Thursday 18th and Friday 19th July at the University of Edinburgh.

Papers are invited for our 2024 annual conference. We welcome philosophical discussion of any branch of ethics, including the history of ethics, applied ethics, ethical questions in the critical philosophy of race, gender, and disability, moral psychology, normative ethics, and metaethics.

BSET operates a fully anonymised refereeing system. A submitted paper must contain no information identifying its author, so please prepare your paper thoroughly for anonymous review.

We aim to have at least one postgraduate speaker at the conference, and we often have more. The committee in particular encourages postgraduates from marginalised groups to submit, in line with MAP’s mission to address structural injustices in academic philosophy and to remove barriers that impede participation in academic philosophy for members of marginalised groups. All author information remains unknown to the Chief Referee until they have ranked submissions in order of preference.

Papers must be unpublished at the time of submission and suitable for presentation in 35-40 minutes. Submissions should be in English, no longer than 6500 words (excluding references), and fully anonymised. Those who submitted papers for our previous conferences — successfully or otherwise — are welcome to submit again, although not the same papers.

Please submit your paper as a pdf document for anonymous review here. The deadline for submission of papers is strictly Wednesday 10th January 2024 11.59pm GMT.  The submission form requires a Google account; if you don’t have one, you can submit by email instead to Luke Elson, by attaching an anonymous PDF and putting your name, student status, gender (if willing to share) and paper title in the body of the email.