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New at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Some new and revised entries:

Economics and Economic Justice (Marc Fleurbaey)

Natural Selection (Robert Brandon)

Kant and Hume on Causality (Graciela De Pierris and Michael Friedman)

Law and Language (Timothy Endicott)

Moral Luck (Dana K. Nelkin)

Philosophy of Education (D.C. Phillips)

Race (Michael James)

Special Obligations (Diane Jeske)

If you haven't taken a look, I highly recommend Endicott on Law & Language.

Rostron on Submitting to Law Reviews

Allen K. Rostron (University of Missouri at Kansas City - School of Law) has posted Information for Submitting Articles to Law Reviews & Journals on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This document contains information about submitting articles to law reviews and journals, including the methods for submitting an article, any special formatting requirements, how to contact them to request an expedited review, and how to contact them to withdraw an article from consideration. It covers about 175 law reviews.

New in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

New entries:

Definitions by Anil Gupta

John Raws by Leif Weinar

Revised entries:

Knowledge by Acquaintance vs. Description by Richard Fumerton

Gottlob Frege by Edward N. Zalta

Kant's Moral Philosophy by Robert Johnson

Causal Determinism by Carl Hoefer

New & Revised in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is an incredible online resource.  Here are some of the most recent new & revised entries:

New:

Evolutionary Psychology by Stephen M. Downes

Value Theory by Mark Schroeder

The Definition of Lying and Deception by Edwin Mahon

Decision-Making Capacity by Louis Charland

Animal Cognition by Kristin Andrews

Revised:

Philosophy of Economics by Daniel Hausman

Intergenerational Justice by Lukas Meyer

The Definition of Morality by Bernard Gert

Moral Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism by Mark van Roojen

Rule Consequentialism by Brad Hooker

Video Documentary on Global Democracy

The Editor-in-Chief of the Widener Law Review emails with the following information:

The video documentary: Envisioning a More Democratic Global System is now available for streaming online viewing at: www.law.widener.edu/envisioning. Funded in part by a generous grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund , the documentary is the story of an important international symposium sponsored last year by the Widener Law Review and cosponsored by the American Society of International Law.

Under the leadership of Professor Andrew Strauss of our faculty, fifteen prominent academics and officials from around the world gathered at Widener University School of Law to consider whether democracy can be applied to overcome the difficult challenges of 21 ^st century global governance. Envisioning a More Democratic Global System, produced by Paul Martinetz, offers a first hand view of influential international figures thinking creatively about how new ideas for democratizing global governance can be strategically implemented.

The papers from the Global Democracy Symposium have been recently published in a special symposium edition of the Widener Law Review. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the symposium issue, or a DVD of the documentary, please contact Law Review secretary Debbe Patrick at dapatrick@widener.edu . The Widener Law Review is proud to have sponsored this formative international event, and we hope you enjoy the documentary.

David Lieberman's Lectures on Theories of Law and Society

David Lieberman's lectures on "Theories of Law and Society" can be accessed via this link:

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978412

Topics include: Modern Rights Theory and 19th-Century Social Thought, Henry Maine and Historical Jurisprudence, Marx: State and Law in Capitalist Society, and Weber: Modern Law and Formal Rationalization.  Thanks to Kirsty Gover for the link.

Revised in the Stanford Encyclopeida of Philosophy

The following entires in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy have been revised: John Stuart Mill by Fred Wilson, Rights by Lief Weinar, and The Problem of Evil by Michael Tooley.

Revised in the Stanford Encyclopeida of Philosophy

There is a revised entry on Equality from Stefan Gospeth and a revised Plato's Ethics from Dorothea Frede.  Richmond Cambell has revised Moral Epistemology and Ronald DeSousa has revised Emotion.

New at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philsoophy

Some new and updated entries at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Feminist History of Philosophy by Charlotte Witt

Feminist Ethics by Rosemary Tong and Nancy Williams

World Government by Catherine Lu

Homosexuality by Brent Pickett

Pragmatics by Kepa Korta and John Perry

Cosmopolitanism by Pauline Kleingeld and Eric Brown

New at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philsoophy

Two revised entries from the outstanding Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy may be of interest to legal theorists:

Jacques Derrida by Leonard Lawlor

Ludgwig Wittgenstein by Anat Biletzki and Anat Matar