February 26, 2010

CFP: Beijing International Conference on Human Rights
By S. Matthew Liao

Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 October 2010
Beijing, China

Organisers:
Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Philosophy Summer School in China

Sponsor: The Ford Foundation

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February 19, 2010

Workshop on The Future of Consent
By S. Matthew Liao

AHRC workshop on “The Future of Consent”
Date: March 22nd-24th 2010
Location: Chancellor’s Conference Centre, Manchester

There are a limited number of places available for a two day interdisciplinary and international workshop—The Future of Consent—organised by Neil Manson and Dave Archard (Lancaster) and funded by the AHRC with additional support from the Society for Applied Philosophy.

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February 2, 2010

CFP: 11th Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference
By S. Matthew Liao

August 1st – 5th, 2010
Bellingham, Washington.

Everyone is invited to submit a paper, or to volunteer to be a commentator or session chair, but conference attendance is by invitation only, and will be primarily limited to those on the conference program.

To submit a paper: Submissions should be prepared for blind review and emailed to the 2010 BSPC Program Committee at BSPC2010 (at) gmail.com. Papers on any topic are welcome, but the conference program committee will be looking for papers that are of general philosophical interest. Papers of any length will be considered, but shorter papers (under about 25 pages) will have a better chance of being accepted than longer papers. The deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2010. Prospective authors will be notified of the Program Committee’s decisions by early May.

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February 2, 2010

CFP: Wisconsin Seventh Annual Metaethics Workshop
By S. Matthew Liao

University of Wisconsin, Madison
September 24-26, 2010

Stephen Darwall (Yale) will be this year’s keynote speaker. Abstracts (of 2-3 double-spaced pages) of papers in any area of metaethics are due by May 1. There is a limit of one submission per person. Speakers in the 2008 or 2009 workshop are not eligible to submit abstracts for this year’s event. A program committee will evaluate submissions and make decisions by early June.

Information on submitting an abstract, plus much other relevant information about the workshop, can be obtained at the workshop website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/shaferlandau/web/metaethics/workshop_2010/

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January 14, 2010

CFP: Epistemology of Liberal Democracy
By S. Matthew Liao

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers:

2ND COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE IN EPISTEMOLOGY:
THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
AUGUST 19-20, 2010

We tend to think of liberal democracy as providing the most ethically defensible way to set up a modern society. A separate yet highly relevant issue is whether liberal democracies also are preferable from an epistemological perspective, i.e., from the point of view of promoting true over false belief, knowledge over ignorance, and so on.

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January 13, 2010

CFP: Ethics, Energy and the Future
By S. Matthew Liao

Call for Papers: Ethics, Energy and the Future: Technology for a Sustainable Society

June 24th-26th 2010
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Abstract Deadline: February 15th, 2010

Keynote Speakers include:
Simon Caney, University of Oxford
Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington
Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain
Jeroen van den Hoven, 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology
Andrew Light, George Mason University & Center for American Progress
Henry Shue, University of Oxford

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January 12, 2010

CONF: De se attitudes + Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency
By S. Matthew Liao

CONF: De se attitudes + Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency
Oslo, June 2010

Arché (St Andrews) and CSMN (Oslo) are pleased to announce two major events on first-person thoughts to be held in Oslo from 6th to 11th June, 2010.

(1) Arché/CSMN Mini-course & Workshop: De se attitudes Sunday June 6, 2010 – Wednesday June 9, 2010
Confirmed speakers:
• Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)
• Andy Egan (Rutgers/Arché)
• James Higginbotham (USC)
• Daniel Morgan (Oxford)
• Dilip Ninan (Arché)
• François Recanati (Institute Jean-Nicod (CNRS)/Arché)
• Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)
Website: http://www.csmn.uio.no/events/2010/De-Se

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January 4, 2010

CFP: APT Conference 2010
By S. Matthew Liao

THE Association for Political Theory Conference 2010
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Conference Date: October 21-23, 2010
Proposal Submission Date: February 20, 2010

The Association for Political Theory welcomes paper proposals, panel proposals, and proposals for roundtable discussions from all approaches and on all topics in political theory, political philosophy, and the history of political thought. Faculty, advanced PhD candidates, and independent scholars are eligible to apply. Faculty are encouraged to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants.

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December 8, 2009

CFP: Society for Applied Philosophy 2010
By S. Matthew Liao

Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference 2010
St Anne’s College, Oxford, 2-4 July

CALL for PAPERS
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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December 8, 2009

CFP: Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association
By S. Matthew Liao

University College, Dublin
9TH–11TH JULY, 2010

The Joint Session is the annual conference of The Aristotelian Society held in conjunction with The Mind Association. It is the largest and primary conference for philosophers in the UK. There is a wide subject base and international speaker profile.

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December 8, 2009

CFP: 4th Northwestern Ethics Conference
By S. Matthew Liao

Northwestern University
Society for Ethical Theory and Political PhilosophyFourth Annual Conference
MAY 20-22, 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan
Christine Korsgaard, Harvard University

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December 8, 2009

CFP: 3rd ROME Congress
By S. Matthew Liao

RoME: Third Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress
University of Colorado, Boulder
August 5-8, 2010
Boulder, Colorado

An international conference geared to offer the highest quality, highest altitude discussion of ethics, broadly conceived

Call For Papers
The Center for Values and Social Policy in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder is pleased to invite paper proposals for the third annual RoME congress. Papers from all areas of ethics and political theory are invited. To encourage the participation of junior scholars, the University of Colorado will be awarding a Young Ethicist Prize of $500 for most meritorious submission. The prize competition is open to any participating untenured philosopher (including, but not limited to, tenure-track faculty, instructors, and graduate students).

