We are pleased to announce that the Second Annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy will be held at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Sept. 4-6, 2014. There will be nine speakers: - 6 invited speakers: • Dave Estlund (keynote), Brown University, • Serena Olsaretti (keynote), […] Read More
Consider Newcomb’s Problem: “A psychology professor at your school has a reputation for being brilliant as well as possessed of an enormous fortune she has dedicated to her research. One day you get a request to report to her office at a certain hour. On […] Read More
Samuel Scheffler’s original and provocative Tanner lectures, now published as Death and the Afterlife (OUP 2013), have already stirred discussion about the importance of humanity’s continued survival for the value of our own lives. In a witty and penetrating review of Scheffler’s work, Mark Johnston […] Read More
Dominic Wilkinson, managing editor of the Journal of Practical Ethics, would like you all to know that the second issue has been released: http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk JPE is an open-access journal.
Happy New Year! If your name begins with A or B, it's your "special month" to post on the Soup!
Tick tock… Abstracts for the next St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality are due January 4.
Plenary Speaker: Macalester Bell Felician College (New Jersey), Saturday, April 26, 2014. Call for papers here: http://felicianethics.wordpress.com/
Does moral responsibility require the ability to do otherwise? For example, must one have been able to refrain from an evil deed if one is to be appropriately blamed for it? The answer turns on the truth of a familiar principle: (PAP) If S is […] Read More
We are pleased to present our first Politics Philosophy & Economics discussion of AJ Julius's paper 'The Possibility of Exchange'. Julius's paper is available on open access here. Victor Tadros, professor at the School of Law, the University of Warwick, is kicking off the discussion […] Read More