The organizers of the upcoming conference (3/16-3/17) at Bowling Green State University on the topic of manipulation have announced the line-up, which looks good. Keynote speaker is Marcia Baron. Follow this link for details about the conference, registration, and accommodations.
Computers and smartphones sometimes autocorrect what you type, so that your words are properly spelled. We know that this doesn't work perfectly. Suppose it did. Further, suppose that somehow there were also a perfect Ethical AutoCorrect, which if activated would alter any unethical action you […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Ninth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 28-30, 2012. Jonathan Dancy (Reading and Texas) will be this year's keynote speaker. Abstracts (of 2-3 double-spaced pages) […] Read More
The latest addition to the Oxford Studies series is Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. It will be edited by David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steve Wall. There will be an annual conference and an annual volume published by Oxford. The conference will rotate between Tucson […] Read More
Where: New Haven, Yale University When: April 13, 2012 Deadline for submission: March 2, 2012 Many individuals in affluent nations are aware that a vast number of people live in conditions of severe poverty. Yet they are more likely to go to the movies […] Read More
We are pleased to welcome Alec Walen as a contributor here at PEA Soup. Alec is Associate Professor at Rutgers University, jointly appointed in Law, Philosophy, and Criminal Justice, and he works in both moral theory and legal theory. Welcome aboard, Alec!
Well, not quite. The survey showed that about one-third of the respondents shared my intuition that I (qua subject of the example) have no reason to purchase ITEM and that about two-thirds of respondents have the contrary intuition that I do have a reason to […] Read More
If you like music, or philosophy, or philosophy-themed music, or giving away money, then you might be interested in this exciting announcement from the philosophy supergroup The 21st Century Monads! Please be advised that some moral theories entail that you are morally required to purchase Monads music.
I disagree with one of my fellow PEA Brains about something. Part of what our disagreement hinges upon is our differing intuitions about the following sort of case. Although it's clear that we have differing intuitions about this case, it's not clear whose intuitions are […] Read More