Are you interested in one or more Asian Philosophy? Would you like help integrating Asian Philosophies into your teaching, reading, or research plans? Would you like help identifying speakers to give talks that connect with Asian Philosophies? Would you like to know about events and […] Read More
Consider the following case, culled from the authors’ lived experiences (with slight modifications). You are in the fortunate position of marrying into a family with the financial means to offset a substantial amount of the cost of an otherwise unaffordable wedding. During the planning, after […] Read More
Thanks so much to the Daves for inviting me to contribute! I’m working on a book, Natural Reasons through Virtue, and I’d love your feedback on some of its central moves. The book’s thesis is that what it is to be a normative reason for […] Read More
[Herewith our second post for Applied Ethics April, by Matt King.] ‘Death with Dignity’ statutes, as they’re often called, allow terminally ill patients to bring about their own deaths under a very specific set of conditions. The purpose of such laws, made clear by their […] Read More
We’re pleased to announce our next Ethics review forum on John Oberdiek’s Imposing Risk: A Normative Framework (OUP 2017), reviewed by Madeleine. Excerpts from the blurb and the review are below, but you can read both in their entirety via OUP’s website and Ethics, respectively. (Though of […] Read More
[What follows is a guest post by Anca Gheaus, of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, our first contender for the prestigious Applied Ethics April PEA Soup Award.] Consider these alternative stories involving two characters, a girl and a boy. They will marry and love each other. […] Read More
Tomorrow we will begin our series of guest posts for “Applied Ethics April” with a post from Anca Gheaus (Barcelona), on parental choice of future children. After that, we will be posting new guest posts every Monday and Wednesday for the remainder of the month. […] Read More
So pleased that our next featured philosopher is the wonderful Julia Driver. Here now is Julia: I would like to thank the two Daves for the chance to talk about some of my more recent work. The most significant project that I am working on […] Read More
We are pleased to announce the new PEA Soup Quarterly Topic 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. We will kick […] Read More