BSET 09

Registration for this year's British Society for Ethical Theory conference is now open.

BSET 2009 -- a three-day residential conference
University of Reading: 13 - 15 July 2009.

Keynote Addresses

"Pleasure, Desire, and Practical Reason"- James Lenman (Sheffield)
"Intention, Permissibility, Terrorism, and War"- Jeff McMahan (Rutgers)

Submitted Papers

"Objective versus Subjective Moral Oughts"- Krister Bykvist (Oxford)
"Practical Bracketing"- Garrett Cullity (Adelaide)
"Truth and Error in Morality"- Dale Dorsey (Kansas)
"Moral Blameworthiness and the Reactive Attitudes"- Leonard Kahn (Calgary)
"Owning Up and Lowering Down: The Power of Apology"- Adrienne Martin (Pennsylvania)
"Shapelessness and the Thick"- Deborah Roberts (Reading)
"Second-Order Equality and Levelling Down"- Re'em Segev (Hebrew, Jerusalem)
"Non-monotonicity and Moral Particularism"- Alan Thomas (Kent)
"Cynicism and Morality"- Samantha Vice (Rhodes)

BSET website

The new BSET website is up and running (it's been down due to technical problems for the last few months). Since they've had to start from stratch it's still in the early stages of development but contains all the details for the annual conference, being held this year in Edinburgh.

CFP: BSET 2009

The CFP is out for BSET 2009...

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR ETHICAL THEORY
2009 CONFERENCE
University of Reading, UK
13th -15th July 2009

Invited Speakers: James Lenman (Sheffield), Jeff McMahan (Rutgers)

Papers are invited for the annual conference of the British Society for EthicalTheory, to be held at the University of Reading. The subject area is open within metaethics and normative ethics. Papers on topics in applied ethics or the history of ethics may also be considered provided they are also of wider theoretical interest. Papers, which should be unpublished at the time of submission, should be in English, no longer than 6500 words, readable in at most 45 minutes and in aform suitable for blind review. Please send your submission electronically, and include an abstract, as well as your full name, address and academic affiliation. Those who submitted papers for our previous conferences - successfully or otherwise - are welcome to submit again (though not of course the same papers!). Please tell us if you are a postgraduate student: submissions from postgraduates are encouraged as our aim is that some such should be represented at the conference.
Selected conference papers will be published in the journal “Ethical Theory and Moral Practice”. Please make clear in any covering letter whether you wish your paper to be considered for publication here as well as for the conference programme. The deadline for submissions is 12th December, 2008.
Papers and accompanying particulars should be emailed to Dr. Bart Streumer: b.streumer@reading.ac.uk Note that ONLY electronic submissions will be accepted.

NOTE: The BSET webpages are currently down due to technical problems. Information about the 2009 conference will be posted at the Reading Philosophy Department webpages in due course. There is information about our 2008 conference here: http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/ethicaltheory/index.html

BSET 2008

The annual British Society for Ethical Theory conference is being held in Edinburgh this year. Details below...

British Society for Ethical Theory, Annual Conference 2008, University of Edinburgh, 14 – 16 July 2008

Speakers and Papers

1. Carla Bagnoli (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): Practical Reflection and Agential Authority

2. Campbell Brown (University of Edinburgh): The Composition of Reasons

3. Krister Bykvist and Jonas Olson (Jesus College and Brasenose College, University of Oxford): Expressivism and Certitude

4. William Dunaway (University of Southern California): Minimalist Semantics and the Problem of Creeping Minimalism

5. Barbara Herman (UCLA): TBA

6. Ulrike Heuer (University of Leeds): Wrongness and Reasons

7. Martin Peterson (University of Cambridge): The Asymmetry Argument

8. Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University): TBA

9. Mark Schroeder (University of Southern California): Holism, Weight and Undercutting

10. Alan Strudler (University of Pennsylvania): The Distinctive Wrong in Lying

11. Jonathan Way (University of Californian Santa Barbara): Defending the Wide-Scope Approach to Instrumental Reason

CONFERENCE WEBSITE http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/ethicaltheory/

NB. BSET’s own website is currently out of action as we are moving to a new web host. We hope to fix this soon. Meantime all info on this Edinburgh conference will be at the Edinburgh website.

Pricing information and a booking form will be posted at the conference website shortly.

Conference Organiser: Elinor Mason

Conference Assistants: Ana Barandalla Ajona, Liz Ellis, Mog Stapleton

Conference Editors: Elinor Mason, David McCarthy, Mike Ridge.

Please send any inquiries about the conference to the Organizer: Elinor.Mason@ed.ac.uk

The British Society for Ethical Theory would like the above for their help. We would also like to thank to thank the Mind Association and the University of Edinburgh for their generous support of this conference as well as all those who have assisted us by refereeing submitted papers.