CFP: 30 Years of Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy

2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the first publication of one of the most remarkable books in ethics to appear in the last 60 years. This international conference, organised collaboratively by members of Oxford University’s Faculty of Philosophy and The Open University’s Ethics Centre, will be held in the Philosophy Faculty, Oxford, from July 3-5 2015. A selection of speakers is currently being drawn together who will aim to explore the ways in which Williams’ book, despite its indisputable status as a modern classic, still remains an under-utilised and under-explored resource for creative and rigorous ethical thinking in and beyond the analytical tradition in philosophy.

Provisional agreement to be involved has been obtained from the following speakers:

Marcel van Ackeren (Universität Köln)

Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge)

Daniel Callcut (University of North Florida)

Timothy Chappell (The Open University)

Roger Crisp (University of Oxford)

Miranda Fricker (University of Sheffield)

Lorenzo Greco (University of Oxford)

Edward Harcourt (University of Oxford)

Gerald Lang (University of Leeds)

Adrian Moore (University of Oxford)

Anthony Price (Birkbeck, University of London)

Paul Russell (University of British Columbia)

John Skorupski (University of St Andrews)

Roger Teichmann (University of Oxford)

Candace Vogler (University of Chicago)

Catherine Wilson (University of York)

We now wish to invite further submissions to fill four speaker-slots of one hour each. Our intention is that two of these four papers should be by postgraduate students. There are no formatting requirements or length restrictions, except that papers should be deliverable in 30 minutes. The deadline for submissions is March 1 2015; decisions on submissione will be announced by April 1. Submissions may be sent to the conference organiser, Professor Sophie Grace Chappell, at [email protected]; postgraduates are urged to make their status clear on their papers.

The conference will let delegates make their own plans for meals and accommodation.Registration for the conference, which will open some time early in the new year, will cost £50 for the waged and £25 for the unwaged or students.

We are grateful to The Mind Association, The Aristotelian Society, Wiley Publishing, The Open University, and The University of Oxford for their generous financial and practical support.

Further inquiries to Professor Sophie Grace Chappell, [email protected]