Society for Philosophy and Psychology 2010

SOCIETY FOR PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
36th Annual Meeting
June 9-12, 2010
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon.

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2010.

[PDF version of this CFP]

Submissions should be tailored to one of the following three presentation types:

• 45 Minute Contributed Sessions with Commentators: Suitable for longer papers featuring empirical research or sustained arguments on complex issues. Papers must not exceed a length of 3,500 words and should be accompanied by an abstract (of less than 300 words).

• 15 Minute "Cutting Edge" Research Presentations: Suitable for brief presentations of exciting new empirical research or works in progress. For this category, an abstract of not more than 1,500 words should be submitted.

• Poster only presentations: Best for those who prefer the poster presentation format, and can communicate the substance and significance of their work in a short abstract. For this category, an abstract of not more than 750 words should be submitted.

Submssions in the first two categories that are not accepted for oral presentation will automatically be considered for presentation as posters, unless the author stipulates otherwise.

Papers and abstracts must be written in a format appropriate for anonymous review and employ gender-neutral language. Individual authors may submit only one paper or abstract as first author, though they may be co-authors on other submissions.

All submissions will be made using our online submission system, which will open December 1, 2009. Check here for details: http://www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html

Invited Speakers for the 2010 SPP meeting include: Liane Gabora, Joshua Greene, John-Dylan Haynes, Scott Barry Kaufman, Katherine Kinzler, Edouard Machery, Casey O'Callaghan, Elliot Paul, Brian Scholl, Linda Skitka, Keith Stanovich, and Stephen Stich.

There will also be a Presidential Address by Betram Malle.

Symposia topics will include: The Neuroscience of Lying, Cognizing Human Groups, Creativity & Imagination, and Object Perception.

This year's conference will be preceded on June 9th by a workshop in Moral Psychology. More details on the workshop will be posted soon.

For more information on the annual meeting, please contact the program chairs: Ron Mallon (rmallon@philosophy.utah.edu) and Jen Wright (wrightjj1@cofc.edu).

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Appalachian Regional Student Phil. Colloquium (3rd Annual)

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PAPERS

The Philosophy Department and the Philosophy Club
at East Tennessee State University present

The 3rd Annual
Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Colloquium
East Tennessee State University
Date: March 26 – 27, 2010

Keynote speaker:
Dr. David Hilbert of University of Illinois at Chicago; philosopher of mind, perception and color

Papers are now being accepted for both undergraduate and graduate presentations. All papers will be evaluated by blind review process. At the conference, the Keynote speaker will choose the best presentation from the undergraduate and graduate categories, awarding a $50 prize for each. A limited number of hotel accommodations may be available at a discounted price.

Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome. Papers should be approximately 10 pages, or 20 minutes presentation time. The papers should not contain any identifying information, as they will be evaluated by blind review.

Abstracts should be one paragraph, approximately 150 words, double spaced, and should be attached to the paper. The abstracts should not contain any identifying information.

Cover Sheets should be on a separate sheet, and should contain the author’s name, the title of the paper, institutional affiliation, address, phone number, and e-mail address.

The deadline for papers submitted electronically is February 19th, 2010.
Papers submitted as hard copy must be postmarked by February 15th, 2010.
Notification of acceptance will occur by February 26th, 2010.

Please send submissions to, or request further information from:
E-mail: etsuphilosophyconf@gmail.com
Dr. David Harker
Dept. of Philosophy and Humanities
P.O. Box 70656
Johnson City, TN 37614

Humanities and Technology Review

Humanities and Technology Review (HTR)
CALL FOR ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS
Topic: Technology, Democracy, and Citizenship

HTR is the interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal, published
annually, of the Humanities and Technology Association (HTA).
Generally, it explores the interface between the humanities and
technology. For the Fall 2010 edition, we are looking for article
submissions and reviews of books that address the 2009 conference
theme: Technology, Democracy, and Citizenship.

The theme of Technology, Democracy and Citizenship raises important
questions about how technology mediates relationships between
individuals, civil society, and the nation-state. How does the
management of technology affect democracy? How is technology used by
under-represented or oppressed groups to address their condition? How
do the socio-technical systems such as voting machines and social
networking tools influence democratic processes? How does technology
impact decision making with regard to public policy? How are media and
ideology related? What challenges do ambient intelligence and
surveillance pose to democracy? How do fiction, cinema, hip hop, and
other art forms articulate such issues?

