Thank you all for helping me, in the previous thread, to clarify what is at stake in being able to provide, for expressivism, a logic based on the preservation of content rather than one based on the (ir)rationality of holding certain combinations of attitudes. In this […] Read More
I have started in on a paper in which I show how expressivists can use a certain kind of semantic theory. The semantic theory, which originated with Kirk Ludwig, is based on the story Kirk and I tell here about the semantics for nondeclaratives and, […] Read More
The second Minnesota I.C.E. (International Conference in Ethics) will take place at the University of Minnesota on Friday, June 29 through Sunday, July 1. Speakers include Julia Annas, Macalester Bell, Garrett Cullity, Rosalind Hursthouse (via videoconference), Anselm Mueller, Rebecca Stangl, Karen Stohr, Christine Swanton, and […] Read More
There are three conferences coming up for those of us with interests in the ethics of children and families. The first is one I organized with some fellow Canadians. "Children, Family, and the State" is the wrap up conference of a three year Social Sciences […] Read More
We’re pleased to announce another new member to the list of PEA Soup contributors, Elisa Hurley. Elisa is currently a Greenwall post-doc fellow at Johns Hopkins, but she will join the faculty at the University of Western Ontario this fall. She received her Ph.D. from […] Read More
I’m interested in children’s rights but also more generally in the relationship between rights and value. Many, or most, children’s rights are justified in terms of the adult persons that the children may become and the goods those adults lives may contain. Perhaps the most […] Read More
The following is conceivable: the features that make an action right are not the features which one ought to attend to when reasoning about whether to perform the action. In consequentialist lingo (I think I’m getting this correct), what’s right-making is not necessarily a blueprint […] Read More
It turns out our fellow PEA Souper Troy Jollimore has been doing a little non-philosophical dabbling on the side: he just won the National Book Critics Circle poetry prize for his first collection of poems, Tom Thomson in Purgatory. Read all about it here. Congratulations, […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Samantha Brennan, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here at PEA Soup. Samantha’s research interests are in normative ethics, especially deontological, consquentialist, and feminist ethics. She has […] Read More