At the moment, I’m interested in imperfect duties and, in particular, the duty of beneficence, and I need some help tracking down the relevant literature with regard to two particular aspects of this duty. First, it seems to me that the duty of beneficence is […] Read More
I feel certain someone has already discussed the following problem, but I'm frustrated that I don't remember who and where. Anyway: Suppose there is some action whose consequences, it appears, are on balance slightly bad. (Perhaps a boy steals a candy bar from a store.) […] Read More
Thom Brooks alerts us to a new moral and political philosophy journal, Public Reason. The journal looks to be noteworthy for a number of reasons, not least of which is that it is an open-access e-journal, following the recent (and I think wholly positive) trend […] Read More
I’m intrigued by Kant’s remarks on happiness and well-being. I’ve been thinking of the traditional understanding of his view and a passage we’ve discussed in a reading group on the Second Critique. I’m left with jigsaw puzzle where I cannot seem to make all the […] Read More
There's been an important discussion going on at Brian Leiter's blog (here and here). There's a petition, signed by well over 1000 members of the American Philosophical Association, encouraging the APA to either drop its policy that schools advertising in the JFP may not discriminate […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Neil Sinhababu has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Neil recently received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin, and is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore. […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Sergio Tenenbaum, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. He has written numerous articles and chapters on a wide array of topics related to moral […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Lionel K. McPherson has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Lionel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University. He is the author of several journal articles, which have appeared in journals such […] Read More
Several months back, Ralph's post on torture provoked a good deal of valuable discussion, so I wanted to draw attention to C.A.J. Coady's review of a recent book by Bob Brecher, a book that deals only with the 'ticking time bomb' scenario often used by […] Read More