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
Apropos our earlier conversation about price gouging, I’ve written up a full length paper on the topic. I got quite a bit out of the our discussion in the comments section even if, presumably, I didn’t get what many of you wanted me to get […] Read More
At a conference in Santa Barbara, California, that I went to recently, David Velleman gave a very interesting talk that focused on the following puzzle. Suppose that Karen, a 14-year old girl, decides to conceive a child. Having a child at such a young age […] Read More
Studies in the History of Ethics has announced calls for papers for two future symposia. Details follow.
You are offered a choice between two experience machines. Machine A is just like the ones you already know about. You’ll be on the experience machine until you are 120 years old, getting lots of various sorts of pleasure. Machine B offers exactly the same […] Read More
Dale Miller’s recent post on Mill’s theory of value (and subsequent discussion) was quite enlightening. And it set me thinkin’ about qualitative hedonism and perfectionism, and in particular the relationship between them. During our previous discussion, we appeared to be treating “Mill is a hedonist” […] Read More