I’d like to raise what I imagine may be a touchy subject but one worth the attention of those in the philosophy profession: We occasionally hear of efforts to shut down undergraduate philosophy degree programs, but rarely do we hear of efforts to shut down […] Read More
A lot of moral theorists are sceptics about Act Consequentialism (AC). For example, some of these sceptics think that we need to qualify AC with the following two agent-relative elements: (i) “deontological constraints”, which forbid us to do certain horrible acts even if those horrible […] Read More
We are pleased to announce that Ralph Wedgwood has accepted our invitation to blog here at PEA Soup. Ralph is CUF Lecturer in Philosophy, and Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Merton College, Oxford. It’s great to have you aboard, Ralph!
Here’s a quote from Scanlon: A rational person who judges that there to be sufficient grounds for believing that P normally has that belief, and this judgment is normally sufficient explanation for so believing. There is no need to appeal to some further source of […] Read More
Call for papers and other details concerning the the First Annual Conference of the Northwestern University Society for Ethical Theory and Polical Philosophy can be found here.
Having posted on Mackie’s argument from relativity some time ago, I’d like to return to it now and ask whether the argument (or at least what I think is the best version of it) is inconsistent with other components of Mackie’s error theory. In its […] Read More
Consider the following passage from Scanlon: [B]eing good, or valuable, is not a property that itself provides a reason to respond to a thing in certain ways. Rather, to be good or valuable is to have other properties that constitute such reasons. (Scanlon 1998, […] Read More
Several of you might have heard of this excellent philosophical time waster before, but it’s new to me (apparently it was first devised by Wilfrid Sellars):Identify three foods A, B, and C such that any two of these are complementary (taste good in combination) but […] Read More
REPOSTING After Keith DeRose’s recent post on the apparent end of The Philosopher’s Annual, Brian Weatherson suggested that some blogs, such as PEA Soup, might help take over their task (see this Certain Doubts post for more discussion). For various reasons, we’re not quite prepared […] Read More