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Hello Team! After a hectic end of a hectic semester, we are back to bringing you short pieces of public philosophy here at PEA Soup’s The Pebble. Today’s entry is brought to us by Anca Gheaus, Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at […] Read More
PEA-Brains, We apologize but the transition to Princeton’s server for some reason unsubscribed people who previously were regularly receiving e-mails when a new post went up at PEA Soup. But the good news is that there is a very easy fix. Please just “Subscribe” by […] Read More
What are the appropriate limits on how outside contributors to a university may shape what gets taught and who gets hired into a dept? This is an interesting and complicated question. I’ll offer some thoughts but mostly I’d like us to hear each other’s thoughts […] Read More
and I welcome you to the discussion of Itai Sher‘s recent “How perspective-based aggregation undermines the Pareto principle” (free access through July 3rd here). To kick off the discussion, we have a précis from Fred D’Agostino and reply from Sher. Please join us in the […] Read More
Here now is Matt King: Moral conviction is often lauded in ordinary discourse. To be a person of principle is considered a virtue (and it is certainly a pejorative to be thought of as ‘unprincipled’). Of course, too much conviction, given that we can be […] Read More
The 9th annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy will take place in Tucson, AZ October 14-16, 2021. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2021. Submissions should be submitted here. More information, and the Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy home page, can be found here. […] Read More
After a mere 17 years at the helm at Soup, Dave “Slacker” Shoemaker is taking a month off—probably because he thinks he is a big shot now that he is moving to fancy-pants Cornell. Given that my role at Soup over the past 9 years […] Read More
and I welcome you to the discussion of Natalie Gold‘s recent “The Limits of Commodification Arguments: Framing, motivation crowding, and shared valuations” (also available here). To kick off the discussion, we have a précis from Peter Jaworski and reply from Gold. Please join us in […] Read More
[Editors’ note: This post is an abbreviated version of Piers Norris Turner’s introduction to the upcoming Utilitas symposium “Mill on Free Speech.” For this PEA Soup discussion, Cambridge Core has made all the symposium contributions available for free here. Piers Norris Turner, “Updating Mill on […] Read More