I have just started studying Gibbard's Thinking How to Live, and have a question about it. Consider the following, apparently valid, argument: (1) Either it is before 5 or I should leave now (2) It is not before 5 Therefore, (3) I […] Read More
Thanks to the generous support of Tulane University's Murphy Institute, I'm very pleased to announce that the first New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NO WAR) will take place November 3-5, 2011 (yes, that's 2011, not 2010). I'm announcing this now so as to […] Read More
SOCIETY FOR BUSINESS ETHICSDOCTORAL DISSERTATION AWARD(Submissions due May 15, 2010) The Society for Business Ethics is soliciting dissertations completed between May 1, 2008, and April 30, 2010. While dissertations must focus on business ethics, work from all disciplines are welcome. Those wishing to be considered […] Read More
I’m starting to warm up to the objectivist form of act-consequentialism (partly because I think it lacks content) which Doug defended in the previous post. One worry people have is that this kind of a view severs the connection between what is right/wrong and how […] Read More
Leave it to our colleagues in economics to find an efficient way to speed up the journal review and publication process. Inside Higher Ed reports that authors whose papers are rejected by the American Economic Review, one of that discipline's most prominent journals, can opt […] Read More
Let us define objective consequentialism and subjective consequentialism, respectively, as follows: OC: S’s performing x is morally permissible if and only if, and because, there is no alternative that would produce more value than x would. SC: S’s performing x is morally permissible if and […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Matt Bedke has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Matt is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and specializes in ethics and normativity, with additional interests in philosophy of law and social […] Read More
If you will be in the NYC area on May 1st, consider going to this conference; looks like fun! ** Experimental Philosophy and Meta-ethics ** A series of recent experimental studies have examined people's intuitions about meta-ethical issues. Participants in this workshop will discuss the […] Read More
PeaSoupers may be interested to read a series of essays sponsored by the Templeton Foundation on the question, "Does Moral Action Depend on Reasoning?" Al Mele, Joshua Greene, and Christine Korsgaard contribute, as well as several other philosophy-ish intellectuals, neuroscientists, etc.