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2011-11-12T06:11:00.000-08:00

Dear friends, readers, and supporters of Philosophy CfPs,

3 years ago, Wes Buckwalter and I had an idea for a site that would host Philosophy CfPs and event announcements in a clear and manageable form. People liked it, people used it, and eventually people who had the same idea, came up with a much better way to implement it.

We welcome PhilEvents and frankly we're glad other people will be doing the work from now on. Add them to your bookmarks. This page will remain up for 1 month. But I am hereby ordering contributors to cease posting new information, in order to facilitate people switching over to PhilEvents. On Dec 12 this url will disappear entirely.

Wes and I thank all of our contributors.

Cheers,
A.P. Taylor

CFP: Graduate Conference in Aesthetics

2011-11-09T11:48:00.000-08:00

April 22, 2012
Independence Park Hotel, Philadelphia

Keynote Speaker:
Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma)

Sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics and the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium

Call for Papers:

Papers in any area of aesthetics, in both “analytic” and “continental” traditions, are invited from students enrolled in any graduate program in philosophy. Submissions must make a useful contribution to existing literature in a subfield, but should be understandable to aestheticians outside of that subfield. Five submissions will be selected for presentation.

The submission deadline is Friday, January 6, 2012.

For students whose papers have been accepted, $300 will be awarded towards transportation costs. A further $200 prize will be awarded to a student with an outstanding paper.

Papers must be less than 3,000 words (not including footnotes), accompanied by a 100-word abstract, and prepared for blind review. Submissions must be in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf format. Please send submissions and questions to John Dyck:
<john.dyck@gmail.com>.

Note that the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting occurs immediately before the Graduate Conference in Aesthetics, also in Philadelphia. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers to the ASA-Eastern, but please note that authors may not submit the same paper to both the ASA-Eastern and the Graduate Conference in Aesthetics. The same author(s) may submit different papers to both conferences.

Bioethics and Cancer Health Disparities Conference

2011-11-08T22:45:00.000-08:00

"First Bioethics Conference on Cancer Health Disparities Research:
Celebrating Scholars Ethically Working toward Reducing Cancer Health Disparities"

Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala.
January 18-20, 2012

Conference Goal
The goal of the conference is to celebrate experimental and experiential learning and to provide reflective space. Such a platform is critical for ethical reflection on the work of Minority-Serving Institutions/Cancer Centers Partnerships (MI/CCP) investigators and members, and other faculty members, scientists, university administrators, local, state and federal officials, and members of the research community desirous of staying informed, affecting policy or sharing their processes and results in a scholarly forum. The discussions will direct efforts to address ethical issues raised by cancer health disparities research.

Objectives
In completing this educational activities, it is expected that attendees would be able to:
. broaden their understanding of ethical issues specific to cancer health disparities research,
. demonstrate awareness of various stakeholders and perspectives impacting resolution of the ethical issues,
. gain a better understanding of how cancer health disparities research can be ethically conducted to eliminate disparities with due attention to contextual issues, individual interest, and entrenched community values, and
. plan to engage the knowledge and transforming experience gained to eliminate cancer health disparities in home institutions or new environments.

Who Should Attend?

MI/CCP investigators; cancer health disparity partnership members; human research administrators, IRB members, potential research volunteers, community health advisers; community members; religious, civic and government leaders; university administrators; local, state and federal officials; potential research participants; cancer health advocates; patient navigators; and students.

ALL ATTENDEES MUST REGISTER WHETHER OR NOT YOU WISH TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT AND MANUSCRIPT, SO STAY TUNED FOR REGISTRATION INFORMATION.

Call for Abstracts and Manuscripts
The Morehouse School of Medicine/Tuskegee University/University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center Partnership is inviting abstracts and manuscripts submissions for oral and/or poster presentations at this national conference designed for Minority-Serving Institutions/Comprehensive Cancer Center Partnership (MI/CCCP) and other investigators to be held in Tuskegee, Alabama from January 18 ‐ 19, 2012.

