I communcate with lots of academics regularly, as I'm sure most readers of this blog do. This is not surprising. But what I do find surprising is how frequently academics simply do not respond to, or even acknowledge, communications from professional colleagues. This includes communications […] Read More
Hi all! It's a great pleasure to welcome Sally Haslanger to the Soup for a stint as Featured Philosopher. As Sally does a great job summarizing some of her recent work below, I'm going to lay off here. Suffice it to say, we're all very […] Read More
This Year’s Theme: Animals and Environmental PhilosophyNovember 15-16, 2013Bowling Green, OH
I am starting a new project to help philosophers share and learn from each other's publishing experiences. The project combines some of the goals of my (essentially defunct) Venue Poll project with ideas I got from using Andrew Cullison's fantastic Journal Surveys site. The project […] Read More
Hi all, I'm pleased to introduce the next Featured Philosopher: David Enoch! We're all very excited that David agreed to participate. I'm going to let him talk for himself after the jump, so without further ado, please welcome David! -dd
The PhilPapers Foundation and the American Philosophical Association are pleased to announce a new partnership that will enhance the Foundation's ability to support the development of PhilPapers and related services. Beginning this August, the APA’s Jobs for Philosophers will merge with PhilJobs to become PhilJobs: […] Read More
A recently influential idea in the philosophy of normativity is reasons primitivism. Reasons primitivists hold that we can give no account of what it is for some consideration to be a (normative) reason. At most we can say that reasons are considerations that count in […] Read More
The first annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy will take place in Tucson, Arizona, October 17-19, 2013. The web page for the conference (with travel and hotel information and so much more) can be found here: http://oxfordstudies.arizona.edu/ Keynote Speakers: Charles Larmore (Brown) Philip […] Read More
The Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com) is happy to formally announce the winners of our Essay and Book Prize Competition. In philosophy the winners included Tom Hurka and Iskra Fileva. Please be sure to congratulate them! A ‘Good Character’ summer reading list