• Contributors

  • Alastair Norcross
  • Alison Hills
  • Andrew Reisner
  • Antti Kauppinen
  • Bart Streumer
  • Brian McElwee
  • Dan Moller
  • Daniel Star
  • David Enoch
  • David Owens
  • David Wasserman
  • Fiona Woollard
  • Frances Kamm
  • Gerald Lang
  • Gilbert Harman
  • Guy Kahane
  • Helen Frowe
  • Iwao Hirose
  • James Morauta
  • Japa Pallikkathayil
  • Jeff McMahan
  • John Broome
  • John Oberdiek
  • Jonas Olson
  • Joseph Raz
  • Julia Driver
  • Krister Bykvist
  • Laura Franklin-Hall
  • Melinda Roberts
  • Matthew Smith
  • Matthew Silverstein
  • Mike Otsuka
  • Neil Levy
  • Nicholas Southwood
  • Nick Shackel
  • Nir Eyal
  • Rahul Kumar
  • Rebecca Roache
  • Richard Ashcroft
  • S. Matthew Liao
  • Saul Smilansky
  • Sergio Tenenbaum
  • Shlomi Segall
  • Simon Kirchin
  • Stephen Kearns
  • Thom Brooks
  • Toby Ord
  • Tom Douglas
  • Tom Hurka
  • Ulrike Heuer
  • Wlodek Rabinowicz

• Readings

  • 
    Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
    Thomas Nagel
    
  • 
    Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed
    Krister Bykvist
    
  • 
    The Global Justice Reader
    Thom Brooks
    
  • 
    Well-Being and Death
    Ben Bradley
    
  • 
    The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoisim
    Alison Hills
    
  • 
    Ethics: The Fundamentals
    Julia Driver
    
  • 
    Origins of Objectivity
    Tyler Burge
    
  • 
    Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation
    Michael Strevens
    
  • 
    The Case for Contextualism
    Keith DeRose
    
  • 
    When Truth Gives Out
    Mark Richard
    
  • 
    The Idea of Human Rights
    Charles R. Beitz
    
  • 
    Willing, Wanting, Waiting
    Richard Holton
    
  • 
    The Idea of Justice
    Amartya Sen
    
  • 
    Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem
    Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman
    
  • 
    What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being
    Richard Kraut
    
  • 
    Content and Justification
    Paul A. Boghossian
    
  • 
    Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality
    Stephen Yablo
    
  • 
    Normativity
    Judith Jarvis Thomson
    
  • 
    How We Get Along
    J. David Velleman
    
  • 
    Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity
    Christine M. Korsgaard
    
  • 
    Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason
    Sergio Tenenbaum
    
  • 
    Principled Ethics: Generalism As a Regulative Ideal
    Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge
    
  • 
    Killing in War
    Jeff McMahan
    
  • 
    Experimental Philosophy
    Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols
    
  • 
    Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought
    Michael Thompson
    
  • 
    The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
    David J. Chalmers
    
  • 
    Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
    David Wiggins
    
  • 
    Disadvantage
    Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit
    
  • 
    Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics
    Allan Gibbard
    
  • 
    Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame
    T. M. Scanlon
    
  • 
    The Philosophy of Philosophy
    Timothy Williamson
    
  • 
    A Virtue Epistemology
    Ernest Sosa
    
  • 
    Morality without Foundations
    Mark Timmons
    
  • 
    Authority and Estrangement
    Richard Moran
    
  • 
    Moral Psychology, Volume 1
    Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
    
  • 
    The Reflective Life
    Valerie Tiberius
    
  • 
    Moral Literacy
    Barbara Herman
    
  • 
    Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction
    Dale Jamieson
    
