As anyone who reads Leiter Reports or follows the Philos-L mailing-list knows, there has been a big uproar recently in the UK about the AHRC’s (a government body which funds Arts and Humanities research) ‘connected communities’ funding scheme. One problem is that, in advertising the scheme, the AHRC has […] Read More
Adam Lerner, a student at William & Mary, has constructed a survey (also part of Yale's Experiment Month) to gather intuitions on punishment. Go here to get your intuitions pumped.
The Third Annual Arizona Workshop on Normative Ethical Theory will be held in Tucson, Arizona on January 5-7, 2012. Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic in normative ethical theory (to be distinguished as well as possible from metaethics and applied ethics). Abstracts […] Read More
We are pleased to present our next installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from each volume of the journal. The article selected from Volume 121, Issue 2, is Edward Slingerland’s “The Situationist Critique and Early […] Read More
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