St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and RationalityUM-St. LouisMay 22-24, 2011Moonrise Hotel The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to announce the program for SLACRR 2. PEA Soupers on this year's program include Jamie Dreier (Keynote), Brad Cokelet, Jussi Suikkanen, Mark van Roojen, […] Read More
Georgetown University's Department of Philosophy and Georgetown University Law Center, in cooperation with the editors of Ethics, will host a symposium, "Experiment and Intuition in Ethics," April 8-10. (It looks great!) The current schedule and a registration link appear below the fold.
The Public Philosophy Network is sponsoring a conference that I imagine will interest many PEA Soup readers. Details, and the call for proposals, below:
We are pleased to announce the next installment of our collaboration with Ethics, where we will host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal will make a copy of that article freely accessible (for a limited time) to […] Read More
Ever since Aristotle, the terms that are translated ‘end’ (e.g. the Greek word telos and the Latin finis) have played a starring role in ethical theory. But in fact there are three crucially different things that can be meant by speaking of the “end for […] Read More
I'm helping to put together a Royal Institute of Philosophy workshop on Free Will and Moral Responsibility here at the Philosophy department of the University of Birmingham. It will from 1pm to 6pm on Saturday the 7th of May - at University of Birmingham Campus, ERI building. […] Read More
According to what is now probably the standard view of (transactional) exploitation, it is a matter of someone taking unfair advantage of another (Wertheimer 1996). There have been various attempts to cash out the notion of unfair advantage, but I haven’t found a satisfactory one. […] Read More
For those of you who have not yet seen it, I'd like to encourage you to consider signing this petition, advocating for the inclusion of the Philosophy of Race as a specialty in the Philosophical Gourmet Report. There is some discussion of the petition here, […] Read More
I know that many deontic logicians would consider the following argument to be valid: If you’re going to behead Jones, then you ought to behead him using the sharp sword. You ought to behead Jones. Therefore, you ought to behead Jones using the sharp sword.