I'm pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the next St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, sponsored by UMSL and Washington University. Many PEA Soupers have participated the past three years. May 19 – 21, 2013Moonrise Hotel in St Louis, MO Keynote Speaker:Michael […] Read More
I am teaching a graduate-level metaethics survey course this semester and would like to give my students a flowchart to help them keep track of the field. I've seen a couple around but none were quite what I was looking for. So I'm making my […] Read More
Deontic or normative modality is a subject of common interest for researchers in several fields,including moral philosophy, linguistics, formal logic, and metaethics. However, over the last three decades, research in these different fields has largely been conducted independently, and researchers have often ignored work in […] Read More
I have a very short argument to the effect that the promising-relevant pro tanto moral obligation is not a pro tanto moral obligation to keep one's promises but, rather, a pro tanto moral obligation to not break one's promises. [The argument crucially depends on the […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Peter A. Graham has accepted our invitation to be a contributor at PEA Soup. Pete is a professor of philosophy at UMass Amherst. His current research concerns arguments for the incompatibility of free will and determinism, theories of moral […] Read More
Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity is a new research centre at the University of Edinburgh. Drawing on Edinburgh’s past success in the fields of epistemology, ethics (particularly meta-ethics), and philosophy of mind and cognitive science, the centre will be home to […] Read More
We are thrilled to welcome Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder to PEA Soup! Nomy, whose research interests include ethics, moral psychology, action theory, metaethics, and free will, is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. She is the author of Merit, Meaning,and Human Bondage: An Essay […] Read More
Errol Lord and Barry Maguire are organizing a two day workshop (Nov. 30- Dec. 1) dedicated to developing/criticizing systematic accounts of weighing reasons. Invited Speakers: Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Stephen Darwall (Yale), John Horty (Maryland), Stephen Kearns (Florida State) & Daniel Star (Boston University), Joseph Raz […] Read More
All of you are of course aware that here in the UK there has been huge phone hacking scandal. This scandal lead to the Leveson Inquiry on Culture, Practice, and Ethics of Press. Last week, on Monday 16th of July, the Inquiry interviewed various philosophers on freedom of speech, […] Read More