Princeton UniversityApril 17-18, 2009 The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers concerning any period, methodological approach, or topic in political theory, political philosophy, or the history of political thought. Approximately eight papers will be accepted. Each session, led […] Read More
CALL FOR PAPERSFrom faculty and graduate students SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYNorthwestern UniversityThird Annual ConferenceApril 23–25, 2009 Keynote Addresses:Samuel SCHEFFLER: “The Normativity of Tradition”Seana SHIFFRIN: “Inducing Deliberation” SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: The deadline for submission is February 15, 2009. We welcome submissions from both faculty […] Read More
In my first post, I pressed Mark’s defense of the bold Humean thought that, crudely, if someone has a desire, then there is reason for him to act in ways that will help satisfy it. Let’s grant him that claim and move on. There is […] Read More
The Department of Philosophy of the University of Sheffield supported by theArts and Humanities Research Council will be hosting a series of events in 2009devoted to the theme of Constructivism in Practical Philosophy. 7th February 2009Workshop: Constructivism in Political PhilosophySpeakersKirsten Budde (University of Sheffield)Aaron James […] Read More
As we all know, J. S. Mill claims that pleasures differ from each other, not only in quantity, but also in quality. Many commentators have read Mill as making the following two claims: Pleasures fall into two disjoint categories — the "higher" pleasures and the […] Read More
I am reviewing (our own) Mark Schroeder’s Slaves of the Passions for Ethics. As the advance praise from Michael Smith and Stephen Darwall indicates, anyone interested in reasons and rationality will profit from reading this book. In the book, Schroeder defends a novel Humean theory […] Read More
Let me be the first PEA Souper to follow the blogging trend of linking to FAILBlog, and direct you to this real-life instance of the toxin puzzle.
David Faraci, from Bowling Green State University, has asked me to run the following post on his behalf (he’ll be responding to comments directly): I want to argue that expressivism is incapable of making sense of certain kinds of nihilistic utterances. Much of this argument […] Read More
I’ve been recently reading Gibbard’s and Schroeder’s new books (both brilliant) on expressivism. I’ve started to wonder whether there is a connection between expressivism and the so-called buck-passing views. I’m sure others have thought about this before, but, if there is such a connection, it […] Read More