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  • Bart Streumer
  • Brian McElwee
  • Dan Moller
  • Daniel Star
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  • David Owens
  • David Wasserman
  • Fiona Woollard
  • Frances Kamm
  • Gerald Lang
  • Gilbert Harman
  • Guy Kahane
  • Helen Frowe
  • Iwao Hirose
  • James Morauta
  • Japa Pallikkathayil
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  • John Oberdiek
  • Jonas Olson
  • Joseph Raz
  • Julia Driver
  • Krister Bykvist
  • Laura Franklin-Hall
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  • Mike Otsuka
  • Neil Levy
  • Nicholas Southwood
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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
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• Readings

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    Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
    Thomas Nagel
    
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    Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed
    Krister Bykvist
    
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    The Global Justice Reader
    Thom Brooks
    
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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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    Ethics: The Fundamentals
    Julia Driver
    
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    Origins of Objectivity
    Tyler Burge
    
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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
    
  • 
    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
    
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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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    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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7th International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication
6-8 May 2011, Riga, Latvia

INVITED ORGANIZERS: Michael Bishop (Florida State University), Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)

INVITED SPEAKERS include:
Michael Bishop (Florida State University)
Luc Faucher (Université du Québec a Montréal)
Joshua Knobe (Yale University)
Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh)
Dominic Murphy (University of Sydney)
Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)
Jesse Prinz (City University of New York)
Adina Roskies (Dartmouth College)
Don Ross (University of Cape Town)
Stephen Stich (Rutgers University)
Valerie Tiberius (University of Minnesota)

From Professor Sandra Laugier (Sorbonne):

This conference is meant as an homage to Cora Diamond’s work in ethics, and focuses on its European reception. Her work has been translated in French and Italian in the recent years.

“Ethics, Imagination, and Forms of Life”
13-15 September 2010, Amiens, France
Pôle cathédrale, Placette Lafleur
Amphithéâtre Carré de Malberg
Admission free – open to graduate students and researchers
Contact : sandra.laugier (at) noos.fr

Monday, September 13th
Amphithéâtre Carré de Malberg

Opening
Sandra Laugier, Emmanuel Halais (UPJV, CURAPP)

1. ETHICS AND OBJECTIVITY
Chair : Vincent Descombes (EHESS)

University of Stirling
7-9 September 2011

It is often said that contemporary liberal democracies such as Britain and the USA face a crisis of over-criminalization: too much conduct is criminalized, too hastily, without adequate thought about the aims it should serve. The result is a disorganized, unprincipled criminal law, which subjects too many people to the threat of arrest and punishment. But normative theorists of criminal law, who have made major advances in systematic work on such issues as punishment and criminal responsibility, have made comparatively little systematic progress on this problem. The Criminalization Project, an AHRC-funded project involving researchers from the Universities of Stirling, Glasgow, Warwick and York aims to remedy this lack, by bringing together philosophers, lawyers and political scientists to discuss the various dimensions of the problem of criminalization.

International Conference, Institute of Philosophy,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium),
30 May-1 June 2011

This conference’s title is ambiguous on purpose. The relationship between love and reasons for action is highly interesting and complicated. It is not clear how love is related to reasons. Love might be a response to certain normative reasons, since it seems fitting to love certain objects. However, love also seems to create reasons and not to be a response to certain appropriate reasons. Love’s relationship to morality is also complex. It is not clear how the normative reasons for acting morally are related to the reasons of love. It is sometimes argued that love is not a virtue because the reasons for acting morally are not the same as the reasons for acting lovingly. But the notion of ‘unprincipled virtue’ seems to make room for love as a motive of morally praiseworthy actions.

I recently gave an interview for Big Think on erasing memories Eternal Sunshine-style for their series on “Dangerous Ideas.” They are running this series throughout the month of August, and other people in the series include Stephen Hawking, Noam Chomsky, Richard Posner, and Gary Becker.

The entire series, which is still ongoing, can be found here, and my portion on erasing memories can be found here. Below is a video of the interview.

Sometime ago, Mike Otsuka (UCL) mentioned here that Derek Parfit will be responding to an article by him and Alex Voorhoeve entitled ‘Why It Matters That Some Are Worse Off Than Others: An Argument against the Priority View’ here on Ethics Etc, with further responses from Mike and Alex, once Derek’s book, On What Matters, is published. In the meantime, the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT) has put together a really nice one day conference to discuss Mike’s and Alex’s paper.

