On October 2, 2017 By Eric Wiland In Announcements, Call For Papers, News and Events, Practical Rationality, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality Comments (0) Like

SLACRR 2018 and Res Philosophica Prize Issue: CFA

SLACRR 2018
Call for Abstracts

May 20-22, 2018, Moonrise Hotel, St. Louis, MO

Keynote Speaker: Mark van Roojen (Nebraska)

SLACRR provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed. Please submit an anonymized abstract of 750-1500 words by January 15, 2018 to SLACRR@gmail.com. In writing your abstract, please bear in mind that full papers should be suitable for a 30 minute presentation. Please attach your abstract as a pdf file, the name of which should be based upon the title of your abstract. (In other words, don’t name your file FILE.pdf or ABSTRACT.pdf)

Papers accepted this year will be eligible for publication in a special issue of Res Philosophica on the topic of reasons and rationality to be published in the first half of 2019. Furthermore, one essay published in the issue will receive a $3,000 prize for best paper. Authors of accepted papers may, but need not, submit their paper to this special issue. Submissions of full papers for the issue will be due August 31, 2018, and will be blind reviewed. Questions regarding the special issue of Res Philosophica can be directed to the editor, Joe Salerno, at editor@resphilosophica.org

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On March 9, 2017 By Eric Wiland In News and Events, Practical Rationality, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality Comments Off on SLACRR 2017 Program 1

SLACRR 2017 Program

St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality 2017

May 21-23, 2017

Keynote: Kieran Setiya (MIT)

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On March 14, 2016 By Eric Wiland In Call For Papers, Practical Rationality, Practical reasons, Reasons and rationality Comments Off on SLACRR 2016 Program Like

SLACRR 2016 Program

Registering for the St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality is free and easy: http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/registration.html

SLACRR 2016 Program

All talks are in the Moonrise Hotel.

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On December 15, 2015 By Eric Wiland In Call For Papers, News and Events, Practical Rationality Comments Off on SLACRR 2016: Call for abstracts Like

SLACRR 2016: Call for abstracts

SLACRR: May 22-24, 2016

Keynote Speaker:
Paul Boghossian (NYU)

St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed. Please submit an anonymized abstract of 750-1500 words by January 15, 2016 to SLACRR@gmail.com. In writing your abstract, please bear in mind that full papers should be suitable for a 30 minute presentation. Please attach your abstract as a pdf file, the name of which should be based upon the title of your abstract. (In other words, don't name your file FILE.pdf or ABSTRACT.pdf)

What to Submit

SLACRR includes papers in ethics, epistemology, and other areas of philosophy that deal with reasons, reasoning, or rationality. For instance, we would be interested in papers exploring such questions as:

What is the relation between reasons for actions and reasons for beliefs?
What are the sources of our reasons for belief?
How are features of one's psychology relevant to reasons?
What is the relation between reasons and what we ought to do or believe?
What is the relation between reasons and value?
Are the requirements of practical and theoretical rationality normative?
What is the relation between individual rationality and collective rationality?
Are actions or beliefs themselves structured by reasons?

Of course, this is just a small sample of questions. Further questions can also be directed to Eric Wiland, Julia Staffel, Kathryn Lindeman, or to SLACRR@gmail.com

On April 26, 2015 By Eric Wiland In The Profession Comments (5) Like

Philosophy and Law programs?

I hope to gather information about undergraduate degree programs that somehow combine philosophy and law. A few examples include Indiana University PA, Georgia State, Lewis, and USC. I am looking only at degree programs administered by philosophy departments, and that have the word "law" somewhere in the description of the major, so that a student or an administrator would see the program as combining something marketable (law) with philosophy.

Are there other such programs? Do they attract majors? Do they attract students to the college itself? Any advice on how to get one's own university (ahem) to look favorably upon proposing such a degree program?

On November 15, 2014 By Eric Wiland In Practical Rationality Comments Off on Call for Abstracts: SLACRR 6 Like

Call for Abstracts: SLACRR 6

I'm pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the next St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, sponsored by UMSL, Washington University, and Saint Louis University. Many PEA Soupers have participated the past five years.

May 17 – 19, 2015

Keynote Speaker:

Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)

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On March 7, 2014 By Eric Wiland In Practical Rationality Comments Off on SLACRR 2014 Program Like