On behalf of all of us here at PEA Soup, I extend a warm welcome to Scott Wilson, who has graciously accepted our invitation to be a contributor. We’re still hoping to add other new contributors in the near future. So stay tuned.
Ben at OrangePhilosophy and Jonathan at Fake Barn Country have been discussing whether it’s more harmful to the victim if (1) a three-week-old baby is murdered or (2) a 23-year-old graduate student is murdered. To my mind, the question cannot be answered without having more […] Read More
On behalf of all of us here at PEA Soup, I extend a warm welcome to Troy Jollimore, who has graciously accepted our invitation to be a contributor. We’re hoping to add some other new contributors in the near future. So stay tuned.
I’ve always been puzzled by the standard account of posthumous harm that we find in the literature. The standard account of posthumous harm—the one expounded by Brandt (1979, 330), Feinberg (1984, 87), Griffin (1986, 23), Kavka (1986, 41), Parfit (1984, 495), and others—goes as follows. […] Read More
Blogging on PEA Soup has been light lately, which I’ll armchair-diagnose as a symptom of getting slammed with various other tasks at the moment. (At least that’s my excuse.) So I thought I’d take a moment to pick up a discussion that has taken place […] Read More
I don’t want to turn this blog into a well of sentimentality (we are talking about philosophy, after all), but a personal note is in order. First a brief history of PEA Soup. I got to know Dave Shoemaker years ago, when I was a […] Read More
I have been asked by several people to post my “official” formulation of the metaethical theory that I favor, what I call “Expressive-Assertivism.” (You can read the long version here.) So here it is.
I’ve long been a believer in the principle that if you ought to do something, then it has to be the case that you are able to do that thing (that is, ought-implies-can), though I realize that this principle has problems with respect to issues […] Read More
This is the third of a series of posts in which I try to make clear the different embedding difficulties that, as a family, are thought to present the most pressing objection to expressivism and to distinguish the different kinds of expressivism toward which each […] Read More