Justin Snedegar

I'm interested in putting together a reading group focusing on epistemic circularity, or bootstrapping. If anyone else is interested, let me know (via comments or an email). If you aren't interested, but have some good recommendations of things to read, feel free to make those sorts of suggestions as well.

Justin Snedegar

Check out the new site that Andrew Cullison is putting together. It's a social bookmarking site which allows users (professional philosophers and graduate students) to submit and vote-up philosophy-related blog posts, unpublished papers, and journal articles. There is a ton of stuff on there already, and it's awesome.

Also, I hope everyone is OK after the earthquake today. Lewis and I were together here in LA, and didn't even notice. One of my friends from back east called to check on us, and that's how I found out about it.

Justin Snedegar

Here is the call for papers:

Call for Papers

Virginia Tech Graduate Conference
20th Century Ethics
with keynote speaker Simon Blackburn

November 7th and 8th

The Graduate Philosophy Club of Virginia Tech invites the submission of papers
for its 4th annual fall conference which is to be held in Blacksburg, Virginia,
on November 7th and 8th, 2008.

We welcome submissions by graduate students in metaethics, normative ethics and
applied ethics. Also welcome are papers dealing with any philosophical topic
relating to developments in ethics through the 20th Century (e.g., the
implications that cognitive psychology or evolutionary biology have for
ethics). Papers should be no longer than 3500 words, must be presentable in
20-30 minutes, and should include a short abstract (200 -250 words). Please do
not include identifying
information in the abstract or body of the paper. Instead, attach a separate
cover sheet with the submitter's name and paper title, mailing address, e-mail
address, telephone number, and institutional affiliation.

Please e-mail your paper, abstract, and cover page as .doc files to Heather
Oldham at: VT.GradPhilClub@gmail.com

Deadline for submissions is October 1.