There’s going to be a conference on Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain at the University of Reading in November entitled "Parfit Meets Critics — Critical Evaluations of Climbing the Mountain." The critics include James Lenman, Seiriol Morgan, Jenns Timmermann, Gideon Rosen, Michael Ridge, Michael Smith, and Michael […] Read More
I’m pleased to announce that Tim Chappell, Professor of Philosophy at The Open University, has agreed to become the latest contributor here at PEA Soup. Welcome aboard, Tim!
The following is a Pareto principle that concerns reasons for actions as opposed to the standard preferences for outcomes. I call it The Pareto Reasons Principle (PRP): If S must either do x or do y, and S has, with respect to one class of […] Read More
I’ve really missed OPP while it’s been on hiatus. And it looks like we’re not going to get many, if any, updates until the end of August. In any case, I’ve been toying with the idea that it would be good to have a weekly […] Read More
This marks the eighth of eleven e-meetings of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we will discuss Chapter 10 of the June 7th version of the manuscript, which can be found here. In Chapter 9, […] Read More
Jimmy Lenman has passed along the following Call for Papers for the 2007 Conference of the British Society for Ethical Theory. (I heard that this year’s conference was terrific.)
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and I are running a series of experimental studies on the doing/allowing distinction, and we’d love to have your input on some of the results. In essence, we want to show that people’s moral judgments can sometimes determine whether they classify a given […] Read More
I’m happy to announce that Joshua Knobe has agreed to become a contributor to PEA Soup. Joshua is an assistant professor of philosophy at U. of North Carolina and is one of the pioneers of the new and exciting Experimental Philosophy movement. Welcome aboard!
This marks the seventh of eleven e-meetings of our virtual reading group on Derek Parfit’s Climbing the Mountain—see here for further details. Next week, we will discuss Chapter 9 of the June 7th version of the manuscript, which can be found here. In chapter 8, […] Read More