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Welcome to our Ethics review forum on L. Nandi Theunissen’s The Value of Humanity (OUP), reviewed by Kenneth Walden. Below, you’ll find a description of the book, as well as a condensed version of Kenneth’s review. Nandi’s response will appear in the comments. Please join […] Read More
The third “season” of the Virtual Metaethics Colloquium has just wrapped up. We’ve seen some very interesting talks, and the presenters have found the feedback very useful. Looking forward to a Summer and Fall series of presentations, we have a doodle poll to set a […] Read More
I want to focus not on the wisdom of the Supreme Court decision concerning paying student-athletes, but instead how higher ed should respond. The inevitable result of this ruling is that the revenue-generating sports will cost more money, perhaps eventually a lot more money. That […] Read More
The 16th Annual Madison Metaethics Workshop program is now available here. The conference runs from Sept. 17th-19th. More information here.
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