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
I’ve been interested recently in the ways in which norms from some domains impinge on norms from other domains. To that end, I’ve been writing about cruel jokes, wherein the funny and the moral intersect. I don’t at all deny that some cruel jokes are […] Read More
Whenever I have had a major life decision to make, it has always struck me as of central – indeed, definitive – importance to think about whether I would regret my decision, if things turned out in one way rather than another. But I find […] Read More
We are thrilled to have our first Politics, Philosophy & Economics online discussion in Pea Soup’s new format. On the 28th of September 2016 we will be discussing Juliana Bidadanure‘s outstanding paper “Making Sense of Age-Group Justice: A Time for Relational Equality?”. Juliana offers a cutting-edge […] Read More
Descriptive reality is not made the case by our take on it. Thinking that it is so or wanting it to be so does not determine the way things are, at least in descriptive matters. Are things different in the normative realm? Normative “Stance-independence” maintains […] Read More
The Speculative Ethics Forum is a one day workshop-style event in which we’ll consider the most challenging matters of ethics. Ethical approaches of all sorts are welcomed–analytic, continental, ancient, medieval, Asian, and so on. Most papers are invited. However, there are two slots open for […] Read More
There has come to be some consensus amongst political scientists and legal theorists that a major source of over-incarceration in the United States is (mostly county) prosecutors filing a significantly increased number of charges against individual arrestees (e.g., committing fraud means getting hit with the […] Read More