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Templeton Grants

As part of its spring open submission cycle, the John Templeton Foundation welcomes online funding inquiries in the areas of philosophy and theology.  The submission window is February 1 to April 1, 2013.  Proposed philosophical projects need not have religion or theology as a focus.  To submit an online funding inquiry, please visit here. 

The Good vs. The Desirable

I was just reading the bit of Gibbard's Thinking How to Live where he talks extensively about the good and the desirable—specifically, about its being a conceptual truth that they are one in the same. I know that this is a common line people take, and I'm curious how many of you agree with it, because I'm not entirely convinced.

Call for Papers: Moral Nonnaturalism Essay Prize

Moral nonnaturalism

Guest editor

Terence Cuneo (University of Vermont)

Deadline for Submission

April 1, 2014

Call for Papers

Res Philosophica invites papers on the topic of moral nonnaturalism for the 2014 Res Philosophica Essay Prize. The author of the winning paper will receive a prize of $3,000 and publication in the special issue of the journal on the same topic.  Submissions for the prize will be automatically considered for publication in the journal's special issue unless otherwise requested.

 

Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy--Call for Abstracts

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

This is a call for abstracts for the first annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy to be held Oct. 17-20, 2013 in Tucson, AZ at the Westward Inn Hotel and Resort. Abstracts in all areas of Political Philosophy are welcome.

The web page for the workshop is here: http://oxfordstudies.arizona.edu/

To submit an abstract, you must first go to the above web page and register. Once your registration is accepted, you will be able to login at that page and upload an abstract. Abstracts should not be e-mailed to the editors. Abstracts of between 250-500 words are due no later than April 15^th . Submission of an abstract will be taken to imply that the paper is not under submission for publication elsewhere as well as implying an agreement to include the paper in the resulting volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, if accepted. There is a limit of one submission per person. We expect to be able to inform those whose papers have been accepted no later than May 15^th, 2013.

The authors of all accepted abstracts will be expected to provide drafts of their essays for distribution to the workshop’s attendees three weeks prior to the workshop, present their ideas at the workshop, and submit the paper for possible inclusion into the inaugural volume of Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy by January 15^th, 2014. It is important to note, however, that acceptance of an abstract for the workshop in no way guarantees that the paper will be accepted for publication.

The workshop is free and open to the public. We regret that we are unable to provide any financial support for those whose abstracts are accepted

Hope to see you in Tucson,

David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne, and Steve Wall (editors)

Rationality in Law and Legal Theory: An Ethics Symposium

April 12–13, 2013, Georgetown University Law Center.  Details below the fold.

Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism Bleg

Ben Eggleston and I are putting the final touches on the manuscript for The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism, forthcoming from... well, you know. Now that most of the writing and editing is done, we're facing the real hurdle to getting a book published... the marketing questionnaire. One question on this questionnaire asks about courses/modules in which the volume might be used. I'm writing to ask if any SOUPers can volunteer names and numbers of undergraduate or graduate courses/modules at their universities in which this volume might be assigned in full or in part, as either a required or a recommended reading.

PEA Soup 2.0

The next phase of PEA Soup is here.  As of this announcement, Dan Boisvert, Doug Portmore, and Josh Glasgow are stepping down from their posts as co-editors of PEA Soup with Dave Shoemaker.  Going forward, the blog will be run by Dave Shoemaker and David Sobel.

Those of us stepping down want to take this chance to thank everyone--contributors, commentators, participants in the Ethics-at-PEA-Soup discussions, and everyone else who is part of the PEA Soup family--for making the blog such a great place.  This June will kick off the tenth year of its existence, and when we started so many years ago, the four of us couldn't have predicted that such a wonderful community would take root here.  We are thrilled that this blog has become a valuable site for those working in ethics and cognate areas. 

We are also grateful to Shoemaker and Sobel for taking things over from here, and we look forward to the next era at PEA Soup.

Sincerely,
Dan, Doug, and Josh

CFP: Felician Ethics Conference

The seventh annual meeting of the Felician Ethics Conference will be held at the Rutherford Campus of Felician College on Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 223 Montross Ave, Rutherford, NJ 07070

Plenary Speaker: Robert Audi
John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy
University of Notre Dame

Submissions on any topic in moral philosophy (broadly construed) are welcome, not exceeding 25 minutes' presentation time (approximately 3,000 words). Please send submissions (completed papers, no abstracts or proposals, please) via email in format suitable for blind review by Feb. 15, 2013 to: [email protected].

Submissions are invited for a Special Session devoted to Catholic Social Teaching, not exceeding 25 minutes’ presentation time (approximately 3000 words), in format suitable for blind review, by Feb. 15, 2013. Please indicate that the paper is intended for the Special Session. (Please limit submit submissions either to the Special Session or to the main session; no double submissions, please.)

Please direct any questions about the conference to Irfan Khawaja, (201) 559-6000 (x6288), or [email protected].