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Reminder: Political Utopia: Promise or Peril? Abstracts Due November 1st

I'm posting a brief reminder that the deadline for submitting an abstract to Bowling Green State University's workshop in ideal and nonideal theory in political philosophy is November 1st.

For those of you who didn't see the initial CFP, I'm reposting it below the fold.

Featured Philosopher: Julia Driver (Part Two!)

Hi all,

Julia returns this week with another post on a very important topic.  I hope you'll all join me in welcoming Julia back for a second round!

-dd

Final Reminder: NOWAR 2

The second biennial New Orleans Workshop in Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR 2) will be taking place starting in less than two weeks, at the Intercontinental Hotel in New Orleans (Nov. 7-9).  This is just a reminder for those planning on attending: please register with me ([email protected]) within the next week.  Registration is free, but I need to know how many are planning on attending.  Keynote speakers are John Martin Fischer and Susan Wolf, and the program is pasted below the fold.  More details here.

CfA: Normative Business Ethics Workshop Series (Wharton)

Beginning in 2014, the Carol and Lawrence Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, will be convening a regular works-in-progress series for scholars working in normative business ethics (NBE).

Featured Philosopher: Julia Driver

Hi all,

I'm very pleased to introduce Julia Driver, this month's Featured Philosopher.  Julia's work should be no stranger to anyone reading PEASoup.  She's written pathbreaking work on consequentialism, including its relationship to the virtues, and on a number of other important topics in ethics and its history.  Julia joins us today for the first of two posts, the second to go live next week.  Please join me in welcoming Julia!

-dd

Monday: Julia Driver

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that we'll be welcoming Julia Driver for a stint in our Featured Philosophers series starting Monday. One point of note: Julia will be doing not one but two posts, the second to follow on the 28th. I hope you'll join us!

Say what?

Always the non-conformist, I let my "special month" slip by without a post. I'd had been planning to contribute something about what Strawson's account of the reactive attitudes can do for consequentialists (a lot, I think, despite his being read by Darwall et. al. as an anti-consequentialist), but wasn't quite sure how to say it on here and still am not. But I thought that a fun idea for a thread might be made out of unexpected quotes from philosophers, i.e., ones where they are or seem to be saying something quite contrary to their well-known views. A few of you will have seen this quote from Mill (1831) in my Facebook feed last night:

". . . liberalism, which is for making every man his own guide & sovereign master,& letting him think for himself & do exactly as he judges best for himself, giving other men leave to persuade him if they can by evidence, but forbidding him to give way to authority; and still less allowing them to constrain him more than the existence & tolerable security of every man's person and property renders indispensably necessary. It is difficult to conceive a more thorough ignorance of man's nature, & of what is necessary for his happiness or what degree of happiness & virtue he is capable of attaining than this system implies."

October is "S" Month at PEA Soup

Oops, almost missed this, but if your FIRST name begins with "S", it's your "special month" for posting on the Soup.  We encourage you to check the calendar of events and post around any specially scheduled ones.

Upcoming Ethics Discussion at PEA Soup

We're very pleased to announce that our next discussion of a paper published in Ethics will be on Erich Hatala Matthes' piece, “History, Value, and Irreplaceability." Carolyn Korsmeyer has kindly agreed to write a critical précis to open the discussion on Monday November 11. We're looking forward to a great conversation!

Virtue and its Development: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Taking place at the Conference Center, University of Notre Dame, May 19-22, 2014. Speakers at this interdisciplinary symposium discuss the nature of virtue and its development, from ancient notions to contemporary science, evolutionary and religious views, individual and community approaches in a variety of family, schooling and work settings. Confirmed speakers: Julia Annas, University of Arizona; Gus Carlo, University of Missouri; Robert Emde, University of Denver; Rosalind Hursthouse, University of Auckland; Craig Joseph, The John Templeton Foundation; Rachana Kamtekar, University of Arizona; Christian Miller, Wake Forest; Darcia Narvaez, University of Notre Dame; Nancy Snow, Marquette University; Ross Thompson, University of California—Davis.  More information here.