Abstracts and Manuscripts addressing ethical issues in these broad areas of your work are being sought:
• Risks for cancer based on age, race, ethnicity, gender, class;
• Social and cultural dimensions of cancer health disparities research;
• Spiritual dimensions of cancer health disparities research;
• Discrimination in cancer health disparities research;
• Capacity for informed consent by the elderly in cancer health disparities research;
• Community consultation in cancer health disparities research;
• Aging in cancer health disparities research;
• Philosophical dimensions of cancer health disparities research;
• Peer‐review process in cancer health disparities research;
• Genetic and biologic cancer disparities research
• Biospecimens and cancer health disparities research;
• Recruitment and retention in cancer health disparities research;
• Health Care Reform and cancer health disparities research; and
• Training of physicians and health care professionals in cancer health disparities research.

Abstract and Manuscript Submissions
Each contributed abstract and manuscript must be categorized under one of the topics or areas of interest listed. Abstracts of no more than 250 words must besubmitted by Monday, November 21, 2011. The abstracts will be reviewed by the Bioethics Group of the MSM/TU/UABCCC Partnership. Those accepted may be approved for oral or poster presentations. By Thursday, December 1, 2011, selected presenters will receive an acceptance letter and an invitation to submit the“camera‐ready” abstract. The deadline for submission of manuscripts, 2,500 to 3,500 words in length, is Thursday, March 1, 2012. Manuscripts must not have been previously submitted to any professional journals for publication.

Please submit Abstracts and Manuscripts to:

stephen.sodeke@gmail.com
Stephen Olufemi Sodeke, PhD, MA
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala.
Phone: (334)727‐8210; Fax: (334)727‐7221

This document is available as a PDF here:
http://goo.gl/a9rFX

Biopsychosocial and Other Models for Psychiatry

2011-11-08T22:42:00.001-08:00

Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Call for Abstracts

The Biopsychosocial and Other Models for Psychiatry: Philosophical Perspectives
24th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 5 & 6, 2012

Conference Co-Chairs: Christian Perring, Ph.D (Dowling College) & James Phillips, M.D. (Yale University)

Full description at

http://alien.dowling.edu/%7Ecperring/aapp/AAPP_BPS_CFA.pdf

Presentations will be strictly limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion.

Abstracts should be 500-600 words and should be emailed to both James Phillips
(james.phillips@yale.edu) and Christian Perring (cperring@yahoo.com)

Deadline: November 15, 2011.

Abstracts will be blind reviewed, so the author's identifying information should be attached separately.
Notices of acceptance or rejection will be distributed in early January.

Christian Perring, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling College
http://christianperring.com/
Editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/
Office Phone: (631) 244-3349
Dept Philosophy, Dowling College, 150 Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY 11769, USA

CFP: Waterloo Graduate Conference

2011-11-08T11:43:00.000-08:00

Philosophy Graduate Student Association Nineteenth Annual Graduate Conference in Philosophy March 1 & 2, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Helen Longino

Stanford University

Submission Deadline: January 2, 2012

We welcome high quality submissions from graduate students in all areas of philosophy. Papers in the areas of philosophy of science, objectivity, pluralism, and social epistemology will be given special consideration. Given Dr. Longino’s work on gender theory and feminism we particularly encourage submissions in these areas as well.

Submission Requirements:

Papers should be between 4000 and 5000 words. They must be prepared for blind review and must include, on a separate cover sheet, the following information:

• Paper title

• Author’s name

• Institutional affiliation

• E-mail address

• A short abstract

• Word count

Please e-mail your submissions in any of .doc, .docx or .pdf format to: pgsa@uwaterloo.ca

For more information about the University of Waterloo Philosophy Graduate Student Association and its activities, please visit: http://artsweb.uwaterloo.ca/~pgsa

McMaster Graduate Conference for Legal Theory

2011-11-07T13:10:00.000-08:00

May 15-17, 2012 at McMaster University - Hamilton, ON, Canada

Keynote Speakers: Jules Coleman (Yale) and Mark Murphy (Georgetown)

We are currently accepting submissions from graduate students and law students from all universities for presentations relating to all areas within legal theory including, but not limited to:

· General and Normative Jurisprudence

· The Nature of Law

· Law and Morality

· Judicial Review / Judicial Activism / Theories of the Judicial Role

· Constitutionalism

· Feminist Approaches to Legal Theory / Critical Legal Studies

· The History of Legal Philosophy

· Law and Authority

· Controversies related to all areas of law (criminal law, tort law, administrative law, etc…)

· International Law

Papers should be approximately 3000-4000 words in length and be either in .rtf or .doc format. Each presenter will be given a one hour presentation slot, of which 25-30 minutes will be dedicated to presenting the paper, with the other 30-35 minutes dedicated to participant responses. An abstract of 100-200 words should accompany all papers. All papers and abstracts must be submitted no later than January 15, 2012.

