TOMATO²

General Information

TOMATO²—pronounced “tomāto, tomɑto”—is Talks On Morality Across The Ocean, a workshop aimed at promoting professional engagement between ethicists on both sides of the Atlantic.

TOMATO² will take place on alternating years at Durham University in Durham, UK and Georgetown University in Washington, DC, US. The workshop features a main program(me) of 7 talks by philosophers from the non-hosting side of the Atlantic, with commentary by philosophers from the hosting side. An 8th talk will be given by the winner of the newly minted GISME Prize in Markets and Ethics (which is open to everyone).

We aim to provide travel, lodging and meals for all speakers and commentators.

The first TOMATO² is scheduled for 7-8 July 2025. Please see below for the general CFA as well as the CFP for the GISME Prize.

These dates have been selected in part for proximity to the 2025 Joint Session in Glasgow on 11-13 July, as well as the British Society for Ethical Theory Annual Conference in Southampton on 16-17 July. In keeping with TOMATO²’s broader aims, our hope is that funding participants’ travel to the UK may faciliate other opportunities for international, professional engagement.

Questions to mailto:[email protected].

Please note that registration is currently open only to speakers and invited participants. 

CFA: TOMATO² Main Program(me)

We invite submission of English-language abstracts of 500-800 words on any topic in ethics (broadly construed to include applied, normative and metaethics, as well as history of moral philosophy, moral psychology, political philosophy and cognate topics concerning non-moral normativity or normativity itself).

We invite submissions from faculty, post-docs and (post)graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage, whose permanent residence is in the Americas.

In order to faciliate an initial round of blind review, we ask that submissions be made through this form: https://forms.gle/Q1EYPXey9KnLyBof7. 

The deadline for submissions is 15 December 2024.

CFP: GISME Prize in Markets and Ethics

We invite submission of unpublished, English-language papers of up to 12,000 words on any topic concerning markets and ethics (broadly construed).

We invite submissions from faculty, post-docs and (post)graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage from anywhere in the world.

Submissions should be made to [email protected]. In order to faciliate blind review, please remove all identifying information from the body of your submission and save it as a PDF, using a generic filename like ‘GISME Prize Submission’ or ‘TOMATO Submission’. Please do not include either your name or the title of the paper in the filename.

The author of the winning paper will present their paper at TOMATO² in July 2025 and will receive an award of $500.

The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2025.

Please note that submissions for the GISME Prize are not automatically considered for the main TOMATO² progam(me). If you would like to be considered for both, and your permanent residence is in the Americas, please submit a separate abstract as outlined above.