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Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Justin Clarke-Doane’s “Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge” with commentary by Matthew Braddock, Andreas Mogensen, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

We are pleased to present the next installment of Ethics at PEA Soup. Our featured article this time around is Justin Clarke-Doane’s “Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge,” which is available here. We are very grateful to Matthew Braddock, Andreas Mogensen, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong for kicking off the discussion with the following thought-provoking post (see below the fold). Questions and comments about either Clarke-Doane’s article or the post by Braddock et al. are most welcome.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Justin Clarke-Doane’s “Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge”

Moving to the Front: We are pleased to announce the next installment of our partnership with Ethics, where we host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal makes the article freely available for the period of our discussion. 

Our next featured article is Justin Clarke-Doane’s “Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge” (Volume 122, issue 2). The open-access article is now freely available.  We are also very grateful that Matthew Braddock, Andreas Mogensen, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong have agreed to provide a post that will kick off the discussion. Their post will appear, and discussion will begin, on Friday, March 23, 2012. We invite everyone interested to participate.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: John Gardner and François Tanguay-Renaud's "Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense" and Jeff McMahan's "Response," with commentary by Victor Tadros

We are pleased to present the latest installment of our partnership with Ethics, in which we host a discussion on one, or in this case more than one, article from each issue of the journal.  The articles selected from Volume 122, issue 1, are John Gardner and François Tanguay-Renaud's "Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense" and Jeff McMahan's "Duty, Obedience, Desert, and Proportionality in War: A Response" (particularly section IV).  We are very grateful that Victor Tadros has agreed to provide the critical précis, which appears below the fold.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: John Gardner and François Tanguay-Renaud's "Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense" and Jeff McMahan's "Response," with commentary by Victor Tadros

(Moving to the front from Dec. 10)

We are pleased to announce the next installment in our collaboration with Ethics, where we host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal makes a copy of that article freely accessible (for a limited time) to our participants. 

Because the current issue (Volume 122, issue 1) features a symposium on Jeff McMahan's Killing in War, this time around we are focusing on two articles, John Gardner and François Tanguay-Renaud's "Desert and Avoidability in Self-Defense" and McMahan's reply.  Ethics has generously agreed to provide open access to both articles, which are now available here.  We are also pleased that our own Victor Tadros will provide a précis of the article to kick off the discussion.  Professor Tadros'  précis will appear, and discussion of the article will begin, Wednesday, January 4, 2012.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Philip Pettit's "The Instability of Freedom as Noninterference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin," with Commentary by David Schmidtz

We are pleased to present the next installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from an issue of the journal.  The article selected from Volume 121, Issue 4 is Philip Pettit's "The Instability of Freedom as Noninterference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin" (open access here).  We are also extremely grateful that David Schmidtz has agreed to provide the critical precis of the article.  His commentary begins below the fold and is followed by several replies from Professor Pettit.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Philip Pettit's "The Instability of Freedom as Noninterference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin"

(Moving to the front from August 2nd.)

We are pleased to announce the next installment of our collaboration with Ethics, where we will host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal will make a copy of that article freely accessible (for a limited time) to our participants. 

Our next featured article is Professor Philip Pettit's “The Instability of Freedom as Nonintererence: The Case of Isaiah Berlin" (Volume 121, issue 4).  The article is now freely available here.  We are also very pleased that Professor David Schmidtz  has agreed to provide a précis of the article to kick off the discussion.  Professor Schmidtz's  précis will appear, and discussion of the article will begin, next Tuesday, August 9, 2011.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Tom Dougherty's "On Whether to Prefer Pain to Pass," with commentary by Caspar Hare

We are pleased to present the next installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from an issue of the journal.  The article selected from Volume 121, Issue 3 is Tom Dougherty's "On Whether to Prefer Pain to Pass" (open access here).  We are very grateful that Caspar Hare has agreed to provide the critical precis of Tom's article, and his commentary begins below the fold.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup (Moving to the Front)

The next discussion in our collaboration with Ethics will be on Tom Dougherty's "On Whether to Prefer Pain to Pass," which is now freely available here. We will begin our discussion this Wednesday, May 25, kicked off with a critical precis by Caspar Hare (MIT).  We hope to see many of you participating in the discussion.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Edward Slingerland’s “The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics” with commentary by Rachana Kamtekar

We are pleased to present our next installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from each volume of the journal.  The article selected from Volume 121, Issue 2, is Edward Slingerland’s “The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics” open access copy here).  We are very grateful to Rachana Kamtekar for starting our discussion; her commentary follows beneath the fold...

 

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Edward Slingerland’s “The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics”

We are pleased to announce the next installment of our collaboration with Ethics, where we will host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal will make a copy of that article freely accessible (for a limited time) to our participants. 

Our next featured article is Edward Slingerland’s “The Situationist Critique and Early Confucian Virtue Ethics” (Volume 121, issue 2).  The article is now available here.  We are also very pleased that Rachana Kamtekar has agreed to provide a précis to kick off the discussion.  Professor Kamtekar 's précis will appear, and discussion of the article will begin, on Wednesday, March 30, 2011.