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Jennifer Saul argues that Cohen’s claim that Trump speaks in a “special code” is better understood as Trump just making use of ordinary general Grician principles of conversation. This makes the attributions Cohen makes to Trump harder for the Trump defender to resist. Saul’s post […] Read More
Charlie Kurth’s new book The Anxious Mind is just out with MIT Press, and we’re pleased to have him aboard today to talk a bit about it. Please join in on the conversation! Take it away, Charlie! I’m delighted to have the opportunity to contribute! A […] Read More
Conference takes place at Syracuse University from Aug 21-23, 2019. Keynote speakers are: Kwame Anthony Appiah, NYU; David Estlund, Brown; Sally Haslanger, MIT. Send full, anonymized papers. Submission details, and other details, including information about the Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy, here.
Just a reminder that abstracts for the upcoming New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 5) are due no later than NOON, March 15, 2019. They should be no more than 3 double-spaced pages (ordinary font and margins, etc.), be saved as a PDF […] Read More
Excited to be able to introduce our next fantastic featured philosopher. Take it away Ellie Mason! Thanks so much for inviting me to do this! I’d like to talk about the central idea of my book (Ways to be Blameworthy: Rightness, Wrongness, and Responsibility, forthcoming […] Read More
Undoubtedly, philosophers do make moral judgments about particular cases. For example, they make judgments about actual historical cases – as G.E.M. Anscombe famously judged that it was wrong of President Truman to order the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. […] Read More
We are very pleased to announce the 2018 PEA Soup Awards, for excellent contributions to the blog. Due to very generous funding by the Prindle Institute for Ethics, we are able to give out $4500 in awards this year. These are the categories that will […] Read More
Welcome to what should be a fun and insightful discussion of Spencer Case‘s “From Epistemic to Moral Realism” (generously made free access by Brill Online and the Journal of Moral Philosophy for this month). David Enoch has kindly contributed a critical précis, which appears immediately […] Read More
I’m very pleased to be able to introduce our next featured philosopher: Heidi Maibom. Take it away Heidi! Years ago, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong invited me to participate in a symposium on psychopaths and responsibility. That was the first time I started thinking professionally about this issue. […] Read More