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Call for Abstracts: Tennessee Value and Agency Conference

Tennessee Value and Agency “TVA” Conference

2014 Conference – November 6-9, 2014
Practical Reason, Moral Judgment and Moral Sense, Sensibility and Sentiment in the Moral Life

Call For Abstracts

The 2014 Tennessee Value and Agency “TVA” Conference will take place November 6-9, 2014, on the University of Tennessee Campus, 1210 McClung Tower.  The conference will focus on (rethinking) the relationships between practical reason, moral judgment and moral sense, sensibility and sentiment in the moral life, with an eye toward bringing structure and clarity to the aims and ambitions of current work in moral psychology and moral theory.  Keynote speakers will be Amelie Rorty (Tufts) and Talbot Brewer (UVA). 

Ergo, a new open access journal, publishes first issue.

Ergo is a general, open access philosophy journal accepting submissions on all philosophical topics and from all philosophical traditions.

This includes, among other things: history of philosophy, work in both the analytic and continental traditions, as well as formal and empirically informed philosophy.

Submission and publication are free. Authors retain the copyright of their work under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 license. Papers are published as they are accepted; there is no regular publication schedule.

http://www.ergophiljournal.org/

Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy Discussion - 16 June

Thanks everyone for the amazing discussion on Jack Woods's expressivism paper! On Monday the 16th of June, we'll be able to begin our first ever discussion of an article published in the Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (JESP). This wonderful paper is by Daniel Whiting (Southampton) and it's entitled "Keep Things in Perspective: Reasons, Rationality and the A Priori" (you can access the paper from that link freely). Errol Lord (currently at Franklin & Marshall College, soon to begin at the University of Pennsylvania) has promised to write a critical précis to kick off the discussion. I very much look forward to a discussion of this paper - I hope you can join us!  

Philosophers' Imprint Discussions at PEA Soup: Jack Woods's "Expressivism and Moore's Paradox" with Critical Précis by Teemu Toppinen

My apologies about the delay and I do recommend also checking out Richard's Arneson's interesting post on moral luck below, but we are finally able to begin the discussion of Jack Woods's Philosophers' Imprint paper 'Expressivism and Moore's Paradox'. To start things off, here is Teemu Toppinen's critical intro to the paper. I'm looking forward to know what you all have to say about Jack's wonderful paper and Teemu's equally brilliant discussion of it!

[Addition - 01/07/14: I've just been informed that a version of Teemu's critical notice will be published by JESP. Wonderful news and I'll add the link to the published paper later.]

Featured Philosopher: Richard Arneson

Hi all,

 

After an agonizing, frustrating, delay (curse you, Typepad!), I hope you'll all join me in welcoming Richard Arneson to PEA Soup!  Dick is Distinguished Professor, and Valtz Family Chair of Philosophy at UC San Diego.  Without further ado, then, I give you his post, titled "Moral Worth and Moral Luck".

-dd

Reminder: Upcoming Philosophers' Imprint Discussion

Just a quick reminder that on Thursday the 22nd of May we'll start the online discussion on Jack Woods's wonderful Philosophers' Imprint article "Expressivism and Moore's Paradox" (please follow the link in the title to the article itself) here at Pea Soup. This discussion will begin with Teemu Toppinen's critical introduction which will appear at this blog on Thursday. I hope you can take part! 

Edit: We have moved the date of this discussion by one day to the 22nd because of the problems there were with typepad on Monday. Our apologies and thanks for your patience.

Coming Attractions: Arneson

Hi all,

 

Just a reminder that this Monday will feature a guest post by Richard Arneson in our Featured Philosophers section.  Hope you'll all join us!

Manuscript Workshop Announcement: A. J. Julius, “Reconstruction”

Manuscript Workshop Announcement: A. J. Julius, “Reconstruction”

The University of Toronto Centre for Ethics will be hosting a workshop on A. J. Julius’s manuscript “Reconstruction” on Friday, June 6, from 11 to 6.  See below the fold for more details.

Two Workshops at Southampton

Southampton will be hosting two workshops in June. On Friday 13th June, there will be a workshop on Epistemic and Practical Normativity. On Wednesday 18th June, there will be a workshop on Taking Pregnancy Seriously in Ethics and Epistemology. See below the fold for more details.

Ethics Discussions at PEA Soup: Jennifer Hawkins' "Well-Being, Time, and Dementia," with Critical Précis by Valerie Tiberius

We are very pleased to now begin our announced Ethics discussion of Jennifer Hawkins' piece, “Well-Being, Time, and Dementia." Here is Valerie Tiberius' critical précis to kick off the discussion, posted below the fold. Thanks in advance to everyone who participates, and we're looking forward to it being a great discussion! 

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