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
In “Two Distinctions in Goodness” (Philosophical Review 1983), Christine Korsgaard argued that the distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic goodness should not be conflated with the distinction between final and instrumental goods. As it happens, I believe that she is entirely right that these two distinctions […] Read More
When: Thursday July 16th– Friday July 17th, 2011 Where: University of Auckland Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2011
See here: http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/nmarkos/BSPC/BSPC2011/BSPC_2011/Call_for_Papers.html.
There's a workshop at Princeton on Moral Expertise to be held April 29-May 1, 2011. More info can be found here: http://www.princeton.edu/~smcgrath/meconf.html.
At first sight, there seems to be a blatant contradiction between Bernard Williams’s two central theories: his view about thick concepts and his existence-internalism about reasons (many others have hinted at this too – Gibbard and Scanlon, for instance). I want to quickly sketch what that […] Read More