Saturday, September 8, 2012 Washington and Jefferson College Washington, Pennsylvania Keynote Speaker: Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)
The Character Project at Wake Forest University is pleased to announce The Character Essay and Book Prize. This prize is aimed at essays or books on character which are accessible to non-academic audiences in venues with a wide readership. The competition will award $3,000 to […] Read More
Gender, Race, and Sexuality Conference in Barcelona: Issues in Philosophical Methodology Dates: 25-26 June 2012 Venue: Residència Investigadors del CSIC (c.Hospital 64, Barcelona) The topic of the conference will include issues in connection with gender, race, and sexuality, with special attention to methodological considerations in […] Read More
The organizers of the upcoming conference (3/16-3/17) at Bowling Green State University on the topic of manipulation have announced the line-up, which looks good. Keynote speaker is Marcia Baron. Follow this link for details about the conference, registration, and accommodations.
Computers and smartphones sometimes autocorrect what you type, so that your words are properly spelled. We know that this doesn't work perfectly. Suppose it did. Further, suppose that somehow there were also a perfect Ethical AutoCorrect, which if activated would alter any unethical action you […] Read More
Russ Shafer-Landau is pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Ninth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 28-30, 2012. Jonathan Dancy (Reading and Texas) will be this year's keynote speaker. Abstracts (of 2-3 double-spaced pages) […] Read More
The latest addition to the Oxford Studies series is Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. It will be edited by David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steve Wall. There will be an annual conference and an annual volume published by Oxford. The conference will rotate between Tucson […] Read More
Where: New Haven, Yale University When: April 13, 2012 Deadline for submission: March 2, 2012 Many individuals in affluent nations are aware that a vast number of people live in conditions of severe poverty. Yet they are more likely to go to the movies […] Read More
We are pleased to welcome Alec Walen as a contributor here at PEA Soup. Alec is Associate Professor at Rutgers University, jointly appointed in Law, Philosophy, and Criminal Justice, and he works in both moral theory and legal theory. Welcome aboard, Alec!