We at PEA Soup are happy to announce the inaugural (and timely) entry of PEA Soup’s The Pebble, brought to you by Malcolm Keating, Assistant Professor in the Humanities Division (Philosophy) at Yale-NUS College: The Aesthetic Ingredients of Holiday Romance. Many thanks for Professor Keating for choosing PEA Soup! » …Read more
We are pleased to announce our next Philosophy & Public Affairs article discussion, which will take place next Monday and Tuesday, December 7-8. The discussion will focus on Chong‐Ming Lim’s (open access) “Vandalizing Tainted Commemorations,” with critical précis by Joanna Burch-Brown. » …Read more
PEA Soup today introduces a new segment, The Pebble. Adam Patterson, who will run this feature, writes:
It will feature short pieces (max 2000 words) of public philosophy. Pieces submitted should be accessibly written by philosophers and grapple with topics of broad, » …Read more
With this post we start a new series here at PEA Soup: Philosophers’ Argument Check. The idea is to assess arguments before the public using the tools of philosophy but in a way that is designed to be accessible to non-philosophers. The format should mimic the “fact check” » …Read more
Here is the just-released program for the Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics (WiNE), scheduled for this coming January 14-16. It’s three full days of action this time around, given that the whole thing will be on Zoom. This is sad for those who enjoy getting together at the wonderful Tucson resort it’s been held at for the last 12 years or so, » …Read more
Welcome to what we expect will be a very interesting and productive discussion of Patrick Tomlin‘s “Proportionality in War: Revising Revisionism.” The paper is published in the most recent issue of Ethics, and is available here. » …Read more
The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University invites applications for three Faculty Fellowships/Visiting Research Professorships for the 2021-2022 academic year. These fellowships are available to support outstanding faculty whose teaching and research focus on ethics; political and social philosophy; » …Read more
Welcome to our Ethics Review Forum on Mark Alfano’s book Nietzsche’s Moral Psychology (CUP), reviewed by Neil Sinhababu.
Below, you’ll find a condensed version of Neil’s review, » …Read more