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Proposal deadline extended to March 10th The second of six ESRC-funded workshops exploring issues where the ethics and economics of climate change intersect will be held at the University of Nottingham on 13-14 April 2016. The keynote speakers will be John Broome and Armon Rezai. […] Read More
This four-week Summer Institute for College and University Teachers at Grand Valley State University from May 30 to June 24, 2016 extends discussion beyond the public function of the humanities to an intensive examination of the moral psychology behind effective moral education. See more info […] Read More
I am organising two conferences here at Birmingham on the methods of moral philosophy. The first one of these will take place on the 15th and 16th of September 2016 and the keynote speakers at this conference will be Antti Kauppinen (Tampere), Shaun Nichols (Arizona), […] Read More
I am pleased to announce a Call for Abstracts for the 2nd annual CHillMeta workshop, taking place in Chapel Hill on September 9-11, 2016. Abstracts (of 3 double-spaced pages) of papers in any area of metaethics are welcome from almost anyone—only those who were speakers in the 2014 or 2015 workshop […] Read More
I'd be curious to know if some of our contributors and readers would be interested in collaborating with me on creating an open online textbook in moral theory. Open source textbooks hold promise in reducing costs to students and making scholarly knowledge more publicly available. […] Read More
The speakers for the Fourth Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain on June 1-3, 2016 have now been finalized. The speakers will be: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: “(Luck and relational) egalitarians of the world, unite!” Thomas Sinclair: “The Power of Public Positions: […] Read More
The winner of the 2016 Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy is Alex Zakaras (U. Vermont), for “Complicity and Coercion: Toward an Ethics of Political Participation”. An honorable mention goes to Thomas Sinclair (U. Oxford) for “The Power of Public Positions: Official Roles in Kantian Legitimacy”. […] Read More
Details here. That link will also take you to a page where you can sign the statement.
This is primarily intended for Political Scientists but I am told it is entirely appropriate for women philosophers who work in the relevant sub-fields to list themselves. The purpose of the site is explained this way: “So often while planning a conference, brainstorming a list […] Read More