June 17-29, 2013 – Wake Forest University Seminar Leader: Christian Miller Director, The Character Project The goal of this seminar is to consider the existence and nature of character and virtue in light of various results in psychology. Participants will receive a stipend of $1,500 […] Read More
The program for the 9th annual metaethics workshop in Madison is posted here. As usual, some Soupers are in the mix.
Ethics and Explanation 2013: Explanation in Mathematics and Ethics, University of Nottingham, 18th-19th January 2013. The theme for the conference is ‘Explanation in Mathematics and Ethics’. The aim of the conference is to investigate: (i) the connections between indispensability-type arguments in mathematics and ethics; (ii) […] Read More
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.