The Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, based at the Rutgers School of Law-Camden, will host a two-day symposium on Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice (Harvard 2009) on Friday April, 15th and Saturday, April 16th 2011. The conference will feature six presentations […] Read More
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee (with generous support from the Humanities Initiative within the UTK Office of Research) is pleased to announce the upcoming Epistemic Norms & Values Symposium, which will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 25th-26th, 2011. The […] Read More
One of my favourite objections is the conditional fallacy. It reveals a structural flaw in theories which attempt to give a philosophical account of something in terms of what happens in some specific counterfactual circumstances. It was first formulated by Robert Shope in his 1978 “The Conditional […] Read More
I want to discuss a problem for ethical intuitionism and an argument that seems to show that ethical intuitionists either have to embrace skepticism or naturalism. It's an interesting argument and I'm not entirely convinced that the response I set out below adequately addresses the […] Read More
From Russ Shafer-Landau: A call for abstracts for the Eighth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 16-18, 2011. Christine Korsgaard (Harvard) will be this year’s keynote speaker. Abstracts (of 2-3 double-spaced pages) of papers in any area […] Read More
Note the new deadline and, especially, the salary: The Center for Ethics and Public Affairs at the Murphy Institute at Tulane University has extended the application process for 2011-2012 Faculty Fellowships. The new deadline is March 7, 2011. These fellowships, made possible by funds from […] Read More
This is the final call for abstracts for NOWAR, which will take place November 3-5, 2011, in New Orleans at the Intercontinental Hotel. Check here for details. Abstracts (which don't need to be prepared for blind review) must be sent to David Shoemaker (dshoemak AT […] Read More
PITTSBURGH AREA PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUMSaturday, September 10, 2011Washington and Jefferson CollegeWashington, PennsylvaniaKeynote Speaker: Karl Schafer (University of Pittsburgh)
The CEU Summer UniversityJUSTICE: THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS July 4-15, 2011Budapest, Hungary The problem of justice occupies a special place in contemporary political philosophy. In the words of its most influential figure, Rawls, "justice is the first virtue of social institutions". That view seems to […] Read More