Mission PEA Soup is a blog designed to provide a forum for discussing philosophy, ethics, and academia. Its mission is to transcend geographical barriers so […] Read More
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A great deal of ink has been spilled attempting to show that contractualism, alternately, can or cannot accommodate “numbers” in a plausible way. Contractualism aspires […] Read More
This posting is about one fictional philosopher and one real one, and how their theories interact. The real philosopher’s theory has to mis-characterize the fictional […] Read More
Mark Timmons has posted the program for the first annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (first announced in this call for papers). I've put the […] Read More
… returns, thanks to Simon Rippon. You can find the feed link in the top Navigation Bar. Thank you, Simon, for getting this global comments […] Read More
My most compelling intuition is that the effective freedom to achieve a state I could want, even if I don't actually want it, makes me […] Read More
Thank you all—contributors, commentators, and readers—for another great year in the Soup! This month marks PEA Soup's fifth "birthday" on the blogosphere, and because of […] Read More
Here is an inconsistent triad of propositions: There are certain pure “ticking bomb” cases (e.g. of the sort that I considered in my last post […] Read More
Some hope to cash out claims about goodness in terms of claims about reasons to respond. One such account is the Buck Passing Account of […] Read More