  • 
    On Human Rights
    James Griffin
    
  • 
    Experiments in Ethics
    Kwame Anthony Appiah
    
  • 
    Reasons without Rationalism
    Kieran Setiya
    
  • 
    Moral Realism: A Defence
    Russ Shafer-Landau
    
  • 
    The Way We Eat
    Peter Singer and Jim Mason
    
  • 
    Metaphysical Essays
    John Hawthorne
    
  • 
    Knowledge and Practical Interests
    Jason Stanley
    
  • 
    10 Moral Paradoxes
    Saul Smilansky
    
  • 
    Normativity and the Will
    R. Jay Wallace
    
  • 
    Ethics without Principles
    Jonathan Dancy
    
  • 
    Neuroethics
    Neil Levy
    
  • 
    Ideal Code, Real World
    Brad Hooker
    
  • 
    The Nature of Normativity
    Ralph Wedgwood
    
  • 
    Structures of Agency: Essays
    Michael E. Bratman
    
  • 
    The Second-Person Standpoint
    Stephen Darwall
    
  • 
    Ethics and the A Priori
    Michael Smith
    
  • 
    The Practice of Value
    Joseph Raz
    
  • 
    Weighing Lives
    John Broome
    
  • 
    Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm
    F. M. Kamm
    
  • 
    Reasons and the Good
    Roger Crisp
    
• 
  This blog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
  

University of Stirling
7-9 September 2011

It is often said that contemporary liberal democracies such as Britain and the USA face a crisis of over-criminalization: too much conduct is criminalized, too hastily, without adequate thought about the aims it should serve. The result is a disorganized, unprincipled criminal law, which subjects too many people to the threat of arrest and punishment. But normative theorists of criminal law, who have made major advances in systematic work on such issues as punishment and criminal responsibility, have made comparatively little systematic progress on this problem. The Criminalization Project, an AHRC-funded project involving researchers from the Universities of Stirling, Glasgow, Warwick and York aims to remedy this lack, by bringing together philosophers, lawyers and political scientists to discuss the various dimensions of the problem of criminalization.

I recently gave an interview for Big Think on erasing memories Eternal Sunshine-style for their series on “Dangerous Ideas.” They are running this series throughout the month of August, and other people in the series include Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky, Richard Posner, and Gary Becker.

The entire series, which is still ongoing, can be found here, and my portion on erasing memories can be found here. Below is a video of the interview.

The Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy brings together ethicists and political philosophers as well as philosophers and researchers working in related fields to present and discuss work in practical philosophy. A central meeting place for members and Ph.D. students of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy (Onderzoekschool Ethiek), it warmly welcomes non-members and researchers in practical philosophy from outside The Netherlands.

Conference dates: 8 and 9 October, 2010
Venue: Het Kasteel, Groningen, The Netherlands
Keynote speakers: Onora O’Neill (Cambridge), Michael Smith (Princeton)

Registration: EUR 275 (members), EUR 350 (non-members), EUR 200 (Ph.D. students)

The Journal of Applied Philosophy will henceforward award an annual prize of £1,000 to the best article published in the year’s Volume. The first award will be made in respect of Volume 28 (2011). The judgment as to the best article will be made by the editors of the Journal.

The Journal of Applied Philosophy provides a unique forum for philosophical research which seeks to make a constructive contribution to problems of practical concern. Open to the expression of diverse viewpoints, the journal brings critical analysis to these areas and to the identification, justification and discussion of values of universal appeal. The Journal of Applied Philosophy covers a broad spectrum of issues in environment, medicine, science, policy, law, politics, economics and education.

The NYU Center for Bioethics, in conjunction with the NYU Environmental Studies Program, will be hosting ‘Valuing Lives: A Conference on Ethics in Health and the Environment’ on Saturday, March 5, 2011.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Various policy issues in environmental and health-related matters force policymakers to trade human lives against other values. Original, unpublished papers from philosophers, economists and legal scholars that address whether and how this can be done in a morally acceptable manner are welcomed. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: commensurability of human life and environmental values; compensation for harms to health; polling, public deliberation, and the appeal to expertise in evaluative matters; prioritizing the life and health of the young and the poorly-off; discounting future lives; saving identifiable lives vs. saving statistical lives; the precautionary principle; the human dignity objection to measuring the value of human life.

