According to Bernard Williams, what is true about relativism is that the more distant cultures are historically and culturally, the less willing we are to make moral appraisals that concern them. We don’t think that their ethical views are incorrect, and we won’t adopt reactive […] Read More
The 3rd Annual Miami Workshop on Ethics and Mind will take place on November 20th-21st, 2010, at the University of Miami. We are pleased to announce that the Keynote speaker will be John Doris. Graduate students are hereby invited to submit essays of 5000-10000 words […] Read More
Some of our readers may be interested in this new collection of essays just published in Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics on the general topic of personal identity and bioethics. There are excellent papers by Eric Olson, Marya Schechtman, Tim Campbell & Jeff McMahan, James Delaney […] Read More
Congratulations to our own Christian Miller, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Zachary T. Smith Faculty Fellow at Wake Forest University, who is Principal Investigator and Project Leader for The Character Project, which has recently been awarded a $3.67 million dollar grant from the Templeton Foundation […] Read More
Mark Timmons has posted the program for the first annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics. I've put the whole program below the fold; you can also just go to workshop website for the program and more information.
On the heels of the quality discussion of Mark van Roojen's article, Ethics yesterday released (online) its current July issue. 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 […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Mike Valdman has accepted our invitation to be a regular contributor here in the Soup. Mike is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University and specializes in value theory, especially normative ethics and political philosophy. He will also […] Read More
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