I have a question regarding Buck-Passing about good — two questions, really — and Doug kindly gave me guest poster status so I could ask here. If this goes well, maybe I’ll leech off industrious readers contribute again soon. Here is the Buck-Passing account of […] Read More
As reported by Leiter HERE , our fellow Pea-Souper David Sobel has accepted an offer from University from Nebraska, Lincoln to become a ‘Chambers Professor of Philosophy’ there. This is great news and we should all congratulate him!
Several graduate students in the University of Michigan’s Philosophy Department have started a group blog, cleverly named ‘Go Grue!‘. Some ethics discussion is underway.
Just something to pass along: I conducted several tests of PEA Soup’s URL at a most interesting site, Great Firewall of China. The site determines if a URL is available to Chinese web users, and I found in all but one of my tests, PEA […] Read More
Many philosophers today are pursuing a program according to which the notion of a “normative reason” is the most fundamental normative notion. Thus, these philosophers aim to analyse such notions as ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, the notions of the various sorts of “value”, and so on, […] Read More
I’m unsuccesfully trying to have a break from blogging to get some work done. I cannot resist the temptation to advertise a book review of Smith’s Ethics and the A Priori collection available HERE . It’s by Constantine Sandis. By far the funniest review I’ve […] Read More
I have a bleg. Can anyone recommend papers in ethics — preferably on value-theory or meta-ethics — that (i) are good pieces of philosophy, (ii) are very clearly written, (iii) are not exceptionally long, and (iv) could be profitably read by an intelligent but young […] Read More
Check out this interview on MSNBC with Psychiatrist Dr. Donald E. Rosen, conducted by MSNBC health editor Jane Weaver. I’m breaking it down FJM-style.
In her very good article in the latest Ethics (117, Oct. ’06), “Kantian Rigorism and Mitigating Circumstances,” Tamar Schapiro brings to light a problem with the standard Kantian line for dealing with the flexibility of moral rules, in particular the rule against deception. On the […] Read More