October 20, 2011

Scanlon on Libertarianism
By S. Matthew Liao

T. M. Scanlon has a nice piece on how not to argue for limited government and lower taxes in the Boston Review. Do check it out.

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October 20, 2011

CFA: Buffalo Workshop on Ethics and Adaptation
By S. Matthew Liao

Buffalo Workshop on Ethics and Adaptation: environmental ethics and policy when the future does not resemble the past

An event to be held 10-11 March 2012 at the University at Buffalo.

In light of the changes we can expect to see as a result of climate change, there is a need, recognizable in recent work in policy, law, and ethics, to reconsider both the ethical norms relevant to our changing world and the forms of justification provided for those norms. The Buffalo workshop on Ethics and Adaptation will provide a venue for beginning to address this need. This workshop will bring together philosophers, policy scholars, and others working on issues related to ethics, adaptation, and sustainability in light of a rapidly changing environment.

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October 19, 2011

JOB at NYU Center for Bioethics/Environmental Studies
By S. Matthew Liao

Owing to some clerical error, this job is not in the JFP (Jobs for Philosophers) yet. Do let anyone you think would be suitable know about this position. Thanks!

The NYU Center for Bioethics and the NYU Environmental Studies Program invite applications for the position of Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, pending administrative and budgetary approval. The initial appointment will be for one year beginning September 1, 2012, renewable annually for a maximum of three years. An applicant should have a keen interest in and preferably have written and taught in areas bioethics and environmental studies. We also welcome candidates who have training in such areas as ethics, political philosophy, social and political theory, public policy, or environmental health, who have strong or emerging teaching and research interests in bioethics and environmental studies. Applicants must expect to receive their Ph.D by Fall 2012 or have completed it no more than three years before the start date. We especially urge minority and female candidates to apply.

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October 18, 2011

CF: Hybrid Theories in Meta-Ethics
By S. Matthew Liao

When: July 2-4, 2012
Where: Edinburgh (venue TBA)

A long-standing assumption in meta-ethics is that moral thought and language is either purely cognitive or purely non-cognitive. But this has recently been called into question. For whilst such pure theories seem to easily explain some elements of moral thought and language they seem to have a hard time explaining or accommodating others. This has led to the development of so-called hybrid theories, which take moral thought and language to combine cognitive and non-cognitive elements in some way. This conference brings together a large number of those presently working on hybrid theories to examine the prospects of these theories in meta-ethics, and the meta-normative more generally, and in other areas where similar theories have been proposed, such as how pejorative terms work.

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October 13, 2011

CFP: Ethics and Politics Conference at Northwestern
By S. Matthew Liao

SOCIETY FOR THE THEORY OF ETHICS AND POLITICS
Northwestern University
6th Annual Conference
May 17–19, 2012

Keynote speakers:
Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton)
T. M. Scanlon (Harvard)

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October 11, 2011

CFP: Society for Applied Philosophy 2012
By S. Matthew Liao

30th Anniversary Conference
Start Date: 29-Jun-2012
End Date: 01-Jul-2012
Location: St Anne’s College, Oxford
Venue Address: Woodstock Road, Jericho, Oxford OX2 6HS
Contact Email: admin (at) appliedphil.org

The Society for Applied Philosophy (UK) was founded in 1982 with the aim of promoting philosophical study and research that has a direct bearing on areas of practical concern. It arose from an increasing awareness that many topics of public debate are capable of being illuminated by the critical, analytic approach characteristic of philosophy, and by direct consideration of questions of value. These topics come from a number of different areas of social life – law, politics, economics, science, technology, medicine and education are among the most obvious. The purpose of the SAP is to foster and promote philosophical work that is intended to make a constructive contribution to problems in these areas. It does so through events, conferences, and lecture programmes.

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October 11, 2011

CFP: British Society for Ethical Theory 2012
By S. Matthew Liao

2012 CONFERENCE
University of Stirling, UK
Mon 9th – Wed 11th July 2012

Keynote Speakers:
Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Frances Kamm (Harvard)

Papers are invited for the 2012 annual conference of the British Society for Ethical Theory, to be held at the University of Stirling, following directly on from the Joint Session. The subject area is open within metaethics and normative ethics. Papers on topics in applied ethics, moral psychology or the history of ethics may also be considered provided they are also of wider theoretical interest.

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October 11, 2011

CFP: Experiments on Ethical Dilemmas
By S. Matthew Liao

3rd – 4th May 2012
Institute of Philosophy, London, UK

Confirmed speakers:
Fiery Cushman, Psychology, Brown University, USA
Adam Feltz, Philosophy, Schreiner University, USA
Urs Fischbacher, Economics, University of Konstanz, Germany
Natalie Gold, Philosophy, King’s College London, UK
Shaun Nichols, Philosophy, University of Arizona
Briony Pulford, Psychology, University of Leicester, UK

This is an end-of-project workshop arising from a two-year study entitled “Framing Effects in Ethical Dilemmas” in which Natalie Gold, Andrew Colman, and Briony Pulford investigated contextual factors affecting moral decisions. The project included a series of experiments in which trolley problems and related ethical dilemmas were presented to people in contexts that were systematically varied to throw light on factors affecting their responses. Experiments included both hypothetical questions and incentivised choices, of the kind associated with experimental economics.

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October 11, 2011

CFP: Egalitarianism Workshop 2012 at McGill
By S. Matthew Liao

Egalitarianisms: Current Debates on Equality and Priority in Health, Wealth, and Welfare
March 30th -31st, 2012
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Confirmed Speakers
Nir Eyal (Harvard)
Iwao Hirose (McGill)
Nils Holtug (Copenhagen)
Dennis McKerlie (Calgary)
Shlomi Segall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Workshop Description

Egalitarian theories of distributive justice have recently encountered fundamental challenges. Is egalitarianism susceptible to the leveling down objection? Is it less plausible than prioritarianism? Does it support reducing the inequalities resulting from brute luck, but not option luck? Does it aim to equalize the distribution of welfare at each time or over a lifetime? What does egalitarianism make of the strong correlation between inequalities in health and inequalities in socio-economic conditions? In this two-day workshop, we will discuss current theoretical issues and seek common and unified grounds for future research into egalitarian theories of distributive justice.

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October 6, 2011

Websites for Jobs in Philosophy
By S. Matthew Liao

The Philpapers team has just launched a new PhilJobs website (http://philjobs.org/) for jobs in philosophy.

And if you didn’t already know, Phylo Jobs also maintains a free listing of job openings for academic philosophers.

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