We’re experiencing some problems with TypePad’s spam filter. A number of us who are trying to post comments are getting the following message: "We’re sorry, your comment has not been published because TypePad’s antispam filter has flagged it as potential comment spam." If you get […] Read More
The following argument was inspired by the excellent work of two fellow PEA Brains: David Sobel’s “The Impotence of the Demandingness Objection” and Dale Dorsey’s “Weak Anti-Rationalism and the Demandingness of Morality”:
It’s fairly common to talk about welfare in three categories: hedonism, desire satisfaction, and objectivism (where this includes views like perfectionism and the objective list view). But this always seemed a little strange to me–there’s loads of logical space missing here. So I prefer the […] Read More
Due to popular demand (much of it PEA-Soup-originated), the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy will open a section for short comments under the link "Symposia and Short Comments". The idea is to publish short comments on existing articles (JESP articles or otherwise), much as […] Read More
Psychologist Wray Herbert has written an article for Newsweek about happiness. The title is “Can You Be Too Happy?” How could you be too happy? Too happy for what? Sounds crazy. Let’s take a look!
Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics We are excited to be co-directing an NEH Summer Seminar Traditions Into Dialogue: Confucianism and Contemporary Virtue Ethics, to take place from Monday, July 7 through Friday, August 15 (six weeks) at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
<Cross-posted at In Socrates’ Wake> I wanted to put in a plug for what is certainly one of the best pedagogical developments in philosophy over the past decade: Ethics Bowl. I’m sure many of our readers are familiar with this competition and its value as […] Read More
Hi all. Thanks to Doug for letting me invite myself to the party. I think I’ll post a substantive comment in the next few days, but maybe I’ll start with a poll. It seems to me that the following set of claims is inconsistent:
We’re very pleased to announce the addition of Dale Dorsey to PEA Soup’s roster of contributors. Dale is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the University of Alberta. He received his Ph.D. in May of 2007 from the University of California, San Diego. He works […] Read More