PhilPapers has launched and is now public. PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers. They monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. They also accept articles directly from users, who can […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Sixth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 11-13, 2009. Allan Gibbard (Michigan) will be this year's keynote speaker. Abstracts (of 2-3 double-spaced pages) of papers […] Read More
In "Stalking the Perfect Journal" (Essay 8 in The Great Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Hoax), Geoff Pullum lists some suggestions for improving academic journals; his focus is on linguistics journals, but as you might imagine the suggestions generally apply equally well to philosophy journals. His last […] Read More
We act for reasons all the time. Here's an interesting question: (Q1) what kind of thing are those reasons our actions are based on? We believe things for reasons all the time too. Here's another interesting question: (Q2) what kind of thing are those reasons […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS FROM FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE APRIL 23–25, 2009 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: Samuel Scheffler, “The Normativity of Tradition” Seana Shiffrin, “Inducing Deliberation”
This is my first attempt at a PEA Soup post…thanks for reading this far! It is very common to see philosophers say that special relationships – friendships, romantic relationships, family relationships and so on – can be intrinsically valuable. Raz and Scheffler each use this […] Read More
I am getting ready to teach logic again. It’s been a while, because I grew discontent with the standard curriculum. Maybe PEA Soupers can help me out. What are we trying to achieve in a logic class?
NEH Summer Institute on Experimental Philosophy June 22 to July 17 University of Utah Ron Mallon and Shaun Nichols Applications due March 2. For more information, click here: http://www.hum.utah.edu/philosophy/faculty/mallon/Experimental_Philosophy/X%CE%A6_Home.html NEH Summer Seminar on Metaphysics and Mind June 8 to July 17 Washington University in St. […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that John Turri has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. John is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Huron University College, in London, Ontario. He already has a number of publications, including articles forthcoming in […] Read More