If you're interested in being a commentator at our upcoming Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress this August in Boulder, Colorado (or if you'd just like to see a preliminary main conference program), please continue reading …
In the previous post, I noted that there are two important aspects of Scanlonian blame — relationships and meaning — and that extending Scanlon's account to cover criminal blame (punishment) was problematic with respect to the former in virtue of the fact that the necessary […] Read More
The next discussion in our collaboration with Ethics will be on Tom Dougherty's "On Whether to Prefer Pain to Pass," which is now freely available here. We will begin our discussion this Wednesday, May 25, kicked off with a critical precis by Caspar Hare (MIT). We hope to see many […] Read More
Part 1, for those of you old enough to remember, was posted two years ago here. Yes, I'm a very slow thinker. In Part 2, I want to explore the possibility of extending Scanlon's account of blame to include criminal blame. For both legal and […] Read More
Here's an interesting idea for an open-access philosophy journal: http://www.sympoze.com/ Check it out and consider volunteering to become a reviewer.
We are pleased to announce that David Schmidtz, Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, has accepted our invitation to be a Contributor here at PEA Soup. Dave is Founding Director of Arizona's Freedom Center and specializes in […] Read More
David Sobel and I have been working to put together a conference on Practical Reason and Metaethics. (A highly original title, I know, but somehow strangely apt.) It will be held about a year hence, on April 20-22, 2012 at the University of Nebraska – […] Read More
I'm pleased to announce the program for the inaugural New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), taking place in New Orleans at the Intercontinental Hotel November 3-5, 2011. The official schedule is here, and more information about the workshop, including the link to making […] Read More
The Yale Experiment Month studies have now gone live here. They are a series of experimental philosophy scenarios proposed by a variety of folks that successfully made their way through the Yale team's vetting process (as well as that of their home institutions' HSRB) and […] Read More