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.
Before I get to the results, let me say what issue I’m interested in and what I think about the cases in the survey. The question that interests me is: (Q) Does the fact that some future agent, F, will actually perform a certain future […] Read More
I'm interested in people's intuitions concerning whether and when the fact that an agent will actually perform some future action bears on what she is, as of the present, obligated to do. To test what people's intuitions are, I've created a survey. The survey should […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Antti Kauppinen has joined the roster of contributors here at PEA Soup. Among other areas of interest, Antti works on moral psychology, metaethics, and well-being. He is a Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at […] Read More
I want to try to develop an argument against deontological libertarian moral principles that treat a wide range of our basic rights as flowing from morally powerful rights of self-ownership. I am curious how widely this problem afflicts a broader range of deontological views but […] Read More
We've started livestreaming some Rotman Institute of Philosophy talks and I thought PEA soup readers might be interested. Here's the next one: Join us this March for our next speaker, Dr. Kyle Stanford, of the University of California Irvine. His lecture, titled The Difference Between […] Read More