PhilPapers and APA partnership

The PhilPapers Foundation and the American Philosophical Association are pleased to announce a new partnership that will enhance the Foundation's ability to support the development of PhilPapers and related services. Beginning this August, the APA’s Jobs for Philosophers will merge with PhilJobs to become PhilJobs: […] Read More

A Worry About Reasons Primitivism

A recently influential idea in the philosophy of normativity is reasons primitivism. Reasons primitivists hold that we can give no account of what it is for some consideration to be a (normative) reason. At most we can say that reasons are considerations that count in […] Read More

Character Project’s Essay and Book Prize Winners

The Character Project (www.thecharacterproject.com) is happy to formally announce the winners of our Essay and Book Prize Competition. In philosophy the winners included Tom Hurka and Iskra Fileva. Please be sure to congratulate them! A ‘Good Character’ summer reading list  

Featured Philosopher: Mark Schroeder

Hi Soupers, I'm thrilled to introduce our next featured philosopher, Mark Schroeder!  You all know Mark for his groundbreaking books Being For and Slaves of the Passions, as well as a a number of significant articles in metaethics and thereabouts.  Since Mark already has his PEA Soup bona […] Read More

Ethics Discussion at PEA Soup: Chike Jeffers’s “The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s ‘The Conservation of Races'”

We are pleased to announce our next Ethics discussion on Chike Jeffers’s new article, “The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s ‘The Conservation of Races.”  Jeffers is an assistant professor at Dalhousie University. The article is available open access here.  Tommie Shelby, professor of […] Read More