CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy The Scope of Religious Exemptions April 17th-18th, 2015 The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio, April 17th-18th, 2015. The keynote speakers are […] Read More
Note: This post is written by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer and is a response to Jussi Suikkanen's post Expressivism, Subjectivism and Reasons
Announcing the 3rd Annual Tennessee Value and Agency Conference: Reason and the Moral Sentiments in Moral Life and Judgment. November 7 & 8 1210 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN Amelie Rorty, Professor, Tufts. Keynote address: The Ethics of Collaborative Ambivalence. Tal Brewer, Professor, […] Read More
It is not rare to see groups of enraged people engaged in destructive behavior when you turn on the news these days. Such behavior is puzzling when we think of the agents as rational choosers, since it is often obviously counterproductive. The agents end up […] Read More
UPDATED: Elizabeth Harman and Daniel Wodak have created this helpful list of recurring philosophy conferences complete with useful information about each conference. One can edit the document so as to add to the list. When adding a conference to the list, add a row to […] Read More
This post will be difficult to write as I’ll have to reign in my frustrations (I was thinking of calling this ‘Must Do Better’ or ‘All Souls Night, Part II’…). I’ve been reading Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek’s and Peter Singer’s The Point of View of the […] Read More
Thanks so much for inviting me to contribute today! Recently, I’ve been thinking about the relationship between different kinds of ignorance and moral blameworthiness. I’m interested in how we should respond to wrong action that is (partly) attributable to moral ignorance, where that ignorance has […] Read More
I am glad to announce that, after a summer hiatus, PEA Soup is starting up the Featured Philosophers series again. Tomorrow, I will be adding a post by Julia Markovits, who just moved from MIT to Cornell. Julia is well known for her influential and […] Read More
As part of its fall open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology. The submission window is August 1 to October 1, 2014. Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus. […] Read More