I've got, well, a worry regarding the "necessity" requirement on the legitimacy of self- or other-defensive force. I don't really work on this stuff, so it's entirely possible that there's an easy, pat answer to this worry. Anyway, I'd be interested to hear what you […] Read More
Hi all, This is just a friendly reminder that this Friday we'll have another post in our Featured Philosophers series, this time from Justin D'Arms and Daniel Jacobson. Mark your calendars! -dd
I’m interested to know what people think are the most compelling objections to subjectivism. I understand subjectivism to be the view that one has a reason to do something iff and because doing that thing would further something that one has a favoring, not truth […] Read More
It's February, which means if your first name starts with a C or D, it's your "special month" to post on the Soup. See Intructions for Contributors. This means you, Sobel. Oh wait, it also means me (and Chike, and Chris, and Chrisoula, and Christian…).
G. A. Cohen has a diagnosis of what he thinks is going wrong with political philosophy, a diagnosis that is supposed to explain why, say, Rawls, Dworkin, and Nagel, or Nozick, Schmidtz, and Gaus, are relatively sanguine about markets, while Cohen thinks markets are inherently […] Read More
Call for Submissions A Networking and Mentoring Workshop for Graduate Student Women in Philosophy www.princeton.edu/~mentorship Co-Directors: Elisabeth Camp, Elizabeth Harman, and Jill North Female PhD and DPhil students and prospective students in philosophy are invited to submit papers on any topic in philosophy to participate […] Read More
We are very pleased to announce that our next discussion of an Ethics paper will be on Agnieszka Jaworska & Julie Tannenbaum's "Person-Rearing Relationships as a Key to Higher Moral Status." The paper has been made open access here. The discussion will take place Feb […] Read More
With Hannah Pickard, over at Flickers of Freedom.
Do you have research interests in moral disagreement, moral intuitions, moral testimony and moral expertise; or in the nature of applied philosophy and topics like abortion, war, punishment, animals, and medical ethics; or in the mental and social mechanisms that produce moral judgments? This summer, Central […] Read More