Readings
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Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning
Larry S. Temkin
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From Normativity to Responsibility
Joseph Raz
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Ethics and Moral Philosophy
Thom Brooks
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Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover
N. Ann Davis, Richard Keshen and Jeff McMahan
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Reflective Knowledge
Ernest Sosa
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Know How
Jason Stanley
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New Waves in Ethics
Thom Brooks
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Ethics for Enemies: Terror, Torture, and War
F. M. Kamm
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On What Matters
Derek Parfit
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Semantic Relationism
Kit Fine
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Reliable Reasoning: Induction and Statistical Learning Theory
Gilbert Harman and Sanjeev Kulkarni
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Beyond Humanity?
Allen E. Buchanan
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Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality
Patricia S. Churchland
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Equality and Tradition
Samuel Scheffler
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Climate Ethics
Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson and Henry Shue
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The Character of Consciousness
David J. Chalmers
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Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
Thomas Nagel
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Well-Being and Death
Ben Bradley
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The Beloved Self: Morality and the Challenge from Egoisim
Alison Hills
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Depth: An Account of Scientific Explanation
Michael Strevens
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The Case for Contextualism
Keith DeRose
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When Truth Gives Out
Mark Richard
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The Idea of Human Rights
Charles R. Beitz
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Willing, Wanting, Waiting
Richard Holton
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The Idea of Justice
Amartya Sen
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Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem
Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman
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What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being
Richard Kraut
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Content and Justification
Paul A. Boghossian
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Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality
Stephen Yablo
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Normativity
Judith Jarvis Thomson
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How We Get Along
J. David Velleman
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Self-Constitution: Agency, Identity, and Integrity
Christine M. Korsgaard
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Appearances of the Good: An Essay on the Nature of Practical Reason
Sergio Tenenbaum
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Killing in War
Jeff McMahan
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Experimental Philosophy
Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols
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Disadvantage
Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit
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Reconciling Our Aims: In Search of Bases for Ethics
Allan Gibbard
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Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame
T. M. Scanlon
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The Philosophy of Philosophy
Timothy Williamson
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Authority and Estrangement
Richard Moran
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Moral Psychology, Volume 1
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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The Reflective Life
Valerie Tiberius
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Moral Literacy
Barbara Herman
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On Human Rights
James Griffin
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Experiments in Ethics
Kwame Anthony Appiah
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Reasons without Rationalism
Kieran Setiya
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Moral Realism: A Defence
Russ Shafer-Landau
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The Way We Eat
Peter Singer and Jim Mason
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Metaphysical Essays
John Hawthorne
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10 Moral Paradoxes
Saul Smilansky
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Normativity and the Will
R. Jay Wallace
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Ideal Code, Real World
Brad Hooker
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The Nature of Normativity
Ralph Wedgwood
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Structures of Agency: Essays
Michael E. Bratman
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The Second-Person Standpoint
Stephen Darwall
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Ethics and the A Priori
Michael Smith
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Weighing Lives
John Broome
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Reasons and the Good
Roger Crisp
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May 15, 2012
CF: Intuition and Evidence – Naturalistic or Anti-Naturalistic
By S. Matthew Liao
June 12 -14, 2012
Location: MSH Lorraine, Campus of the University of Lorraine, Nancy, France 91, av. de la Libération, 3rd floor.
This conference is about intuitions and their epistemic role as evidence. Is there any epistemological explanation justifying the appeal to intuition in philosophy? How can different models of intuitions explain their possible roles? Which role does imagination and conceiving play?
Tuesday, 12 June, 2012
14h15-15h45 Frank Hofmann, Luxemburg : Intuition and evidence about possibilities
16h15-17h45 Paul Boghossian, New York : Intuitions and the A Priori
May 15, 2012
CFA: Rethinking Inequality
By S. Matthew Liao
Rethinking Inequality: Philosophical Reflections on Recent Empirical Research
University of Ottawa, November 16-17, 2012
Rising economic inequality in advanced industrialized states is a phenomenon much discussed by the media in recent years, and much studied by sociologists, social epidemiologists, and scholars of public health. Political theorists and philosophers too have been concerned with abstract notions of equality, and to what extent material inequalities within states are compatible with the more general notion that all individuals are entitled to equal respect. These arguments have however largely failed to consider that high levels of inequality may be correlated with a host of social problems, such as poorer public health, lower levels of social trust, and higher crime rates.
May 5, 2012
CFP: The Nature of the Enkratic Requirement of Rationality
By S. Matthew Liao
Special Issue on The Nature of the Enkratic Requirement of Rationality
Organon F – International Journal of Analytic Philosophy
Guest Editor: Julian Fink (University of Vienna)
Submission deadline: October 1st 2012
Confirmed contributors:
John Broome (Oxford)
John Brunero (Missouri-St Louis)
Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna)
Christian Piller (York)
Andrew Reisner (McGill)
Jonathan Way (Southampton)
Ralph Wedgwood (USC)
Invited contributors:
Robert Audi (Notre Dame)
Olav Gjelsvik (Oslo)
Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)
May 5, 2012
CF: The Future of Contractualism
By S. Matthew Liao
Moral and Political Issues in Contractualist Theory
May, 11 and 12, 2012
University of Rennes 1
Philosophy Department (campus de Beaulieu, bât. 32B – amphi 12 et salle 13).
