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The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University invites applications for Visiting Research Professorships/Resident Faculty Fellowships for the 2017-2018 academic year. These fellowships are available to support outstanding faculty whose teaching and research focus on ethics, political philosophy, political […] Read More
PEA Syllabi, as previously mentioned here, is a new project for compiling syllabi for courses in ethics and political, broadly construed. You are encouraged to add your syllabi, thus making it available to people in the future who are designing such classes. PEA Syllabi now […] Read More
I am interested in knowing whether consequentialists have thought and whether they should think that the shape of an outcome matters when it comes to how good the given outcome of an action or a policy is. Before we get to this question, I want […] Read More
PEA Soup now has a dedicated page for collecting syllabi for courses in ethics, broadly construed. You can find it here. You will be able to add your syllabi under the relevant course heading and, the hope is, when it is time to design a […] Read More
HERE and below is the programme for the second New Methods of Ethics conference, which will be held here at the University of Birmingham on the 4th and the 5th of January 2017. The conference is free and open to all, but please book a […] Read More
People tend to think of the person who fails to live up to their own conception of what we are morally required to do as a hypocrite. On this view, if one thinks, and publicly says, that something is morally required but then fails to do that […] Read More
In this post, I want to raise a problem for a kind of theory of welfare that has recently been on the rise. I will argue that because theories of this kind are false of newborn infants, we should think that they are also false […] Read More
Our first Featured Philosopher of the new WordPress era begins tomorrow: Eden Lin (of Ohio St.) will post something on well-being, and we encourage you to read it and join in the conversation. And speaking of which, there’s now no requirement to log-in to comment […] Read More
Welcome to our online discussion of Juliana’s Bidadanure’s recent publication in Politics Philosophy & Economics ‘Making Sense of Age-Group Justice: A Time For Relational Equality?’. The paper is available through open access here. Paul Bou-Habib is starting us off with a critical précis. David Axelssen (LSE), […] Read More