A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
The following post is by Eyal Aharoni, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Philosophy, and Neuroscience at Georgia St. University: Troubled by the state of criminal punishment today, I never expected deep insights on the subject from a 10-year-old child. As kids, my younger sister and I […] Read More
Gideon Yaffe (Yale) writes with the following very important information: I’m writing to ask for your signature on this amicus brief which concerns Kahler v. Kansas, a case that the Supreme Court recently agreed to hear. The state of Kansas abolished the insanity defense. Mr. […] Read More
In a stunning turn of events bound to force the re-writing of countless textbooks and syllabi, the Holy Grail of Ethics was discovered at 7:46 pm Saturday, May 25th in Harrisburg, PA. Interviews with those at the scene report that Silvia Leonard attempted to, without contradiction, […] Read More
I’m very pleased to announce that the winner of the $250 “Applied Ethics April” prize is Kian Mintz-Woo, for the post “How Would We Know if We Made a Climate Difference?” Congratulations, and thanks for the great post and discussion!
We are pleased to announce 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. Next up: […] Read More
Brian Jabarian has graciously provided a critical précis, which includes an overview of Rowe & Voorhoeve’s view and arguments, an outline of their central cases, and some points for discussion. The overview appears below. As the second and third parts rely rather heavily on careful […] Read More
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