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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.
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.