“The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at Tulane University is pleased to announce residential Faculty Fellowships for the Incomparability and Measurement of Value2010-2011 academic year. These fellowships, made possible by funds from the Tulane Murphy Foundation, are available to support outstanding faculty […] Read More
There is a powerful argument that is frequently used in metaethics (and elsewhere). It’s based on the idea that disagreement requires shared concepts. Thus, by looking at who we can intuitively disagree with we can determine who we share our concepts with. And, in when […] Read More
Five years ago I was up-to-date on virtue ethics. I've been ignoring it for a few years, so please forgive me if what I'm about to say is old news. Rosalind Hursthouse argues: "An action is right iff it is what a virtuous agent would […] Read More
In case the cash is not enough, congratulations to Dave Shoemaker for his 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Philosophy for this posting on Scanlon on Moral Responsibility and Blame! Surely a few drops of glory have rained into the general PEA Soup pot (note Dennett's blurb on […] Read More
In “Oughts, Options, and Actualism” (Philosophical Review 1986), Frank Jackson and Robert Pargetter defended the “actualist” view that, for every act-type A, you ought to do A if and only if your conduct would be (in the relevant way) better if you did A than […] Read More
We are happy to announce that Anita Superson has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here at PEA Soup. Anita is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, and specializes in ethical theory, feminism, and issues at their intersections. It's great to […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERSPOLITICAL REALISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVEPACIFIC DIVISION MEETING OF THE APAMARCH 31 – APRIL 4, 2010SAN FRANCISCO, CA The International Society for the Comparative Study of Chinese and WesternPhilosophy (ISCWP) is seeking presentations on Hobbes, Machiavelli, or anymajor Western political thinker committed to developing […] Read More
Suppose I wanted to get up to speed on the buck-passing-account literature. What three to five things would you say are "must reading"?
At the "start of the year" college meeting last week our dean showed some Powerpoint slides listing the number of majors in each department over the last few years. The point was to illustrate how the college is growing across the board. Philosophy wasn't exactly […] Read More