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PEA Soup

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Discussions Posted onApril 24, 2015

Celebrating 125 years of Ethics at PEA Soup — with R. Lanier Anderson on Marjorie Grene

We are very happy to kick off another PEA Soup celebration of the Ethics 125th anniversary retrospective series, with this special feature of R. Lanier Anderson's essay on Marjorie […] Read More

Ideas, Normative Ethics Posted onApril 20, 2015August 5, 2016

Moral Theory and “Action-Guidingness”

All over there are arguments that employ the following premise: Necessarily, the true moral theory is action-guiding. I must confess that I don’t really have […] Read More

Metaethics, News and Events Posted onApril 19, 2015August 7, 2023

Don’t get Mad; get CHill!

A much-anticipated announcement from Russ Shafer-Landau: The annual metaethics workshop that's long been held at UW-Madison is now moving (along with yours truly) to UNC […] Read More

Metaethics, Moral Psychology Posted onApril 10, 2015August 3, 2016

Deontic and instantive morality

Morality is not exclusively deontic.  There are, after all, many things that are morally good to do though not required, or morally bad though not […] Read More

Discussions, Ideas, Normative Ethics, Value Theory Posted onApril 3, 2015August 5, 2016

Objective or Subject value for setting the strength of agent-claims

Helen Frowe wrote me yesterday to try to understand better my position on how to count the agent’s interest in a trolley switching case. The […] Read More

Ideas, Metaethics, Value Theory Posted onApril 1, 2015August 5, 2016

Smith’s Objection to Buck-Passing

I very much love Michael Smith’s recent paper “A Constitutivist Theory of Reasons: Its Promise and Parts” (Law, Ethics and Philosophy 2013, also available on […] Read More

Academia Posted onMarch 25, 2015

Religious Exemptions Conference at BGSU, April 17th-18th

Hi folks. I thought I'd post a reminder for anyone interested that Bowling Green State University is hosting a conference, "The Scope of Religious Exemptions," […] Read More

News and Events, The Profession Posted onMarch 9, 2015August 7, 2023

Announcement: PIKSI Deadline Approaching

Thanks to a major grant ($600,000) awarded to the APA by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI) […] Read More

Discussions, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Normative Ethics, Practical Rationality, Value Theory Posted onMarch 2, 2015August 3, 2016

Regret

Consider the question “Can regret be appropriate even apart from any belief that one’s choice was misguided or irrational if a monistic theory of the […] Read More

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