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
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