A panel of legal philosophy graduate students and professors at McMaster will review submissions using criteria of interest, sophistication, and general overlap with similar themes. All papers will be subject to blind review. Notice of acceptance will be given on February 8.

While only graduate and law student papers will be accepted for presentation, all persons (including students, faculty, or any persons with a general interest in legal theory) are welcome to attend.

Please send papers and abstracts, together with your name, contact information, and home university to: philosophy_conference@mcmaster.ca

*Conference Fee : $40.00 CDN (all participants)

CFP: Truth, Falsehood, and Deception in Ancient Philosophy

2011-11-02T16:56:00.000-07:00

TRUTH, FALSEHOOD AND DECEPTION IN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

FACULTY OF CLASSICS, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Friday 20th to Saturday 21st April, 2012

The history of logic, philosophy of language, ethics and metaphysics are suffused with the themes of truth, falsehood and deception. We welcome work focusing on said issues, broadly construed. Papers may focus on particular thinkers, individual texts, or broader traditions from the Presocratics up to and including Philoponus. Diachronic studies are also welcome.

The conference is aimed at advanced graduate students and junior researchers (those who are within 3 years of their PhD). We invite abstracts of up to 500 words (for papers of up to 3500 words). Depending on the quality of submissions, we aim to allow for 6-8 papers. Each paper will
be followed by a brief response.

To submit a paper, please send an electronic abstract of 500 words to the committee by 5th January 2012. Notification will be made by 27th January. Abstracts should be in .pdf format, and prepared for blind review. Please include a one-word pseudonym (such as your mother's maiden name) in the file name of your .pdf.

Please email submissions and questions to Matthew Duncombe, mbd28@cam.ac.uk

For further information and to register please visit:
http://sites.google.com/site/truthdeceptionandfalsehood/home

The conference is kindly supported by the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Classics.

Nebraska Conference on Practical Reasons and Metaethics

2011-10-25T04:45:00.000-07:00

David Sobel and Mark van Roojen have been working to put together a conference on Practical Reason and Metaethics. (A highly original title, I know, but somehow strangely apt.) It will be held about a year hence, on April 20-22, 2012 at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. We will be treated to talks by Nomy Arpaly, Michael Bratman, Jamie Dreier, Peter Railton, Connie Rosati, Mark Schroeder, and Michael Smith. We also are saving two time slots for blind refereed papers. The submitters of the two chosen papers will have reasonable expenses (up to $1000) of getting here and staying for the conference picked up by by us.

We ask for a long (up to 1000 word) paper abstract and a complete draft paper, both properly anonymized to remove author information, as well as information from which we could reasonably speculate as to the author's identity. We'd like these by November 15, 2011. Referees will then narrow down the initial submissions using the abstracts and then pick the two final papers based on reading the papers whose abstracts make them finalists. We're very serious about keeping selection process as blind as possible so we ask for your cooperation in submitting properly blinded papers and abstracts. Also, please don't tell us you've submitted something for the conference until we announce the refereed program.

A link to the conference announcement with more specific information is here:

http://www.unl.edu/philosop/speaker/speaker/PracticalReasonandMeta.pdf

We hope you'll consider submitting a paper and/or coming to the conference next April.

Special Issue of Nanoethics - Deadline for Notifying Intention to Submit Extended

2011-10-25T02:20:00.000-07:00

Dear colleagues,

The stated deadline (Oct 15) for sending intentions to submit papers for the special issue of Nanoethics Journal has passed. However, the chief editor and I have agreed that we should allow more time so that we receive as many fine proposals as possible. Thus, the deadline for sending intentions will be extended to January 15, 2012. Hope this will encourage you to consider submit your thoughts and research findings to the journal. Thanks a lot.

