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.
In Nature, psychologist Paul Bloom has published a short rejoinder to 'social intuitionist' claims that rational deliberation has no role in shaping our moral convictions. His chief argument is that evolved emotional responses cannot explain how our moral sympathies change. A taste below the fold:
We're very pleased to welcome Daniel Star as a contributor to PEA Soup. Daniel received his D.Phil. at Oxford and is currently an assistant professor of philosophy at Boston University, specializing in ethical theory, metaethics, epistemology, and the history of ethics. Glad to have you […] Read More