A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
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
We are pleased to remind you about the next PEA Soup Quarterly Topic (with Awards)!! Every third month, from here on out, we will invite submissions from any of our readers for posts on the Soup about a particular topic in moral and political philosophy. […] Read More
The DePauw University Philosophy department and The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics invite 3-4 early-career philosophers to give an ethics-related Campus Talk and participate in a Paper Workshop November 12, 2019. See official link here. Deadline for submission: August 1, 2019. Campus Talk Each […] Read More
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June 19, 2019 Montreal (Canada) This is an open event, but seating space is very limited. Please contact Valéry (valery.giroux@umontreal.ca) if you’d like to attend. Click here for details and the program.