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A Dilemma for Effective Altruism This post focuses on an underappreciated debate in normative ethics, viz. the actualism/possibilism (A/P) debate and a problem that I believe it poses for effective altruists (EAs). Roughly, EAs implicitly assume contradictory positions in this debate and, moreover, taking a […] Read More
Kristina Grob and Nathan Nobis have a new, open access ( = free) “public philosophy” book on abortion: “Thinking Critically About Abortion: Why Most Abortions Aren’t Wrong & Why All Abortions Should Be Legal” It engages lots of common concerns and arguments about abortion that […] Read More
I have been wondering how difficult it would be for journals to permit authors to make an audio recording of their papers and allow that to be posted along with the written version. This would increase the accessibility of current philosophy. And I don’t know […] Read More
Kristina Gehrman (Tennessee, Knoxville), who was a public figure in the case against Searle, offers some reflections. Here now is Kristina: I want to share a couple of thoughts, mostly geared towards my fellow philosophers and academics in the wake of the Searle case. I […] Read More
July’s Quarterly Topic at PEA Soup is Normative Ethics. We invite you to submit posts of no more than 1000 words on any topic in normative ethics to David Sobel (davidsobel3ATgmailDOTcom) by June 31, 2019. We will then vet them and post the best submissions […] Read More
Amazingly, our cute little blog PEA Soup turns 15 today. On June 15, 2004, four tiny and unprepossessing philosophers flicked the site onto an unsuspecting world. This was our “Welcome” message: Thanks for visiting PEA Soup, a blog dedicated to philosophy, ethics, and academia (the focus […] Read More
Linked here. Conference is September 13-15, 2019, in Madison.
On the occasion of the death of Dr. John I propose that his “Make a Better World to Live In” become the official theme song of Consequentialism. Not only does the good Dr. sympathetically express the view, in good Consequentialist fashion he creates lots of […] Read More
Suppose that a reliable Oracle tells us that there’s a non-natural property shared by most but not all of the things we antecedently believed to be bad (and that no other non-natural property more closely tracks our beliefs about badness). What’s a non-naturalist to do? Should we […] Read More