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Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Leif Wenar's "The Nature of Claim-Rights" with Critical Precis by Arthur Ripstein

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.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Leif Wenar's "The Nature of Claim-Rights"

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!

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, "The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason"

We are pleased to present the latest installment of Ethics at PEA Soup, in which we host a discussion of one article from each issue of Ethics. The article selected from Volume 123, issue 1, is Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer's "The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason."  Ethics has kindly provided free access to the article here.  We are also very grateful to Roger Crisp for providing the critical précis, which begins below the fold.  Everyone is invited to join the discussion.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, "The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason"

We are pleased to announce the next installment of Ethics discussions at PEA Soup, which will feature an article by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, "The Objectivity of Ethics and the Unity of Practical Reason" (Ethics, volume 123, issue 1).  We are also very pleased that Roger Crisp has accepted our invitation to be the Lead Discussant. 

In keeping with our partnership with Ethics, a free copy of the article can be found here.  Professor Crisp's post will appear, and discussion will begin, December 3.  We invite anyone interested to participate.  Abstract below the fold...

Ethics at PEA Soup: Sarah Buss's "Autonomous Action: Self-Determination in the Passive Mode," with Commentary by Hilary Bok

We are pleased to present the latest installment of Ethics at PEA Soup, in which we host a discussion of one article from each issue of Ethics. The article selected from Volume 122, issue 4, is Sarah Buss's "Autonomous Action: Self-Determination in the Passive Mode."  Ethics has kindly provided free access to the article here.  We are also extremely grateful to Hilary Bok, who has agreed to provide the critical précis, which begins below the fold.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Sarah Buss's "Autonomous Action: Self-Determination in the Passive Mode," with Commentary by Hilary Bok

(Moving to the Front from Oct 10 and Sept 7, 2012)

Update Oct 19, 2012:  Professor Buss's paper can be accessed here.

Update Oct 10: Discussion will begin October 29th!  A link to Professor Buss's paper will be added shortly.

We are pleased to announce the next installment of Ethics at PEA Soup, which will feature Sarah Buss's article “Autonomous Action: Self-determination in the Passive Mode.”  We are also pleased that Hilary Bok has accepted our invitation to be our Lead Discussant.  Discussion should begin sometime in October, and we'll be sure to keep everyone posted when dates are more settled.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Rabinowicz and Ronnow-Rasmussen on Way

Here is the second of the two threads, on Jonathan Way's "Transmission and the Wrong Kind of Reason." Critical precis begins below the fold.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Rabinowicz and Ronnow-Rasmussen on Schroeder

We are pleased to provide the first of two threads discussing the recent articles in Ethics on various kinds of reasons (right, wrong, state-given, object-given).  Both are introduced and critically discussed by Wlodek Rabinowicz and Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen.  The first is on Mark Schroeder's "The Ubiquity of State-Given Reasons," beginning below the fold, and the second (which will assume some exposition from the first) is to follow.  We invite you to join in on the discussion.

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.