The Philosophy Department invites applications from senior figures to assume the Guttag Professorship of Ethics and Political Philosophy following the retirement of Guttag Professor Michael Stocker in May 2011. Duties normally include both graduate and undergraduate teaching, research, advising, and committee service. Salary and exact […] Read More
Libertarians want to say that my right to my body entails that you may not shoot me. Presumably they also want to say that you may not shoot a gun with only one bullet at me even if the gun has many, many empty chambers […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Reasons of Love
International Conference
Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
30 May-1 June 2011
I'm glad to circulate this on PEA Soup first! I was pleased to see several PEA Soupers at the first SLACRR, and I look forward to seeing more next May. –Eric — SLACRR 2 The second St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality […] Read More
The contemporary debate over the constitutive norms of assertion, as well as related debates about the norms of belief and action, and the nature of epistemic value, deal with deep and important questions about the nature of normativity, especially constitutive normativity, about value, and about […] Read More
Call for Papers Eudaimonia and Virtue: Rethinking the Good Life University of Miami, February 25th-27th, 2011 Many ancient philosophers argued that our thinking and behavior should be grounded in a conception of eudaimonia, or human flourishing and virtue, instead of, for example, a hedonistic conception […] Read More
A conference announcment / call for papers that PeaSoupers might want to know about: see here for the official flyer. The goal of this conference is to bring together scholars working in moral and political philosophy, social epistemology, philosophy of science, and related areas to […] Read More
Dale Jamieson and Robert Elliot (hereafter J&E) have recently formulated a new version of consequentialism. It’s called ‘progressive consequentialism’ (this is in Philosophical Perspectives 2009). They believe that this view is motivated by the same considerations as the so-called satisficing views whilst not suffering of […] Read More
Recent PhDs and ABD graduate students in philosophy, theology, psychology, or cognitive science are invited to apply for the 2011 Purdue Summer Seminar on Perceptual, Moral, and Religious Skepticism to be held at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN from June 8th to June 24th, […] Read More