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
Category: Featured Philosophers
Happy New Year! I am happy to announce that we will have a regular series of Featured Philosophers this spring, and that we will be […] Read More
We wanted to tip you off — and remind you — about a few features upcoming at the Soup in the new year. First, Brad […] Read More
In this post, I want to raise a problem for a kind of theory of welfare that has recently been on the rise. I will […] Read More
Our first Featured Philosopher of the new WordPress era begins tomorrow: Eden Lin (of Ohio St.) will post something on well-being, and we encourage you […] Read More
In The Possibility of Altruism Thomas Nagel introduces a distinction between motivated and unmotivated desires that has since become standard in discussions of action theory […] Read More
I am pleased to introduce the next PEA Soup Featured Philosopher, Miranda Fricker. Profesor Fricker is currently the Director of the Mind Association, the author […] Read More
Some time ago I argued that a problem with a certain sort of virtue ethics might not be fixable (in “Virtue and Right”). The banner […] Read More
Over the last decade, I have been developing an interconnected set of claims and arguments concerning the second-personal character of central moral phenomena. My focus […] Read More