Welcome to the first of what will hopefully be many productive discussions of articles in the Journal of Social Ontology at PEA Soup. The target article is Manuel Garcia-Carpintero’s “Conventions and Constitutive Norms”, available open access, with a brief consideration of the main points of Garcia-Carpintero’s article by Brian Ball (New College of the Humanities, » …Read more
I’m not sure why you haven’t applied yet to this fellowship, but the headline says it all. Set aside all the other stuff: the excellent colleagues, the abundant research time, the chance to discuss philosophy with a who’s who of philosophers regularly giving talks, » …Read more
Ray Briggs offers some thoughtful suggestions for Cis folk concerning trans issues at Biopolitical Philosophy here. » …Read more
We wanted to express our gratitude on this day to all of our contributors, discussants, and readers for making this already the best year ever of Soup! Delicious moral content keeps on a’comin’, as do the incisive and generous comments. Thanks, and please enjoy! » …Read more
Welcome to our Ethics review forum on Holly Smith‘s Making Morality Work (OUP 2018), reviewed by Andrew Sepielli.
The book abstract:
Moral theories can play both a theoretical and a practical role. » …Read more
We are very pleased to announce the winners of our “Agency & Responsibility October” prizes. First place ($150) goes to Neal Tognazzini, for his post “Weaponizing Blame.” A tie for second place ($50/each) goes to Marcela Herdova, for “Manipulation Cases: What’s doing the work? » …Read more
In a famous passage in What We Owe to Each Other, T.M. Scanlon introduced a case where we have to choose between saving one person from a terrible harm and saving an enormous number of people from much smaller harms. This quickly inspired an enormous literature on whether the right approach to such moral questions is aggregative or non-aggregative. » …Read more