A forum for discussing Philosophy, Ethics, and Academia
The journal Metaphilosophy invites papers from scholars to produce a special issue of the journal on Philosophy as a Way of Life. The special guest editors are James M. Ambury (jamesambury@kings.edu), Tushar Irani (tirani@wesleyan.edu), and Kathleen Wallace (kathleen.wallace@hofstra.edu).
Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Rachana Kamtekar’s Plato’s Moral Psychology (OUP 2018), reviewed by Nicholas Smith. Excerpts from the blurb and the review are below, but you can read both in their entirety via OUP’s website and Ethics, respectively. (You are welcome to participate in the forum even if you […] Read More
We are very pleased to announce the all-new PEA Soup Prizes, generously funded by The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, totaling over $5,000!! There will be yearly and quarterly prizes awarded. The Yearly Prizes will be announced at the end of January (for […] Read More
I’ve always thought that Philosopher’s Annual thing that puts out a top 10 articles of the year list tries to come up with such a list too quickly. It takes most of us some years to get around to reading stuff and even longer to […] Read More
Herewith our top 10 posts of 2018. Thanks to all who read and participated this year! (Most read): Brad Cokelet, New Research Avenues in Anthropology NDPR Forum on Kit Wellman’s Rights Forfeiture and Punishment JESP discussion of Ben Mitchell-Yellin’s “A View of Racism” JMP discussion of Kate Norlock’s […] Read More
January 28: Jonathan Quong Feb 11: Heidi Maibom Feb 18: Ellie Mason Feb 25: Japa Pallikkathayil March 7: Valerie Tiberius March 20: Julia Driver April 8: Hille Paakkunainen April 22: Stephanie Leary May 1: Luvell Anderson May 13: Nate Sharadin
Very pleased today to be able to introduce our next fantastic featured philosopher: Alex Guerrero. Take it away Alex: Much of my work has focused on the way in which ignorance,uncertainty,expertise,intellectual difficulty, and other epistemic considerations raise problems in moral,legal, and political philosophy. A common […] Read More
We’re coming up on a semester break, at which point I always try to read a good recent moral philosophy book, just to keep up with the kids, and perhaps to spur a new research project. Toward that end, and also to help keep others […] Read More
Most contemporary work in population ethics operates within the framework of welfarism – the assumption that individual welfare is the fundamental value. But this framework is a straitjacket, leading population ethics into a labyrinth of sterile paradoxes. Once welfarism is rejected, a vastly more plausible approach […] Read More