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Wisconsin Metaethics Program

2013 Workshop Program below the fold.

June is "K" and "L" Month on the Soup!

If you are a contributor whose first name starts with "K" or "L," it's your special month, and we encourage you to post something.  Check the calendar of events to make sure you won't be posting on top of some other planned event.  Remember, we are happy to see more informal blogging, so feel free to let that half-baked idea rip!

Moral Education Conference

Moral Education: Ancient and Contemporary

June 8th-9th, Northwestern University

Speakers & Commentators: Harry Brighouse (Wisconsin), David Ebrey (Northwestern), Kristján Kristjánsson (Birmingham), Rachana Kamtekar (Arizona), Gavin Lawrence (UCLA), Rachel Barney (Toronto), Randall Curren (Rochester), Agnes Callard (Chicago), Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern), Gabriel Richardson Lear (Chicago), Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon (Northwestern), Emily Fletcher (Wisconsin), Joseph Barnes (UC Berkeley / Humboldt), Richard Kraut (Northwestern), Darcia Narvaez (Notre Dame), Joseph Karbowski (Notre Dame)

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.

 

1000th post at PEA Soup!

This is the 1000^th post on PEA Soup—a milestone that seems a good occasion for reflection on the blog. We would welcome fond memories of past discussions on the Soup or suggestions for how to improve it. As the newcomer to Soup, I cannot give enough shout outs to the Fantastic 4 that created and sustained it for its first 9 years: Dan Boisvert, Josh Glasgow, Doug Portmore, and David Shoemaker. Thanks guys—all of us who have benefitted from the Soup owe you.

The blog is doing well. We are now averaging over 1000 visits a day. And there are a variety of new initiatives that we are excited about that are only just starting up. We have significantly expanded the excellent journals we are partnered with, started up the Featured Philosopher series, and encouraged our contributors to post a new thread at least once a year. As you can already see, the blog is becoming more active and there will be more posts than ever before. 

Workshop on Deontological Principles and the Criminal Law

The Institute for Law and Philosophy at Rutgers University is sponsoring a workshop on Deontological Principles and the Criminal Law. (More below the fold.)

NOWAR 2 Program

The program for the second New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility is now available here.  Registration is free; e-mail dshoemakATtulaneDOTedu to do so.

New Calendar Feature

Just a quick note to point out the new "Calendar of Events" feature on PEA Soup, with the link in the banner above.  It will keep you informed of forthcoming events, e.g., the Featured Philosophers scheduled to appear (several are already scheduled) and the various journal discussions.  This will better enable you to plan your life around the Soup.

Welcome, Avia Pasternak!

So pleased to be welcoming Avia Pasternak officially as a contributor (and associate editor) to PEA Soup!  Avia is a lecturer in political theory in the Department of Government at University of Essex, working on, among other things, collective responsibility and the relation between global justice and democratic theory.

Exciting Changes at PEA Soup! (Part Two)

Gimme' that old time blogigion!

In our last post, we mentioned our partnerships with a variety of excellent journals publishing new work in ethics and political philosophy.  In this post, we want to explain ways in which we will try to push the blog to expand in a more informal direction as well, capturing again some of that old time bloggy fun we used to have.  We have two proposals.