Over at Think Tonk Clayton Littlejohn just announced this year’s Brackenridge workshop. It features talks on the work of Richard Feldman. The preliminary schedule looks outstanding. If you can make it to UT San Antonio February 18th and 19th, I definitely recommend attending this workshop. Access the preliminary schedule here.
Category Archives: Special Topics
CFPs: Reasons, Gauthier, SLACRR
Recently, there have been some outstanding call for papers (CFPs) announced. These opportunities are as follows:
- Reasons of Love: This conference is in Leuven (Belgium) from May 30 - June 1, 2011. The deadline for submission is December 1, 2010. Click here for more details.
- Some Conference Questions: Do ‘the reasons of love’ constitute a
genuine, distinctive category of reasons? Are different kinds of love related to different kinds of reasons? What are the requirements of love, as opposed to the requirements of duty? Are love’s reasons rational or non-rational?
- Some Conference Questions: Do ‘the reasons of love’ constitute a
- Gauthier Conference: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Morals by Agreement a conference will be held May 13-15, 2011. The deadline to submit your abstract is January 15, 2011. You can submit an abstract on anything related to rational choice contractarianism. Click here for more details, including a list of participants.
- SLACRR: The St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR) is May 22-24, 2011. Your abstract is due December 31, 2010 . Jamie Dreier is the keynote speaker. Click here to access the conference website.
2011 Purdue Summer Seminar – Skepticism
Purdue is offering a summer seminar on perceptual, moral, and religious skepticism. This seminar is directed by Michael Bergmann. Click here for more information about this opportunity.
Philosophy TV
If you’re familiar with Blogging Heads TV, you’ll be pleased to know that there’s now a similar website dedicated to philosophy. The new site is called Philosophy TV. The lineup of guests looks great. This week features Jamie Dreier and Mark Schroeder discussing metaethical contextualism, expressivism, and relativism.
Links: Prize, Evidentialism TOC, X-Phi Forum
Here are some links of interest from around the philosophy blogosphere:
- 3 Quarks Daily 2010 prize for the best philosophy blog post. Click here to read the posts and to vote for your favorite.
- Trent Dougherty posted a link to the TOC of his forthcoming book Evidentialism and Its Discontents. This looks to be an amazing volume. Much props to Trent and C&F for hosting what looks to be a great discussion of evidentialism.
- Over at Thoughts Arguments and Rants you’ll find a discussion of the New York Times forum on experimental philosophy. Brian Weatherson and fellow commentors cover a lot of conceptual ground on this important topic.
Links: Workshop, Society, Project, Journal
Below are some great developments and opportunities in the world of philosophy.
- 2011 Normative Ethics Workshop
- This conference will be held at the University of Arizona, January 6-8 2011. The program looks very interesting. It includes keynote talks by Robert Audi, Julia Driver, and Thomas Hurka.
- North Carolina Philosophical Society 2011 Meeting
- I attended this conference last year. I recommend it because it is well-organized and features a number of interesting tracks and papers. This society and its South Carolina counterpart are model philosophical societies that foster lively research and opportunities for feedback. The keynote speaker is Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
- The Character Project
- Much congratulations to Christian Miller and all involved in securing this grant. This project will look at issues related to the study of character from three domains of inquiry: psychology, theology, and philosophy.
- New Skepticism Journal
- Duncan Pritchard has announced the launch of a new journal. This journal is called the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. Further details are forthcoming.
Index of Posts on Williamson’s “Evidence” Chapter
For ease of reference, below is an index of my posts on Williamson’s “Evidence in Philosophy” chapter in The Philosophy of Philosophy. Williamson’s chapter 7 is broken down into sections. I commented and analyzed each section in the chapter.
- 7.1: Evidence Neutrality
- 7.2: Argument Against Intuitions
- 7.3: Judgment Skepticism
- 7.4: The Judgment Skeptic’s Mistake
- 7.5.1: Traditional Skepticism
- 7.5.2: More on Evidence Neutrality
- 7.6: Epistemic Conservatism
- 7.7: Reflective Equilibrium
LaTeX for Philosophers
Confession: I’m dissatisfied with writing philosophy using Word. My latest struggle involved using Word 2007 to create a document containing math/logic symbols then having to save the document as Word 2003 to submit to a journal. This resulted in Word taking a picture of the equations, which pixellated them. I had to redo the equations in Word 2003 mode using the Windows Character Map to plug-in the logical symbols.
Enter: LaTeX. A solution, yes. Something that takes a while to figure out, yes. But, now, a user’s guide for philosophers to help us navigate the waters of LaTeX. Thanks to Charlie Tanksley for creating an intro to LaTeX for philosophers. I hope to read the guide and discover a solution to my Word-woes. Below are links to his guide.
On Charlie’s Website: Click here.
In PDF Format: Click here.
Links: Reasons Workshop and Most-cited Philosophers
There are a couple of pointers I’d like to provide. The first is a workshop at Leeds University on theoretical and practical reasons June 24-25. Click here for details. Second, Eric Schwitzgebel over at The Splintered Mind is doing some interesting work using the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP). One interesting set of results is a list of the 200 most-cited authors in the (SEP). Click here to access that list.