Keynote speakers
Ann Cudd (University of Kansas, USA) (Analysing Oppression, OUP, 2006)
Tim Mulgan (University of St Andrews, GB) (Future People, OUP, 2006)
Nicholas Southwood (Australian National University, Australia) (Contractualism and the Foundations of Morality, OUP, 2010)
Catherine Colliot-Thélène (Université de Rennes 1, France) (La démocratie sans demos, Seuil, 2011)
You will find the final program and all the relevant information at the following address:
April 18, 2012
CF: Expressivism and Epistemic Normativity
By S. Matthew Liao
May 9-10, 2012
Amphithéâtre Gustave Roussy – Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers
15 rue de l’Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris
Organizers : Joëlle Proust and Anne Coubray (Institut Jean-Nicod)
WEDNESDAY 9 MAY
10:00 a.m. Speaker : Allan Gibbard (Michigan) : Full Truth for Expressivists: Deflationary Truth and Acceptability.
Respondent : Joëlle Proust (ENS, IJN).
12:00 a.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Speaker : Kristoffer Ahlstrom-Vij (Copenhagen) : The Costs of Epistemic Realism.
Respondent : Friedericke Moltmann (CNRS, IHPST).
4:00 p.m. Coffee break
4:30 p.m. Speaker : Seth Yalcin (Berkeley) : Knowledge in the Absence of Truth.
Respondent : Paul Egré (CNRS, IJN).
6:30 p.m. End
April 17, 2012
CFA: 4th Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethical Theory
By S. Matthew Liao
There is a call for abstracts for the Fourth Annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethical Theory that will be held in Tucson, Arizona on January 3-5, 2013.
Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic in normative ethical theory (to be distinguished as well as possible from metaethics, political philosophy, and applied ethics).
Abstracts should be 2-3 double-spaced pages and are due no later than Monday June 3, 2012. Please send abstracts by email to Professor Mark Timmons at mtimmons (at) u.arizona.edu. Those who presented at the 2011 or 2012 workshops are not eligible for presenting at the 2013 workshop.
April 4, 2012
CF: BSET 2012 in Stirling
By S. Matthew Liao
9 – 11 July, 2012
University of Stirling,
Keynote Speakers
Sarah Broadie (St Andrews)
Frances Kamm (Harvard)
Submitted Papers
Science’s Immunity to Moral Refutation
– Alex Barber (Open)
Specialising General Duties
– Stephanie Collins (ANU)
Cognitivism about Moral Judgement
– Alison Hills (Oxford)
March 19, 2012
CF: Irrealism in Ethics at Reading
By S. Matthew Liao
The Department of Philosophy at the University of Reading invites you to the annual Ratio Conference on Friday 20 April 2012.
This year’s theme is Irrealism in Ethics.
Speakers:
Jonas Olson (University of Stockholm): ‘Precursors of Moral Error Theory’
James Lenman (University of Sheffield): ‘Ethics without Errors’
Michael Ridge and Sebastian Köhler (University of Edinburgh): ‘Revolutionary Expressivism’
Mark Kalderon (University College London): ‘The Philosophical Significance of the Frege-Geach Problem’
Registration fee: £15 (staff), £10 (students), which includes tea and coffee during the day.
The conference programme and registration form are available at http://www.reading.ac.uk/philosophy/Conferences/Conferences.aspx
March 19, 2012
CF: Oxford Political Theory Graduate Conference
By S. Matthew Liao
Theme: Political Theory and the ‘Liberal’ Tradition
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford | 19-20 April 2012
Graduate students and academics are invited to attend the inaugural Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory, to be held at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, on 19-20 April 2012. The theme for this conference is “Political Theory and the ‘Liberal’ Tradition”, and there will be four panels of student speakers, as well as two keynote addresses, given by Professor Jeremy Waldron (University of Oxford) and Professor Charles Mills (Northwestern University). The deadline for registration is 15 April 2012, and attendees can register online at: http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/component/option,com_seminar/It emid,138/
March 10, 2012
MERG Mini-Conference at NYU
By S. Matthew Liao
Metro Experimental Research Group, in conjunction with the NYU Center for Bioethics, is hosting a mini-conference at NYU on some exciting new work in experimental philosophy on Friday, March 16th.
The conference includes the following four talks:
* Zoltan Szabo (Yale), Impure Modals
* S. Matthew Liao (NYU), The Doctrine of Double Effect and Experimental Philosophy
* Shaun Nichols (Arizona), Ambiguous Reference
* Fiery Cushman (Brown), Two Functions of Morality
The conference will be held in Room 101 of NYU’s Philosophy department (5 Washington Place) from 10:30 to 5:30. All are welcome to attend.
March 6, 2012
2012 Moral Brain Conference at NYU
By S. Matthew Liao
Please find below the Final Program for the 2012 Bioethics Conference: The Moral Brain. Although we have reached capacity, we strongly encourage you to RSVP so that you can be placed on the waitlist. We will contact you as soon as space becomes available. The direct link for RSVP is at
March 3, 2012
2012 Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health – 18-22 June 2012.
