Thom Brooks alerts us to a new moral and political philosophy journal, Public Reason. The journal looks to be noteworthy for a number of reasons, […] Read More
Category: Discussions
There's been an important discussion going on at Brian Leiter's blog (here and here). There's a petition, signed by well over 1000 members of the […] Read More
Several months back, Ralph's post on torture provoked a good deal of valuable discussion, so I wanted to draw attention to C.A.J. Coady's review of […] Read More
In his comment on this post, Dave Shoemaker writes: Too often we act as kinds of gatekeepers, judging that if students aren't sufficiently "like us" […] Read More
It's nearing that time when graduate programs admit students. Should any of us be encouraging our students to pursue a PhD in philosophy? If so, […] Read More
There’s a story that I heard from my father many years ago, which I’m tempted to share with PEA Soupers. G. E. Moore was a Cambridge […] Read More
Since we've had a lot of good discussions in the past at PEA Soup about journals' editorial practices, I thought I'd draw everyone's attention to […] Read More
Suppose that S has the following imperfect duty: an imperfect duty to perform at least one of x, y, and z (where these are three […] Read More
As I noted in an earlier post, there are at least two competing rationales for constraints: the victim-focused rationale (VFR) and the agent-focused rationale (AFR). […] Read More