This marks the 2nd of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we […] Read More
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(This marks the first of eleven “meetings” of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details.) This rich and […] Read More
I’ve been doing work on a paper on the boundaries and nature of the moral community recently, and I’ve got a section in there on […] Read More
A recent issue of the New Yorker has Malcolm Gladwell’s discussion of the recent book Why? by Columbia sociologist Charles Tilly. Since I’ve not read […] Read More
In Mike Almeida’s recent post, this topic came up: what is it for a person to harm someone? I’m interested in a more general question: […] Read More
First, a sort of apology: this post is a bit lengthy, and it may be a bit more “metaphysicsy” than the usual on PEA Soup, […] Read More
In another thread, A.N. Prior’s attempted refutation of the is/ought gap came up. Here’s one of Prior’s examples: a. Tea-drinking is common in England.b. Therefore, […] Read More
I’ve been struggling with the question, What feature must a requirement exhibit in order to qualify as a categorical imperative?
I really liked BEARS, though it seems to be extinct now. Uriah and Josh contributed a few juicy PEARs some weeks ago. I like this […] Read More