17-19 May 2015
St. Louis MO, U.S.A.
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality
May 17-19, 2015
Moonrise Hotel / Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Keynote Speaker:
Pamela Hieronymi
<http://www.philosophy.ucla.edu/people/faculty/hieronymi/Home.html> (UCLA)
St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality provides a forum for
new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed. Please
submit an anonymized abstract of 750-1500 words by *January 15, 2015 *to
SLACRR@gmail.com. In writing your abstract, please bear in mind that full
papers should be suitable for a 30 minute presentation. Note that in 2015
the Formal Epistemology Workshop <http://fitelson.org/few/> will meet
immediately after SLACRR. One may submit the same abstract to both
events. We encourage people to attend both events.
What to Submit
SLACRR includes papers in ethics, epistemology, and other areas of
philosophy that deal with reasons, reasoning, or rationality. For instance,
we would be interested in papers exploring such questions as:
- What is the relation between reasons for actions and reasons for
beliefs?
- What are the sources of our reasons for belief?
- How are features of one's psychology relevant to reasons?
- What is the relation between reasons and what we ought to do or
believe?
- What is the relation between reasons and value?
- Are the requirements of practical and theoretical rationality
normative?
- What is the relation between individual rationality and collective
rationality?
- Are actions or beliefs themselves structured by reasons?
Of course, this is just a small sample of questions. Further questions can
also be directed to Eric Wiland <wiland@umsl.edu>, Julia Staffel
<jstaffel@artsci.wustl.edu>, Kathryn Lindeman <lindemankm@slu.edu>, or to
SLACRR@gmail.com <slacrr@gmail.com>