Liz Harman asked me to post the following announcement: To those on the job market, and those with students on the job market: Anyone who does ethics should seriously consider applying for the Harold T. Schapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics at Princeton. The ad says […] Read More
Saul Smilansky's 10 Moral Paradoxes is a delightful book. The paradoxes are easy to appreciate and though it's written in a light and accessible style, it still has plenty of philosophical heft. I'm intrigued by the paradox Smilansky labels the non-punishment paradox. Here's the gist:
John Brunero and I are organizing an annual workshop on Reasons and Rationality to be held at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. This will take place right after your spring semester is over, and right before your summer vacation begins. I hope […] Read More
“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