May 5, 2008

UT-Austin Graduate Student Workshop on Philosophical Methodology, Aug. 12-16
By Julia Driver

I’d like to draw your attention to the following:

The UT-Austin philosophy department is pleased to announce a week-long
graduate student workshop on philosophical methodology, August 12 –
August 16.

Possible workshop subtopics include (but are not limited to)
intuition, conceptual analysis, reflective equilibrium, reduction, and
ontological commitment.

Already confirmed speakers include Julia Driver (Washington University/St. Louis), Marc Moffett (Wyoming), Roy Sorensen (Washington University/St. Louis), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers), and a number of UT faculty.

We hope to accept around 10 outside graduate student participants. If
you are interested in applying, please see our website for details:

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April 28, 2008

Thick Concepts Conference - First CFP
By Simon Kirchin

Apologies for cross-posting.

THICK CONCEPTS

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
3rd-5th July, 2009

Invited Speakers:

Jonathan Dancy (Reading; Texas, Austin)
Daniel Elstein (Leeds)
Allan Gibbard (Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Chris Hookway (Sheffield)
Tom Hurka (Toronto)
Simon Kirchin (Kent)
Jerry Levinson (Maryland)
Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Michael Smith (Princeton)
Alan Thomas (Kent)
Pekka Vayrynen (Leeds)
Nick Zangwill (Durham)

Supported by The Mind Association, and The University of Kent.

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April 21, 2008

CF: Normativity and the Causal Theory of Action
By S. Matthew Liao

NORMATIVITY AND THE CAUSAL THEORY OF ACTION

One-day conference, 18 July 2008, 9am – 6pm Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, UK Conference venue: Clifton Hill House, Bristol

SPEAKERS:

Michael E. Bratman (Stanford): From goal-directedness to the agent’s rational guidance

Lynne R. Baker (Umass, Amherst): Agency and the first-person perspective

Roman Altshuler (SUNY, Stony Brook): Rationalization as causation and diachronic mental holism

Matthias Haase (Basel): Rule-following and conceptual capacities

Maria Alvarez (Southampton): The causal theory of action: reasons, motivation and explanation

REGISTRATION

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April 7, 2008

Conference on Moral Particularism
By S. Matthew Liao

ETHICS WITHOUT PRINCIPLES: The Diversity of Contexts of Moral Particularisms

Date: May 10, 2008
Place: University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne – ExeCo Centre Panthéon : 12, place du Panthéon, room 1, 75005 Paris, France
Contact e-mail : a.c.zielinska@gmail.com
Conference webpage: http://meliparen.blogspot.com/

Keynote Speakers: Jonathan DANCY, Sandra LAUGIER, and John SKORUPSKI

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April 2, 2008

BSET 2008 Schedule
By S. Matthew Liao

British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference 2008, University of Edinburgh, 14 – 16 July 2008

Speakers and Papers
1. Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Practical Reflection and Agential Authority
2. Campbell Brown (University of Edinburgh): The Composition of Reasons
3. Krister Bykvist and Jonas Olson (Jesus College and Brasenose College, University of Oxford): Expressivism and Certitude
4. William Dunaway (University of Southern California): Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism
5. Barbara Herman (UCLA): TBA
6. Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds): Wrongness and Reasons
7. Martin Peterson (University of Cambridge): The Asymmetry Argument
8. Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University): TBA
9. Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California): Holism, Weight and Undercutting
10. Alan Strudler (University of Pennsylvania): The Distinctive Wrong in Lying
11. Jonathan Way (University of Californian Santa Barbara): Defending the Wide-Scope Approach to Instrumental Reason

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March 15, 2008

CF: Raz on Value, Respect and Well-being
By S. Matthew Liao

Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT)

Value, Respect, and Wellbeing: Themes from the Work of Joseph Raz

Friday 9 May 2008
Time: 9.30am - 5.15pm
Venue: The Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building, University of Manchester

Provisional Programme:
9.30 - 10.00 registration
10.00 - 11.15 session 1: Steven Wall (Bowling Green State University)
11.15 - 11.30 coffee
11.30 - 12.45 session 2: Leslie Green (University of Oxford)
12.45 - 1.30 lunch
1.30 - 2.45 session 3: Brad Hooker (University of Reading)
2.45 - 3.00 tea
3.00 - 4.15 session 4: Stephen Darwall (University of Michigan)
4.15 - 5.15 session 5: Discussion with replies by Joseph Raz (University of Oxford and Columbia University)

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February 1, 2008

CFP: 5th Annual Metaethics Workshop
By S. Matthew Liao

Professor Russ Shafer-Landau has issued a call for abstracts for the Fifth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 12-14, 2008.

Simon Blackburn (Cambridge/UNC) and Joseph Raz (Columbia/Oxford) will be the keynote speakers.

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 2006 or 2007 workshop are not eligible to submit abstracts for this year’s event. A program committee will evaluate submissions and make decisions by early June.

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January 26, 2008

ISUS X: Call for Papers
By S. Matthew Liao

The Tenth Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies
11-14 September 2008
U.C. Berkeley - Berkeley, California, U.S.A.

ISUS X will be held on 11-14 September 2008, at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California, U.S.A.). The meeting is co-hosted by the U.C. Berkeley School of Law and its Kadish Center for Morality, Law and Public Affairs.

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January 18, 2008

Philosophy and Public Policy Workshop
By S. Matthew Liao

Readers of Ethics Etc, especially those living near London, might be interested in the following, which is free and open to the public, though registration is required:

A British Academy workshop convened by David Archard, University of Lancaster, Angus Dawson, University of Keele, Susan Mendus, FBA, University of York and Suzanne Uniacke, University of Hull

9.30 - 17.30, Saturday 8 March 2008
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH

There will be a drinks reception sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Journal of Applied Philosophy

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November 16, 2007

2nd Annual Conference of Northwestern Society for Ethical Theory and Political Philosophy
By Andrew Reisner

I have no affiliation with Northwestern, but I thought this might be of interest to readers of Ethics Etc.:

Theme: Ethical theory and political philosophy
Keynote speakers: Susan Wolf (UNC Chapel Hill) and David Velleman (NYU)
Dates: May 15th - 17th, 2008

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October 24, 2007

Metaethics One-Day Workshop, Leeds, Saturday 24 November
By Gerald Lang

Ethics Etc. readers may be interested to hear that the new Centre for Ethics and Metaethics (CEM) in the Philosophy Department, University of Leeds, is holding a Metaethics One-Day Workshop on Saturday 24 November. The speakers will be Kent Hurtig, Nadeem Hussain, and Wlodek Rabinowicz.

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October 22, 2007

BSET Call for Papers
By Gerald Lang

Might I draw the attention of readers of Ethics Etc to the following call:

THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY
2008 CONFERENCE
University of Edinburgh, UK
14-16th July 2008

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September 12, 2007

Calling on all Kamm fans!
By Nir Eyal

Just got notice of this intriguing event on Kamm’s book:

The Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, based at the Law School in Camden, is pleased to announce a two-day symposium on F. M. Kamm’s Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm (Oxford, 2007). The symposium will take place on Friday, February 22nd and Saturday, February 23rd, 2008.

Frances Kamm, Littauer Professor Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government and Professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard, will attend, and presentations will be given by Shelly Kagan (Yale), Jeff McMahan (Rutgers), Gideon Rosen (Princeton), T. M. Scanlon (Harvard), and Seana Shiffrin (UCLA).

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