A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
The epistemic domain is evaluative. It contains normative facts: you should think Trump is a toss-up to win re-election; reasons: your reason to believe Stephen Miller’s couldn’t write a traffic ticket; evaluative claims: knowing Donald Jr. was too ignorant to engage in criminal conspiracy is […] Read More
From Joachim Horvath & Alex Wiegmann: We would like to invite you to an online experiment on moral judgments. In the experiment, you will be asked to judge for several cases whether the agent in the scenario should perform a certain action. You can enter […] Read More
The program for the November 14-16, 2019 meeting of the fifth New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 5) is now out, posted here. Registration is free, but because space is limited, it’s first-come, first-served. Email me (dshoemak AT tulane DOT edu) to register.
Very excited that Soup’s next Featured Philosopher is Luvell Anderson. Take it away Luvell! Many thanks to Dave2 for inviting me to contribute to this wonderful site! I am working on a couple of book projects at the moment. One is about the roles race, class, […] Read More
I am interested in the question of whether the relevant government officials and members of the public who together can remove the Confederate monuments, are morally obligated to (of their own volition) remove them. I am going to argue that they have a moral obligation […] Read More
Threshold deontology is a theory which holds that some act which is intrinsically wrong even if it produces the best consequences, can still be morally justified if those consequences surpass a certain threshold of seriousness. It could, for instance be wrong to torture one innocent […] Read More
From Mark Timmons: I am pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Eleventh Annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (WiNE) that will be held in Tucson, Arizona on January 16-18, 2020. Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic in normative […] Read More
Medical advances have provided the possibility to screen for a variety of conditions during pregnancy. This can offer parents the opportunity to prepare to raise a child with those conditions, or to terminate the pregnancy if they determine that there is reason to avoid bringing […] Read More
Broome (2019) discusses several philosophers who have denied that individual people cause harm via emissions and resultant climate change. He calls these philosophers “individual denialists”. Influential examples include Sinnott-Armstrong (2005), Kingston and Sinnott-Armstrong (2018), and Cripps (2013). I am going to introduce a puzzle for […] Read More