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Call for Abstracts: SLACRR 5

I'm pleased to announce a call for abstracts for the next St. Louis Conference on Reasons and Rationality, sponsored by UMSL and Washington University. Many PEA Soupers have participated the past four years.

May 18 – 20, 2014
Moonrise Hotel in St Louis, MO

Keynote Speaker:
John Broome (Oxford), author of Rationality Through Reasoning

Featured Philosopher: Connie Rosati

Hi all -

I'm very pleased to welcome Connie Rosati to the Soup in our series of featured philosophers.  Connie is Associate Professor at the University of Arizona, and has done a lot of very interesting and original work, much of which she very helpfully summarizes below.  Without further ado, then, let's welcome Connie!

-dd

We Need to be Better With Anonymous Refereeing

I've been doing a lot of refereeing for conferences, journals, prizes and such and a recent discussion with some of my co-referees leads me to want to post here about anonymous refereeing.  My main aim here will be to list some of the ways authors screw up in anonymizing papers and also to raise a question or two about trickier points of making a paper truly anonymous.  But I want to state out front that I think all refereed conferences should require that papers be anonymized when they are submitted. I know that in a small profession we will often have some idea who wrote papers, but I think we still ought to do the best we can within that constraint. (Continued below the fold.)

CFP: Political Utopia: Promise or Peril? (Bowling Green Workshop in Ethics and Public Policy, April 25th-26th, 2014)

I figure PEA soup readers will be interested in our new workshop topic! 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS 

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy 

Political Utopia: Promise or Peril? 

April 25^th-26^th, 2014 

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio, April 25^th-26^th, 2014. The keynote speakers are David Estlund (Brown University) and Gerald Gaus (University of Arizona). 

Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to submit a 2-3 page abstract (double-spaced) by November 1, 2013. We welcome submissions in all areas in applied ethics and philosophical issues relevant to public policy. Special consideration will be given to papers relevant to this year’s conference theme: on the prospects of ideal and nonideal theory in contemporary political philosophy. The theme is to be construed broadly, so we encourage submissions that draw on normative ethics, metaethics and applied ethics. 

Only one submission per person is permitted. Abstracts will be evaluated by a program committee and decisions made in November 2013. Please direct all abstracts and queries to: [email protected] 

Further information about the Workshop and previous workshops are available on the workshop website (under construction): http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/phil/conferences/index.html

FINALLY!!! The New 21st Century Monads Album, Interlocutor, is Here!!!

The Greatest Possible Rock and Roll Band has done it again!

Find all the details here.

The basic idea is that for a charitiable donation of a size you determine to your favorite worthy charity, the uncompressed album is available to you. Just let them know how much you donated.

NY Times's The Stone has discussions of women in philosophy

This week Sally Haslanger, Linda Martin Alcoff, Louise Antony, Rae Langton and Peg O’Connor will all have discussions, at The NY Times's The Stone, on women in philosophy.

You can find Haslanger's comments here.

You can find Alcoff's comments here.

You can find Langton's comments here.

You can find Antony's comments here.

You can find O'Connor's comments here.

September = "R" Month on the Soup

If your first name begins with "R," it's your "Special Month" for posting on PEA Soup.  See the "Instructions for Contributors" link for details.