PEA Soup's own Laurie Schrage is planning to hand deliver a welcome message to Florida International's new basketball coach, Isaiah Thomas. See the NY Times story here.
The first Annual Arizona Workshop on Normative Ethics will take place in Tucson, Arizona, at the Westward Look Resort on January 7-9, 2010. Keynote speakers will be Thomas E. Hill (UNC, Chapel Hill), Holly Smith (Rutgers), and Peter Railton (Michigan). Those interested in presenting a […] Read More
I apologise for this but I want to return to the Doctrine of Double Effect. One thing that Tim Scanlon said in the comments was that his motivation for arguing against the DDE is, quote: ‘I see no plausible theoretical defense for it’. I wanted […] Read More
Sometimes I hear people (well, philosophers) compare the goodness of one thing with the badness of another. They say, for example, the goodness of pleasure is less than the badness of pain; or pleasure is less good than pain is bad. Do such comparisons make […] Read More
According to the Doctrine of Double Effect (DDE), there is a morally significant difference between (i) the consequences of an action that were intended by the agent and (ii) the consequences that were not intended, but are merely foreseen side-effects of the action. More precisely, according […] Read More
Here is a worry for (pure) expressivism. I think it is new. I am not sure how cogent it is, and this is probably not its most elegant formulation. So help is welcome. Consider (1) No ought-claim is true. Construe ‘ought-claim’ to include (1) itself. […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Adrienne Martin, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Adrienne works on agency, practical reasoning, and Kantian ethics. Her writings have appeared in such publications […] Read More
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