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Wisconsin Metaethics Program

2013 Workshop Program below the fold.

Marc Sanders Prize for Younger Scholars in Metaethics

Russ Shafer-Landau has just announced a Call for Papers for a new paper competition: the Marc Sanders Prize in Metaethics. The winner of the prize will receive $8,000, present his or her paper at the upcoming Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop (https://sites.google.com/site/wiscmew/), and have the winning paper included in a forthcoming volume of Oxford Studies in Metaethics. Details below the fold.

 

Arizona WiNE: call for abstracts

From Mark Timmons, here is a call for abstracts for the Fourth Annual Arizona
Workshop in Normative Ethical Theory that will be held in Tucson, Arizona on
January 3-5, 2013. Abstracts are welcome in any area or on any topic in
normative ethical theory (to be distinguished as well as possible from
metaethics, political philosophy, and applied ethics).

Abstracts should be 2-3 double-spaced pages and are due no later than Monday June 4,
2012. Please send abstracts by email to Mark at mtimmons@u.arizona.edu.
Those who presented at the 2011 or 2012 workshops are not eligible for presenting at the 2013 workshop.
A program committee will evaluate the submissions and decisions will be finalized by early July.

Julia Annas (Arizona), Brad Hooker (Reading), and Shelly Kagan (Yale) are the 2013 keynote speakers.

Further information about the submission of abstracts and about the Workshop is
available at the Workshop website.

Call on the New York Times to publish an obituary for Ruth Marcus

Michael Della Rocca has given me permission to post this request, which he sent to a number of Marcus-admirers and friends, to PEA Soup.

 

Dear Friends and admirers of Ruth Marcus,

Forgive the mass e-mailing, any duplications, or omissions.  As you
know, Ruth Marcus died over two weeks ago and an obituary has yet to
appear in the New York Times.  This failure to recognize one of the most
prominent and pioneering philosophers of the last 60 years is
appalling.  There have been multiple communications between Yale and
also NYU (Ruth's undergraduate alma mater) with the obituary editors at
the Times.  The Times has received a wealth of information from these
sources and still no obituary.  I fear that they have decided or are in
the process of deciding that Ruth is not a significant enough figure to
warrant the recognition of an obituary in the Times.  Don't get me
started on this -- it's simply outrageous.  Don Garrett, Diana Raffman
and I  have sent to the Times' obituary editors a strongly worded
message -- see below.  If you would like to endorse the sentiments in
this message please let me know and we will pass on this information to
the Times.  I plan to be in touch with them again soon.  Or if you would
like to write a message of your own to the Times that would be great.
The obituary editors are Bill McDonald<wmcdon@nytimes.com>   and Jack
Kadden<kadden@nytimes.com>.

If there are other philosophers you know of who might be interested in
helping out here, please feel free to forward this message and to
encourage them to be in touch with me or Diana or Don.

Don, Diana, and I will be in touch directly with the APA leadership
about this matter so that they may contact the Times too.

best,
Michael (and Diana and Don)

Below the fold is the message that was sent yesterday to the Obituary editors at the Times:

Arizona Ethics 2012

Program for the Arizona Ethics Workshop below the fold, and also at the Workshop web site.

 

MadMeta 2011 Call for Abstracts

From Russ Shafer-Landau:

A call for abstracts for the Eighth Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on September 16-18, 2011. Christine Korsgaard (Harvard) 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 2009 or 2010 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.

        All questions about the workshop may be directed to me (that's Russ).

Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics, January 2011

Mark Timmons has posted the program for the first annual Arizona Workshop in Normative Ethics. I've put the whole program below the fold; you can also just go to workshop website for the program and more information.

Mad Meta 2010 Program

The program for the Madison Metaethics Workshop is up. Looks great. I've put it here below the fold; for the program and more information about the workshop, here's a link to the site.

Madison Meta 2010 Call for Submissions

Russ Shafer-Landau has the 2010 Workshop announcement up. Here is Russ's note:

Dear Colleague,
I’m pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the Seventh Annual Metaethics Workshop, to be held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, on 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.

Questions may be sent to Russ, whose contact information is on his website.

Kudos!

In case the cash is not enough, congratulations to Dave Shoemaker for his 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Philosophy for  this posting on Scanlon on Moral Responsibility and Blame!

Surely a few drops of glory have rained into the general PEA Soup pot (note Dennett's blurb on the award page). Good comments, and I'm sure it didn't hurt that Tim dropped by.