• Contributors

  • Alastair Norcross
  • Alison Hills
  • Andrew Reisner
  • Antti Kauppinen
  • Bart Streumer
  • Brian McElwee
  • Dan Moller
  • Daniel Star
  • David Enoch
  • David Owens
  • David Wasserman
  • Fiona Woollard
  • Frances Kamm
  • Gerald Lang
  • Gilbert Harman
  • Guy Kahane
  • Helen Frowe
  • Iwao Hirose
  • James Morauta
  • Jeff McMahan
  • John Broome
  • John Oberdiek
  • Jonas Olson
  • Joseph Raz
  • Julia Driver
  • Krister Bykvist
  • Laura Franklin-Hall
  • Melinda Roberts
  • Matthew Smith
  • Mike Otsuka
  • Neil Levy
  • Nicholas Southwood
  • Nick Shackel
  • Nir Eyal
  • Rahul Kumar
  • Rebecca Roache
  • Richard Ashcroft
  • S. Matthew Liao
  • Saul Smilansky
  • Sergio Tenenbaum
  • Shlomi Segall
  • Simon Kirchin
  • Stephen Kearns
  • Thom Brooks
  • Toby Ord
  • Tom Douglas
  • Tom Hurka
  • Ulrike Heuer
  • Wlodek Rabinowicz

• Readings

  • 
    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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    Principled Ethics: Generalism As a Regulative Ideal
    Sean McKeever and Michael Ridge
    
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    Killing in War
    Jeff McMahan
    
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    Experimental Philosophy
    Joshua Knobe and Shaun Nichols
    
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    Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought
    Michael Thompson
    
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    The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
    David J. Chalmers
    
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    Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality
    David Wiggins
    
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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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    A Virtue Epistemology
    Ernest Sosa
    
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    Morality without Foundations
    Mark Timmons
    
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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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    Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction
    Dale Jamieson
    
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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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    Knowledge and Practical Interests
    Jason Stanley
    
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    10 Moral Paradoxes
    Saul Smilansky
    
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    Normativity and the Will
    R. Jay Wallace
    
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    Ethics without Principles
    Jonathan Dancy
    
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    Neuroethics
    Neil Levy
    
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    Ideal Code, Real World
    Brad Hooker
    
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    The Nature of Normativity
    Ralph Wedgwood
    
  • 
    Structures of Agency: Essays
    Michael E. Bratman
    
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    The Second-Person Standpoint
    Stephen Darwall
    
  • 
    Ethics and the A Priori
    Michael Smith
    
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    The Practice of Value
    Joseph Raz
    
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    Weighing Lives
    John Broome
    
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    Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissible Harm
    F. M. Kamm
    
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    Reasons and the Good
    Roger Crisp
    
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It’s a great pleasure to announce that Matthew Smith, who is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University, has joined us as a Contributor. Matt’s research focuses on moral and political philosophy. He is particularly interested in approaching moral and political questions from the perspective of practical agency embedded in a social world, and has forthcoming and published papers in Philosophers’ Imprint, Noûs, Philosophy and Public Affairs, and the Journal of Political Philosophy. Welcome, Matt!

Nathan Nobis (Morehouse College, Atlanta) asked me to post the following:

I have created a survey to try to identify which topics are most commonly addressed in introductory ethics courses that have a contemporary moral issues or problems component. If (and only if) you teach a course that focuses on practical issues (with little to no discussion of moral theory) or has a mix of theory and problems (either a unit on theory and then problems or a mix of theory and problems throughout), please fill out this survey below:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ethics-course-survey
Results will be posted here:
https://sites.google.com/site/nobisphilosophy/ethics-course-survey

We are very pleased that Professor Laura Franklin-Hall has joined us as a Contributor. Laura is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at New York University, and specializes in the philosophy of biology. She has published numerous articles in Philosophy of Science and also has an active interest in the implications of evolutionary theories for metaethics. Welcome aboard, Laura!

Saturday 16 – Sunday 17 October 2010
Beijing, China

Organisers:
Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Philosophy Summer School in China

Sponsor: The Ford Foundation

Professor Saul Smilansky (University of Haifa) will be giving a talk on Monday, March 1, at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled “Should We Be Sorry that We Exist?” A copy of Saul’s talk can be found here. Saul would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk:

Readers may know that I’ve recently taken up an associate professorship in the Center for Bioethics with an affiliation in the philosophy department at NYU. The Center runs a Master’s Program in Bioethics and is holding an open house on

Thursday, March 4, 2010
5:30-7:30 PM
285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor
(Between Waverly and Washington Pl.)
New York, NY 10003

If you are interested in pursuing graduate studies in Bioethics, this will be a good opportunity to meet with the faculty and students and discuss the range of Program options and career benefits. Food and refreshments will be served.

Professor Angelika Krebs (University of Basel) will be giving a talk on Monday, Feb. 22, at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled “Dialogical Love.” A copy of Professor Kreb’s talk can be found here. Professor Krebs would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of her talk:

Readers of this blog might be interested to learn that Ethics Etc has had over 4 million hits (4,141,340 to be exact) with over 2 million pages read (2,334,935 to be exact) since it started in May 2007. Currently, the blog is averaging about 5400 hits per day. Thanks to everyone who has been visiting this blog!

