June 18, 2013

Merton Workshop on Applied Formal Ethics
By S. Matthew Liao

Merton College, Oxford
Hawkins room
12th July 2013
10am – 5.30pm

‘How to Defend the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics’
- Johann Frick (Harvard)

‘Justice and Private Education’
- Daniel Halliday (Melbourne)

‘The Asymmetry’
- Ralf M. Bader (Oxford)

‘Measuring Unfairness and Lotteries’
- Gerard Vong (Fordham)

Please note that this is a pre-read workshop. Participants are expected to read the papers in advance. Attendance is free, but registration is required as space is limited. To register for the workshop send an email to: ralf.bader (at) philosophy.ox.ac.uk

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10th Annual Metaethics Workshop in Wisconsin
By S. Matthew Liao

Madison, Wisconsin
September 27-29, 2013
All Sessions in 325 Pyle Center(702 Langdon Street)

Below is the program for the 10th Annual Metaethics Workshop in Wisconsin. You can get more details about the workshop here.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27
9am – 10:15am BARRY MAGUIRE (Princeton)
Grounding the Autonomy of Ethics
Chair: Eric Wiland (UMSL)

10:45am – Noon TRISTRAM McPHERSON (Virginia Tech) &
DAVID PLUNKETT (Dartmouth)
Deliberative Indispensability Does not Justify Ontological Commitment
Chair: Andrew Alwood (Virginia Commonwealth)

1:45pm – 3pm ELIZABETHHARMAN (Princeton)
The Irrelevance of Moral Uncertainty
Chair: Brad Cokelet (Miami)

3:30 – 4:45pm WINNER, Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics (TBA)

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June 6, 2013

References for Experimental Political Philosophy
By S. Matthew Liao

Nicole Hassoun is interested in finding recent work on experimental political philosophy that might be worth mentioning in a review article on the topic. If you have any such references, please email her directly at: nhassoun at binghamton.edu. Thanks!

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May 23, 2013

CF: Moral Rationalism
By S. Matthew Liao

Melbourne University will host an international conference on Moral Rationalism, on July 15-17 2013.

Speakers will include: Garett Cullity (Adelaide), David Enoch (Jerusalem), Karen Jones (Melbourne), Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie), Rae Langton (MIT / Cambridge), Julia Markovits (MIT), Tristram McPherson (Melbourne / Virginia Tech), Karl Schafer (Pittsburgh), Francois Schroeter (Melbourne), Laura Schroeter (Melbourne), Michael Smith (Princeton), Nick Southwood (ANU), and Mark van Roojen (Nebraska).

If you wish to attend the conference, please contact Dr. Tristram McPherson: dr.tristram (at) gmail.com. Registration is required (for catering purposes) but free.

The conference is sponsored by an ARC grant (“The Many Moral Rationalisms”) held by Karen Jones, Michael Smith, and François Schroeter.

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May 10, 2013

Punishment book launch
By Thom Brooks

Punishment book launch

The Houses of Parliament

Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Time: 17:00-19:00

Place: Committee Room 3, the Houses of Parliament, London

Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers. Why should we punish criminals? What purposes should punishment serve? These questions and many others will be addressed in this roundtable discussion celebrating the launch of Punishment by Thom Brooks. Panel members include:

Lord Parekh FBA (chair), Labour Peer and former Chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain

Frances Crook OBE, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform

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May 7, 2013

Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics
By S. Matthew Liao

From Russ Shafer-Landau:

In keeping with its mission of encouraging and recognizing excellence in philosophy, The Marc Sanders Foundation seeks to highlight the importance of ongoing support for the work of younger scholars. As part of this commitment, the Foundation has dedicated resources to an ongoing essay competition, designed to promote excellent research and writing in metaethics on the part of younger scholars.

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CF: Moral Education: Ancient and Contemporary
By S. Matthew Liao

June 8th-9th, Northwestern University
tinyurl.com/NUMoralEd

Speakers & Commentators:

Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin), David Ebrey (Northwestern), Kristján Kristjánsson (Birmingham), Rachana Kamtekar (Arizona), Gavin Lawrence (UCLA), Rachel Barney (Toronto), Randall Curren (Rochester), Agnes Callard (Chicago), Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern), Gabriel Richardson Lear (Chicago), Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern), Emily Fletcher (Wisconsin), Joseph Barnes (UC Berkeley / Humboldt), Richard Kraut (Northwestern), Darcia Narvaez (Notre Dame), Joseph Karbowski (Notre Dame)

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April 26, 2013

Velleman’s Foundations for Moral Relativism Available as Open Access
By S. Matthew Liao

velleman David Velleman‘s new book, Foundations for Moral Relativism, is now available online as an open-access monograph. You can also get it as a print-on-demand paperback or hardback, and in digital formats here.

Here is a description of the book:

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April 21, 2013

The Department of Philosophy in Lund Needs Your Help!
By S. Matthew Liao

From Wlodek Rabinowicz:

Dear Colleagues,

We urgently need your help. The Department of Philosophy in Lund, which is located in Kungshuset – a beautiful 16th century house in the centre of the town which originally was home to the University as a whole – is now on its way to being relocated. In the Spring of 2014, we are supposed to move to a new building, together with other departments in the Joint Faculty of Humanities and Theology. Judging by past experience, the next step after the relocation might well be an administrative merger of the different departments into a huge megadepartment. Such mergers have taken place at other universities and at our university as well.

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April 20, 2013

Moral Indeterminacy
By S. Matthew Liao

Crowdsourcing: I’m teaching a graduate seminar on Moral Indeterminacy in the Fall. I’d be interested in learning about ‘must reads’ and ‘must cover’ topics. Here is a draft description of the course:

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Posted on April 20, 2013 at 6:37 pm in Metaphysics, Normative Ethics, S. Matthew Liao's Posts | 6 Comments