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Ram Neta writes: Dandelet’s paper presents a novel puzzle – what she calls “The Puzzle of Self-Gaslighting”. She introduces the puzzle by describing a story in which a 16-year old girl “C” and her friend were on an empty beach when suddently they “noticed a […] Read More
We are excited to host Part II of the discussion of Jennifer Lackey’s 2020 book The Epistemology of Groups (Oxford). The discussion is in two parts: Part I, posted here, addresses group attitudes, while Part II, posted below, deals with group speech. This discussion is […] Read More
We are excited to host the following discussion of Jennifer Lackey’s 2020 book The Epistemology of Groups (Oxford). The discussion is in two parts: Part I, posted here, addresses group attitudes, while Part II, to follow on Wednesday, deals with group speech. This discussion is the […] Read More
Welcome to our Ethics Review Forum on Jonathan Quong‘s The Morality of Defensive Force (OUP 2020), reviewed by Joseph Bowen. Below, you’ll find a description of the book, as well as a condensed version of Joseph’s review. Jonathan’s response will appear in the comments. Please join […] Read More
As a present to our readers, and as an enticement to check out the new PEA Soup Princeton site, we present to you this lovely interview in our ongoing series “Mentees Interviewing Mentors.” Connie Rosati, co-editor-in-chief of Ethics and professor at UT Austin, interviews her […] Read More
For the past five years, the Prindle Institute for Ethics, out of Depauw University, has been a kind and generous host to the Soup. Andy Cullison, the director of the institute, reached out to us early on in his tenure to bring the Soup to […] Read More
From Mark Timmons: I am pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Thirteenth Annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (WiNE) that will be held in Tucson, Arizona on January 13-15, 2022. Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic in normative […] Read More
Hello everyone! Welcome to another another installment of Soup of the Day (formerly ‘The Pebble’), PEA Soup’s forum for public philosophy. Today’s entry is brought to us by Gregory Robson, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. Here is Professor Robson now: Each day, […] Read More
Welcome to this weekend’s discussion of Anthony Kelley‘s “The Welfare-Nihilist Arguments Against Judgement Subjectivism“. We encourage you to share your thoughts in the comments section. What follows is a critical précis by Wayne Sumner. Anthony Kelley’s paper joins the already voluminous literature interrogating the defensibility […] Read More