Readings
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Foundations for Moral Relativism
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Reasons and Recognition: Essays on the Philosophy of T.M. Scanlon
R. Jay Wallace
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Morality, Authority, and Law: Essays in Second-Personal Ethics
Stephen Darwall
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Meaning and Normativity
Allan Gibbard
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The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts
F.M. Kamm
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The Geometry of Desert
Shelly Kagan
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Writing the Book of the World
Theodore Sider
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Constructing the World
David J. Chalmers
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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
Thomas Nagel
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Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World
John Broome
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Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism
David Enoch
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The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction
Helen Frowe
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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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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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Semantic Relationism
Kit Fine
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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 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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Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem
Melinda A. Roberts and David T. Wasserman
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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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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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Moral Dimensions: Permissibility, Meaning, Blame
T. M. Scanlon
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Moral Psychology, Volume 1
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
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On Human Rights
James Griffin
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Moral Realism: A Defence
Russ Shafer-Landau
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10 Moral Paradoxes
Saul Smilansky
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Ideal Code, Real World
Brad Hooker
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Structures of Agency: Essays
Michael E. Bratman
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Ethics and the A Priori
Michael Smith
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Reasons and the Good
Roger Crisp
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May 10, 2013
Punishment book launch
By Thom Brooks
Punishment book launch
The Houses of Parliament
Date: Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Time: 17:00-19:00
Place: Committee Room 3, the Houses of Parliament, London
Punishment is a topic of increasing importance for citizens and policymakers. Why should we punish criminals? What purposes should punishment serve? These questions and many others will be addressed in this roundtable discussion celebrating the launch of Punishment by Thom Brooks. Panel members include:
Lord Parekh FBA (chair), Labour Peer and former Chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain
Frances Crook OBE, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform
January 19, 2013
CFA: Philosophy of Criminal Punishment in Hong Kong
By S. Matthew Liao
International Conference on the Philosophy of Criminal Punishment
Date: June 18-20, 2013
Location: Department of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Deadline: March 15, 2013
Keynote speakers:
T. M. Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civic Polity, Harvard
University; author of What We Owe to Each Other.
Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard
University; author of “Justice, Deviance, and the Dark Ghetto,” Philosophy & Public Affairs (2007).
Themes:
- Punishment & Social Justice
- Why Punish? How Much?
- Should the Death Penalty be Implemented or Abolished?
- Any other topic.
January 19, 2013
CFA: Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
By S. Matthew Liao
Date: Oct. 17-20, 2013
Location: Tucson, AZ at the Westward Look Hotel and Resort.
Deadline: April 15, 2013
Abstracts in all areas of Political Philosophy are welcome.
The web page for the workshop is here: http://oxfordstudies.arizona.edu/
To submit an abstract, you must first go to the above web page and register. Once your registration is accepted, you will be able to login at that page and upload an abstract. Abstracts should not be e-mailed to the editors. Abstracts of between 250-500 words are due no later than April 15th . Submission of an abstract will be taken to imply that the paper is not under submission for publication elsewhere as well as implying an agreement to include the paper in the resulting volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, if accepted. There is a limit of one submission per person. We expect to be able to inform those whose papers have been accepted no later than May 15th, 2013.
December 2, 2012
CFP: 2013 Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory
By S. Matthew Liao
The Politics of Equality
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of Oxford
25th – 26th APRIL 2013
Paper proposals are invited for the second Oxford Graduate Conference in Political Theory. This conference aims to interrogate the concept, practices, and implications of egalitarian politics. Concerns with equality are increasingly prevalent in contemporary political discourse. Yet, the distinctively political questions of enacting egalitarian aims often receive little attention from political theorists. We invite submissions on any topic pertaining to the meaning, historical development, application, or critique of egalitarian politics.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
November 20, 2012
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
May 16–18, 2013
Keynote addresses:
Talbot Brewer (University of Virginia): “TBA”
Sarah Buss (Michigan): “TBA”
September 24, 2012
CF: 2013 Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton
By S. Matthew Liao
Princeton University
April 5-6, 2013
Call for Papers (deadline January 11, 2013)
The Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University will be held from April 5-6, 2013.
The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers addressing any topic in political theory, political philosophy, or the history of political thought. Papers should be submitted via the conference website by January 11, 2013. Approximately six papers will be selected.
August 14, 2012
CFP: John Rawls: Past, Present, Future
By S. Matthew Liao
November 30, 2012
Yale University
November 24, 2012, will mark the tenth anniversary of John Rawls passing away. The Global Justice Program at Yale University will mark the occasion with a full-day meeting on November 30 to which friends, admirers and critics of Rawls are cordially invited. We chose this date because November 24 is too close to Thanksgiving.
July 26, 2012
Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?
By S. Matthew Liao
A paper I wrote with Adam Etinson on human rights called “Political and Naturalistic Conceptions of Human Rights: A False Polemic?” has just come out with the Journal of Moral Philosophy.
Subscription version can be found here and a penultimate version can be found here.
Here is an abstract of the paper:
July 13, 2012
An Interview with Scanlon at the Utopian
By S. Matthew Liao
There is a really nice and in depth interview with Tim Scanlon at the Utopian.
The short version is here and the long version is here.
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.
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