POSSIBLE TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:
• The consequences of limited access to technology.
• Technological literacy and its relation to citizenship.
• The politics of expertise.
• The history of technology in relation to democracy.
• The concepts of utopia and dis-utopia.
• Thoughtfulness and the public sphere.
• New media platforms and social networking tools.
• Cross-cultural perspectives.
• War technology and nation building.
• Environmental justice, social justice and diversity.
• National security and homeland defense.
• Hazard and disaster prevention, preparation, and recovery.

Author guidelines: Send all queries or manuscripts via email
attachment to Frederick B. Mills, Editor, HTR (fmills2003@yahoo.com).
All submissions must use APA format, MS Word 2007 without any special
formatting, 12 font times new roman, and double spacing throughout. Do
not insert page numbers, headers or footers. All manuscripts should be
prepared for blind review. The deadline for papers is March 31, 2010.
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Pacific Univ. Undergrad conference (14th Annual)

14TH ANNUAL PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
UNDERGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
April 16-17, 2010
Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, USA

Keynote talk by Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame)

The 14th annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference will
be held April 16-17, 2010 on the campus of Pacific University, in Forest
Grove, Oregon. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for the
presentation of philosophical work of undergraduates to their peers. Papers
are required to be of philosophical content, but there are no specific
restrictions on subject matter within the arena of philosophical discussion
itself. Papers should be approximately 3000 words (10-12 pages).
Electronic submissions, including paper and abstract (Word documents),
should be sent to boersema@pacificu.edu

Submission deadline is FEBRUARY 1, 2010.

Final decisions will be made by February 28. Volunteers for paper
commentators are also welcome.

This is strictly an undergraduate conference, with only undergraduates
allowed on the conference program. The single exception is the keynote
speaker. Past keynotes speakers have included: Paul Churchland, Hilary
Putnam, John Searle, Keith Lehrer, Catherine Elgin, John Perry, Hubert
Dreyfus, and Jerry Fodor. This year's keynote talk following the conference
banquet will be by Alvin Plantinga (University of Notre Dame).

The conference schedule will be as follows:

Friday, April 16:

Registration 4:00-6:00 pm
Conference banquet 6:00-7:30 pm
Keynote talk 7:30-9:00 pm

Saturday, April 17:

Breakfast 7:00-8:00 am
Registration 8:00-9:00 am
Paper sessions 8:00-1:00
Conference luncheon 1:00-2:00
Paper sessions 2:00-6:00

Travel and lodging information can be found by going to the conference web
site, http://www.pacificu.edu/as/philosophy/conference/index.cfm

Registration costs: $40, payable at the conference. Three meals will be
provided: Friday night banquet, Saturday breakfast and lunch.

For further information, contact Professor Boersema via email
(boersema@pacificu.edu) or by phone (503 352 2150) or at the address below:

Deptment of Philosophy
Pacific University
2043 College Way
Forest Grove
OR 97116
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Spontaneous Generations Volume 4

Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science
Volume 4: Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture.

Spontaneous Generations is an open, online, peer-reviewed academic journal published by graduate students at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto.

In addition to articles for peer review, opinion essays, and book reviews, Spontaneous Generations is seeking contributions to its focused discussion section. This section consists of short peer-reviewed and invited articles devoted to a particular theme. This year, the theme is "Scientific Instruments: Knowledge, Practice, and Culture." See below for submission guidelines.

We welcome submissions from scholars in all disciplines, including but not limited to HPS, STS, History, Philosophy, Women's Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and Religious Studies. Papers from all periods are welcome.

The journal consists of four sections:

1. A focused discussion section devoted to Scientific Instruments (see below). (1000-3000 words recommended.)
2. A peer-reviewed section of research papers on various topics in the field of HPS. (5000-8000 words recommended.)
3. A book review section for books published in the last 5 years. (Up to 1000 words.)
4. An opinions section that may include a commentary on or a response to current concerns, trends, and issues in HPS. (Up to 500 words.)

