Most contemporary work in population ethics operates within the framework of welfarism – the assumption that individual welfare is the fundamental value. But this framework is a straitjacket, leading population ethics into a labyrinth of sterile paradoxes. Once welfarism is rejected, a vastly more plausible approach […] Read More
This is a call for abstracts for the fifth biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 5), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Aloft Hotel on November 14-16, 2019. Abstracts are welcome on any topic having to do with agency […] Read More
Second Call for Submissions: TVA 2019 (Knoxville, TN, March 8-10, 2019) The Tennessee Value and Agency (TVA) conference has been running annually since 2012. It has attracted some of the most active philosophers on topics revolving around value and agency and has featured as keynotes […] Read More
Welcome to our NDPR review forum on Thomas Mulligan’s Justice and the Meritocratic State (Routledge 2018), recently reviewed in NDPR by Peter Dietsch. Please feel free to comment on any aspect of the book, the review, or the discussion below!
Very pleased to be able to introduce our next Featured Philosopher, my Upstate friend, Julia Markovits. Take it away Julia: Thanks so much for inviting me to contribute! I’m currently working on a book about praise- and blameworthiness. One thing I’ll have something to say about […] Read More
John Corvino has a newish series of philosophically informative videos that are super clear and helpful. Consider giving them a look at his YouTube channel here. It would be lovely if folks who know of other good public philosophy would post it below in the […] Read More
Welcome to what should be a fun and insightful discussion of Helena de Bres’ “Narrative and Meaning in Life” (generously made free access by Brill Online and the Journal of Moral Philosophy for the month of November). Antti Kauppinen has kindly contributed a critical précis, […] Read More
Carol Lee Price Scholarships: funding in Montreal for female international students of philosophy. The Scholarships are specifically intended to attract and support women pursuing graduate studies in philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal. They are restricted to students who would otherwise have to pay international fees. […] Read More
Very pleased to be able to introduce today’s Featured Philosopher, Errol Lord. Take it away Errol: The following is based on joint work with Kurt Sylvan (see our paper ‘Reasons: Wrong, Right, Normative, Fundamental’, which is forthcoming in Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy. I wrote […] Read More