CFP: 6th Annual Graduate and Early Career (Virtual) Reading Retreat

6th Annual Graduate and Early Career (Virtual) Reading Retreat
Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace
11-12 May, 2021
Location: Zoom

Deadline for submissions: 15 February, 2021

The Stockholm Centre is pleased to announce its 6th Annual Reading Retreat. We invite submissions from current and recent graduate students (within two years of receiving their PhD). Papers should address philosophical issues relating to the ethics of war and peace, broadly construed. This includes, for example, papers on causation, responsibility, authority, partiality, scarcity of resources, collective action, punishment, and self-defence. At this time, the Stockholm Centre has a particular interest in papers on migration, refugees, and rights.

Each successful applicant will be allocated a faculty respondent, who will provide written comments on the paper and serve as a commentator at the retreat. In order to find the most suitable respondents, faculty will be invited after papers have been selected. Past respondents have included Helen Beebee, Yitzak Benbaji, Garret Cullity, Christopher Finlay, Helen Frowe, Adil Haque, Holly Lawford-Smith, Seth Lazar, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kieran Oberman, Massimo Renzo, David Rodin, and Laura Valentini.

Papers should be no longer than 8000 words, including notes, and prepared for blind review. Papers should not be under review prior to the retreat. Submissions from graduate students should include a letter from their department confirming their year of study. Submissions from early career researchers should include confirmation that they are within two years of receiving their PhD (e.g. letter from examiner or supervisor, or a copy of their PhD certificate). Submissions and enquiries should be sent to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

Published 2nd December 2020

Bülow’s new paper, ‘Risking Civilian Lives to Avoid Harm to Cultural Heritage?’, published in JSEP

SCEWP post-doc, William Bülow, has a new paper out on whether it is morally permissible to impose non-negligible risks of serious harm  on innocent civilians in order not to endanger tangible cultural heritage during armed conflict.

As with all papers at the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, it is open access. Check it out here: http://jesp.org/index.php/jesp/article/view/1076

Published 28th September 2020

SCEWP hires new post-doc, Joseph Bowen!

We are delighted to announce that Joseph Bowen has joined us as Postdoctoral Researcher. Joe has recently finished his PhD at the University of St Andrews and University of Stirling. He specialises in moral and political philosophy, focusing on the nature of rights, directed duties, and permissible harming. Find out more about Joe here.

Published 4th August 2020

Symposium on Causation in War

Symposium on Causation in War‘, a result of SCEWP and Kings College London’s ‘Conversations on War’ project, is out now in the Journal of Applied Philosophy! Check out articles by Carolina Sartorio, Helen Beebee & Alex Kaiserman, and Lars Christie, with an introduction from Helen Frowe & Massimo Renzo.

The Conversations on War project ‘explores how philosophers working on the ethics of war can draw on researchin other areas of philosophy to improve our accounts of harming in war and how research on the ethics of war might challenge or illuminate work in those other areas.The first instance of this project brought together a broad group of philosophers: Helen Frowe, Massimo Renzo, Victor Tadros, Yitzhak Benbaji, Helen Beebee, David Owens, Carolina Sartorio, Lars Christie, James Goodrich, Seth Lazar, Adam Slavny, Hagit Benbaji, François Tanguay-Renaud, Lisa Hecht, Alexander Kaiserman, and Gustaf Arrhenius.’

Published 4th August 2020

SCEWP director Helen Frowe awarded 8.75M SEK Wallenberg Academy Fellowship extension

Helen Frowe has been awarded a five-year prolongation of her Wallenberg Academy Fellowship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Over the next five years, she will develop an account of the ethics of foreign intervention. The project will explore the relationship between agent-relative prerogatives and duties to save, the permissibility of wars of intervention, and the ethics of indirect intervention, such as arming and training members of rebel groups. Information about events and vacancies will appear on the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace website.

Published 4th December 2017