April 16-17 @ NYU: Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference

More info can be found here.

Harvard Conference on Law and Mind Sciences

OK, this seems really interesting! Unfortunately, it's this Saturday. I am going to look for plane tickets and see if I can find cheap ones. If anyone's interested in attending, let me know.

This conference looks like it will dovetail nicely with some of the recent work Professor Ronald Allen has been doing on the role of normative theorizing in legal academia.

Reading Group

More information here. This book is really good and Professor Appiah writes very clearly.

Upcoming Events

From April 17-19 in Chicago there will be a really interesting conference by the Society for Empirical Ethics.

Just a few weeks later in Chicago from May 9-10 is a conference entitled Emotion in Context - Exploring the Interaction between Emotions and Legal Institutions.

For you folks working on the east coast this summer, the Society for Philosophy and Psychology is having a Workshop on Experimental Philosophy taking place at U Penn from June 26-29.

In September there's the Metaethics Workshop at Wisconsin.

I've RSVP'ed at most of these already, and the organizers have without exception been very welcoming of us lawyerly types. I wonder if lawyers would be so welcoming of philosophers at their conferences.

Information for Professor Avraham's talk.

Anyone who has taken a class with Professor Avraham knows he relies heavily on the ex-ante/ex-post distinction. Here is a good article that really fleshes out the philosophical significance of the ex-ante/ex-post distinction. Professor Avraham gave me his take on the distinction recently: "If something is fair ex-ante and unfair ex-post, it is fair, I argue."

This is not the paper Professor Avraham will be discussing at the upcoming meeting, but I found it really eye-opening and it is the reason I invited him to come speak. I'm posting it here in case anyone wants to discuss it.