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Another slam-bang year! Thanks to all who continue to slurp up the Soup on a regular basis. Herewith is our annual list of the 10 most-read substantive posts of the year (in reverse chronological order). Re-read them for fun! Ethics Review Forum: Smith’s Making Morality […] Read More
We are pleased to announce the next PEA Soup Quarterly Topic (with Awards)!! Every third month, recall, we will invite submissions from any of our readers for posts on the Soup about a particular topic in moral and political philosophy. Next up: “Political Philosophy”! We […] Read More
Depts are free to share confidential letters of recommendations for job candidates with: Only the search committee for the advertised job All faculty in the hiring dept 2 plus any admin that need to sign off on the hire 3 plus grad students in the […] Read More
Welcome to the first of what will hopefully be many productive discussions of articles in the Journal of Social Ontology at PEA Soup. The target article is Manuel Garcia-Carpintero’s “Conventions and Constitutive Norms”, available open access, with a brief consideration of the main points of […] Read More
Call For Papers for ‘Athena in Action’ A Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy Application Deadline: January 10, 2020 Ph.D. students are invited to submit papers (on any topic in philosophy) to participate in the workshop, held June 16-19, 2020 at Cornell University […] Read More
I’m not sure why you haven’t applied yet to this fellowship, but the headline says it all. Set aside all the other stuff: the excellent colleagues, the abundant research time, the chance to discuss philosophy with a who’s who of philosophers regularly giving talks, the […] Read More
Ray Briggs offers some thoughtful suggestions for Cis folk concerning trans issues at Biopolitical Philosophy here.
We wanted to express our gratitude on this day to all of our contributors, discussants, and readers for making this already the best year ever of Soup! Delicious moral content keeps on a’comin’, as do the incisive and generous comments. Thanks, and please enjoy!
Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Holly Smith‘s Making Morality Work (OUP 2018), reviewed by Andrew Sepielli. The book abstract: Moral theories can play both a theoretical and a practical role. As theories, they provide accounts of which features make actions right or wrong. In […] Read More