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
I'm pleased to welcome aboard Jonathan Way, a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, as a contributor to PEA Soup. Jonathan has published several articles on practical rationality, including a forthcoming piece in Ethics. Great to have you here, Jonathan!
Moving to the Front: We are pleased to announce the next installment of our partnership with Ethics, where we host a discussion of one article from each issue of the journal, and the journal makes the article freely available for the period of our discussion. […] Read More
In honor of my favorite philosophical article, I'm pleased to pass on the following announcement from Neal Tognazzini: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of P. F. Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment'. In honor of its remarkable influence over the past half-century, the […] Read More
Imagine that you are walking home from the pub at night when two strangers suddenly pull out their guns clearly with the intention to kill you. Unbeknownst to you, there’s a vicious killer out in the area, and as it happens you fit the description […] Read More