May will be a busy month here at the PEA Soup. After a discussion of Jennifer Hawkins's excellent paper on 5th of May, we have our first discussion of a Philosophers' Imprint paper scheduled for the end of the month. We'll be discussing Jack Woods's (Bilkent University) equally amazing […] Read More
We're very pleased to announce that our next discussion of a paper published in Ethics will be on Jennifer Hawkins' piece, “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia". Valerie Tiberius has kindly agreed to write a critical précis to open the discussion on Monday May 5th. We're looking […] Read More
http://www.womenofphilosophy.com This website is devoted to collecting information about women currently working in philosophy around the globe. This list includes information about women worldwide holding a Ph.D. or M.A. in philosophy who (1) has a job researching or teaching philosophy, (2) previously had a job […] Read More
It is often thought that one central advantage of expressivism over subjectivism is that expressivism can make sense of moral disagreements. Whereas according to subjectivism, people end up talking past one another, expressivism enables speakers to express disagreements in attitude as Stevenson famously put it. […] Read More
GOOD DONE RIGHT: a conference on effective altruism7-9 July 2014, All Souls College, Oxford Speakers include: Derek Parfit (Oxford), Thomas Pogge (Yale), Rachel Glennerster (MIT Poverty Action Lab), Nick Bostrom (Oxford), Norman Daniels (Harvard), Jeremy Lauer (WHO-CHOICE), Toby Ord (Oxford), William MacAskill (Cambridge), Larissa MacFarquhar […] Read More
May 16th and 17th. Schedule here: http://valueandvirtue.weebly.com/schedule.html
For those of you interested in nonideal/ideal theory debates in political philosophy, I thought I’d let you know that Bowling Green State University is hosting a conference on the subject in three weeks. Registration is still open if you’re able to attend. We’re hoping to collect […] Read More
Hi all, It brings me great pleasure to introduce Cheshire Calhoun. Cheshire is Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University, and Research Professor at the University of Arizona’s Center for the Philosophy of Freedom. Her work is extremely original, as I'm sure many Soupers will attest, […] Read More
Maxims and MRIs: Kantian Ethics and Empirical Psychology A two-day workshop to be held at the University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics, Toronto, ON, Canada May 9-10, 2014