The program is available from the workshop’s website: http://ethics.arizona.edu/program.html. Registration is free and open to all. You may register by emailing Mark Timmons — see the workshop's website for his email address. Timmons will send periodic updates to those who register.
A free online forum sponsored by Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy and Wiley-Blackwell. Scheduled to run July 9 to 13, the invited symposium "Feminists Encountering Animals," published in the Animal Others special issue of Hypatia, is open for public comments and discussion. Leading feminist animal […] Read More
Pretty amazing and exhaustive interview by The Utopian with Tim Scanlon here. A shorter version is here.
Here is Eli's discussion of the survey results: Thanks again to everyone who took the emotional responses survey. Below are the cases and response data for the first 100 responses. I’ve given a bit of analysis following each case, and there are some general remarks […] Read More
Eli Weber, a graduate student at Bowling Green, has designed a three-question survey about emotional responses to past perceived injuries that ought to yield some interesting results. Please take the survey here, and perhaps Eli will discuss the results in a few days.
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.
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 […] Read More
I am currently working on a manuscript in which sophisticated consequentialism (SC) plays a role, and I want to make sure I characterize the view accurately. The heart of SC is the recommendation that the act consequentialist standard of right action not necessarily be utilized […] Read More
Public Affairs Quarterly is seeking abstracts for a special issue which will cover the various issues surrounding the upcoming Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA); the decision is expected later this month. We are seeking papers that are philosophical […] Read More