“Trolley Follies” by Kerah Gordon-Solmon is the winner of the July Normative Ethics Prize! Congratuations! Second prize is split between Travis Timmerman’s “A Dilemmas for […] Read More
Category: Normative Ethics July
For PEA Soup: “You’re So Smug, I’ll Bet You Don’t Care This Post is About You” There is something distinctively infuriating about a kind of […] Read More
Here’s a variation on the classic trolley problem that I haven’t seen before: Five innocent people are trapped in the path of an oncoming trolley. […] Read More
“Philosophical Examples: The Stark and the Dense,” guest post by Vida Yao for Normative Ethics July.
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
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