Location: Villa Brocher, Hermance, Switzerland.
Website: http://bit.ly/zP8eDN
Applications are accepted until 15 March 2012.
February 28, 2012
SLACRR 3 – Program
By S. Matthew Liao
Here are the main speakers at the next St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality, May 20-22, 2012.
Keynote: Jonathan Dancy (Texas/Reading), “More Right than Wrong”
* Nomy Arpaly (Brown) and Timothy Schroeder (Ohio State), “Acting and Believing for Reasons”
* Agnes Callard (Chicago), ”Introducing Socratic Anti-Intellectualism”
* Patricio Fernandez (Harvard), “Why Not Act?
* Ernesto Garcia (Massachusetts), “Explaining Constitutive Norms”
* Alex Gregory (Reading), “A Very Good Reason to Reject the Buck-Passing Account” * Ali Hasan (Iowa), “A Puzzle for Analyses of Rationality”
* Doug Portmore (Arizona State), “Perform Your Best Option”
* Abe Roth (Ohio State), “Team Reasoning, Shared Intention, and Non-Evidential Warrant for Belief”
* Michael Titelbaum (Wisconsin), “In Defense of Right Reasons”
* Daniel Whiting (Southampton), ”Reasons for Belief, the Aim of Belief, and the Aim of Action”
February 14, 2012
Henle Conference on Happiness and Well-Being
By S. Matthew Liao
The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University will be hosting the Henle Conference on Happiness and Well-Being on March 30-31, 2012. A tentative schedule appears below.
February 9, 2012
Conference on Manipulation at Bowling Green
By S. Matthew Liao
March 16 & 17, 2012
Bowling Green State University
Registration is free and open to all. To register; visit the workshop website: http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/phil/conferences/manipulation/page1051 39.html
February 9, 2012
CFA: 9th Annual Metaethics Workshop in Wisconsin
By S. Matthew Liao
There is a call for abstracts for the Ninth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 28-30, 2012.
Jonathan Dancy (Reading and Texas) 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 2010 or 2011 workshop are not eligible to submit abstracts for this year’s event. A program committee will evaluate submissions and make decisions by early June.
February 9, 2012
NEH Summer Institute
By S. Matthew Liao
Ron Mallon (Philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis) and Shaun Nichols (Philosophy, Arizona) are hosting an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers in Experimental Philosophy this July in Tucson. Details are here:
Applications are due March 1st, 2012.
Institutes are designed for teachers of American undergraduate students. Because of recent changes to the program, now up to three spaces may be awarded to graduate students in the humanities as well.
Consider applying!
February 9, 2012
CFP: Pittsburgh Area Philosophy Colloquium
By S. Matthew Liao
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Washington and Jefferson College
Washington, Pennsylvania
Keynote Speaker: Carl Craver (Washington University in St. Louis)
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference seeks to foster philosophical discussion among the many philosophers at institutions in and surrounding Pittsburgh, and to encourage philosophers from any geographic location to participate in this vibrant community.
The morning sessions will consist of four concurrent working groups, organized roughly on the themes of Ethics, Analytic Philosophy, Continental Philosophy and History. Those wishing to have a working paper considered for discussion need only submit an abstract (200 words max), and be willing, if selected, to make the full paper available to conference participants by August 15.
January 28, 2012
CFA: Moral Psychology and Poverty Alleviation
By S. Matthew Liao
Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) Anniversary Workshop
Where: New Haven, Yale University
When: April 13, 2012
Deadline for submission: March 2, 2012
Sponsored by the Global Justice Program of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Centrefor International and Area Studies, Yale University and the Program in Cognitive Science, Yale University
Keynote Speakers: Paul Slovic, University of Oregon and Nicole Hassoun, Carnegie Mellon University
The call
Many individuals in affluent nations are aware that a vast number of people live in conditions of severe poverty. Yet they are more likely to go to the movies or to buy an expensive sweater than they are to give their money to humanitarian aid. The question arises, how can individuals be motivated to act on their duties to aid the global poor?
December 6, 2011
CFP: Theories of Action and Morality in Spain
By S. Matthew Liao
10-11 September 2012
Universidad de Navarra
Pamplona, Spain
SUBJECT
This conference addresses the question of whether human action is intrinsically moral, and hence as well the question of whether and how a conception of the nature of action ought to be relevant for a theory of what is good or right to do. This issue comes up in contemporary discussions in many different forms: whether practical rationality can be understood in instrumental terms, whether instrumental rationality is normative, whether all intentional action is done under “the guise of the good,” etc. The aim of the conference is to address this question from a variety of perspectives, both historical (Aristotelian, Humean, Kantian and Hegelian approaches) and contemporary (Davidson, Anscombe, etc.). Also of interest for our subject are perspectives on action in the social sciences, which standardly approach action is instrumental (“rational choice”) and yet also theorize the social dimensions of human agency, like Hegel or even Aristotle. The conference aims to make a contribution to the study of human action, overcoming the abstractions and shortcomings that stem from a lack of dialogue between different traditions and academic disciplines.
