Practical Reason and Metaethics

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln is hosting a conference on Practical Reason and Metaethics as part of its annual Robert R. Chambers conference series.  The invited speakers on the conference program are:

            Michael Bratman (Stanford)

            Stephen Darwall (Yale)

            Sarah McGrath (Princeton)

            Sigrún Svavarsdóttir (Tufts)

The remaining four papers on the conference program will be selected though an anonymous review of submissions.  For each paper selected, the Department will contribute up to $800 to cover the travel and accommodations of the authors.  (We will also invite people to chair sessions, but unfortunately do not have funds available to cover their travel or accommodations.)

Please submit both a full paper suitable for a 45-minute presentation (approximately 5,000-6,000 words, by our estimate) and a medium-length abstract (approximately 300-500 words) on any topic within the domain of practical reason and metaethics.  Please ensure that the paper and abstract are formatted and redacted for anonymous review.  Papers and abstracts should be sent to [email protected].  (To assure anonymity please do not submit them to John or Mark.)  We will get back to you with a decision by the end of January at the latest.   Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2015.

Questions about the conference can be directed to its organizers, John Brunero ([email protected]) and Mark van Roojen ([email protected]).  (If you have a question that could potentially compromise the anonymous review procedure, please direct it to [email protected].)