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Announcement: Two Workshops at Southampton in April

The University of Southampton will host two one-day workshops in April that might be of interest to Pea Soup readers. The first, on April 13th, is on Taking Pregnancy Seriously in Ethics and Epistemology. The second, on April 18th, is on Ethics and Emotion in the Post-Kantian tradition. Further details below the fold.

Two Workshops at Southampton

Southampton will be hosting two workshops in June. On Friday 13th June, there will be a workshop on Epistemic and Practical Normativity. On Wednesday 18th June, there will be a workshop on Taking Pregnancy Seriously in Ethics and Epistemology. See below the fold for more details.

A Worry About Reasons Primitivism

A recently influential idea in the philosophy of normativity is reasons primitivism. Reasons primitivists hold that we can give no account of what it is for some consideration to be a (normative) reason. At most we can say that reasons are considerations that count in favour (or against) some response, or that when there is reason to do something, there is something to be said for doing that thing. In this post (which is intended in the spirit of Dave and Dave’s request for half-baked ideas…) I want to raise a worry about this view.