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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
An excellent new resource, both for students and teachers! 1000-Word Philosophy introduces people to the key ideas of a topic in, well, 1000 words or less. Here’s a very nice example, by Taylor Cyr, on Manipulation and Moral Responsibility.
The Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder is pleased to invite paper proposals for the twelfth annual RoME congress. Papers from all areas of ethics and political theory are invited. Conference: Aug 8-11 Submission deadline: […] Read More
Finally, we get to questions of the fundamental nature of Soup.
Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting and productive discussion of Shmuel Nili‘s “The Idea of Public Property.” The paper is published in the most recent issue of Ethics, and is available here. Barbara H. Fried has kindly agreed to contribute a critical […] Read More
Very happy to introduce our next Featured Philosopher: Jonathan Quong. His fear of PEA Soup Overlords warms the heart. Here now Jonathan: I’m working on a book, The Morality of Defensive Force, and in this post I’ll provide a brief description of one of the […] Read More