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PEA Soup

A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia

Category: Ideas

Explorations in ethics.

Ideas, Political Philosophy Posted onMarch 10, 2017March 10, 2017

Relational Egalitarianism and Politics

This is the second installment of PEA Soup’s partnership with Bleeding Heart Libertarians. In this series folks from BHL share their thoughts with Soup readers. […] Read More

Action Theory (Philosophy of Action), Ideas, Metaethics, Practical Rationality, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality, Value Theory Posted onMarch 8, 2017March 8, 2017

Decisive Reasons and Rational Supererogation

I have a roughly formulated and half-baked inquiry: Suppose that rationality endorses maximizing utility, but there is room for rational supererogation, and so it is […] Read More

Ideas, Moral Psychology, Normative Ethics, Reasons and rationality Posted onMarch 7, 2017March 7, 2017

Can psychopaths make judgments of worth?

There’s a longstanding dispute about whether psychopaths are morally responsible. For our purposes, just stipulate that psychopaths are blind to moral reasons, that is, they […] Read More

Featured Philosophers, Ideas, Moral Responsibility, Philosophy of Law Posted onFebruary 1, 2017August 7, 2023

Featured Authors: Victor Tadros’s Wrongs and Crimes (Post by Victor Tadros)

[Editor’s Note: As part of our series featuring authors of new and forthcoming books, today we are featuring Victor Tadros’s new book Wrongs and Crimes […] Read More

Ideas, Moral Responsibility Posted onJanuary 29, 2017January 27, 2017

Moral Responsibility and Wrong Kind of Reasons

This post is a question for those who know more about the debates about moral responsibility. The question is: why is the wrong kind of […] Read More

Ideas, Moral Psychology Posted onJanuary 27, 2017January 27, 2017

Both Humeans and Kantians about Motivation are Wrong

Both Hume and Kant advocated extreme and implausible views of motivation; the same is also true of many of their contemporary followers. The truth about […] Read More

Character, Ideas, Moral Psychology, Moral Responsibility Posted onJanuary 23, 2017January 23, 2017

Contempt and the Objective Stance

In an interesting piece in the NYT’s The Stone this morning, Karen Stohr (Georgetown) discussed the nature of contempt as it pertains to Trump and […] Read More

Ideas, Normative Ethics, Practical reasons, Value Theory Posted onJanuary 14, 2017

Panspermia

I have a test case that I’d like to get responses to, one that tests a certain kind of utilitarian intuition, mixed however, with an […] Read More

Featured Philosophers, Ideas, Political Philosophy Posted onJanuary 12, 2017August 7, 2023

New Book Forum: Republic of Equals (Guest Post by Alan Thomas)

[What follows is a post by Alan Thomas, presenting a central argument from his new book Republic of Equals (OUP), available here. Please feel free to join in on […] Read More

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