June 30, 2011

Crispin Wright’s Philosophical Ramblings
By S. Matthew Liao

This summer Crispin Wright (NIP Director and Professor at NYU) will walk The Pennine Way, 268 miles across the Pennine mountain tops.

The Aim: To raise money to support graduate students from elsewhere to visit the Northern Institute of Philosophy and to support Northern Institute of Philosophy graduate students to visit other institutions. This is in line with a general mission of the Institute to support early career philosophers to develop their interests and skills through collaboration and philosophical interactions. The costs of such visits and exchanges are seldom adequately provided for in the budgets of grant giving authorities, and philosophy departments, even when in principle willing to support research-related travel by graduate students, are less and less able to do so. The hope is to build a Trust Fund at NIP to enable NIP to provide such support as a part of the regular working routine of the Institute.

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Posted on June 30, 2011 at 9:53 pm in Epistemology, General Announcement, Logic, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, S. Matthew Liao's Posts | Leave a Comment

June 29, 2011

Conference on Bernard Williams in Chicago
By S. Matthew Liao

“Ethics and the Place of Philosophy: The Legacy of Bernard Williams’s Critique”

University of Chicago
October 28th-29th 2011

Speakers
Sarah Broadie (St. Andrews)
Raymond Geuss (Cambridge)
Alasdair MacIntyre (Notre Dame)
Richard Moran (Harvard)
Samuel Scheffler (NYU)

Commentators
Agnes Callard
James Conant
Gabriel Lear
Robert Pippin
Candace Vogler

Introductory & Closing Remarks
Jonathan Lear
Martha Nussbaum

Registration for the event is free, but is required for all participants. As space is limited, you are encouraged to register as soon as possible; this can be done at:
bernardwilliams.wordpress.com

Posted on June 29, 2011 at 3:56 am in Conference Announcement, Normative Ethics, S. Matthew Liao's Posts | Leave a Comment

June 25, 2011

Conference on Death at Newcastle
By S. Matthew Liao

Here is a fantastic looking conference on Death organized by one of our Contributors, Thom Brooks, and with Saul Smilansky, among others, as a speaker.

Death: Its Meaning, Morality, and Metaphysics conference
July 6-7, 2011
Politics Building, Newcastle University

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/niassh/deathconference.htm

Keynote speakers:
Ben Bradley (Syracuse)
Mary Midgley (Newcastle)

Speakers include:
Timo Airaksinen (Helsinki)
William Baird (Georgia State)
Kathy Behrendt (Wilfrid Laurier)
Stephan Blatti (Memphis)
Ben Curtis (Nottingham)
Jon Garthoff (Northwestern)
Geoffrey Scarre (Durham)
Saul Smilansky (Haifa)
Alex Voorhoeve (LSE)
Aaron Wolff (Syracuse)

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June 22, 2011

Philosophy in funny places
By Saul Smilansky

An invited piece of mine on philosophy in Israel, “Letter from Israel“, has just come out in The Philosopher’s Magazine (TPM); naturally it has an ethical dimension and some of you might find it interesting.

Preceding this “Letter from Israel” were reports on philosophy in various other exotic lands. I’ve found many to be fascinating. Check out, for example, the

“Letter from Singapore”

The “Letter from Iceland”

The “Letter from Turkey”

From South-Africa

And from Italy…

There have also been “letters” from China, Malta, and so on – just Google your favorite country and you might get lucky.

Posted on June 22, 2011 at 11:35 pm in Applied Ethics, Issues in the Profession, Normative Ethics, Saul Smilansky's Posts | 4 Comments

June 16, 2011

Podcast: New Books in Philosophy
By S. Matthew Liao

Robert Talisse and Carrie Figdor have new podcast called New Books in Philosophy. Each episode features an in-depth interview with an author of a newly-published philosophy book. Interviews will be posted on the 1st and 15th of each month. The inaugural interview, posted today, is with Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside), author of Perplexities of Consciousness (MIT Press). An interview with Jerry Gaus (Arizona), author of The Order of Public Reason (Cambridge University Press), will be posted on July 1st. Upcoming podcasts include interviews with Robert Pasnau, Sandy Goldberg, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Fabienne Peter, Jason Brennan, Allen Buchanan, Elizabeth Anderson, and others. You can go to the NBiP site and check out what they are doing.

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June 6, 2011

Thomson’s Loop Case and Order Effect
By S. Matthew Liao

In “Putting the Trolley in Order: Experimental Philosophy and the Loop Case” (forthcoming in Philosophical Psychology), Alex Wiegmann, Joshua Alexander and Gerard Vong and I applied the methods of experimental philosophy to Judith Jarvis Thomson’s famous Loop Case. As the readers will know, Thomson used the Loop Case to cast doubt on the intuitively plausible Doctrine of Double Effect. Many philosophers share Thomson’s intuitions about this case (see, e.g. Kamm 2007 and Scanlon 2008), though not all (see, e.g. Otsuka 2008 and my paper in 2009). In fact, Frances Kamm developed the Doctrine of Triple Effect (DTE) in order to explain Loop intuitions.

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Posted on June 6, 2011 at 7:05 am in Experimental Ethics, Experimental Philosophy, Normative Ethics, S. Matthew Liao's Posts | 4 Comments