Date: 19th November 2010
Time: 10.30am – 5.30pm
Location: University of Manchester, UK

The North Carolina Philosophical Society announces its call for papers for its upcoming meeting on February 25 & 26, 2011 at Appalachian State University.

The keynote speaker will be Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics at Duke University.

Papers in any area of philosophy designed for a presentation time of about 20-30 minutes are welcome. Further details including submission instructions can be found at the NCPS website at: http://www.northcarolinaphilosophicalsociety.org/

Undergraduate submissions are strongly encouraged, and there will be a $175 prize for the best paper submitted by an untenured faculty member, a $125 prize for the best graduate student paper, and a $100 prize for the best undergraduate paper.

Professor Christian Miller (Wake Forest) and his colleagues have recently been awarded a $3.67 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation for The Character Project, an exploration of the nature of character.

Christian asked me to let you know that $2 million will soon be devoted to three separate funding competitions, one of which will be for philosophers working on topics related to character broadly conceived, including but not limited to the recent work on the empirical adequacy of character traits.

You can learn more about the project here and the funding competitions here. Do feel free to contact Christian at character (at) wfu.edu for more information.

The Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy brings together ethicists and political philosophers as well as philosophers and researchers working in related fields to present and discuss work in practical philosophy. A central meeting place for members and Ph.D. students of the Netherlands School for Research in Practical Philosophy (Onderzoekschool Ethiek), it warmly welcomes non-members and researchers in practical philosophy from outside The Netherlands.

Conference dates: 8 and 9 October, 2010
Venue: Het Kasteel, Groningen, The Netherlands
Keynote speakers: Onora O’Neill (Cambridge), Michael Smith (Princeton)

Registration: EUR 275 (members), EUR 350 (non-members), EUR 200 (Ph.D. students)

The Journal of Applied Philosophy will henceforward award an annual prize of £1,000 to the best article published in the year’s Volume. The first award will be made in respect of Volume 28 (2011). The judgment as to the best article will be made by the editors of the Journal.

The Journal of Applied Philosophy provides a unique forum for philosophical research which seeks to make a constructive contribution to problems of practical concern. Open to the expression of diverse viewpoints, the journal brings critical analysis to these areas and to the identification, justification and discussion of values of universal appeal. The Journal of Applied Philosophy covers a broad spectrum of issues in environment, medicine, science, policy, law, politics, economics and education.

The program for the 7th Annual Metaethics Workshop has been finalized and can be found here. It looks fantastic! The workshop will be held on Sept 24-26, 2010 in Madison, WI. Registration is free and all are welcome. If you would like to attend, please email Professor Russ Shafer-Landau (shaferlandau -at- wisc.edu).

Professor Nishi Shah (Amherst) recent gave a paper, which he co-wrote with Matt Evans (NYU), at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled “Mental Agency and Metaethics.” A copy of Nishi’s talk can be found here. Professor Shah would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk:

Professor Alan Thomas (Tilburg University) will be giving a talk on Monday, June 7, at the Oxford Moral Philosophy Seminar entitled “Practical Reasoning, the First Person and Impartialism about Reasons.” A copy of Professor Thomas’s talk can be found here. Professor Thomas would welcome any comments/suggestions. Here’s an abstract of his talk:

The NYU Center for Bioethics, in conjunction with the NYU Environmental Studies Program, will be hosting ‘Valuing Lives: A Conference on Ethics in Health and the Environment’ on Saturday, March 5, 2011.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
Various policy issues in environmental and health-related matters force policymakers to trade human lives against other values. Original, unpublished papers from philosophers, economists and legal scholars that address whether and how this can be done in a morally acceptable manner are welcomed. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: commensurability of human life and environmental values; compensation for harms to health; polling, public deliberation, and the appeal to expertise in evaluative matters; prioritizing the life and health of the young and the poorly-off; discounting future lives; saving identifiable lives vs. saving statistical lives; the precautionary principle; the human dignity objection to measuring the value of human life.

