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It is my pleasure to share this post written by Featured Philosopher Charles Mills. Professor Mills is the John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, and is well know for his influential and insightful work in oppositional political theory. His post […] Read More
This is a Call for Abstracts for the Law and Coercion Special workshop at the IVR 27th World Congress – 2015, Washington D.C., USA. , on 27 July – 1 August 2015.
Here. It deserves to be read widely.
The UPDirectory publicizes information about philosophers who are members of traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy. The purpose of the directory is to provide an easy-to-use resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the work of philosophers who belong to underrepresented groups within the […] Read More
Disclaimer: This is way outside of my wheelhouse. So the chances that this is just misguided are great. But it’s my month to post and I’m answering the editor’s (Half-Assed) Plea for Half-Assedness. Many moral skeptics appeal to the following metaphysical thesis in supporting their […] Read More
I am happy to announce that our next featured philosopher, Charles Mills, will have a post up on PEA soup a week from today. Professor Mills is the John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern and his post will be titled "Black […] Read More
The deadline for submissions to OSPP is March 15th. Scholars within 15 years of earning their Ph.D. or in graduate school can also enter the Marc Sanders Prize competition. Details here. The conference takes place at Syracuse University September 18th-20th, 2015. Speakers will include: Elizabeth […] Read More
I hope Ralph won’t mind if I piggyback on his post, but I’m just getting started on a paper that’s partly about normative necessity, and I thought I’d get the old juices flowing with some PEA Soup discussion. (Plus it’s February and my name starts […] Read More
In “Varieties of Necessity” (in Gendler and Hawthorne, Conceivability and Possibility, Oxford 2002), Kit Fine argued that we need to recognize that certain normative truths are in a sense necessary, and that the kind of necessity in question is sui generis, rather than being a […] Read More