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I recently finished a paper about illegal immigration. Here is my question: Is it wrong to immigrate illegally? Added challenge: Assume (contrary to fact) that immigration laws are justified, and that people typically have a duty to obey the law. My thesis: Even with those […] Read More
We’re very pleased to announce that Lawrence Blum has joined the list of contributors to PEA Soup. Lawrence is a Professor of Philosophy at U-Mass, Boston, as well as a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education. He’s written several highly regarded books in moral […] Read More
The Center for Ethics & Policy at Carnegie Mellon University invites paper abstracts for an inaugural Workshop on Ethics & Policy to be hosted November 4-5, 2016 at the CMU campus in Pittsburgh, PA. We are pleased to welcome Richard Arneson as our keynote speaker. […] Read More
From Andrew Forcehimes: Date: July 12-14, 2017. Location: Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Confirmed Keynote Speakers: David Brink (University of California, San Diego) Julia Driver (Washington University at St. Louis) Douglas Portmore (Arizona State University) Michael Smith (Princeton)
The Journal of Applied Philosophy awards an annual prize of £1000 to the best article published in each year’s volume. The judgement as to the best article is made by the editors of the journal. The Journal of Applied Philosophy is delighted to announce the […] Read More
I suspect I’ve just wandered into a longstanding dispute, but I’m curious what people think about the nature of wrong acts, and in particular about whether an agent incapable of perceiving the relevant wrongness/rightness reasons can nevertheless perform wrong acts. Here’s a representative quote from […] Read More
Fifth Annual Tennessee Value and Agency (TVA) Conference September 30 — October 2, 2016 at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Keynote Speakers: Michael Brady (Glasgow) and Peter Railton (Michigan)
Hoping to hear people’s intuitions about this case: A corruptible good samaritan, Sam, is planning on saving several people who are dying. Let me stipulate that Sam is not required to do so and the dying have no claim on his aid. I follow Sam […] Read More
This post was written by Nomy Arpaly: I’ll never forget the old guy who asked me, at an APA interview: “suppose I wanted to slap you, and suppose I wanted to slap you because I thought you were giving us really bad answers, and I […] Read More