The Experiment Month initiative is a program designed to help philosophers conduct experimental studies. If you are interested in running a study, you can send your study proposal to the Experiment Month staff. Then, if your proposal is selected for inclusion, they will conduct the study online, send you the results and help out with any statistical analysis you may need. All proposals are due Sept. 1.

For further information, see the Experiment Month website: http://www.yale.edu/cogsci/XM/

The Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC) is holding a workshop entitled “Eliminative and Manipulative Agency in the Ethics of Self-Defence.”
Date: June 15, 2010
Location: Old Indian Institute, James Martin 21st Century School, Oxford
Time: 0900-1800

SPEAKERS
Dr. Helen Frowe (Sheffield): ‘Threats And Bystanders’
Dr. Gerald Lang (Leeds): ‘Self-Defence And Agency’
Dr. Seth Lazar (Oxford): ‘Scepticism About The Eliminative/Manipulative Agency Distinction’
Professor Victor Tadros (Warwick): ‘Duty And Liability’

RESPONDENTS
Jo Firth (Oxford)
Dr. Jon Quong (Manchester)
Dr. David Rodin (Oxford)
Guy Sela (Oxford)

The Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT will host a one day conference on Judy Thomson‘s recent book Normativity. All are welcome.

Date: Friday 11 June 2010
Location: Stata Center (map), MIT. Room 32-d461 (take the elevator in the Dreyfoos Tower to the Fourth Floor; map)

Schedule:
10.30 – 12.00
Peter Railton (Michigan)
1.00 – 2.30
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)
3.00 – 4.30
Michael Smith (Princeton)
4.45 – 5.45
Round-table discussion with the speakers and Judy Thomson

http://web.mit.edu/holton/www/confs/Judyconf/judyconf.html

Organizer: Richard Holton – holton (at) mit.edu

Registration is now open for the 2010 conference of the British Society for Ethical Theory, to be held at the University of Nottingham, 7th-9th July. (This is the period directly before the 2010 Joint Session.)

Details of the programme and registration forms are available here:

http://www.bset.org.uk/nextconference.html

Keynote speakers:
Jamie Dreier (Brown)
Tim Mulgan (St. Andrews)

Submitted Papers:
“Value Incomparability and Indeterminacy” – Cristian Constantinescu (Cambridge)

“A New Theory of Well-Being” – Jennifer Hawkins (Duke)

“Sentimentalism and Deontological Intuitions” – Antti Kauppinen (Amsterdam/Trinity College Dublin)

“Faith in Humanity” – Ryan Preston-Roedder (Chapel Hill)

There is a fantastic “Author Meets Critics” event being held at Stanford this week, which will discuss Professor Charles Beitz’s book, The Idea of Human Rights.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Philippines Room-3rd Floor Encina Hall
Stanford University
12:15 -5:00pm

Critics: Barbara Herman (Philosophy, UCLA)
Tim Scanlon (Philosophy, Harvard)
Jenny Martinez (Law, Stanford)
James Fearon (Political Science, Stanford)
Response: Charles Beitz ( Politics, Princeton)

Professor Charles Beitz is a Professor of Politics at Princeton University. His philosophical and teaching interests focus on international political theory, democratic theory, the theory of human rights and legal theory. He coedited International Ethics and Law, Economics, and Philosophy. His current work includes projects on the philosophy of human rights and the theory of intellectual property.

Stockholm June Workshop in Philosophy 2010:
Ethics and Epistemology
Thursday 3 June, 10 am – 5 pm,
Room D207, Frescati
Stockholm University

10.00 Welcome
10.05 Brian McElwee (Oxford): ‘The Structure of Demandingness Objections’. Commentator: Katharina Berndt (Stockholm).
11.05 Coffee
11.20 Åsa Wikforss (Stockholm): ‘What Justifies Beliefs about One’s Own Beliefs?’ Commentator: Sara Packalén (Stockholm).
12.20 Lunch
13.40 Karl Karlander (Stockholm): ‘The Varieties of Pain’. Commentator: Jonas Olson (Stockholm).
14.40 Break
14.45 Jonas Åkerman (Stockholm): ’Referential Intentions’. Commentator: Emma Wallin (Stockholm).
15.45 Coffee
16.00 Chris Heathwood (UC Boulder): ‘Could Morality Have a Source’? Commentator: Jens Johansson (Stockholm).

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