I was just reading the bit of Gibbard's Thinking How to Live where he talks extensively about the good and the desirable—specifically, about its being a conceptual truth that they are one in the same. I know that this is a common line people take, […] Read More
Moral nonnaturalism Guest editor Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont) Deadline for Submission April 1, 2014 Call for Papers Res Philosophica invites papers on the topic of moral nonnaturalism for the 2014 Res Philosophica Essay Prize. The author of the winning paper will receive a prize […] Read More
Dear Friends and Colleagues, This is a call for abstracts for the first annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy to be held Oct. 17-20, 2013 in Tucson, AZ at the Westward Inn Hotel and Resort. Abstracts in all areas of Political Philosophy are […] Read More
April 12–13, 2013, Georgetown University Law Center. Details below the fold.
Ben Eggleston and I are putting the final touches on the manuscript for The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism, forthcoming from… well, you know. Now that most of the writing and editing is done, we're facing the real hurdle to getting a book published… the marketing […] Read More
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 […] Read More
The seventh annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford Campus of Felician College on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 223 Montross Ave, Rutherford, NJ 07070 Plenary Speaker: Robert AudiJohn A. O’Brien Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of Notre Dame Submissions on […] Read More
University of Nottingham, 18th-19th January 2013 The aim of the conference is to investigate: (i) the connections between indispensability-type arguments in mathematics and ethics; (ii) connections between evolutionary debunking-style arguments in mathematics and ethics and (iii) more generally, other connections between the two areas that […] Read More
This conference will be in Los Angeles on May 20-22, 2013. Note that the deadline for submitting an abstract is extended by one week to Jan 8th. Keynote Speaker:Angelika Kratzer (UMass-Amherst) Invited Speakers:John Broome (Oxford)Jeff Horty (Maryland)Frank Jackson (ANU/Princeton)Paul Portner (Georgetown) Seven additional speakers will […] Read More