Many senior American philosophers strongly advise their graduate students that publishing while in graduate school is a bad idea, and hurts the students' chances on […] Read More
Category: Discussions
The Catholic Church has just published THIS document which will be of interest for everyone working in the applied ethics and bioethics. The Catholic Church's […] Read More
I'm attracted to a view of well-being with (roughly) the following structure: x is intrinsically good for y if and only if y believes that […] Read More
Let me be the first PEA Souper to follow the blogging trend of linking to FAILBlog, and direct you to this real-life instance of the […] Read More
David Faraci, from Bowling Green State University, has asked me to run the following post on his behalf (he’ll be responding to comments directly): I […] Read More
I’ve been recently reading Gibbard’s and Schroeder’s new books (both brilliant) on expressivism. I’ve started to wonder whether there is a connection between expressivism and […] Read More
Steve Campbell from Michigan kindly directed my attention to a new paper that uses the methods of experimental philosophy to investigate the objectivity-question in metaethics. […] Read More
The poll question was: If someone holds both (a) that an act is morally permissible if and only if it maximizes aggregate pleasure and (b) […] Read More
The poll question was: Assuming that you’re a consequentialist (if you’re not one, then please don’t take this poll), do you believe that the best […] Read More