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This is a call for abstracts for the second biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Intercontinental Hotel on November 7-9, 2013. Abstracts are welcome on any topic having to do with agency and/or […] Read More
We are pleased to present the latest installment of Ethics at PEA Soup, in which we host a discussion of one article from each issue of Ethics. The article selected from Volume 123, issue 1, is Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer's "The Objectivity of […] Read More
We are pleased to announce the next installment of Ethics discussions at PEA Soup, which will feature an article by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, "The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason" (Ethics, volume 123, issue 1). We are also very […] Read More
In his latest book, The Ends of Harm (OUP 2011), our own Victor Tadros advances a fascinating theory of punishment, which is articulated in Chapter 12, made available by OUP here. Discussion of the chapter kicks off today with a critical precis by another of […] Read More
A friend sent me a link to a New Yorker piece–link below–that pointed out that the self-driving cars that Google is developing will sometimes have to make "moral" decisions. The author, Gary Marcus, provides this example: "Your car is speeding along a bridge at fifty […] Read More
My colleague Jonathan Weisberg has created an excellent free iPhone app. Among other things, the app allows you to run informal surveys, run intuition polls, etc. I was one of the beta testers and I can say that the interface is great and the thing […] Read More
Deadline: February 15, 2013 Keynote Speakers: Talbot Brewer and Sarah Buss Submissions: We welcome submissions from faculty and graduate students, as some sessions will be reserved for student presentations. Please submit an essay of approximately 4000 words and an abstract of at most 150 words. […] Read More
[MOVING TO THE FRONT] I am very pleased to announce that we will be hosting a discussion of Chapter 12 of Victor Tadros's book The Ends of Harm (OUP, 2011) on PEA Soup, starting on Wed., November 28. Oxford University Press has generously made this […] Read More