We are pleased to announce that Simon Keller has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Simon is presently a Senior Research Fellow at CAPPE at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University, and he is […] Read More
I’m an editor for Blackwell’s International Encyclopedia of Ethics, and my current (and first) task is to help make sure the IEE will have the right entries, or headwords, for metaethics. Below the fold are the headwords that the über-editors and I came up with […] Read More
Thomas Nadelhoffer, et al. (from the Experimental Philosophy Blog) invite you to take a walk on the other side of experimental philosophy by being part of a survey that will compare/contrast the intuitions of philosophers and non-philosophers on a variety of topics. Follow this link […] Read More
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