June 6, 2013

References for Experimental Political Philosophy
By S. Matthew Liao

Nicole Hassoun is interested in finding recent work on experimental political philosophy that might be worth mentioning in a review article on the topic. If you have any such references, please email her directly at: nhassoun at binghamton.edu. Thanks!

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May 23, 2013

CF: Moral Rationalism
By S. Matthew Liao

Melbourne University will host an international conference on Moral Rationalism, on July 15-17 2013.

Speakers will include: Garett Cullity (Adelaide), David Enoch (Jerusalem), Karen Jones (Melbourne), Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie), Rae Langton (MIT / Cambridge), Julia Markovits (MIT), Tristram McPherson (Melbourne / Virginia Tech), Karl Schafer (Pittsburgh), Francois Schroeter (Melbourne), Laura Schroeter (Melbourne), Michael Smith (Princeton), Nick Southwood (ANU), and Mark van Roojen (Nebraska).

If you wish to attend the conference, please contact Dr. Tristram McPherson: dr.tristram (at) gmail.com. Registration is required (for catering purposes) but free.

The conference is sponsored by an ARC grant (“The Many Moral Rationalisms”) held by Karen Jones, Michael Smith, and François Schroeter.

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May 7, 2013

Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics
By S. Matthew Liao

From Russ Shafer-Landau:

In keeping with its mission of encouraging and recognizing excellence in philosophy, The Marc Sanders Foundation seeks to highlight the importance of ongoing support for the work of younger scholars. As part of this commitment, the Foundation has dedicated resources to an ongoing essay competition, designed to promote excellent research and writing in metaethics on the part of younger scholars.

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May 7, 2013

CF: Moral Education: Ancient and Contemporary
By S. Matthew Liao

June 8th-9th, Northwestern University
tinyurl.com/NUMoralEd

Speakers & Commentators:

Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin), David Ebrey (Northwestern), Kristján Kristjánsson (Birmingham), Rachana Kamtekar (Arizona), Gavin Lawrence (UCLA), Rachel Barney (Toronto), Randall Curren (Rochester), Agnes Callard (Chicago), Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern), Gabriel Richardson Lear (Chicago), Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern), Emily Fletcher (Wisconsin), Joseph Barnes (UC Berkeley / Humboldt), Richard Kraut (Northwestern), Darcia Narvaez (Notre Dame), Joseph Karbowski (Notre Dame)

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April 26, 2013

Velleman’s Foundations for Moral Relativism Available as Open Access
By S. Matthew Liao

velleman David Velleman‘s new book, Foundations for Moral Relativism, is now available online as an open-access monograph. You can also get it as a print-on-demand paperback or hardback, and in digital formats here.

Here is a description of the book:

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April 21, 2013

The Department of Philosophy in Lund Needs Your Help!
By S. Matthew Liao

From Wlodek Rabinowicz:

Dear Colleagues,

We urgently need your help. The Department of Philosophy in Lund, which is located in Kungshuset – a beautiful 16th century house in the centre of the town which originally was home to the University as a whole – is now on its way to being relocated. In the Spring of 2014, we are supposed to move to a new building, together with other departments in the Joint Faculty of Humanities and Theology. Judging by past experience, the next step after the relocation might well be an administrative merger of the different departments into a huge megadepartment. Such mergers have taken place at other universities and at our university as well.

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April 20, 2013

Moral Indeterminacy
By S. Matthew Liao

Crowdsourcing: I’m teaching a graduate seminar on Moral Indeterminacy in the Fall. I’d be interested in learning about ‘must reads’ and ‘must cover’ topics. Here is a draft description of the course:

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April 17, 2013

Rationality and Strength of Will Workshop in Vienna
By S. Matthew Liao

The Nature of the Enkratic Requirement of Rationality
University of Vienna, Austria
Date: April 26-27 2013
Location: University of Vienna, NIG (Neues Institutsgebäude), University of Vienna, room 2i.

Speakers:
Robert Audi (Notre Dame)
John Broome (Oxford)
John Brunero (Missouri – St. Louis)
Miranda del Corral (UNED)
Olav Gjelsvik (CSMN, Oslo)
Christian Piller (York)
Andrew Reisner (McGill)
Jonathan Way (Southampton)

Detailed programme: http://distortions.univie.ac.at/conferences-workshops-special-presenta tions/workshop-the-nature-of-the-enkratic-requirement-of-rationality/

All enquires to julian.fink (at) univie.ac.at

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April 17, 2013

CFA: 5th Annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics
By S. Matthew Liao

Tucson, Arizona
January 9-11, 2014
Deadline for abstracts: Monday June 2, 2012

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 2, 2013. Please send abstracts by email to mtimmons (at) u.arizona.edu. Those who presented at the 2012 or 2013 workshops are not eligible for presenting at the 2013 workshop. A program committee will evaluate the submissions and decisions will be finalized by early July.

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March 22, 2013

Updates from the Journal of Moral Philosophy
By S. Matthew Liao

As some of the readers of Ethics Etc may already be aware, this January I succeeded Thom Brooks as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Moral Philosophy. Having had a bit of time to settle into this new role, I thought I take an opportunity to thank Thom for his immense contribution to our field, to state my aims for the Journal, and to report on some of the things we have been doing at the Journal. A portion of the material below is drawn from my first editorial for the Journal, which you can read here.

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