Robert N. Johnson has kindly accepted our invitation to become the latest contributor to PEA Soup. Robert is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri. He has for sometime been a regular commentator here at PEA Soup. And we’re very glad to have him […] Read More
I really liked BEARS, though it seems to be extinct now. Uriah and Josh contributed a few juicy PEARs some weeks ago. I like this idea and think we should do more Pea-Soup Electronic Article Reviews. William Alston’s essay, "Moral Attitudes and Moral Judgments" (Nous […] Read More
A useful technique in thinking about a philosophical issue is to try to identify what we "pre-theoretically" believe about the subject at hand and see if any theory can account for these beliefs. If no theory can, then among our options are to discard one […] Read More
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Sir Peter Strawson died on Monday. He was 86. Relative to the fields I work in these days (free will and agency generally), I can’t think of a more masterful philosophical essay than "Freedom and Resentment." Here […] Read More
According to Ethical Response-Dependent Realism (ERDR), moral properties are response-dependent: for something to instantiate a moral property is for it to be disposed to elicit the right kind of response in the right kind of respondent. Most mornings I like ERDR. I like it mostly […] Read More
Mike Almeida has kindly accepted our invitation to become the latest contributor to PEA Soup. Mike is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he specializes in ethics, and has regularly commented on posts here at PEA Soup. Welcome, Mike! […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau has just emailed the following Call for Abstracts for the 3rd Annual Metaethics Workshop. I attended the first workshop, but wasn’t able to attend last year’s. Believe me, I won’t miss this year’s. It is important to note that this year’s workshop falls […] Read More
In their recent “Moral Fictionalism vs. The Rest,” (Australasian J. Phil. 83 (Sept. 2005), 307-330), Daniel Nolan, Greg Restall, and Caroline West do a very illuminating job of characterizing moral fictionalism, laying out its advantages, and opening up some challenges facing the view. With standard […] Read More
We are happy to announce that Michael Huemer has accepted our invitation to become the newest PEA Brain! Mike is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he specializes in ethics, metaethics, and epistemology. Welcome, Mike! We’re looking forward to your […] Read More