AHRC workshop on “The Future of Consent”
Date: March 22nd-24th 2010
Location: Chancellor’s Conference Centre, Manchester

There are a limited number of places available for a two day interdisciplinary and international workshop—The Future of Consent—organised by Neil Manson and Dave Archard (Lancaster) and funded by the AHRC with additional support from the Society for Applied Philosophy.

I just finished a draft of a paper called “Bias and Reasoning: Haidt’s Theory of Moral Judgment.” Eventually, the final version of the paper will go into an edited collection called New Waves in Ethics, edited by Thom Brooks. In the meantime, I’d be really interested to learn what some of you think of this paper. An abstract of the paper is as follows:

Roger Crisp had an article in Mind in 2008 entitled “Goodness and Reasons: Accentuating the Negative.” Mind just published a piece discussing Crisp’s 2008 article by Philip Stratton-Lake, as well Crisp’s response to Stratton-Lake, both of which look very interesting. I also have a piece called “The Buck-Passing Account of Value: Lessons from Crisp,” which also discusses Crisp’s 2008 article and which is available via Philosophical Studies’ Online First, or here for a penultimate version. I had a quick look at Stratton-Lake’s piece and Crisp’s response, and as far as I can tell, the points I make in my paper are different from Stratton-Lake’s. I’ll be reading Stratton-Lake’s and Crisp’s papers more closely soon, but in the meantime, I’d be very interested to learn what other people think of them.

Professor Joseph Raz (Columbia and Oxford University) will be giving a talk on Monday, Feb. 8, at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled ‘On the Guise of the Good.’ A copy of Professor Raz’s talk can be found here. Professor Raz would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk:

August 1st – 5th, 2010
Bellingham, Washington.

Everyone is invited to submit a paper, or to volunteer to be a commentator or session chair, but conference attendance is by invitation only, and will be primarily limited to those on the conference program.

To submit a paper: Submissions should be prepared for blind review and emailed to the 2010 BSPC Program Committee at BSPC2010 (at) gmail.com. Papers on any topic are welcome, but the conference program committee will be looking for papers that are of general philosophical interest. Papers of any length will be considered, but shorter papers (under about 25 pages) will have a better chance of being accepted than longer papers. The deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2010. Prospective authors will be notified of the Program Committee’s decisions by early May.

University of Wisconsin, Madison
September 24-26, 2010

Stephen Darwall (Yale) 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 2008 or 2009 workshop are not eligible to submit abstracts for this year’s event. A program committee will evaluate submissions and make decisions by early June.

Information on submitting an abstract, plus much other relevant information about the workshop, can be obtained at the workshop website: https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/shaferlandau/web/metaethics/workshop_2010/

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers:

2ND COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE IN EPISTEMOLOGY:
THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
AUGUST 19-20, 2010

We tend to think of liberal democracy as providing the most ethically defensible way to set up a modern society. A separate yet highly relevant issue is whether liberal democracies also are preferable from an epistemological perspective, i.e., from the point of view of promoting true over false belief, knowledge over ignorance, and so on.

Call for Papers: Ethics, Energy and the Future: Technology for a Sustainable Society

June 24th-26th 2010
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands
Abstract Deadline: February 15th, 2010

Keynote Speakers include:
Simon Caney, University of Oxford
Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington
Axel Gosseries, University of Louvain
Jeroen van den Hoven, 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology
Andrew Light, George Mason University & Center for American Progress
Henry Shue, University of Oxford

CONF: De se attitudes + Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency
Oslo, June 2010

Arché (St Andrews) and CSMN (Oslo) are pleased to announce two major events on first-person thoughts to be held in Oslo from 6th to 11th June, 2010.

(1) Arché/CSMN Mini-course & Workshop: De se attitudes Sunday June 6, 2010 – Wednesday June 9, 2010
Confirmed speakers:
• Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)
• Andy Egan (Rutgers/Arché)
• James Higginbotham (USC)
• Daniel Morgan (Oxford)
• Dilip Ninan (Arché)
• François Recanati (Institute Jean-Nicod (CNRS)/Arché)
• Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)
Website: http://www.csmn.uio.no/events/2010/De-Se

THE Association for Political Theory Conference 2010
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Conference Date: October 21-23, 2010
Proposal Submission Date: February 20, 2010

The Association for Political Theory welcomes paper proposals, panel proposals, and proposals for roundtable discussions from all approaches and on all topics in political theory, political philosophy, and the history of political thought. Faculty, advanced PhD candidates, and independent scholars are eligible to apply. Faculty are encouraged to volunteer to serve as chairs and/or discussants.

The current issue of Philosophical Perspectives is devoted to ethics, and judging from the titles, looks to have quite a number of very interesting papers. Do check them out!

Society for Applied Philosophy Annual Conference 2010
St Anne’s College, Oxford, 2-4 July

CALL for PAPERS
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.

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