St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and Rationality UM-St. Louis May 23-25, 2010 Moonrise Hotel The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to announce the first St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR), which will take place May 23-25, 2010. Information […] Read More
I'm working on a paper about the ontology of reasons and have some questions about motivating reasons that I was hoping some readers here might help me with. It's hard for me to say exactly what motivating reasons are for and so it's hard for […] Read More
Here is another great looking conference, this time organised by Brad Hooker. The topic is deontology and this is at the University of Reading on the Saturday 17th of April. The programme is: 10.00 David Owens (Univ. of Sheffield)11.45 Peter Vallentyne (Univ. of Missouri-Columbia)2.15 Philip […] Read More
Pekka Vayrynen has put together a workshop on Value Concepts at the University of Leeds on 5-6 March. The programme looks great:Matti Eklund (Cornell) “Misevaluation, Moral Semantics, and Moral Realism” Janice Dowell (Nebraska) “A Flexible, Contextualist Account of ‘Ought’” Antti Kauppinen (Amsterdam) […] Read More
The Pope has recently launched an attack on the UK's anti-discrimination legislation. The Pope seems to be referring to certain provisions in the government's Equality Bill which is currently being debated in Parliament — specifically, the provisions that clarify the conditions in which an employer […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau has the 2010 Workshop announcement up. Here is Russ's note: Dear Colleague,I’m pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Seventh Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 24-26, 2010. Stephen Darwall (Yale) will be […] Read More
A widespread tactics in war consists in using civilians as shields, eg by taking the fight into densely populated areas, or by more or less forcibly placing civilians in the line of fire – in the hope that the enemy will hold fire, take fewer […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Cécile Fabre has accepted our invitation to become a contributor to PEA Soup. The author of numerous books and articles on a variety of subjects, including justice, rights, bioethics, and the ethics of war, Cécile is a professor at the […] Read More
Over at The Business Ethics Blog, Chris MacDonald has a very interesting post on ethical issues surrounding the labor dispute at the Westin St. Francis, the site of the 2010 Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Specifically, he asks what obligations the existence […] Read More