This post is a question for those who know more about the debates about moral responsibility. The question is: why is the wrong kind of […] Read More
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Both Hume and Kant advocated extreme and implausible views of motivation; the same is also true of many of their contemporary followers. The truth about […] Read More
In an interesting piece in the NYT’s The Stone this morning, Karen Stohr (Georgetown) discussed the nature of contempt as it pertains to Trump and […] Read More
Applications are invited from current advanced doctoral students and recent PhD graduates/early career scholars to participate in a workshop on current issues in coercion, to […] Read More
I have a test case that I’d like to get responses to, one that tests a certain kind of utilitarian intuition, mixed however, with an […] Read More
[What follows is a post by Alan Thomas, presenting a central argument from his new book Republic of Equals (OUP), available here. Please feel free to join in on […] Read More
Hi everyone, and thanks to PEA Soup for providing this forum and inviting me to contribute. 1. The Issue Standard theories on normative reasons rarely […] Read More
The Canadian Journal of Philosophy hereby calls for papers on the topic “Representation and Evaluation” for a special volume edited by Matt Bedke and Stefan Sciaraffa. […] Read More
In this little exercise in analytic existentialism, I’m going to contrast two kinds of stories we can live through, and suggest that the transition from […] Read More