After a mere 17 years at the helm at Soup, Dave “Slacker” Shoemaker is taking a month off—probably because he thinks he is a big shot now that he is moving to fancy-pants Cornell. Given that my role at Soup over the past 9 years […] Read More
and I welcome you to the discussion of Natalie Gold‘s recent “The Limits of Commodification Arguments: Framing, motivation crowding, and shared valuations” (also available here). To kick off the discussion, we have a précis from Peter Jaworski and reply from Gold. Please join us in […] Read More
[Editors’ note: This post is an abbreviated version of Piers Norris Turner’s introduction to the upcoming Utilitas symposium “Mill on Free Speech.” For this PEA Soup discussion, Cambridge Core has made all the symposium contributions available for free here. Piers Norris Turner, “Updating Mill on […] Read More
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