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NOWAR 3, CFA

This is a call for abstracts for the third biennial New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR), to be held in New Orleans, LA at the Intercontinental Hotel on November 5-7, 2015.  Abstracts are welcome on any topic having to do with agency and/or responsibility.  Perspectives beyond just those from moral philosophy (e.g., psychology, legal theory, neuroscience, economics, metaphysics, and more) are welcome, as are interdisciplinary projects.  (To see more about the workshop’s general aims and other details, follow this link.)  

Third Annual Workshop for Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy: CFP

See the link here. 

Conference: Sept 18-20th, 2015 in Syracuse, NY.

Call for papers deadline: March 15th, 2015.

Invited speakers: 

Elizabeth Anderson (Keynote)

Seana Shiffrin (Keynote)

Michael Otsuka

George Sher

Zogia Stemplowska

Kit Wellman

Interesting stories about why people went into philosophy

Collected here.

 

Call for Papers: Virtue and the Emotions

See the web page here.

Publication and 3K prize money in the offing.

Ethics Discussion at PEA Soup: Elizabeth Barnes' "Valuing Disability, Causing Disability," with Critical Précis by Tom Dougherty

We'll now be commencing our discussion of Elizabeth Barnes' recent Ethics article, "Valuing Disability, Causing Disability," with a critical précis by Tom Dougherty. Tom's précis is below the fold. Thanks to all of the participants, and we're very much looking forward to a fun and productive conversation. 

Upcoming Ethics Discussion

I'm very pleased to announce that we'll shortly be hosting a discussion of Elizabeth Barnes' recent Ethics article, "Valuing Disability, Causing Disability," with a critical précis by Tom Dougherty. We look forward to a great discussion, starting around noon EST tomorrow.

A (Half-Assed) Plea for Half-Assedness

PEA Soup was founded as a place where people would try out new ideas, posting about an idea for a paper and not a completed, fully armored, paper. We don’t want to discourage discussion of completed work. Indeed, we have partnered with many great journals, whose recently published papers are commented on and discussed here at quite a sophisticated level. We love those discussions. But we miss and feel the need to especially encourage the more half-assed posts about papers that are still just a twinkle in the author’s eye.

It seems clear that three things help explain the drying up of the unguarded, exploratory posts that used to be the Soup’s bread and butter, if you will. First, Facebook happened. Now people informally try out ideas with their friends on Facebook and this, we fear, feels like a more low stakes way of testing the waters. Second, our friends (and our friends of friends) who have joined PEA Soup have aged and become more decrepit, er, we mean reputable. And perhaps, as a result, a little less adventurous and willing to try out publicly ideas that have not been vetted by those we let see our warts. For a while now we have resisted adding new contributors out of fear that there would be too much posting. We have now decided that that fear was misguided and will again be open to inviting new contributors. Third, Soup itself has perhaps become somewhat reputable and now feels like a more high-stakes venue to post on than it once did. Consequently, younger folks likely feel rather intimidated about posting what they view as less-than-stellar ideas or comments.

CFP: The Scope of Religious Exemptions (New Abstract Deadline: December 1st)

We are extending the deadline for submitting abstracts for BGSU’s conference on the scope of religious exemptions until December 1st, 2014.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy

The Scope of Religious Exemptions

April 17th-18th, 2015 

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will take place in Bowling Green, Ohio, April 17th-18th, 2015. The keynote speakers are Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame) and Andrew Koppelman (Northwestern University).

Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to submit a 2-3 page abstract (double-spaced) by December 1st, 2014. We welcome submissions in all areas in applied ethics and philosophical issues relevant to this year’s conference theme: the scope of religious exemptions. We are especially focused on papers that address normative questions about religious exemptions, including the moral-philosophical justifications for religious exemptions and how often and to whom religious exemptions should be granted. We will consider multiple approaches to the topic, not merely in political philosophy and political theory, but 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 December 2014. 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/arts-and-sciences/philosophy/workshops-and-conferences.html

Call for Abstracts: SLACRR 6

Call for Abstracts: SLACRR 6

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

May 17 – 19, 2015

Keynote Speaker:

Pamela Hieronymi (UCLA)

Murphy Institute Fellowship (Tulane) - Final Call

The deadline for applications for 2015-2016 Center for Ethics and Public Affairs Faculty Fellowships at Tulane University's Murphy Institute is this Saturday,  November 15.