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
Hi everyone, and a special wave to our new member Mark Timmons! When graduate students ask me about publishing, I often suggest they start by submitting a tight discussion/commentary piece. The trouble, however, is that I don't know which journals welcome them. Ethics, of course. […] Read More
I'm happy to extend a warm Soup welcome to Mark Timmons as he becomes an official contributor to PEA Soup. Mark is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, and he's published all sorts of excellent articles and books on a variety of topics […] Read More
A conference, Illuminating Reasons: An Inquiry into the Phenomenology of Moral Experience, will take place October 16-18, 2014 in Tucson, Arizona, featuring prominent scholars from the fields of philosophy and psychology. The conference is part of a project being conducted by Terry Horgan and Mark […] Read More
Join us to discuss Peter Railton's new Ethics article, "The Affective Dog and Its Rational Tale: Intuition and Attunement"! The article is available open access here. Bryce Huebner kicks off the discussion with a critical précis below the fold:
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I'm really enjoying Scanlon's new book "Being Realistic About Reasons" (all citations below to this book), but I'm stumbling on the part about pure normative truths and the explanation of supervenience. Any help would be much appreciated.
Just a quick reminder that our next Ethics discussion, on Peter Railton's "The Affective Dog and Its Rational Tale: Intuition and Attunement," takes place on August 4-6. Railton's article is available open access here. The discussion will start with a critical précis by Bryce Huebner. Join us […] Read More
Happy Bastille Day! One more post for N and M month. Some Kantians make a lot of the fact that often, when we are being moral, we don’t feel like we want to do the right thing, but we do it. Korsgaard openly ridicules the […] Read More