The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) is holding a workshop entitled “Eliminative and Manipulative Agency in the Ethics of Self-Defence.”
Date: June 15, 2010
Location: Old Indian Institute, James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford
Time: 0900-1800

SPEAKERS
Dr. Helen Frowe (Sheffield): ‘Threats And Bystanders’
Dr. Gerald Lang (Leeds): ‘Self-Defence And Agency’
Dr. Seth Lazar (Oxford): ‘Scepticism About The Eliminative/Manipulative Agency Distinction’
Professor Victor Tadros (Warwick): ‘Duty And Liability’

RESPONDENTS
Jo Firth (Oxford)
Dr. Jon Quong (Manchester)
Dr. David Rodin (Oxford)
Guy Sela (Oxford)

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy

Call for Abstracts
“Freedom, Paternalism and Morality”
April 1-2, 2011
The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio on April 1-2, 2011. Keynote speakers will be Gerald Dworkin (University of California at Davis) and Douglas Husak (Rutgers University)
Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to submit a 2-3 page abstract (double-spaced) by September 1, 2010. We welcome submissions in all areas in applied ethics and philosophical issues relevant to public policy. Special consideration will be given to papers relevant to this year’s conference theme: Freedom, Paternalism, and Morality.
Only one submission per person is permitted. Abstracts will be evaluated by a program committee and decisions made in early October 2010. Please direct all abstracts and queries to: pibarra@bgsu.edu

Professor Jeff McMahan at Rutgers University recently gave a talk at the NYU Center for Bioethics and the Department of Philosophy on “Gene Therapy, Cognitive Disability, and Abortion.”

With his permission, a podcast of his talk can be found here:

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

An abstract of his talk is as follows:

Nathan Nobis (Morehouse College, Atlanta) asked me to post the following:

I have created a survey to try to identify which topics are most commonly addressed in introductory ethics courses that have a contemporary moral issues or problems component. If (and only if) you teach a course that focuses on practical issues (with little to no discussion of moral theory) or has a mix of theory and problems (either a unit on theory and then problems or a mix of theory and problems throughout), please fill out this survey below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ethics-course-survey
Results will be posted here:
https://sites.google.com/site/nobisphilosophy/ethics-course-survey

Readers may know that I’ve recently taken up an associate professorship in the Center for Bioethics with an affiliation in the philosophy department at NYU. The Center runs a Master’s Program in Bioethics and is holding an open house on

Thursday, March 4, 2010
5:30-7:30 PM
285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor
(Between Waverly and Washington Pl.)
New York, NY 10003

If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in Bioethics, this will be a good opportunity to meet with the faculty and students and discuss the range of Program options and career benefits. Food and refreshments will be served.

JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY:
An International Journal of Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
(ISSN 1740-4681)

Volume 7, Number 1 (2010)

ARTICLES

William Sin, ‘Trivial Sacrifices, Great Demands’, pp. 3-15

Lina Papadaki, ‘What is Objectification?’ pp. 16-36

M. B. E. Smith, ‘Does Humanity Share a Common Moral Faculty?’ pp. 37-53

Jonathan Seglow, ‘Associative Duties and Global Justice’, pp. 54-73

Miriam Ronzoni, ‘Constructivism and Practical Reason: On Intersubjectivity, Abstraction, and Judgment’, pp. 74-104

Kenneth R. Westphal, ‘From “Convention” to “Ethical Life”: Hume’s Theory of Justice in Post-Kantian Perspective’, pp. 105-32

REVIEW ARTICLE

JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY:
An International Journal of Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
(ISSN 1740-4681)

Volume 6, Number 4 (2009)

ARTICLES

Ty Landrum, ‘Persons as Objects of Love’, pp. 417-39

Elizabeth Tropman, ‘Renewing Moral Intuitionism’, pp. 440-63

David Alm, ‘Deontological Restrictions and the Good/Bad Asymmetry’, pp. 464-81

Carl Knight, ‘Egalitarian Justice and Valuational Judgment’, pp. 482-98

Geoffrey Scarre, ‘The “Banality of Good”?’ pp. 499-519

REVIEW ARTICLE

Sean Coyle, ‘The Ideality of Law’, pp. 521-34

BOOK REVIEWS

Stefan Bird-Pollan on The Founding Act of Modern Ethical Life: Hegel’s Critique of Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy by Ideo Geiger, pp. 535-37

Continuum Ethics
A series of books exploring key topics in contemporary ethics and moral philosophy.

