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
Congratulations to PEA Soup's Simon Keller for winning this year's APA book prize, for The Limits of Loyalty! Details here.
We are pleased to present our first installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from each volume of the journal. The article selected from Volume 120, Issue 1, is Cécile Fabre's "Guns, Food, and Liability to […] Read More
Unlike many other readers, I am inclined to read Kant as a kind of realist (rather than a “constructivist”) about goodness. Nonetheless, Kant holds a distinctive view of goodness: In his view, the fundamental kind of goodness can only be instantiated by the will itself. […] Read More
We are pleased to announce the first installment of our collaboration with Ethics, where we will host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal will make a copy of that article freely accessible (for a limited time) to […] Read More
Many people teach their small children the myth of Santa Claus: that a magical being who lives at the North Pole brings presents on Christmas Eve. Secondary aspects of the myth are that whether one receives presents is a function of one’s behavior, and that […] Read More
Princeton University 9-10 April 2010 The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers concerning any period, methodological approach or topic in political theory, political philosophy, or the history of political thought. Approximately eight papers will be accepted.