Thanks to Iskra Fileva’s and Olivia Bailey’s suggestion, we are happy to have PEA Soup host sessions that had been scheduled for the now-cancelled Pacific APA. These include colloquia, symposia, and author-meets-critics sessions in moral and/or political philosophy, broadly construed to include agency & responsibility. » …Read more
Hoping folks share information here about their experience teaching online. What has worked well and what problems have you faced? Which platforms do we like best? How can we capture our students’ attention online when we lack the glitz of other online presenters? » …Read more
There are a lot of reasons to try to make virtual conferences work. They are much less expensive to attend and thus much more inclusive. They are much better for the environment. And they have the potential to save a lot of travel time. One does not have to think there are no drawbacks to virtual conferences compared to the real thing to think they are very much worth exploring. » …Read more
Welcome to our PeaSoup Ethics Forum on Stewart Braun’s review of Daniel Halliday’s The Inheritance of Wealth (OUP, 2018).
From the blurb:
Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. » …Read more
Setiya argues that moral side-constraints (e.g. against killing as a means) are best understood as agent-neutral: “In general, when you should not cause harm to one in a way that will benefit others, you should not want others to do so either.” (97) So, » …Read more
We seek nominations for the most excellent titles ever given to philosophy papers.
I nominate “From Supervenience to Superdupervenience” by Horgan. » …Read more
Chad van Schoelandt and I welcome you to the discussion of Maxime Lepoutre’s “Rage inside the machine: Defending the place of anger in democratic speech.” To kick off the discussion, we have a précis from Krisanna Scheiter and reply from Lepoutre. » …Read more