Campbell Brown and I, along with some BGSU graduate students, are currently reading through John Broome’s most recent book, Weighing Lives. In our most recent meeting, we discussed Broome’s latest attempt to solve the problem of interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing (it differs from his previous […] Read More
Rambling post alert! Over at Kieran Setiya’s interesting blog, there is a discussion about the meaning of life. Here’s the link: http://ideasofimperfection.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-does-it-all-mean-i.html#comments Here’s some of what I wrote in an earlier discussion thread, which I thought I’d reproduce here to stimulate discussion. I raise some […] Read More
Over at Desert Landscapes, Uriah has posted a wrap-up from the recent Moral Phenomenology Workshop outside of Tucson. We all had a great time, and there were some excellent presentations. Click here for the details.
We’re very happy to welcome Stephen Finlay as a new PEA Brain. Stephen is an assistant professor at USC and works on metaethics and ethics. Welcome aboard, Stephen!
I had to choose between two mutually exclusive courses of action, A and B. I judged that doing A was better, all things considered, than doing B, that I had more reason to do A than to do B, yet I did B. This is […] Read More
In his paper “Why Abortion is Immoral”, Don Marquis urges a reorientation of the abortion debate. Metaphysical issues concerning the personhood of fetuses, which previously held center stage in philosophical discussions of the morality of abortion, have proven to be intractable, he says. As long […] Read More
Following Brian’s lead at TAR, I thought it might be fun to locate all the PEA Soup readers on a Frappr map. You can join the fun here.
Over the past few years, I’ve become aware of some interesting ethical dilemmas for editors and referees. I present five such dilemmas below: D1-D5. Some of these are ethical dilemmas that I’ve had to deal with as a moral agent. Others are ethical dilemmas that […] Read More
Broadly construed, a theory is consequentialist (or teleological, if you prefer) iff it takes the deontic status of an action to be solely a function of some transitive ordering of outcomes in terms of their goodness or desirability. Now what I want to ask is: […] Read More