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
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