We are pleased to announce the beginning of the Second Annual On-line Philosophy Conference (OPC 2). This year's exciting line-up includes the following philosophers:
Week One--May 14th through 20th (2007):
- Juan Comesaña (University of Wisconsin--Madison), "Knowledge and Subjunctive Conditionals," w/ commentary by John Greco (St. Louis University), Tim Black (Cal State--Northridge), and Peter Murphy (University of Indianapolis).
- Delia Graff Fara (Princeton), w/ commentary by Ted Sider (Rutgers) and Joseph Melia (Leeds University). Title TBA.
- Shaun Nichols (University of Arizona)
“The Rise of Compatibilism: A Case Study in the Quantitative History of Philosophy," w/ commentary by Eric Schwitzgebel (University of California--Riverside), and Kelby Mason (Rutgers University--New Brunswick).
- **Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University--New Brunswick) "Epistemic Normativity" w/ commentary by Ram Neta (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill), and Duncan Pritchard (University of Stirling).
- Meredith Williams (Johns Hopkins University), "Wittgenstein and the Paradox of Thought," w/ commentary by Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich), and David Stern (University of Iowa).
Week Two--May 21st through 27th (2007):
- Jonathan Dancy (University of Texas--Austin & The University of Reading ), "Practical Reasoning and Inference," w/ commentary by Joseph Raz (Columbia/Oxford), and Candace Vogler (University of Chicago).
- John Martin Fischer (University of California--Riverside), "The Direct Argument," w/ commentary by Randolph Clarke (Florida State University) and David Widerker (Bar-Ilan Univesity).
- Caspar Hare (MIT), "Morphing and Aggregation," with commentary by Peter Graham (UMass--Amherst), and Alastair Norcross (Rice University).
- **Jeff McMahan (Rutgers University--New Brunswick), "The Pacifist Challenge," w/ commentary by Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto).
- Derk Pereboom (Cornell), "A Compatibilist Account of the Beliefs Required for Deliberation," w/ commentary by Joseph Campbell (Washington State University), and Dana Nelkin (University of California--San Diego).
- Gillian Russell (Washington University - St. Louis), "One True Logic?" w/ commentary by JC Beall (University of Connecticut), and Jonathan McKeown-Green (University of Auckland)
**=keynote address
OPC 2 will officially last two weeks this year-although you are obviously welcome to continue commenting in the threads so long as others are willing! Some of the threads last year were very active--hopefully, even more people will take part this year. After all, that is one of the primary benefits of the on-line format. It enables the participants to get a lot of constructive feedback on their work in a short amount of time. Please do your part and play along. As for us, we have tried to do our part to ensure that this year's OPC is as interesting and engaging as possible. For instance, we have included far fewer papers--so that each paper gets the attention it deserves--but we have also invited more philosophers to comment on each one.
Another new development is that Blackwell Publishing has kindly offered to sponsor this year's OPC. With their assistance, we were able to include two keynote addresses this year--one to kick off each week of the conference. The first will be given by Ernest Sosa at Georgia State University. The second will be given by Jeff McMahan at Dickinson College. Both talks (along with the ensuing discussions) will be recorded, video-taped, and posted for people to view here on the OPC 2 blog! We are particularly excited about this new feature and we thank Blackwell for making it possible.
Finally, we are very pleased to announce that Professors McMahan and Sosa have generously offered to donate their keynote honorariums to charity. This year the charities selected by the OPC keynote speakers are Amnesty International, Oxfam, and The American Philosophical Association. Please follow their generous lead and donate what you can. If nothing else, treat it as an inexpensive conference registration fee! We have provided links in the sidebar to this year's official charities. We hope that with your assistance we can start a charitable tradition here at the OPC, and we thank both Professors McMahan and Sosa for laying the groundwork!
For now, we just want to welcome you once again to this year's OPC. Keep in mind that the more everyone in the broader philosophical community puts into the conference, the more everyone gets out of it. So, we hope you will watch and listen to a couple of interesting philosophy talks, download and read some engaging papers, peruse the invited commentary, and contribute to the unfolding philosophical dialog that this conference is designed to facilitate.
As always, if you have any suggestions with respect to how to improve OPC 2 (and future installments of the OPC), please don't hesitate to let us know.
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