After reading this interview in which Rev. John Paris, a bioethicist at Boston College, discusses the Terry Schiavo case, I began to wonder about the absence of philosophers in public discussions of ethical issues. The Schiavo case raises all the issues that are the stock […] Read More
This hiring season has been a busy one for several of our contributing PEA Brains, with four of them moving to new universities, all of which have Ph.D. programs. In alphabetical order . . . . Campbell Brown (grad work done at the Australian National […] Read More
Perhaps everyone is already aware of this, but I just wanted to mention that Harry Frankfurt is going to be on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show tonight (Monday, March 14) to talk about his small but quite entertaining book, On Bullshit. Harry was my dissertation […] Read More
We are very happy to welcome Chris Heathwood as the newest contributor here at PEA Soup. Chris is currently at UMass and has recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He specializes in ethics and metaphysics […] Read More
Proponents of intrinsic value have sometimes attempted to argue for its existence via the following sort of regress argument: Something is valuable; but if it is valuable, it must be valuable either as a means to something else that is valuable, or else […] Read More
The 2005 Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference is on Time and Identity. There will be a panel discussion on death featuring Harry Silverstein, Barbara Levenbook and me. I’ll post an update when the program is up.
I’m happy to report what looks to be a terrific conference coming up this Saturday, February 26, at UC Riverside, on the work of Gary Watson (timed in rough relation to the publication of his book Agency and Answerability). Follow this link for more details: […] Read More
In case you haven’t heard yet, Peter Unger, the author of Living High and Letting Die, has put six of the ten chapters of his forthcoming book All the Power in the World on his website. The book is forthcoming with OUP.
In his classic paper “Moral luck,” Thomas Nagel claims that Kant denied the relevance of moral luck (i.e., Kant denied that any factor outside an agent’s control should determine how we morally appraise an agent or her actions), and that the explanation of Kant’s denial […] Read More