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SLACRR 3 - Program

Here are the main speakers at the next St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality, May 20-22, 2012.

Keynote:  Jonathan Dancy (Texas/Reading), "More Right than Wrong"

Ethical AutoCorrect

Computers and smartphones sometimes autocorrect what you type, so that your words are properly spelled. We know that this doesn't work perfectly. Suppose it did. Further, suppose that somehow there were also a perfect Ethical AutoCorrect, which if activated would alter any unethical action you were trying to perform into an ethical action. For example, if activated, and if extreme pacifism were true, then your attempt to switch the runaway trolley from the track with x people on it to the track with only x-1 people on it would fail. When you try to do what is indeed ethical, the Ethical AutoCorrect doesn't change a thing.

Two questions:  First, is such an Ethical AutoCorrect even an coherent idea? Or is there something about ethics such that the very idea of an Ethical AutoCorrect is confused? Second, if it is a coherent idea, and if it were a live option, should you use it?

Final CFA: SLACRR (St Louis), Dec 31

This is the final call for abstracts for the next St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, meeting May 20-22, 2012 in the Moonrise Hotel.  Jonathan Dancy will be the keynote speaker. Abstracts are due December 31, 2011. 

St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR) provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed. Please submit an abstract of 750-1500 words by December 31, 2011 to SLACRR (at) gmail.com. In writing your abstract, please bear in mind that full papers should suitable for a 30 minute presentation.

For more information, see http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/

SLACRR 2 Program

St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and Rationality
UM-St. Louis
May 22-24, 2011
Moonrise Hotel

The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to announce the program for SLACRR 2.  PEA Soupers on this year's program include Jamie Dreier (Keynote), Brad Cokelet, Jussi Suikkanen, Mark van Roojen, and Robert N. Johnson.  There is no fee to attend SLACRR, but since space is limited, we ask that you register, which you can do simply by emailing John Brunero or Eric Wiland at SLACRR@gmail.com.  More information about the conference is available at  http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/ 
 
The full program is below the break --->

All Things Considered?

I'm reading Wedgwood's discussion of Normative Judgement Internalism (NJI), which has prompted me to think the following:

Philosophers often refer to all-things-considered judgments about what one ought to do.  But this concept is underanalyzed.   I venture that almost no one who uses this term actually has a clear idea about what it means.  *What* exactly are you judging if you judge that, all things considered, you ought to V?

SLACRR program

St. Louis Annual Conference on Reason and Rationality

UM-St. Louis

May 23-25, 2010

Moonrise Hotel

The Department of Philosophy at UM-St. Louis is pleased to announce the first St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR), which will take place May 23-25, 2010.  Information about the conference is available on our website: http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/  

Our keynote address will be given by Michael Bratman, and we'll have talks by Mark Schroeder, Agnes Callard, David McNaughton & Piers Rawling, Michael Titelbaum, Ruth Chang, Anton Ford, Eric Marcus, Stephen Kearns & Daniel Star, Garrett Cullity and Paul Weirich. 

 
There is no fee to attend SLACRR, but since space is limited, we ask that you register, which you can do simply by emailing John Brunero or Eric Wiland at SLACRR@gmail.com

Practical Gettier Cases

For a very long time, many philosophers thought that knowledge is justified true belief. But Gettier pointed out how one can have justified true belief and yet lack knowledge.

For a very long time, many philosophers have thought that performing a virtuous action is performing the right action for the right reason. Here I wish to point out how considerations analogous to those that Gettier identified show how one could perform the right action for the right reason, and yet not perform a virtuous action.