The program for the Madison Metaethics workshop is up. There will be papers by four PEA Soupers: me (Jamie), Mark Schroeder, Jussi Suikkanen, and Stephen Finlay (that’s in order of appearance). Also plenty of other people you love are on the program, and everybody else […] Read More
There are at least two possible ways we might conceive of the too demanding objection: (1) a moral theory is too demanding if it demands more of us than commonsense morality demands of us (that is, if its demands conflict with our commonsense moral intuitions) […] Read More
In lieu of the customary "here-are-some-amazing-statistics-about-PEA-Soup" birthday message, we thought it would be better to post a "Yearbook" to share some good things that have happened to some of our fellow PEA brains over this past year. A lot of good news appears below the […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERSCal Poly Pomona 14th Annual Ethics ConferenceApril 14-15, 2009 "Ethics and the American Dream" KEYNOTE SPEAKER: David Schmidtz, University of ArizonaSUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 1, 2008 Philosophers and other scholarly professionals are cordially invited to submit papers to be considered for the program of […] Read More
Yes, well, I realize that the genuine article is not transferable. I am teaching a 400-level course on virtue ethics next spring. I’m looking for reading-list suggestions. They need to be relatively short, readable, accessible to majors. I’d ideally like a broad selection of ancient/modern/contemporary, […] Read More
A personal constraint is a constraint on action that arises from certain associative relations, such as kinship, friendship, etc. Typically, they are injunctions to treat one’s personal relations with a certain form of priority over strangers even if, for instance, not doing so would promote […] Read More
This looks like a great conference but I couldn’t help feeling irked that here was another conference with no women on the program. I’m never quite sure what to do about this since by the time these are announced it’s too late to do much. […] Read More
In the previous post, I applied Williamson’s anti-luminosity argument to argue for the claim that there must be some moral truths that cannot be known. Now I want to look at one of the best arguments against the view at the other end of the […] Read More
Sharon Lloyd, the noted Hobbes scholar, has started a new blog, Hobbes Today, focusing on Hobbes’ moral and political philosophy. There are already intriguing posts about Hobbes’ theories of human nature and of political sovereignty, and given the usual quality of Sharon’s work, I’m sure […] Read More