The 11th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS) will be held on 23rd-25th June 2011 at San Romano Conference Centre, Lucca, Italy. The Conference will be organized by the Department of Economics of the University of Pisa.
Tutorial Fellowship and University Lecturership in Philosophy (Corpus Christi College) This is to replace John Tasioulas, who has now accepted the Quain Chair in Jurisprudence at University College London.
I was recently flattered to learn that John Broome had not only read a recent article of mine ("Headaches, Lives, and Value" in Utilitas from 2009, I think), but had also published a reply in Utilitas for the current issue. In the spirit of dialog, […] Read More
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