CFP: The Los Angeles Workshop in Humanistic Ethics II: Post-Analytic Ethics and Moral Psychology

This workshop aims to bring together philosophers working in ethics and moral psychology, who significantly use, are inspired by, or who appropriate elements of the methods, style, and approaches to philosophy characterized by “heterodox” ethical philosophers of the late 20th century and early 21st. Such figures include Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch, David Wiggins, Alasdair MacIntyre, Richard Wollheim, Charles Taylor, Stanley Cavell, Cora Diamond, and Amelie Rorty, among others. Applicants are also encouraged to submit work which engages with or inspired by figures that these figures engaged with or were inspired by, including (but not limited to) Freud, Emerson, Benjamin, Weil, Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger.

The organizer is looking for papers in ethics and moral psychology influenced by these figures and their methods, rather than papers on these historical figures or on their philosophical methodology. In general, papers with a sense of history, social and psychological reality, and/or a philosophical use of literature or film will be preferred. 

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts (maximum 1000 words excluding bibliography and quoted text) should be prepared for blind review and submitted as a Word document. Please include a separate file with the author’s name, institutional affiliation, contact information, and paper title.

Abstracts will be read and papers accepted on a rolling basis. 

The workshop will be held in person. UCLA will cover travel and accommodations for successful applicants. 

Please send your submissions to: [email protected]

Please send inquiries to Vida Yao at [email protected]