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I’m preparing a course on climate change ethics and as a part of this I am reading again John Broome’s fascinating Climate Matters – Ethics in a Warming World book. One thing Broome does in this book is to offer a new third alternative in […] Read More
The Northwestern University Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics 9th annual conference will be held May 21-23, 2015 and will feature keynote addresses by Frances Kamm and Joseph Raz. There is a call for papers which can be found here.
The Character Project at Wake Forest University (http://thecharacterproject.com/) is pleased to announce five new videos by researchers in philosophy, psychology, and theology describing their latest work on character as part of our "In Character" series. In philosophy specifically, Professors Jessica Wolfendale and Matthew Talbert discuss […] Read More
A reminder that Bowling Green State University is accepting abstracts for our conference, The Scope of Religious Exemptions, until November 15th. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy The Scope of Religious Exemptions April 17th-18th, 2015 The Bowling Green Workshop […] Read More
Workshop on December 13, 2014 that includes exchanges between philosophical and experimental approaches to personal identiy and the philosophy of the self (often as it pertains to moral concerns). Speakers include Elizabeth Camp, Ruth Chang, Stephen Darwall, Shaun Nichols, Jesse Prinz, David Velleman, and many […] Read More
Ken Shockey from the University of Buffalo asked me to post the following call for abstracts for a workshop on Loss, Damage and Harm. This workshop will be held on 8th and 9th of May 2015 at the University of Buffalo, and the deadline for […] Read More
We are very happy to kick off a PEA Soup celebratation of the Ethics 125th anniversary retrospective series with this special feature of Amy R. Baehr’s terrific essay on Zona Vallance’s fascinating “Women as Moral Beings.” Baehr concludes her essay by pointing out that “one lesson we […] Read More
From the organizers: Registration is now open for UConn’s Dominating Speech Workshop to be held at the UConn School of Law from November 21st-23rd. Our program includes keynote speakers Richard Wilson (UConn), Ishani Maitra (Michigan), and Jason Stanley (Yale). Please register at our website http://injustice.philosophy.uconn.edu. […] Read More
I'm applying for an intramural grant to work on a perfectly ordinary, non X-phi, piece of philosophy. (I want to think about the claim that someone like a florist might make that being required to provide services to a same-sex wedding violates her freedom of […] Read More