All of us here at Pea Soup are very happy to welcome Kris McDaniel as our newest contributor. Kris is currently an assistant professor at Syracuse University. He works primarily in metaphysics but has a number of related interests in ethics. He is the author […] Read More
One of our readers has suggested that one of us post something on last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine piece on stem cells and animals. It seems that scientists have now been injecting human stem cells into some animals to figure out the ways in […] Read More
A quick alert to those who haven’t already seen it over at Fake Barn Country (or elsewhere): there’s a new ethics journal, the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. The first issue contains articles by Joseph Raz, Gideon Jaffe, and John Brunero. Here’s the first […] Read More
So here is an idea that seems potentially fun. Some people explain their favorite objection to consequentialism (or at any rate an objection they think worth taking seriously) and then others (or I suppose the same person) attempt to explain why they think the objection […] Read More
Recently I gave some lectures on Kant’s moral philosophy in my introductory ethics class. After explaining the “first formulation” of the Categorical Imperative — act only according that maxim which you can will to be a universal law — and working through a few toy […] Read More
This is just a reminder that May 1st is the deadline for submission of abstracts for the 2nd annual Metaethics Workshop, September 16-18th at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. You may email abstracts to Russ Shafer-Landau. For more information on the Workshop, visit http://philosophy.wisc.edu/info/2005Metaethics.htm.
All are invited to attend the tenth annual Cal Poly Ethics Conference, to be held May 5-6. (Yours truly is an organizer). The topic is Ethics in War and Wartime, and we have quite a lineup planned. The schedule of papers: THURSDAY, MAY 59:45 […] Read More
Fred Feldman (Pleasure and the Good Life) and Chris Heathwood (“The Problem of Defective Desires”) point out the following paradox for desire satisfaction theory, which seems to have been first suggested by Richard Kraut. People sometimes desire to be badly off. Desire satisfactionists say that A’s desire […] Read More
Here’s a philosophical problem I’ve been thinking about lately. The problem is that an ethical position I like conflicts with a metaphysical position I like. On the one hand, human infants and adults enjoy full moral status whereas animals have lower moral status. On the […] Read More