-28, 2010 The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada In June 2010, the International Association of Women Philosophers (http://www.iaph-philo.org/ […] Read More
This looks like a great conference but I couldn’t help feeling irked that here was another conference with no women on the program. I’m never […] Read More
I may be rehashing an old discussion–if so, please direct me to it–but I am trying to get a sense of what’s going on with […] Read More
Since my last post to PEA Soup was on the goods of childhood (on the question of whether some goods of childhood are intrinsically good […] Read More
There are three conferences coming up for those of us with interests in the ethics of children and families. The first is one I organized […] Read More
I’m interested in children’s rights but also more generally in the relationship between rights and value. Many, or most, children’s rights are justified in terms […] Read More