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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
This post was sent to me by Olufemi O. Taiwo and is signed by #TheUndercommons (UCLA). Stop me if you’ve heard this one. An adjunct. She’s Black, which she must remember when her colleagues and students recoil at her perceived anger, but forget if […] Read More
More info here. Women PhD and DPhil students in philosophy are invited to submit papers (on any topic in philosophy) to participate in a workshop at Princeton University, August 16-19, 2016. The submission deadline is February 15, 2016. Thirty-five students will be selected to participate […] Read More
17th – 19th August 2016 University of Sheffield Call for Abstracts The aim of this conference is to explore new and recently initiated lines of inquiry into meta-normative expressivism. Several slots in our programme are available for short presentations from early career philosophers. We thus […] Read More
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. The spotlight in the workshop will […] Read More
Welcome to what should be an exciting discussion of Katharine Jenkins’ “Amelioration and Inclusion: Gender Identity and the Concept of Woman,” published in the most recent issue of Ethics and available open access here. Talia Bettcher has kindly contributed a critical précis, below the fold. […] Read More