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
Applications for 2010-2011 Visiting Fellowships at the Institute for Philosophy in Public Life are now being accepted. The deadline for applications is July 1, 2010. Current and previous fellowships appear to have been kind to those wishing to pursue work in ethics and cognate areas. […] Read More
“Freedom, Paternalism and Morality” April 1-2, 2011 The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio on April 1-2, 2011. Keynote speakers will be Gerald Dworkin (University of California at Davis) and Douglas Husak (Rutgers University). Those […] Read More
I’ve been thinking of new ways to make progress in the cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism debate. Suppose that I sincerely judge that eating meat is wrong (call the result ‘a moral thought’). Is my moral thought then a belief that eating meat is wrong, or am […] Read More
Anyone doing the UK summer conference tour should consider stopping at a great-looking workshop on Theoretical and Practical Reasons which Ulrike Heuer has put together at Leeds. It's on 24th and 25th of June. The program and registration details are HERE (this one's cheap too). […] Read More
We're pleased to announce that, after much unreasonable recalcitrance, Mark van Roojen has finally agreed to become an official contributor to PEA Soup. Mark is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, specializing in ethics, metaethics, and political philosophy, and he's been a […] Read More
We are pleased to announce the second installment of our collaboration with Ethics, where we will host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal will make a copy of that article freely available (for a limited time) to […] Read More
Registration is now open for the 2010 conference of the British Society for Ethical Theory, to be held at the University of Nottingham, Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th July. (This is the period directly before the 2010 Joint Session, in Dublin.) Details of the programme […] Read More
Suppose that you know that your opening a certain safe is what would maximize the good. But suppose that you don’t know what the correct combination is. Some critics (e.g., Wiland 2005 and Howard-Snyder 1997) allege that, despite your ignorance of the correct combination, objective […] Read More