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
One of the most influential arguments in the philosophical study of well-being is Robert Nozick's famous 'experience machine' thought experiment. Suppose that you had the opportunity to enter a machine that would give you the subjective experience of having an extraordinary life — it would […] Read More
In his comment on this post, Dave Shoemaker writes: Too often we act as kinds of gatekeepers, judging that if students aren't sufficiently "like us" (in terms of grades, drive, class participation, political inclination, Monty Python proclivities), then they probably shouldn't even try. This attitude […] Read More