The website of the call for papers is at http://cestchula.wordpress.com/2011/08/21/social-and-ethical-aspects-of-new-and-emerging-technologies-from-an-asian-perspective-a-call-for-papers/

Best wishes,

Soraj

The 2012 Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference

2011-10-24T14:15:00.000-07:00

We invite submissions of high quality papers by graduate students to a conference, to be hosted on March 31 and April 01, 2012, by Princeton and Rutgers Philosophy Departments. We welcome papers in any area of mainstream academic philosophy. Papers accessible to a general philosophical audience will be favored. Papers should not exceed 4000 words in length, and should be prepared for blind refereeing.

Keynote Speakers:

TBD (Princeton)

TBD (Rutgers)

Submission Deadline: January 15, 2012

(Notification of Acceptance by February 15, 2012)

Submission Guidelines:

Please send the following as separate attachments in .doc or .pdf format to prconf2012@gmail.com:

I) A cover letter containing the following information:
- author’s name
- title of paper
- institutional affiliation
- contact information (email, phone number, mailing address)
- word count
- the topic area(s) of the paper (e.g. metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, etc.)

II) The paper itself, with a title page containing the title of the paper and an abstract of no more than 150 words. This file should be free of identifying information.

All questions concerning the conference should be sent to prconf2012@gmail.com. Please visit http://fas-philosophy.rutgers.edu/philconf/ for more information.

Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy

2011-10-16T23:09:00.001-07:00

The first annual conference of the Society for the Study of the
History of Analytical Philosophy will be held at McMaster University,
Hamilton (Canada) 24-26 May 2012.

Invited Speakers:
Michael Friedman (Stanford University)
Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)
Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester)

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~philos/sshap/index.html

CANADIAN STUDENT PRESENTERS TRAVEL BURSARIES

SSHAP will be offering up to 10 travel bursaries to Canadian student
presenters. The bursaries will cover transportation to as well as
accommodation and subsistence in Hamilton. Bursaries will be awarded
on the basis of need and scientific merit. In order to be eligible,
students must be citizens or permanent residents of Canada (whether
studying in Canada or abroad).

CALL FOR PAPERS

SSHAP invites submissions for its 2012 annual conference. Paper
submissions in all areas of the history of analytic philosophy are
welcome.

A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a
special volume of the Journal for the History of Analytical
Philosophy. (www.jhaponline.org)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 30th, 2011.

Submission Instructions

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically according
to the following guidelines:

1) Papers should be prepared for blind refereeing, 2) put into PDF
file format, and 3) sent as an email attachment to the address given
below -- where 4) the subject line of the submission email should
include the key-phrase "SSHAP submission", and 5) the body text of the
email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by
including i) return email address, ii) author's name, iii)
affiliation, iv) paper title, and v) short abstract.

Time allowed for presentation is 60 minutes (including discussion). We
recommend that paper be no longer than 4000 words.

Electronic submissions should be sent to: sshap@mcmaster.ca

For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~philos/sshap/index.html

Formal Epistemology Week 2012

2011-10-16T23:08:00.001-07:00

Formal Epistemology Week
Konstanz, June 4-6, 2012

Organized by Rachael Briggs (Sydney), Kenny Easwaran (USC), Franz Huber (Konstanz), Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto).
Speakers include Jeff Barrett (UCI/Konstanz), Joe Halpern (Cornell/Konstanz), and the organizers.

The Formal Epistemology Week is not a formal event. Nor is it exclusively devoted to epistemology. Nor will it last a week. It is, however, caused by the fact that formal methods have contributed to progress in philosophy, the fiction that epistemology studies only knowledge, and the forecast that it will be such a great event that everybody wishes it would last another week.

Please submit full papers prepared for blind-review to: formal.epistemology@uni-konstanz.de by November 30, 2011. Notification of acceptance: December 31, 2011.

Speakers have a total of 90mins to present their papers (including Q&A) and will be reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses.

