The 2010 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference will be held Aug. 1-5. The call for papers, commentators and chairs can be found here.
University of Colorado, Boulder August 5-8, 2010 Boulder, Colorado an international conference geared to offer the highest quality, highest altitude discussion of ethics, broadly conceived
“Scheffler’s paradox” is a puzzling feature of the moral beliefs of most deontologists. According to these beliefs, it is wrong for you to kill an innocent person even if your killing the innocent person is the only way to prevent five killings of innocent persons […] Read More
My university is supposed to certify to the NSF that all university graduate students (undergraduate and postdoctoral researchers too) have had training in the responsible and ethical conduct of research. I'm curious whether other philosophy departments offer a general course in Research Ethics for such […] Read More
Here’s the familiar hard case: At 50, younger-Meredith (YM), just diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, signs an advance directive (AD) expressing her preference that her doctors do not give her extraordinary treatment to keep her alive if she gets ill after having become demented. Meredith is an […] Read More
I've recently been mulling over what seems to be a disagreement between desire-satisfaction view theorists about the proper way to formulate a desire-satisfaction view about well-being. (This thought has been inspired by discussions I've had on this blog with Chris Heathwood and Doug Portmore, and […] Read More
I've recently been advising a student who is trying to gain admission to philosophy grad school. One of the programs to which he has applied has invited him for a campus visit, one component of which will be an interview with the department's faculty. I […] Read More
Speaking of Paul McNamara…many of us Soupers had a great time last weekend at the first annual Normative Ethics Workshop in Tucson. Paul was one of the main speakers, as were Jamie Dreier, Doug Portmore, and Robert Johnson. Many other Soupers were chairing or in […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Paul McNamara has accepted our invitation to become a contributor to PEA Soup. Paul is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Hampshire. He specializes in ethical theory with an emphasis on deontic logic and the philosophy of […] Read More