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Stanford Post-Docs

The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and the Program on Global Justice seek up to three post-doctoral fellows for 2010-11.

Kudos!

In case the cash is not enough, congratulations to Dave Shoemaker for his 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Philosophy for  this posting on Scanlon on Moral Responsibility and Blame!

Surely a few drops of glory have rained into the general PEA Soup pot (note Dennett's blurb on the award page). Good comments, and I'm sure it didn't hurt that Tim dropped by.

Welcome Anita Superson!

We are happy to announce that Anita Superson has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here at PEA Soup.  Anita is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, and specializes in ethical theory, feminism, and issues at their intersections.  It's great to have you aboard, Anita!

Experimental Philosophy Page

There's an excellent new resource for those interested in keeping up with, or contributing to, the wide variety of fascinating work being done in experimental philosophy.  It's the Experimental Philosophy Page, and it's set up in wiki format so anyone can edit and update it.  Currently there are over 125 papers on-board.

Call for Papers on Religious Toleration

The Philosophy of Religion Group is issuing a call for papers for its session at the 2010 American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting on the topic of Religious Toleration. 

Evolution, Emotion, and Metaethics Workshop

University of Sydney, Aug 6-7
Organizer: Richard Joyce (richard.jo...@arts.usyd.edu.au)

SPEAKERS:

David Copp (UC Davis)
Justin D'Arms (Ohio State)
Janice Dowell (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Jamie Dreier (Brown)
Josh Gert (Florida State)
Daniel Jacobson (University of Michigan)
Don Loeb (Vermont)
David Sobel (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Kim Sterelny (ANU)

Further info, including venue, will be announced in due course. There is no formal registration, but if you think you might come along, please send Richard Joyce an email so that we get a sense of numbers.

Global Comments Feed...

... returns, thanks to Simon Rippon.  You can find the feed link in the top Navigation Bar.

Thank you, Simon, for getting this global comments feed back up and running for us!

Happy Fifth Birthday!

Thank you all—contributors, commentators, and readers—for another great year in the Soup!   This month marks PEA Soup's fifth "birthday" on the blogosphere, and because of all of you, it was clearly the best.  Thank you!

To celebrate, we've introduced a new design theme—Lone Tree Green!—and we've added a list of our contributors' most recent books.  Most importantly, we've put together a small "2008-2009 Yearbook" to highlight some of the noteworthy events that happened this year on the Soup, and, especially, events that happened to and for some of our contributors.  If contributors or readers have any more good news to share, please feel free to add it in the comments section.  So, thank you all again, and… drum roll please…

Scanlon on Moral Responsibility & Blame (Part 1)

I’ve just read T.M. Scanlon’s chapter on blame in his latest book Moral Dimensions. The discussion is subtle, provocative, and quite insightful. It has already caused me to rethink some of my own views on moral responsibility in general and blame in particular. Nevertheless, I have a few questions/worries about the account that may be worth discussing over the course of a few posts. In this post, I’ll just focus on his account of moral responsibility, and in later posts I hope to focus on his accounts of blame and the ethics of blaming. (And I apologize in advance for the length of this post.)

Welcome, Janice Dowell

We're pleased to welcome Janice Dowell as the newest PEA Souper.  Janice is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska, and she works in metaethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language.  Welcome aboard, Jan!