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How should our practices of blame and punishment take into account the mental and physical conditions of those we blame and punish? Philosophers working on moral responsibility have taken up this question squarely, prompting conversations about addiction, immaturity, and the like. But what about the […] Read More
I am pleased that PEA Soup will feature an exchange on Hanno Sauer’s book Moral Judgements as Educated Intuitions. Regina Rini reviewed this book in the most recent issue of Ethics. You can find an open access version of that review here. Now we hear […] Read More
Welcome to the first ever Ethical Theory and Moral Practice discussion! We’re looking at Robin Zheng‘s new article, “What is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice”, which can be downloaded here. Maeve McKeown kicks things off with […] Read More
I’m pleased to introduce a new NDPR Forum, on Gideon Yaffe’s The Age of Culpability: Children and the Nature of Criminal Responsibility (OUP 2018), which was recently reviewed at NDPR by Doug Husak. As usual, the author of the reviewed book is invited to speak first in […] Read More
Kevin Tobia and I have co-written a paper on personal identity for the Oxford Handbook on Moral Psychology, edited by John Doris and Manuel Vargas. You can see the draft here. What’s particularly new and interesting about the entry is Kevin’s part of the project, which […] Read More
The 7th annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy will take place in Syracuse, NY, August 21-3, 2019. Keynote speakers will be: Kwame Anthony Appiah, NYU Sally Haslanger, MIT Joseph Raz, Columbia We invite submissions of full papers (not abstracts) of between 7500 and 12000 […] Read More
Here, at the View from the Owl’s Roost.
Call for Submissions: Young Philosophers Lecture Series at the Prindle Institute for Ethics Submission deadline: August 6, 2018 The DePauw University Philosophy department and the Prindle Institute for Ethics invite 3-4 early-career philosophers to give a campus talk on November 13, 2018. Each talk should […] Read More
About a year ago, several family members, friends, and philosophical luminaries gathered at All Souls College to remember and celebrate the life of the great moral philosopher, Derek Parfit. Those twenty videos, with the production assistance of several members of the Parfit family, have been […] Read More