The Greatest Possible Rock and Roll Band has done it again! Find all the details here. The basic idea is that for a charitiable donation of a size you determine to your favorite worthy charity, the uncompressed album is available to you. Just let them […] Read More
This week Sally Haslanger, Linda Martin Alcoff, Louise Antony, Rae Langton and Peg O’Connor will all have discussions, at The NY Times's The Stone, on women in philosophy. You can find Haslanger's comments here. You can find Alcoff's comments here. You can find Langton's comments here. […] Read More
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The new journal Thought is now accepting submissions in Value Theory (broadly interpreted, to include all of ethical theory and metaethics). I am the new Subject Editor for Value Theory submissions, assisted by an expert panel of referees (which includes a large number of PEA […] Read More
Hi all – Very happy to have Sharon Street joining us at PEA Soup for a stint in the Featured Philosophers chair! Sharon is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Philosophy at NYU. She provides a very helpful introduction to her […] Read More
In an earlier post, I claimed that Regan’s Utilitarianism and Co-operation is important because it shows that in order for a moral theory to be plausible it must require of agents something beyond just the performance of certain actions—in other words, it must not be […] Read More
Ethics will turn 125 next year. In honor of that anniversary, beginning in October 2014, the journal will publish a series of retrospective essays that discuss articles from past volumes of the journal. Ethics has posted a general call for proposals with more details about […] Read More
[This post is related to my previous one, but this won’t be apparent until the very end.] Some options are more specific than others. One option is more specific than another if and only if the performance of the one option logically necessitates the performance […] Read More
One of the great works of recent moral philosophy is Don Regan’s Utilitarianism and Co-operation (New York: OUP, 1980). Although the theory that Regan argues for in the book (viz., cooperative utilitarianism) is, I believe, untenable, I think that Regan makes a very important discovery: […] Read More