We are pleased to present the third installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from an issue of the journal. The article selected from Volume 120, Issue 3 is Mark van Roojen's "Moral Rationalism and Rational […] Read More
Consider the following scenario: MINERS: 10 miners are trapped in a flooding mine; they are either all in shaft A or all in shaft B. Given our information, each location is equally likely. We have just enough sandbags to block one shaft, saving all the […] Read More
The next discussion in our collaboration with Ethics will be on Mark van Roojen’s “Moral Rationalism and Rational Amoralism,” which is now freely available here. We will begin our discussion on July 12, kicked off with a critical precis by Russ Shafer-Landau. So read up and […] Read More
As many of you have no doubt noticed, the most recent (April) issue of Ethics was published on-line last weekend. We are pleased to announce that the article from that issue to be discussed next as part of our ongoing collaboration with Ethics will be “Moral […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Christian Miller has accepted our invitation to become an official contributor here at PEA Soup. Christian is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University, where he focuses on metaethics, moral psychology, theory […] Read More
The Experiment Month initiative is a program designed to help philosophers conduct experimental studies. If you are interested in running a study, you can send your study proposal to the Experiment Month staff. Then, if your proposal is selected for inclusion, we will conduct the […] Read More
The program for the Madison Metaethics Workshop is up. Looks great. I've put it here below the fold; for the program and more information about the workshop, here's a link to the site.
We are pleased to present our second installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal. The article selected from Volume 120, Issue 2, is Elizabeth Brake's "Minimal Marriage: What Political Liberalism […] Read More
Fellow PEA Brains: I have a quick question for those in the know. The terms "criminal responsibility" and "legal responsibility" are often used interchangeably in what little of the literature I know in legal theory dealing with the concepts. I'm wondering, though, if there are […] Read More