On September 6-8, 2012, Purdue University will host an interdisciplinary conference entitled "Challenges to Religious and Moral Belief: Disagreement and Evolution". The conference will focus on three main challenges to religious and moral beliefs: Widespread interpersonal disagreement among intellectual peers on religious and on moral […] Read More
At a recent symposium on Victor Tadros's book The Ends of Harm, Victor and I were debating whether the Means Principle (MP) is best thought of on a subjective interpretation (for A to use B as a means, A has to intend that B play […] Read More
(Also posted on Flickers of Freedom.) I am a fan of attributability as a conception of responsibility. The trick, as we all know, is to get clear on just what that means. Even if you don't think attributability is a conception of responsibility, it is […] Read More
Over at the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, we're running a symposium this week on the topic of "Libertarianism and Land," featuring essays by Eric Mack, Hillel Steiner, Fred Foldvary, Kevin Carson, and David Schmidtz. The first essay went up this morning: "Natural Rights and Natural […] Read More
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory – Ninth Annual ConferenceManchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT), University of Manchester5th – 7th September 2012 Workshop on Well-being and Public Policy: Call for Abstracts
From Mark Timmons, here is a call for abstracts for the Fourth Annual ArizonaWorkshop in Normative Ethical Theory that will be held in Tucson, Arizona onJanuary 3-5, 2013. Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic innormative ethical theory (to be distinguished as […] Read More
A group of our PhD students here at Birmingham asked me to email details of a workshop on the conceptions of a good life which they are organising here in June. This should be of interest for graduate students following this blog as there is also a call for […] Read More
Sam Wren-Lewis is organizing a conference on subjective well-being and public policy at Leeds in July that might be of interest to Peasoupers (indeed, several of us are speaking there). Here's the official announcement: Conference: 'Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy: Philosophical Perspectives' Registration […] Read More
We are pleased to present the next installment of Ethics at PEA Soup. Our featured article this time around is Justin Clarke-Doane’s “Morality and Mathematics: The Evolutionary Challenge,” which is available here. We are very grateful to Matthew Braddock, Andreas Mogensen, and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong for […] Read More