If your loved one dies, would it be prudentially or ethically good or bad to have a chat-bot replica of them created for you to interact with? If this topic interests you – or if it sounds like a cool class topic for a class […] Read More
Should egalitarians care about fair equality of opportunity in unjust societies? Almost everybody believes in equal opportunities (EO), that is, in a meritocratic allocation of jobs; and many endorse fair equality of opportunity (FEO) which, in addition to careers open to talent, demands that everybody’s […] Read More
The deadline to apply to the Athena in Action event at Cornell, June 16-19, 2020 has been extended until January 27th. “Athena in Action: A Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy brings together a group of graduate students with a group of […] Read More
I am so glad to have been asked to spend time with Carey and Vitz’s paper, “Mencius, Hume, and the Virtue of Humanity: Sources of Benevolent Moral Development.” I am already a sympathetic reader of Vitz’s take on Hume, and it has been a pleasure […] Read More
Are you interested in the forces that enable and shape moral development? Specifically, are you interested in the psychological and social sources of the virtue of humanity? If you answer yes to either question, please click on the link to check out the intriguing paper […] Read More
Catastrophes in the complex, coupled, criminal justice systems Jake Monaghan Catastrophes, like the nuclear meltdowns at Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, happen despite the various safety systems put in place to prevent them. In some cases, activating a safety device exacerbates the catastrophe. This happens […] Read More
I loved Bill Cosby when I was growing up. I would listen to his records again and again and again. I all but memorized his “Chicken Heart” sketch. As a kid I had like 7 albums and 5 of them were Cosby records. I just […] Read More
I’m wondering if people think there are plausible cases in which a person’s life would be prudentially better if they were to turn out to be a brain in a vat. Obviously there could be some possible rosy situations in a vat that would be […] Read More
By a country mile, the Soup’s most-read post of any kind in 2019 was “Kristina Gehrman’s Reflections in the Wake of the Searle Case.” Thanks again to all of our readers for another tasty year of Soup.