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
We’re very pleased to announce the addition of H. E. Baber to PEA Soup’s roster of contributors. She is a Professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego. She specializes in metaphysics but has written extensively in the area of applied ethics. Welcome!
Since my last post to PEA Soup was on the goods of childhood (on the question of whether some goods of childhood are intrinsically good or whether they are all valued on the basis of their effects on the life of the adult the child […] Read More