Congratulations to our own Jussi Suikkanen for winning the Charm Quark (third prize) at the annual 3 Quarks Daily philosophy blogging contest! It was for his post about Williams, Thick Concepts, and Reasons. Well done!
Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy is the latest in the very successful Oxford Studies in… series. Published by Oxford University Press and edited by Joshua Knobe, Tania Lombrozo, and Shaun Nichols, Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy will publish a volume every two years, featuring outstanding […] Read More
The John Templeton Foundation has just awarded a major grant to Daniel Jacobson (UM) to pursue and organize numerous projects on "The Science of Ethics," along with Justin D'Arms (OSU) and Chandra Sripada (UM). (Jacobson is the project leader, and D'Arms and Sripada are major contributors.) […] Read More
Voting has opened for the best philosophy blog post over at 3 Quarks Daily. There are three posts from PEA Soup that have been nominated. ________________________________
The final roster for the first New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR) has been posted here. For further information about the workshop, including accommodations, please visit the conference website here. Registration is free and simply requires an e-mail to dshoemak@tulane.edu with a registration request.
As many of you know, for approximately the last four years the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy has been publishing shorter discussion notes. Starting this month, I will be taking over as editor for the discussion notes section on JESP, taking over from Julia […] Read More
Newman, Lockhart, and Keil recently published their finding that when judging a person’s overall moral goodness or badness across a lifetime, we seem biased toward the end of life (at Cognition here). According to this theory, we do not judge the moral qualities of a […] Read More
Details here. We've had some success in this contest in the past, so nominate and vote for your favorite PEA Soup post from the past year and perhaps we can do it again.
Subjunctive analyses of what we ought to do often appeal to what we would do (or what we would want ourselves to do) if we were both fully informed and fully rational. Many such analyses commit what is called the Conditional Fallacy and are, therefore, […] Read More