PEA Soup

May 2012 Books Received

Authors and/or their presses kindly sent at least one of the editors the following books.

 

Updates to PEA Soup

In light of feedback some of you have sent to the editors over the past several months, we have finally been able to make a few improvements to PEA Soup.  You've likely already noticed the most important ones, but just to make it "official," a brief description is 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.

Workshop: Good Life: Theory and Practice

A group of our PhD students here at Birmingham asked me to email details of a workshop on the conceptions of a good life which they are organising here in June. This should be of interest for graduate students following this blog as there is also a call for abstracts for them included. Here's the announcement:

Call for abstracts and registration

Workshop at the University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy
The Good Life: Theory and Practice
8th June 2012

Confirmed speakers
Beverley Clack (Professor in the Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Brookes University)
Chris Megone (Professor of Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics, University of Leeds)
Mozaffar Qizilbash (Professor of Economics, University of York)
Stephen Wilkinson (Professor of Bioethics, Keele University)
James Wilson (Lecturer in Philosophy and Health, University College London)

Welcome Jonathan Way!

I'm pleased to welcome aboard Jonathan Way, a Lecturer at the University of Southampton, as a contributor to PEA Soup.  Jonathan has published several articles on practical rationality, including a forthcoming piece in Ethics.  Great to have you here, Jonathan!

Strawson 50th Love Fest

In honor of my favorite philosophical article, I'm pleased to pass on the following announcement from Neal Tognazzini:

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of P. F. Strawson's 'Freedom and Resentment'. In honor of its remarkable influence over the past half-century, the philosophy department at The College of William & Mary is hosting a two-day conference this fall, *Responsibility & Relationships*, that will explore Strawsonian themes in contemporary moral philosophy, psychology, and the law, including new work on blame, punishment, and the moral emotions. And you're all invited.

The website for the conference is here.

Welcome, William J. FitzPatrick!

We are pleased to announce that William J. FitzPatrick has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Bill is Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Rochester. One of his primary research interests lies with defending a robust form of ethical realism that involves a non-naturalistic metaphysics of ethical facts and properties as well as an external reasons theory that allows for the categoricity of moral requirements. He is also interested in resisting consequentialism, particularly through defenses of the Doctrine of Double Effect against various recent objections. Welcome aboard, Bill!

Horgan and Timmons and Templeton

Congratulations to Professors Terry Horgan and Mark Timmons, Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona, who are recipients of a John Templeton Foundation Grant in the amount of $230,386 to support their book project “Illuminating Reasons: An Essay in Moral Phenomenology.”

Welcome, Justin Clarke-Doane!

We are pleased to announce that Justin Clarke-Doane has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Justin recently received his PhD from NYU and is currently a fix-term Lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Justin's work centers on foundational and methodological problems in metaphysics and epistemology. Recently, his work has concerned indeterminacy and undecidability in set theory, a priori knowledge, and comparisons between ethics and mathematics. Welcome aboard, Justin!

Welcome, Chrisoula Andreou!

We are pleased to announce that Chrisoula Andreou has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup. Chrisoula is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Utah. She works on practical reasoning, ethical theory, and applied ethics. Welcome aboard, Chrisoula!