I'm pleased to announce the program for the inaugural New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), taking place in New Orleans at the Intercontinental Hotel November 3-5, 2011. The official schedule is here, and more information about the workshop, including the link to making […] Read More
The Yale Experiment Month studies have now gone live here. They are a series of experimental philosophy scenarios proposed by a variety of folks that successfully made their way through the Yale team's vetting process (as well as that of their home institutions' HSRB) and […] Read More
As anyone who reads Leiter Reports or follows the Philos-L mailing-list knows, there has been a big uproar recently in the UK about the AHRC’s (a government body which funds Arts and Humanities research) ‘connected communities’ funding scheme. One problem is that, in advertising the scheme, the AHRC has […] Read More
Adam Lerner, a student at William & Mary, has constructed a survey (also part of Yale's Experiment Month) to gather intuitions on punishment. Go here to get your intuitions pumped.
The Third Annual Arizona Workshop on Normative Ethical Theory will be held in Tucson, Arizona on January 5-7, 2012. Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic in normative ethical theory (to be distinguished as well as possible from metaethics and applied ethics). Abstracts […] Read More
We are pleased to present our next installment of PEA Soup's collaboration with Ethics, in which we host a discussion of one article from each volume of the journal. The article selected from Volume 121, Issue 2, is Edward Slingerland’s “The Situationist Critique and Early […] Read More
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and RationalityUM-St. LouisMay 22-24, 2011Moonrise Hotel The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to announce the program for SLACRR 2. PEA Soupers on this year's program include Jamie Dreier (Keynote), Brad Cokelet, Jussi Suikkanen, Mark van Roojen, […] Read More
Georgetown University's Department of Philosophy and Georgetown University Law Center, in cooperation with the editors of Ethics, will host a symposium, "Experiment and Intuition in Ethics," April 8-10. (It looks great!) The current schedule and a registration link appear below the fold.
The Public Philosophy Network is sponsoring a conference that I imagine will interest many PEA Soup readers. Details, and the call for proposals, below: