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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.
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