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Welcome to our PeaSoup Ethics Forum on Leslie Pickering Francis‘ review in Ethics of Linda Barclay ‘s “Disability with Dignity: Justice, Human Rights, and Equal Status” (Routledge, 2019). From the blurb: The philosophical literature on justice and human rights has often been limited in scope and somewhat abstract. […] Read More
Welcome to our NDPR Review Forum on R. Jay Wallace’s book The Moral Nexus (PUP 2019), recently reviewed in NDPR by Rahul Kumar. Below is a brief description of the book, an excerpt from the review, and an initial discussion from R. Jay Wallace. Please feel […] Read More
Here. Talks by McGrath, Hurley, Schroeder, Portmore, Dillon, Dreier, Wedgwood, and more!
Gwen Bradford (Rice) has organized a Summer Talk Series in Ethics (subtitle: Cogito Ergo Zoom) that is open to all. She is to be congratulated for this significant achievement. Talks will take place Thursdays starting at 3 pm (Eastern). Mark Schroeder (USC) will kick the […] Read More
Today we begin a new feature on the Soup: people interviewing their philosophical mentors on Zoom. We invite those of you who’d like to engage in this activity yourselves to let us know, and we can give you details of how to proceed, but the […] Read More
It seems to me clear there can be contexts where it would be best for a person to be allowed to post a comment on a blog anonymously. Perhaps, for example, a grad student wants to raise issues about sexist attitudes, behaviors, and assaults in […] Read More
To set the stage for our discussion, we start with this assumption: unless a society has completely eradicated the COVID-19 virus in its borders, any decision to re-open that society from the stay-at-home orders that were common, at least across the U.S., in April, […] Read More
Over at Aeon.
Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting and productive discussion of Gerard Vong‘s “Weighing up Weighted Lotteries: Scarcity, Overlap Cases, and Fair Inequalities of Chance.” The paper is published in the most recent issue of Ethics, and is available here. Nate Sharadin kindly agreed […] Read More