When teaching ethics courses, I often spend some time with students going over some of the relevant social psychological literature. Studies like the Milgram experimients, the Asch conformity experiments, and Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment are nice ways to show students, well, just how mean and […] Read More
Below the fold is the call for papers for this year’s Western Canadian Philosophical Association meetings. I thought it might be of some interest to the Soupers.
Why is Setiya’s principle vulnerable to the problems that I listed in my previous post? What exactly is the diagnosis? I suggest that the diagnosis is that there are in fact two sorts of reasons. These two sorts of reasons do not always coincide; and […] Read More
I’m supposed to be writing a review of Kieran Setiya’s book, Reasons without Rationalism (Harvard UP, 2007). Even though I disagreed with a lot of what he says (well, I’m an opinionated philosopher, so I would, wouldn’t I?), I found it a wonderful and fascinating […] Read More
British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference 2008 University of Edinburgh14 – 16 July 2008 1. Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Practical Reflection and Agential Authority2. Campbell Brown (University of Edinburgh): The Composition of Reasons3. Krister Bykvist and Jonas Olson (Jesus College and Brasenose College, […] Read More
Folks who work on oppression often distinguish oppression attributable to individuals from oppression attributable to institutions. Thus, there’s a lot of discussion about institutional racism or sexism, say, as well as discussion of systematic or structural racism or sexism. Here’s a quick question: anyone have […] Read More
Even though I’m not a real expert on his work (and his new book is way too expensive), I’m a huge fan of Timothy Williamson. The part of his work I know the best is his comments on anti-realism vs. realism debates of the Dummett […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Brad Cokelet has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here at PEA Soup. Brad is currently finishing his dissertation entitled Virtue, Rational Agency, and Respect for Persons at Northwestern University and will be starting as an Assistant Professor […] Read More
So here’s an idea I’ve been fiddling with for a while and would be interested to hear if anyone thinks that further exploration of this idea would be fruitful. (I’m also trying out this line of thought later this month at the ETMP conference in […] Read More