With the “practical turn” in history and philosophy of science came a renewed interest in scientific instruments. Although they have become a nexus for worries about empiricism and standards of evidence, instruments only rarely feature as primary sources for scholars in the history and philosophy of science. Even historians of technology have been accused of underutilizing the evidence embodied in material objects (Corn 1996). The fundamental questions are not settled. First, there is no general agreement as to what counts as a scientific instrument: Are simulations instruments? Can people function as instruments? Do economic or sociological instruments operate in the same way as material instruments? There is a second, related debate about how scientific instruments work: Is there a unified account? Do instruments produce knowledge or produce effects? Do they extend our senses (Humphreys 2006) or embody knowledge (Baird 2006)? Third, HPS has seen a variety of approaches to fitting instruments into broader historical and philosophical questions about scientific communities and practices: Shapin and Schaffer (1985) relate instruments to the scientific life, Galison (1997) gives instrument makers equal footing with theorists and experimentalists within the trading zone of scientific discourse, and Hacking (1983) elevates instruments to central importance in the realism-antirealism debate. Finally, it seems plausible that there are methodological concerns specific to scientific instruments: What lessons can we draw from anthropology, material culture, and other allied fields?

We welcome short papers exploring the history and philosophy of scientific instruments for inclusion in Spontaneous Generations Volume 4. Submissions should be sent no later than 26 February 2010 in order to be considered for the 2010 issue.

For more details, and a preview of Volume 3 (2009): Epistemic Boundaries, please visit the journal homepage at

http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/SpontaneousGenerations/

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Newton and Empiricism

Newton and Empiricism
Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
10-11 April 2010

Invited Speaker: Lisa Downing ( Ohio State)

Program Committee: Zvi Biener ( Western Michigan University), J. E. McGuire ( University of Pittsburgh), and Eric Schliesser ( University of Leiden)

Call for papers

Isaac Newton and John Locke are sometimes portrayed as dual fathers of the British Enlightenment, with Newton providing the exemplar of human knowledge and Locke providing the philosophical infrastructure required for understanding the merit and reach of that exemplar. Yet their union was neither simple nor unchallenged. Newton’s empiricism developed while defending and revising his Principia against philosophical critique, and Locke’s hospitability to Newtonian gravity and realization of Newton’s achievement developed through successive drafts of the Essay and other texts. Moreover, similar complexity exists in the work of Newton’s and Locke’s intellectual heirs. This conference will focus on the compatibility and incompatibility, tensions, and developing relations between Newton, Locke, and their successors in Newtonianism and Empiricism.

The conference will take place on 10-11 April 2010 at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh. Possible conference participants should note that Catherine Wilson ( University of Aberdeen) will deliver an Annual Lecture Series Talk for the Center for Philosophy of Science on the afternoon of 9 April 2010. Conference participants are encouraged to attend.

Partial travel stipends will be available for young scholars, who are highly encouraged to submit abstracts.

The deadline for submitting abstracts (of approximately 750 words) is 1 December 2009. Email submissions are highly encouraged and can be sent to Zvi Biener at zvi.biener@wmich.edu. If you do not receive confirmation of receipt of your abstract within a week, please resubmit or contact the organizers.

More Information

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MPA Meeting: Environmental Ethics

Call for Abstracts

The Mississippi Philosophical Association (MPA) is now seeking abstracts for presentations at the annual meeting on February 5-6, 2010 on the Mississippi State Campus in Starkville, MS.

This year’s theme is environmental ethics, broadly construed, and presentations that address any concern in environmental ethics will be considered for the program. Presentations may be practically or theoretically oriented, and topics may be purely philosophical or inter-disciplinary.

Each presenter will be given 40 minutes on the program, of which 25-30 minutes will be dedicated to the reading of the paper, with the other 10-15 minutes dedicated to participant responses.

While the MPA is a regional organization, we seek broad participation in this conference and philosophers from all institutions and locations are welcome to submit abstracts.

Submissions should include a title page with title of submission, author name, institution, email address, and postal address. A 500 word abstract should be prepared for blind review and be sent as a separate file.

Email submissions in .doc or .pdf format to trisha.phillips@msstate.edu by 11:59pm CT on November 30. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the same email address.

Authors will be notified regarding submissions by December 15, 2009.

For more information about the Mississippi Philosophical Association see:
http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/mpa/

For more information about the Mississippi State University see:
http://www.msstate.edu/
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