[Another entry in our Agency and Responsibility October series, by Jake Wojtowicz. Take it away, Jake!]
“The mature agent… will recognize his relation to his acts in their undeliberated, » …Read more
Author: David Shoemaker
I'm a Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Murphy Institute at Tulane University. I specialize in agency and responsibility, personal identity and ethics, and I occasionally dabble in social & political philosophy.
Much of the ever-growing conversation concerning empathy’s moral significance has centered around cases where the target of our empathy is another person’s suffering. Today, I want to consider a puzzle that comes into sharper focus when we start to consider empathy with other sorts of attitudes. » …Read more
[Another contribution on October’s theme of Agency & Responsibility, by Danny Weltman. Take it away, Danny!]
Can one justifiably believe that, on the one hand, » …Read more
[Welcome to the first of our official “Agency & Responsibility October” Posts, written by Neal Tognazzini. Take it away, Neal!]
This looks to be the most fun conference ever. For philosophers interested in both normativity and skiing in Lillehammer, home of the 1994 winter olympics, » …Read more
We are pleased to announce the next PEA Soup Quarterly Topic (with Awards)!! Every third month, recall, we will invite submissions from any of our readers for posts on the Soup about a particular topic in moral and political philosophy. » …Read more
We’ve got a few openings here at the Soup for interested and energetic folks. The first is to be a liaison with Ethics. » …Read more