Pea Soup’s own Ben Bradley recently had his paper, "Against Satisficing Consequentialism" win the 2005 Dartmouth ISUS (International Society for Utilitarian Studies) Conference paper prize. Congrats Ben!
For my first post, here’s something on the semantics of ‘ought’ that I’ve been working on. I’m pretty excited about it, so maybe someone can burst my bubble. It’s striking that the deontic terms (‘ought’, ‘must’, ‘have to’, ‘might’, ‘may’, etc.) are also modal terms. […] Read More
Following the lead from Certain Doubts and Experimental Philosophy, I thought it might be helpful to post the ethics-related papers that will be presented at the upcoming Eastern APA. There are, of course, other papers relevant to ethics (e.g., papers on race, inclusiveness, etc.). If […] Read More
Inspired by Uriah’s post below, I invent a new kind of zombie (a hedonic-zombie), draw a distinction between strong and weak internalism about the good life, and argue that Nagelian thought experiments involving hedonic-zombies support weak, not strong, internatlism. First, some definitions:
Below is Uriah Kriegel’s first official post for PEA Soup (cross-posted with Desert Landscapes, the University of Arizona philosophy blog). Uriah is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Arizona, and we’re happy to welcome him aboard. One of the issues that loomed […] Read More
Does it make sense to say that someone would have been better off, had he never been born? Jim was born with a disease that has throughout the years caused him intense agony, and for which he has no hope of a cure. Jim has […] Read More
Click on this link to check out pictures from the recent Moral Phenomenology Workshop in Tucson (the photographer with the mad Ansel Adams-esque skills is yours truly).
Over at the Leiter Reports, there’s beena lively discussion about irresponsible (or even abusive) advising and teaching in philosophy graduate programs. But the larger question is what is to be done?
We frequently say: “he has a good life” and use this expression (pace: Shelly Kagan) interchangeably with “he is well-off”. When someone is doing poorly, when things are not going well for that person, we say “his life is not worth living”. When someone enjoys […] Read More