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
Mission PEA Soup is a blog designed to provide a forum for discussing philosophy, ethics, and academia. Its mission is to transcend geographical barriers so that moral philosophers from across the globe can converse in much the way that they would with their nearby colleagues. […] Read More
The Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a residential fellow for the academic year 2010-11. For more info, see here: http://www.humcenter.pitt.edu/call-for-applications.php.
There's an excellent new resource for those interested in keeping up with, or contributing to, the wide variety of fascinating work being done in experimental philosophy. It's the Experimental Philosophy Page, and it's set up in wiki format so anyone can edit and update it. […] Read More
A great deal of ink has been spilled attempting to show that contractualism, alternately, can or cannot accommodate “numbers” in a plausible way. Contractualism aspires to provide an attractive and theoretically robust alternative to consequentialism and the unrestricted interpersonal aggregation that it implies (foundationally anyway), […] Read More
This posting is about one fictional philosopher and one real one, and how their theories interact. The real philosopher’s theory has to mis-characterize the fictional philosopher’s theory. The fictional philosopher’s theory also has some problems, but they will not concern me.
Those in New England and the Northeast may want to drop in on the conference that Boston University is holding September 25-26. The topic is Ronald Dworkin's forthcoming book Justice for Hedgehogs. The lineup is power packed: Michael Smith, Shafer-Landau, Scanlon, Sen, David Lyons, Appiah, […] Read More