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November 17, 2009

CFP: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Uncertainty, Discounting and the Sustainable Future
By S. Matthew Liao

April 12-13th, 2010
Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands
Abstract Deadline: November 23rd, 2009
Opening Lecture: Simon Caney, University of Oxford

The purpose of the conference is to invite experts in the fields of philosophy, ethics, applied economics, environmental economics and innovation studies. The focus will be on those aspects of uncertainty and the discount rate relevant to these disciplines. Uncertainties are of particular importance in innovation projects, where both costs and benefits are hard to assess. A crucial question is how uncertainty can be taken into account in cost-benefit analysis, even if imperfectly, and what kinds of alternative methodologies exist that may deal more effectively with decision-making in uncertain environments. The workshop also aims to expose and analyse the ethical assumptions at work in the choice of a discount rate. Importantly, while some of the reasons for discounting future benefits and costs are economic, some are ethical. The choice of discount rate is therefore an interdisciplinary issue.

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November 9, 2009

CONF: Intuition, Theory, and Anti-theory in Ethics
By S. Matthew Liao

Date: July 3-4 2010
Location: The Informatics Conference Centre, George Square, Edinburgh

Speakers:
Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia)
John Cottingham (University of Reading)
Jonathan Dancy (University of Reading/ Texas)
Brad Hooker (University of Reading)
Edward Harcourt (Keble College, Oxford)
James Lenman (University of Sheffield)
Tim Mulgan (University of St Andrews)
Michael Ridge (University of Edinburgh) & Sean McKeever (Davidson College, NC, USA)
Tom Sorell (University of Birmingham)
Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)
Alan Thomas (University of Kent)

Jointly organised by the Philosophy Departments, The Open University and The University of Edinburgh, with support from The Mind Association, The Royal Institute of Philosophy, and The Scots Philosophical Club

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October 12, 2009

CFP: St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality
By S. Matthew Liao

The first St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR) will take place May 23-25, 2010 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The conference is designed to provide a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed. Please submit an abstract of 500-1000 words by December 31, 2009 to SLACRR (at) gmail.com. (In writing your abstract, please bear in mind that full papers should suitable for a 30 minute presentation.) We are also interested in finding commentators for papers, so please let us know if you would have an interest
in commenting.

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October 10, 2009

Copenhagen Epistemology Workshop
By S. Matthew Liao

Date: October 29, 2009
Venue: Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (Amager), Room 14.2.50

Schedule:
10.30-12.00: Adam Carter (Edinburgh/Geneva):
Knowledge, Testimony and Philosophical Expertise

13.15-14.45 S. Matthew Liao (Oxford):
Disagreeing with Peers

15.00-16.30: Peter Graham (UC Riverside):
Reliability and Entitlement

16.45-18.15: Mikkel Gerken (SERG, Copenhagen):
Univocal Reasoning and Inferential Presuppositions

There is no registration fee. However, if you would like to attend the workshop—or have any enquiries concerning the event—please contact Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (nikolaj (at) ucla.edu).

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September 25, 2009

Oxford Round Table Discussion and Workshop on McMahan
By S. Matthew Liao

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)

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September 21, 2009

Final CFP – War and Self-Defence (Sheffield, Aug 2010)
By Helen Frowe

Conference: War and Self-Defence – Final Call for Papers
August 25th – 27th, 2010
University of Sheffield, UK

Keynote Speakers:

Frances Kamm (Harvard)
Jeff McMahan (Rutgers)
David Rodin (Oxford)
Noam Zohar (Bar Ilan)

*Submission deadline: Dec 1st 2009*

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September 1, 2009

Stirling Colloquium on the Human Right to Political Participation
By S. Matthew Liao

‘The Human Right to Political Participation’
First colloquium of the AHRC Research Network on ‘Institutionalising values: Beyond Human Rights?’

September 7th and 8th, 2009
Rooms 2X4 and 2X6, Cottrell Building
University of Stirling

Speakers
Kristina Bentley (University of the Western Cape)
Rowan Cruft (University of Stirling)
Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck College, London)
Martina Düttmann (Consultant for Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe)
Cécile Fabre (University of Edinburgh)
Alon Harel (Hebrew University)
Jonathan Heawood (Director, English PEN [promoting literature and human rights])
S. Matthew Liao (University of Oxford)
Sandra Marshall (University of Stirling)
Bill Paterson (University of Strathclyde)
Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick)
Massimo Renzo (University of Stirling)
Scott Veitch (University of Glasgow)
Leif Wenar (King’s College, London)

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August 28, 2009

Social Epistemology Workshop at Copenhagen
By S. Matthew Liao

The Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) at the University of Copenhagen is hosting a one-day epistemology workshop. The workshop is part of a series of workshops and conferences to be held in connection with the research project “The Epistemology of Liberal Democracy: Truth, Free Speech, and Disagreement,” funded by the Velux Foundation.

The details are as follows.

September 17, 2009
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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