PEA Soup
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- Go Grue!
Several graduate students in the University of Michigan's Philosophy Department have started a group blog, cleverly named 'Go Grue!'. Some ethics discussion is underway.... - Can PEA Soup be poured over the Great Wall?
Just something to pass along: I conducted several tests of PEA Soup's URL at a most interesting site, Great Firewall of China. The site determines if a URL is available to Chinese web users, and I found in all but... - Against the “reasons” program
Many philosophers today are pursuing a program according to which the notion of a “normative reason” is the most fundamental normative notion. Thus, these philosophers aim to analyse such notions as ‘right’ and ‘wrong’, the notions of the various sorts... - Best of Michael Smith
I'm unsuccesfully trying to have a break from blogging to get some work done. I cannot resist the temptation to advertise a book review of Smith's Ethics and the A Priori collection available HERE . It's by Constantine Sandis. By... - Bleg Time
I have a bleg. Can anyone recommend papers in ethics -- preferably on value-theory or meta-ethics -- that (i) are good pieces of philosophy, (ii) are very clearly written, (iii) are not exceptionally long, and (iv) could be profitably read... - Happiness on MSNBC
Check out this interview on MSNBC with Psychiatrist Dr. Donald E. Rosen, conducted by MSNBC health editor Jane Weaver. I’m breaking it down FJM-style.... - Schapiro on Kantian Rigorism
In her very good article in the latest Ethics (117, Oct. ’06), “Kantian Rigorism and Mitigating Circumstances,” Tamar Schapiro brings to light a problem with the standard Kantian line for dealing with the flexibility of moral rules, in particular the... - Publishing Discussion Notes
Over at Leiter Reports, there's an interesting discussion of the lack of venues for publishing discussion notes -- see here. The problem is that few journals these days publish discussion notes (which I take to be distinct from full-length articles... - Submission Deadline--Fourth Annual Metaethics Workshop, UW-Madison
The following is an announcement from Russ Shafer-Landau: Dear Colleague, I’m pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Fourth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 7-9, 2007. Gilbert Harman (Princeton)... - Moller on Love and Death
Think of the person who loves you more than anyone else in this world does. And now think about how that person would feel if you suddenly died. Would he or she be utterly heartbroken? Filled with despair? Or would...
