Philosophers have long debated the nature of happiness, with some saying that happiness is just a certain kind of psychological state and others claiming that true happiness is not just a matter of having certain feelings but also requires genuine virtue. The new field of […] Read More
It is fairly common to give a conditional analysis of an option, e.g.: (CAO) Performing an act X at a future time t1 is an option for a subject S at the present time t0 if and only if S would perform X at t1 […] Read More
It's my pleasure to welcome Christian Coons and David Faraci (individually, not as a tag team) to PEA Soup. Christian is an assistant professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, doing really interesting work in moral philosophy (metaethics, value theory, normative ethics and more). […] Read More
In light of feedback some of you have sent to the editors over the past several months, we have finally been able to make a few improvements to PEA Soup. You've likely already noticed the most important ones, but just to make it "official," a […] Read More
On September 6-8, 2012, Purdue University will host an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution". The conference will focus on three main challenges to religious and moral beliefs: Widespread interpersonal disagreement among intellectual peers on religious and on moral […] Read More
At a recent symposium on Victor Tadros's book The Ends of Harm, Victor and I were debating whether the Means Principle (MP) is best thought of on a subjective interpretation (for A to use B as a means, A has to intend that B play […] Read More
(Also posted on Flickers of Freedom.) I am a fan of attributability as a conception of responsibility. The trick, as we all know, is to get clear on just what that means. Even if you don't think attributability is a conception of responsibility, it is […] Read More
Over at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, we're running a symposium this week on the topic of "Libertarianism and Land," featuring essays by Eric Mack, Hillel Steiner, Fred Foldvary, Kevin Carson, and David Schmidtz. The first essay went up this morning: "Natural Rights and Natural […] Read More