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Welcome, Simon Kirchin!

We are pleased to announce that Simon Kirchin has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup.  Simon is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Director of Learning and Teaching for the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent. He is also the Treasurer of the British Society for Ethical Theory, which is the leading society in the UK for moral philosophy, and an Associate Editor of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. His research interests are mainly in metaethics and normative ethics, but also include aesthetics, metaphysics, epistemology, medical ethics, and political philosophy. It's great to have you aboard, Simon!

Welcome, Simon Keller!

We are pleased to announce that Simon Keller has accepted our invitation to become a contributor here at PEA Soup.  Simon is presently a Senior Research Fellow at CAPPE at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Boston University, and he is slated to join the Philosophy Program at Victoria University of Wellington as an Associate Professor.  His book, The Limits of Loyalty, has recently come out, and he works on such topics as patriotism, love, and welfare (among others).  It's great to have you aboard, Simon!

Mad Meta

The program for the Madison Metaethics workshop is up. There will be papers by four PEA Soupers: me (Jamie), Mark Schroeder, Jussi Suikkanen, and Stephen Finlay (that's in order of appearance). Also plenty of other people you love are on the program, and everybody else worth talking to will be in attendance, so you'd better book a room pronto.

Three Cheers for These PEA Brains!

In lieu of the customary "here-are-some-amazing-statistics-about-PEA-Soup" birthday message, we thought it would be better to post a "Yearbook" to share some good things that have happened to some of our fellow PEA brains over this past year.  A lot of good news appears below the fold.  If there is any more good news that should be shared, by all means please add it in the comments section.

CFP: Ethics and the American Dream

CALL FOR PAPERS
Cal Poly Pomona 14th Annual Ethics Conference
April 14-15, 2009

"Ethics and the American Dream"

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: David Schmidtz, University of Arizona
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 1, 2008

Philosophers and other scholarly professionals are cordially invited to submit papers to be considered for the program of Cal Poly Pomona's 14th Annual Ethics Conference.  Papers should be submitted in a format suitable for blind review.  Papers should be 5,000-7,000 words in length, suitable for presentation in approximately 45 minutes.

Conference Announcement and CFP: Thick Concepts

THICK CONCEPTS: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK 3rd-5th July, 2009.

Metaethics on webtv

Geoff Sayre-McCord chatting about free will, metaethics, and stuff HERE.

BSET 2008

British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference 2008

University of  Edinburgh
14 – 16 July 2008

1. Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Practical Reflection and Agential Authority
2. Campbell Brown (University of Edinburgh): The Composition of Reasons
3. Krister Bykvist and Jonas Olson (Jesus College and Brasenose College, University of Oxford): Expressivism and Certitude
4. William Dunaway (University of Southern California): Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism
5. Barbara Herman (UCLA): TBA
6. Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds): Wrongness and Reasons
7. Martin Peterson (University of Cambridge): The Asymmetry Argument
8. Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University): TBA
9. Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California): Holism, Weight and Undercutting
10. Alan Strudler (University of Pennsylvania): The Distinctive Wrong in Lying
11. Jonathan Way (University of Californian Santa Barbara): Defending the Wide-Scope Approach to Instrumental Reason

CONFERENCE WEBSITE
http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/ethicaltheory/
NB. BSET’s own website is currently out of action as we are moving to a new web host. We hope to fix this soon. Meantime all info on this Edinburgh conference will be at the Edinburgh website.

Pricing information and a booking form will be posted at the conference website shortly.

Conference Organiser: Elinor Mason
Conference Assistants: Ana Barandalla Ajona, Liz Ellis, Mog Stapleton
Conference Editors: Elinor Mason, David McCarthy, Mike Ridge.
Please send any inquiries about the conference to the Organizer:
Elinor.Mason@ed.ac.uk

The British Society for Ethical Theory would like to thank the above for their help. We would also like to thank to thank the Mind Association and the University of Edinburgh for their generous support of this conference as well as all those who have assisted us by refereeing submitted papers.

Welcome Brad Cokelet!

We are pleased to announce that Brad Cokelet has accepted our invitation to be a contributor here at PEA Soup. Brad is currently finishing his dissertation entitled Virtue, Rational Agency, and Respect for Persons at Northwestern University and will be starting as an Assistant Professor at the University of Miami in the fall. He works on normative ethics, moral psychology, and the history of ethics. His paper “Ideal Agency and the Possibility of Error” has just come out in the latest issue of Ethics. We are very pleased to have him on board.

Calls for Papers: Emotions, American ethical tradition

Studies in the History of Ethics has announced calls for papers for two future symposia. Details follow.