APRIL 22-24, 2010 Description Ethics and aesthetics share a long history and often a common fate, largely because they both involve subjective values that still lay claim to some measure of objectivity. Each field studies the relations among judgments, emotional states, representational states, art, rationality, […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Brake has accepted our invitation to be a contributor at PEA Soup. Elizabeth Brake is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. Her areas of specialization include ethics, political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy and literature. […] Read More
Inspired a bit by Ralph's post critiquing Kant's view of unconditioned or fundamental goods, I've been investigating why Kant arrives at his (in my opinion) dissatisfying view that we have only indirect duties to non-human animals. Here's my tentative analysis and conclusion.
At the end of this month, I am due to respond to Brian Leiter's essay "Moral Skepticism and Moral Disagreement in Nietzsche", on the National Humanities Center's web site On the Human. In this essay, Leiter develops a Nietzsche-inspired argument, according to which moral scepticism […] Read More
As most of you know, Daniel Star and Stephen Kearns have recently made an interesting, original proposal of what reasons are generally speaking (see, for instance, their ‘Reasons as Evidence’ in OSME 4).On their view, to be a reason is to be evidence for an […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Jeremy Fantl has accepted our invitation to be a contributor at PEA Soup. Jeremy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary and specializes in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and mind. Welcome Jeremy!
Those of you who are or will be in the UK in a few weeks may be interested in this conference on psychopathy and amorality to be held in Swansea, March 26-27.
The Department of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research is pleased to announce a conference on varieties of ethical skepticism, to be held this April 16th and 17th in New York City. The speakers are Michael Gill, Peter Kail, Jessica Berry, Mark Richard, […] Read More
Nathan Nobis writes: I have created a survey to try to identify which topics are most commonly addressed in introductory ethics courses that have a contemporary moral issues or problems component. If (and only if) you teach a course that focuses on practical issues (with […] Read More