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
In honor of Ethics's 125th anniversary, beginning in October 2014, the journal will publish a series of retrospective essays that discuss articles from past volumes of the journal. The journal is presently accepting proposals for the 3rd quarter century (Vols. 51-75). The call for proposals with […] Read More
A great new database here, sure to be of value for those putting together conferences, journal editors, hiring committees, and so on.