I’m interested in when it’s legitimate to request that a journal reconsider a manuscript that it has rejected. In particular, I’d be curious when it’s appropriate to resubmit a manuscript indicating that you feel the manuscript was not read with sufficient care. Since this is […] Read More
Well, TypePad has finally come to the realization that their new way of handling spam wasn’t working. So they’ve gone back to the old settings. For more info, see here. Consequently, we’re going back to normal operations. I’ve turned moderation off. I apologize for the […] Read More
Unfortunately, due to our spam filter woes and TypePad’s inability to resolve them, we are switching (at least, temporarily) to moderated comments. This means that comments will not appear on this blog until the author has approved them. Authors will be alerted by email whenever […] Read More
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.