PEA Soup

PEA Soup 2.0

The next phase of PEA Soup is here.  As of this announcement, Dan Boisvert, Doug Portmore, and Josh Glasgow are stepping down from their posts as co-editors of PEA Soup with Dave Shoemaker.  Going forward, the blog will be run by Dave Shoemaker and David Sobel.

Those of us stepping down want to take this chance to thank everyone--contributors, commentators, participants in the Ethics-at-PEA-Soup discussions, and everyone else who is part of the PEA Soup family--for making the blog such a great place.  This June will kick off the tenth year of its existence, and when we started so many years ago, the four of us couldn't have predicted that such a wonderful community would take root here.  We are thrilled that this blog has become a valuable site for those working in ethics and cognate areas. 

We are also grateful to Shoemaker and Sobel for taking things over from here, and we look forward to the next era at PEA Soup.

Sincerely,
Dan, Doug, and Josh

Books Received in November

Authors and/or their presses kindly sent at least one of the editors the following books.

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...

Implicit Bias Conference: call for papers

Implicit Bias, Philosophy and Psychology

Sheffield: April 20-21, 2013

Deadline for Submission: 15 December 2012

Click through for details...

Welcome Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder!

We are thrilled to welcome Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder to PEA Soup! Nomy, whose research interests include ethics, moral psychology, action theory, metaethics, and free will, is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. She is the author of Merit, Meaning,and Human Bondage: An Essay on Free Will (Princeton U.P., 2006) and Unprincipled Virtue (Oxford U.P., 2002). Tim is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University. He works broadly in the areas of moral psychology and philosophy of mind and is author of Three Faces of Desire (Oxford, U. P., 2004).  His current project is tentatively titled Reasons from Atoms. It's wonderful to have you both aboard!

May 2012 Books Received

Authors and/or their presses kindly sent at least one of the editors the following books.

 

Updates to PEA Soup

In light of feedback some of you have sent to the editors over the past several months, we have finally been able to make a few improvements to PEA Soup.  You've likely already noticed the most important ones, but just to make it "official," a brief description is below the fold:

NEH Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy

Ron Mallon and Shaun Nichols and directing an NEH Summer Institute in Experimental Philosophy this July in Tucson.  Details are here: 

http://epi.arizona.edu/ 

Applications are due March 1st.  

Institutes are designed for teachers of American undergraduate students.  Because of recent changes to the program, now up to three spaces may be awarded to graduate students in the humanities.

CFP: Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona

Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona: Issues in Philosophical Methodology

Dates: 25-26 June 2012
Venue: Residència Investigadors del CSIC (c.Hospital 64, Barcelona)

The topic of the conference will include issues in connection with gender, race, and sexuality, with special attention to methodological considerations in “applied” (analytic) philosophy.

Details below the fold...

Welcome, Alec Walen!

We are pleased to welcome Alec Walen as a contributor here at PEA Soup.  Alec is Associate Professor at Rutgers University, jointly appointed in Law, Philosophy, and Criminal Justice, and he works in both moral theory and legal theory.  Welcome aboard, Alec!