Northwestern University

Society for the Theory of Ethics and Politics

6^th Annual Conference

May 17–19, 2012

Keynote addresses:

Harry Frankfurt (Princeton): “Volitional Rationality and the Necessities of Love”

T. M. Scanlon (Harvard): “Ideas of the Good in Moral and Political Philosophy”

Call for papers:

We welcome submissions from faculty and graduate students, as some sessions will be reserved for student presentations. Please submit an essay of approximately 4000 words and an abstract of at most 150 words. Essay topics in all areas of ethical theory and political philosophy will be considered, although some priority will be given to essays that take up themes from the works of Harry Frankfurt and T. M. Scanlon. Essays and abstracts should be prepared for blind review in word, rtf, or pdf format. Graduate submissions should be sent by e-mail to Carlos Pereira Di Salvo <pereira.disalvo@u.northwestern.edu>; faculty submissions should be sent by e-mail to Kyla Ebels-Duggan <kebelsduggan@northwestern.edu>. The deadline is February 15, 2012. Notices of acceptance will be sent by March 30, 2012. For more information, please contact Kyla Ebels-Duggan at the e-mail address above.

Previous conferences:

2011  Philip Pettit, R. Jay Wallace

2010  Elizabeth Anderson, Christine Korsgaard

2009  Samuel Scheffler, Seana Shiffrin

2008  Susan Wolf, J. David Velleman

2007  Barbara Herman, Stephen Darwall