University of Nottingham, 18th-19th January 2013
The aim of the conference is to investigate: (i) the connections between indispensability-type arguments in mathematics and ethics; (ii) connections between evolutionary debunking-style arguments in mathematics and ethics and (iii) more generally, other connections between the two areas that touch on the issue of explanation.
Conference talks, registration information, and more details are below the fold.
Deadline: February 15, 2013
Keynote Speakers: Talbot Brewer and
Sarah Buss
Submissions: We welcome submissions
from faculty and graduate students, as some sessions will be reserved
for student presentations. Please submit an essay of approximately
4000 words and an abstract of at most 150 words. Essay topics in all
areas of ethical theory and political philosophy will be considered,
although some priority will be given to essays that take up themes
from the works of Talbot Brewer and Sarah Buss, such as autonomy,
desire, goodness, moral psychology, moral responsibility, pleasure,
practical reasoning, respect, virtue, Aristotelianism and Kantianism.
Essays and abstracts should be prepared for blind review in word,
rtf, or pdf format. Graduate submissions should be sent by e-mail to
nustep.grad.conference@gmail.com; faculty submissions should be sent
by e-mail to kebelsduggan@northwestern.edu. Notices of acceptance
will be sent by April 1, 2013. For more information, please contact
Kyla Ebels-Duggan at the e-mail address above or visit our website:
http://www.philosophy.northwestern.edu/conferences/moralpolitical/
We are pleased to present the latest installment of Ethics at PEA Soup, in which we host a discussion of one article from each issue of Ethics. The article selected from Volume 122, issue 4, is Sarah Buss's "Autonomous Action: Self-Determination in the Passive Mode." Ethics has kindly provided free access to the article here. We are also extremely grateful to Hilary Bok, who has agreed to provide the critical précis, which begins below the fold.
(Moving to the Front from Oct 10 and Sept 7, 2012)
Update Oct 19, 2012: Professor Buss's paper can be accessed here.
Update Oct 10: Discussion will begin October 29th! A link to Professor Buss's paper will be added shortly.
We are pleased to announce the next installment of Ethics at PEA Soup, which will feature Sarah Buss's article “Autonomous Action: Self-determination in the Passive Mode.” We are also pleased that Hilary Bok has accepted our invitation to be our Lead Discussant. Discussion should begin sometime in October, and we'll be sure to keep everyone posted when dates are more settled.
By way of Brian Leiter, an excellent interview with PEA Souper Valerie Tiberius!
We are thrilled to welcome Nomy Arpaly and Timothy Schroeder to PEA Soup! Nomy, whose research interests include ethics, moral psychology, action theory, metaethics, and free will, is Professor of Philosophy at Brown University. She is the author of Merit, Meaning,and Human Bondage: An Essay on Free Will (Princeton U.P., 2006) and Unprincipled Virtue (Oxford U.P., 2002). Tim is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University. He works broadly in the areas of moral psychology and philosophy of mind and is author of Three Faces of Desire (Oxford, U. P., 2004). His current project is tentatively titled Reasons from Atoms. It's wonderful to have you both aboard!
