I may be rehashing an old discussion–if so, please direct me to it–but I am trying to get a sense of what’s going on with the online journals in our field. I am asking with a number of different hats on all at the same […] Read More
I thought I might direct people’s attention to Brian Weatherson’s blog, Thoughts, Arguments and Rants, where the journal Philosophy Compass is trying out a new experiment: discussion forums for their recently published articles. I’m pleased that they’ve chosen my survey paper on the moral realism […] Read More
The newly-created European Review of Philosophy and Psychology is calling for papers for a special issue on experimental philosophy. The editors welcome papers that report new experimental results, papers that engage in philosophical or theoretical reflection on existing results, or papers that address metaphilosophical questions […] Read More
While we’re having a mini-Mill-fest, I thought I’d try out the following wee argument, which I’ve been thinking about lately. John Stuart Mill [thanks, Dale M.] famously held that ‘higher pleasure’ (roughly, pleasure of the intellect) was superior to ‘lower pleasure’ (pleasure of the senses). […] Read More
While we’re on the topic of CFP’s for August 2008, let me announce the fact that we are starting a new summer ethics conference here at the University of Colorado at Boulder. (I say ‘we’, but I can take no credit for it — all […] Read More
In the comments on Jussi’s thread, a side discussion developed about Mill’s theory of value. Dale Dorsey indicated that he has concluded that Mill is not a hedonist. I’m inclined to defend the claim that he is. I’m not prepared to defend hedonism, and so […] Read More
The 2008 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference has posted its call for papers. As far as I know, this is the only philosophy conference where you can win a prize for sustaining a physical injury. (Visit to ER may be required to claim prize; only one […] Read More
Some thought-experiments just grab you and so you think about them for months. Here’s one that I’ve been pondering about for awhile now. It’s from Roger Crisp’s Mill on Utilitarianism (p. 60-62) but adapted from Griffin (Well-Being, p. 9): The Committee When […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Dale Miller has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here at PEA Soup. Dale is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University, and specializes in history of […] Read More