Continuum Ethics presents a series of books that will bridge the gap between new research work and undergraduate textbooks. They will provide close examination of key concepts in contemporary moral philosophy. Aimed largely at upper-level undergraduates and research students, they will also appeal to researchers in the field. Authors will be expected to combine philosophical sophistication with an accessible style that can engage the educated reader.

The Oxford Institute For Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflicts is hosting a Round Table Discussion with Jeff McMahan, and a Killing in War Workshop.

Proportionality and Noncombatant Immunity: Round Table Discussion
Thursday, 8 October, 3.00-5.00pm
Oxford University
Manor Road Building, Seminar Room D

Professor Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University)
Dr. Helen Frowe (University of Sheffield)
Dr. Seth Lazar (ELAC)

The British Academy, in association with the Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal, will be hosting an international conference on the work of Onora O’Neill, entitled “Ethics and Politics Beyond Borders: The Work of Onora O’Neill.

24-26 SEPTEMBER 2009
10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1
Convenor: Professor David Archard (Lancaster University)

Thursday, 24 September 2009
12.00 Registration

1.30 Session 1: The ethics and politics of global justice
Welcome and opening remarks

Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem, edited by Melinda Roberts and David Wasserman, just came out!

From the back cover:
This collection of essays investigates the obligations we have in respect of future persons, ranging from our own future offspring to distant future generations. What are our obligations to persons who have not yet, but eventually will, come into existence? Can we harm them? Can we wrong them? Can the fact that our choice means that a worse off person will exist in place of a better off but “nonidentical” person make that choice is wrong?

The Journal of Applied Philosophy is seeking to appoint a co-editor to work alongside the current editor, Suzanne Uniacke. The position will receive an appropriate honorarium and the appointment will initially be for three years. Expressions of interest in the position should be made, by 1st September 2009, to the Chair of the Management Committee of the Journal, Professor David Archard (d.archard ( at ) lancaster.ac.uk), from whom further information about the position can also
be obtained.

JOURNAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY:
An International Journal of Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
(ISSN 1740-4681)

Volume 6, Number 3 (2009)

ARTICLES

Alex Friedman, ‘Intransitive Ethics’, pp. 277-97

David Lefkowitz, ‘Partiality and Weighing Harm to Non-Combatants’, pp. 298-316

Gerald Lang, ‘Luck Egalitarianism, Permissible Inequalities, and Moral Hazard’, pp. 317-38

Heath White, ‘Fitting Attitudes, Wrong Kinds of Reasons, and Mind-Independent Goodness’, pp. 339-64

Leo Zaibert, ‘The Paradox of Forgiveness’, pp. 365-93

REVIEW ARTICLE

Robert Stern, ‘The Autonomy of Morality and the Morality of Autonomy’, pp. 395-415

Those who plan to attend the Aims of Belief conference might be interested in knowing about another conference in Oslo earlier that week, on June 8 and 9.

Title: The Atypical Perpetrator
Date: 8. jun. 2009 09:30 – 9. jun. 2009 15:30
Place: Auditorium 14, Domus Biblioteca Legg til i kalender
Theme: This conference is concerned with the relationships between ethics, psychiatry and criminal responsibility.

The full program and registration information can be found here:

http://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/arrangementer/2009/2009_psychiatry_June.htm l

To register, please contact Per Jørgen Ystehede: p.j.ystehede@jus.uio.no

August 25th – 27th, 2010
University of Sheffield, UK

Keynote Speakers:

Frances Kamm (Harvard)
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers)
David Rodin (Oxford)

keep looking »

• Search for:

• Polls

  In deciding whether to recommend acceptance or rejection of a paper for a journal, should one base one's decision in part on the reputation, editorial policies, etc. of the journal?

  • Yes
  • No

  View Results

   Loading ...

