• Contributors

  • Alastair Norcross
  • Alison Hills
  • Allen Wood
  • Andrew Reisner
  • Antti Kauppinen
  • Bart Streumer
  • Brian McElwee
  • Dan Moller
  • Daniel Star
  • David Enoch
  • David Owens
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  • Fiona Woollard
  • Frances Kamm
  • Gerald Lang
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  • Hagop Sarkissian
  • Helen Frowe
  • Iwao Hirose
  • James Morauta
  • Japa Pallikkathayil
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  • Julia Driver
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  • Krister Bykvist
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  • Mike Otsuka
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  • Nir Eyal
  • Rahul Kumar
  • Rebecca Roache
  • Richard Ashcroft
  • S. Matthew Liao
  • Saul Smilansky
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  • Simon Kirchin
  • Stephen Kearns
  • Thom Brooks
  • Toby Ord
  • Tom Douglas
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  • Ulrike Heuer
  • Wlodek Rabinowicz

• 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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Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Keynote Speaker
Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
Morehead Alumni Distinguished Professor
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Papers are invited on any topic. Papers should be less than 4000 words (not including notes) and be deliverable in half an hour or less. Submissions should be prepared for blind review and include an abstract of no more than 200 words. An electronic copy (.DOC, .DOCX, .RTF, .PDF, or .TXT only, please) should be sent to arrive no later than January 15, 2012, to:

program (at) ohiophilosophy.org

MORAL MOTIVATION: EVIDENCE AND RELEVANCE
Gothenburg, Sweden
May 18-20, 2012
Abstracts Submission Deadline: January 20, 2012

INVITED SPEAKERS:
James Dreier, Brown University
Can Reasons Fundamentalism Answer the Normative Question?

Jeanette Kennett, Macquarie University
Moral Motivation and Its Impairments: Empirical and Philosophical Approaches

Jesse Prinz, CUNY
An Empirical Case for Emotionally Based Internalism

Michael Ridge, University of Edinburgh
Internalism: Cui Bono?

Michael Smith, Princeton University
Moral Judgements, Judgements about Reasons, and Motivations

Sigrún Svavarsdóttir, Ohio State University
Detecting Value with Motivational Responses

Jon Tresan, UNC Chapel Hill
Objective Moral Realism & The Role-Individuation of Moral Judgments

Theme: Political Theory and the ‘Liberal’ Tradition
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
19-20 April 2012

Graduate students are invited to submit paper proposals for 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 two keynote addresses, given by Professor Jeremy Waldron (University of Oxford) and Professor Charles Mills (Northwestern University). The theme may be broadly construed, and we welcome papers addressing any of the following themes:

December 9, 2011
9am to 4pm
SUNY Global Center
116 East 55th Street, NY, NY
Sponsored by SUNY Downstate Medical Center

Speakers include:
Andre A. Fenton, SUNY Downstate Medical Center and New York University
David Glanzman, UCLA
Merle Kindt, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Adam Kolber, Brooklyn Law School
John L. Kubie, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
S. Matthew Liao, New York University
Todd C. Sacktor, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
David Wasserman, Yeshiva University

April 6-7, 2012
Call for Papers (deadline January 16, 2012)

The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers concerning any topic in political theory, political philosophy, or the history of political thought. Papers should be submitted via the conference website by January 16, 2012. Approximately eight papers will be accepted.

The Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University will be held from April 6-7, 2012. This year, Professor Elisabeth Ellis, Texas A&M University, will be the keynote speaker.

The NYU Center for Bioethics, Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics, Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies present a two-part conference on the Moral Brain.

Date: Friday, March 30th – Sunday, April 1st, 2012
Location: New York University, WSQ Campus, Room TBA
RSVP Required: http://goo.gl/PXHmO

UPDATE: Added a tentative list of chairpersons to Part I

Part I: “The Significance of Neuroscience for Morality: Lessons from a Decade of Research”
Organized by the NYU Center for Bioethics in collaboration with the Duke Kenan Institute for Ethics

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

May 20 – 22, 2012
Moonrise Hotel in St Louis, MO

Keynote Speaker:
Jonathan Dancy (Reading/Texas)

St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR) provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed.

Please submit an abstract of 750-1500 words by December 31, 2011 to SLACRR (at) gmail.com. In writing your abstract, please bear in mind that full papers should suitable for a 30 minute presentation.

What to Submit

I’m honored to be one of the keynote speakers at the 2011 Northeastern Workshop in Philosophy. Here are some details of the workshop.

Topic: “Ethical issues in Engineering Biological and Ecological Systems.”
September 30 to October 2, 2011
Northeastern University, Boston

Biological and ecological problems are increasingly understood and approached from an engineering perspective. In environmental contexts this is exemplified in the discourses around geoengineering, designer ecosystems, and assisted colonization. In human health contexts it is exemplified in the discourses around synthetic biology, bionanotechnology, and human enhancement. This workshop will bring together ethicists, philosophers, and others working on issues related to engineering complex biological and ecological systems. The workshop is designed to provide speakers with constructive feedback from colleagues working on related issues.

The Truth of Ethics
February 24-25, 2012
Fordham University

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Stephen Darwall (Yale University)

Papers of high quality relating to the topic “the Truth of Ethics,” broadly construed are invited. Paper topics may address issues in moral epistemology, normative and meta-ethical theory, competing theories of truth, moral psychology, applied ethics, and other related areas.

Sample questions include:

What does moral reasoning tell us about the nature of reason in general?

Do moral propositions have truth values? If so, how do we know them?

If not, then what is their status?

October 7, 2011
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Invited speakers:
James Beebe (Buffalo)
Mark Phelan (Lawrence)
Stephen Clarke (Oxford)
Frank Hindriks (Groningen)
Katinka Quintelier (Ghent)

The program of the workshop has slightly changed. Stephen Stich, one of the earlier invited speakers, had to cancel his talk owing to health problems. Mark Phelan (previously at Yale, now at Lawrence) will fill in for Steve Stich.

Registration for this event is free of charge. For more info (full program, travel, registration), visit the workshop’s website here.

Workshop organizers: Martin Peterson & Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven)

International conference
KANTIAN ETHICS AND MORAL LIFE 2012

Venue: City Campus, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 20-21 September 2012
Organizers: University of Antwerp, Ghent University & Tilburg University

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Marcus Duewell (Universiteit Utrecht)
Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania)
Barbara Herman (UCLA)
Pauline Kleingeld (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

In addition to the plenary sessions there will be room for presentations of short papers (20-30 min). If you wish to contribute, please send an abstract of 500 words to liesbet.vanhaute (at) ua.ac.be. The deadline for submission is 30 September 2011. Participants whose abstract is accepted will be asked to send in a full paper by May 2012.

2011 Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society
Date: November 10 and 11, 2011
Location: The Carnegie Institution for Science, 1530 P Street, N.W. Washington, D.C.

Confirmed speakers include Helen Mayberg, Michael Chorost, Husseini Manji, Alan Leshner, Pat Churchland, Jonathan Moreno, Steve Greenberg, Jorge Moll, Hank Greely, Martha Farah, and others.

For more details, see here.

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