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Normative Ethics, Normative Ethics July Posted onJuly 10, 2019July 10, 2019

“Doing the Wrong Thing for the Right Reasons,” (Guest Post by Mitchell-Yellin for Normative Ethics July)

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

Book Review Forums, Ethics Book Reviews, Metaethics, Practical Rationality, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality Posted onJuly 5, 2019June 26, 2023

Ethics Review Forum: Lord’s ‘The Importance of Being Rational’, reviewed by Howard

Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Errol Lord‘s The Importance of Being Rational (OUP 2018), reviewed by Nathan Howard. Excerpts from the blurb and […] Read More

Normative Ethics Posted onJuly 1, 2019July 1, 2019

“A Dilemma for Effective Altruism,” Guest Post by Travis Timmerman for Normative Ethics July

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

Announcements, Applied Ethics Posted onJune 30, 2019June 29, 2019

New Open Access Book on Abortion

Kristina Grob and Nathan Nobis have a new, open access ( = free) “public philosophy” book on abortion: “Thinking Critically About Abortion: Why Most Abortions […] Read More

Academia Posted onJune 29, 2019June 29, 2019

A Question for Journals: How Hard Would it be to allow Audio Recordings of Philosophy Papers

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

The Profession Posted onJune 23, 2019June 23, 2019

Kristina Gehrman’s Reflections in the Wake of the Searle Case

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

Normative Ethics, Normative Ethics July Posted onJune 21, 2019June 21, 2019

Last call for submissions to “Normative Ethics July” at Soup

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

Announcements, Metaethics Posted onJune 13, 2019

14th Annual Mad Meta Program is Out!

Linked here. Conference is September 13-15, 2019, in Madison.

Applied Ethics, Normative Ethics Posted onJune 7, 2019June 7, 2019

Consequentialism’s Theme Song?

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

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