THIS looks very interesting. The postgraduate students at St Andrews are organising an online reading group on John Broome’s brilliant Weighing Lives book. There’s even a symposium with Broome in October.
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