This is the 1000th post on PEA Soup—a milestone
that seems a good occasion for reflection on the blog. We would welcome fond
memories of past discussions on the Soup or suggestions for how to improve it.
As the newcomer to Soup, I cannot give enough shout outs to the Fantastic 4
that created and sustained it for its first 9 years: Dan Boisvert, Josh Glasgow,
Doug Portmore, and David Shoemaker. Thanks guys—all of us who have benefitted
from the Soup owe you.
The blog is doing well. We are now averaging over 1000
visits a day. And there are a variety of new initiatives that we are excited
about that are only just starting up. We have significantly expanded the
excellent journals we are partnered with, started up the Featured Philosopher
series, and encouraged our contributors to post a new thread at least once a
year. As you can already see, the blog is becoming more active and there will
be more posts than ever before.
The program for the second New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility is now available here. Registration is free; e-mail dshoemakATtulaneDOTedu to do so.
Just a quick note to point out the new "Calendar of Events" feature on PEA Soup, with the link in the banner above. It will keep you informed of forthcoming events, e.g., the Featured Philosophers scheduled to appear (several are already scheduled) and the various journal discussions. This will better enable you to plan your life around the Soup.
So pleased to be welcoming Avia Pasternak officially as a contributor (and associate editor) to PEA Soup! Avia is a lecturer in political theory in the Department of Government at University of Essex, working on, among other things, collective responsibility and the relation between global justice and democratic theory.
We are pleased to present the next Ethics discussion, on Leif Wenar's new article, "The Nature of Claim Rights." The article has been made open access here. Arthur Ripstein, professor of law and philosophy at U. Toronto, kicks off the discussion with a critical precis of Wenar's article below the fold.
In our last post, we mentioned our partnerships with a variety of excellent journals publishing new work in ethics and political philosophy. In this post, we want to explain ways in which we will try to push the blog to expand in a more informal direction as well, capturing again some of that old time bloggy fun we used to have. We have two proposals.
On behalf of Carolina Sartorio, who's writing a paper on a new kind of luck, I'm posting, with her permission, her core motivating cases in order to see what people's intuitions are. In each case, I am giving Carolina's report of what our intuitions likely are, but I do not include her analyses. Do you share the basic intuitions? Why or why not?
First off, we (Daves Sobel and Shoemaker) are happy and excited to have received the baton from Dan Boisvert, Josh Glasgow, and Doug Portmore to co-edit PEA Soup for the indefinite future. Thanks so much to D, J, and D for their excellent contributions to the philosophical community via the construction and caretaking of the blog for well-nigh 9 years. We hope not to despoil their legacy. But we aim higher than non-despoilage; we also have several ideas for ways of energizing the blog and expanding its reach, a few of which we will explain in this and a subsequent post.
We are pleased to announce that our next Ethics discussion will be on Leif Wenar's new article, "The Nature of Claim Rights." The article has already been made open access here. Arthur Ripstein, professor of law and philosophy at U. Toronto, will be kicking off the discussion with a critical precis of Wenar's article. Our discussion will begin next Wednesday, April 10. We hope to see you there!
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