• Recent Posts

  • CFP: Morality and the Cognitive Sciences
  • Conference on Cora Diamond’s Work
  • CFP: Criminalization Conference
  • CFP: Reasons of Love
  • Eternal Sunshine and other Dangerous Ideas on Big Think
  • CONF: Problem with Priority?
  • CFP: North Carolina Philosophical Society
  • Grant Opportunities at the Character Project
  • 2nd Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy
  • JAP Prize

• Recent Comments

  • Patrick Lin on Eternal Sunshine and other Dangerous Ideas on Big Think
  • S. Matthew Liao on Eternal Sunshine and other Dangerous Ideas on Big Think
  • Patrick Lin on Eternal Sunshine and other Dangerous Ideas on Big Think
  • Łukasz Stafiniak on Smilansky on Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?
  • Amanda Quadling on Smilansky on Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?
  • Scott Harris on The Truth in Cultural Relativism
  • Mark Decker on Call for Abstracts: The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy
  • S. Matthew Liao on 2010 BSET Registration Open
  • Antti Kauppinen on 2010 BSET Registration Open
  • Antti Kauppinen on The Truth in Cultural Relativism
  • Angel Pinillos on The Truth in Cultural Relativism
  • Saul Smilansky on Smilansky on Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?
  • Travis Morgan on Smilansky on Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?
  • Saul Smilansky on Smilansky on Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?
  • Richard Chappell on Smilansky on Should We Be Sorry That We Exist?

• Categories

  • Alastair Norcross's Posts
  • Andrew Reisner's Posts
  • Antti Kauppinen's Posts
  • Appiah Reading Group
  • Applied Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Conference Announcement
  • Dan Moller's Posts
  • Daniel Star's Posts
  • David Enoch's Posts
  • David Wasserman's Posts
  • Dominic Wilkinson's Posts
  • Economics and Philosophy
  • Epistemic Ethics
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics Etc Poll
  • Experimental Ethics
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • Free Will
  • General Announcement
  • Gerald Lang's Posts
  • Gilbert Harman's Posts
  • Guy Kahane's Posts
  • Helen Frowe's Posts
  • Issues in the Profession
  • Iwao Hirose's Posts
  • Jonas Olson's Posts
  • Joseph Raz's Posts
  • Julia Driver's Posts
  • Kamm Poll
  • Kamm Reading Group
  • Legal Philosophy
  • Mark Sheehan's Posts
  • Metaethics
  • Metaphysics
  • Mike Otsuka's Posts
  • Moral Epistemology
  • Moral Psychology
  • Neil Levy's Posts
  • Neuroscience of Morality
  • Nick Shackel's Posts
  • Nir Eyal's Posts
  • Normative Ethics
  • Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar
  • Philosophical Methods
  • Philosophy of Action
  • Philosophy of biology
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Political Philosophy
  • Practical Ethics
  • Rahul Kumar's Posts
  • Rebecca Roache's Posts
  • S. Matthew Liao's Posts
  • Saul Smilansky's Posts
  • Sergio Tenenbaum's Posts
  • Simon Kirchin's Posts
  • Stephen Kearns's Posts
  • Thom Brooks's Posts
  • Toby Ord's Posts
  • Tom Douglas's Posts
  • Ulrike Heuer's Posts
  • Value Theory

• Online Philosophy Journals

  • Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
  • Philosopher’s Imprint
  • Philosophy Compass

• Philosophy Blogs

  • Arché Methodology Project Weblog
  • BrainEthics
  • Brains
  • Certain Doubts
  • David Chalmer’s List of Blogs
  • Epistemic Value
  • Experimental Philosophy
  • Flickers of Freedom
  • Legal Theory Blog
  • Leiter’s Report
  • Matters of Substance
  • Natural Rationality
  • Neuroethics and Law
  • PEA Soup
  • Philosopher’s Digest
  • Philosophy and Bioethics
  • Practical Ethics
  • Public Reason
  • The Brooks Blog
  • The Garden of Forking Paths
  • Thoughts, Rants, and Arguments

• Philosophy Resources

  • Experimental Philosophy Page
  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
  • Philosophical Papers Dedicated to Wlodek Rabinowicz
  • Philosophy Journal Information
  • Philpapers
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Wide Scope Journal Surveys

• Meta

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org
•