Below is the program for the next SLACRR. You can learn more and register at the website. I hope to see you in St. Louis this May!
Many of you will know that John Stuart Mill advocates a scheme whereby college graduates, and the more educated more generally, would get more votes. Like some universities, he even accepts work experience in leiu of formal education: If every ordinary unskilled labourer had one […] Read More
The Editors announce the first issue of Law, Ethics and Philosophy, a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to work in ethics, legal theory, and social and political philosophy.
Many philosophers (such as J. H. Sobel, R. J. Wallace, G. Harman, M. Bratman, and J. D. Velleman) endorse something along the lines of the following normative requirement regarding intention: R1: It is impermissible/irrational for S both to intend to X and to believe that […] Read More
Warren Quinn’s puzzle of the self-torturer is supposed to show that cyclic preferences can be rational, and that, in cases where they are, rationality can require resoluteness so that the agent does not end up with an alternative that is worse than the one with […] Read More
Welcome to our newest Ethics discussion, on Agnieszka Jaworska & Julie Tannenbaum's "Person-Rearing Relationships as a Key to Higher Moral Status"! The paper has been made open access here. Margaret Little and Jake Earl kick off the discussion with a critical commentary below the fold. […] Read More
Dear Soupers, Do you enjoy puzzles? Yeah? Well then, let me share one with you. John Basl (Northeastern University) and I have had some fruitful conversations about it; and we have some views about how to address it (and some views about how not to); […] Read More
This is just a reminder that our next Ethics discussion, on Agnieszka Jaworska & Julie Tannenbaum's "Person-Rearing Relationships as a Key to Higher Moral Status," kicks off on Thu, Feb 20. The paper has been made open access here. Margaret Little and Jake Earl are […] Read More
Once again, it's my great pleasure to welcome you to another edition of the Featured Philosophers. I hope you all will welcome Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson! -dd