The University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics invites applications for its Visiting Faculty Fellowships. For the academic year 2009-10, two fellowships will be awarded to outstanding scholars and teachers interested in writing and conducting research about ethics during a year in residence at the University […] Read More
Theme: The Ethics of the Family Where: Towson University, Maryland When: November 14-16, 2008 More info: http://www.rit.edu/cla/ethics/seac/conferences.html
The "recognitional view" of practical rationality – as I shall use the term – is the view that all requirements of practical rationality are justified by the fact that it is reasonable to expect one’s conforming to these requirements to lead to one’s practical reasoning’s […] Read More
We are pleased to announce the addition of two new contributors to PEA Soup: Clayton Littlejohn and Jason Raibley. Clayton is a Lecturer at Southern Methodist University. He specializes in epistemology, ethical theory, and philosophy of mind, and he has papers forthcoming in the Philosophical […] Read More
I’m sympathetic to the following view, which I call moral rationalism: MR: If S is morally required to do x, then S has decisive reason (all things considered) to do x. One popular argument for this view appeals to blameworthiness. This sort of argument is […] Read More
Consider: (1) If x is morally wrong and S freely does x, then S is blameworthy for doing x. (2) If x is rationally optimal, then S is not blameworthy for freely doing x. (3) Therefore, if x is morally wrong, then x is not […] Read More
I need to help develop an undergraduate course on ethics in journalism and the media, to be taken primarily by aspiring TV/film writers and producers. Have any of our readers ever taught such a course? Anyone willing to share syllabi, advice about texts, etc.? Thanks!
We are pleased to announce that Simon Kirchin has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of Learning and Teaching for the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of […] Read More
I greatly admire the work of Harry Frankfurt. More recently, he has argued that love and caring, in the form of volitional necessities, are the sole source of our practical reasons. One corollary of this is that moral requirements are not important independently of our […] Read More