Egalitarianism Workshop

2011-10-16T23:00:00.000-07:00

The Fourth McGill Workshop in Ethics
Egalitarianisms: Current Debates on Equality and Priority in Health,
Wealth, and Welfare

March 30th -31st, 2012
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Workshop website: http://www.mcgill.ca/aggregation/workshop/egalitarianism

Confirmed Speakers
Nir Eyal (Harvard)
Iwao Hirose (McGill)
Nils Holtug (Copenhagen)
Dennis McKerlie (Calgary)
Shlomi Segall (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Workshop Description

Egalitarian theories of distributive justice have recently encountered
fundamental challenges. Is egalitarianism susceptible to the leveling
down objection? Is it less plausible than prioritarianism? Does it
support reducing the inequalities resulting from brute luck, but not
option luck? Does it aim to equalize the distribution of welfare at
each time or over a lifetime? What does egalitarianism make of the
strong correlation between inequalities in health and inequalities in
socio-economic conditions? In this two-day workshop, we will discuss
current theoretical issues and seek common and unified grounds for
future research into egalitarian theories of distributive justice.

Call for Papers

We invite high quality papers on the recent philosophical challenges
to egalitarian theories of distributive justice. We will include at
least 5 submitted papers in the program. Papers should be suitable for
blind-review and no longer than 6,000 words (must include a 200 word
abstract in the first page). Please submit paper (Word or PDF file)
through www.mcgill.ca/aggregation/submit We welcome submissions from
graduate students. For accepted papers, the organizers will cover the
cost of accommodation (up to 3 nights in downtown Montreal) and
workshop banquet.

Deadline for submission: November 20, 2011
(Notification of acceptance by December 20, 2011)

This workshop is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

Kansas Philosophical Society (open topic)

2011-10-16T22:59:00.000-07:00

31st Annual Meeting of the Kansas Philosophical Society
at Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
February 18, 2012

The executive committee of the Kansas Philosophical Society invites the submission of papers for the thirty-first annual meeting to be held Saturday, February 18, 2012, at Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. All friends of philosophy are invited to submit papers. Papers may be on any philosophical topic but are not to exceed 3,000 words in length.

Papers should be prepared for blind refereeing and submitted electronically. Please send your file attached to an e-mail message in which you state your name and the title of your paper. Preferred file formats include Word 97–2003 (.doc), Word 2007 (.docx), RTF, and PDF. Please do not use the format of LaTeX.

The deadline for submission is Friday, November 18, 2011, but early submissions will be greatly appreciated. Commentators will be selected for some papers. You are invited to send an indication of willingness to comment (along with your current c.v.) by Friday, December 9, 2011.
For further information for this conference and the Kansas Philosophical Society please visit http://www.kansasphilosophicalsociety.org/.

DEADLINE: November 18, 2011
SUBMISSIONS: susan.castro@wichita.edu

Non-electronic submissions are also welcome and can be mailed to Susan Castro,
Department of Philosophy, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Street Wichita, KS 67260-0074.

University of Miami Graduate Epistemology Conference

2011-10-16T22:57:00.000-07:00

9th Annual University of Miami
Graduate Student Conference in
Epistemology
January 12th - 14th 2012
Miami, FL

Keynote Address by

Huw Price
(University of Sidney)

Submission Deadline: November 16, 2011

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami invites
submissions for its annual graduate student conference in
epistemology. We are especially interested this year in papers
concerned with the epistemology of philosophical knowledge and
philosophical methodologies, but whole-heartedly welcome submissions
from graduate students in any area of epistemology. Please note that
the Department will provide lodging and meals for accepted speakers.

Submission Guidelines:

1. Papers should be no more than 3000 words, or 30 minutes reading
time.
2. Papers should be prepared for blind review, and accompanied by a
title page including:
a) Author’s name
b) Academic status and affiliation
c) Contact information (e-mail address preferably)
d) 150 word abstract
3. Send electronic copies in .doc or .pdf format to
epistemology.um@gmail.com or send two paper copies to: Sara-Beth
Lesson, UM Philosophy Department, PO Box 248054, Coral Gables, FL
33124-4670, USA

For more information, email: epistemology.um@gmail.com for information
on previous conferences, visit http://www.miami.edu/phi/gradconference/

NSSR Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

2011-10-16T22:56:00.000-07:00

11th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference at the New School for Social Research.

This year's topic is "Freedom and Responsibility".
Our Keynote Speakers are:
Alice Crary (The New School) & Margaret Gilbert (UC Irvine)

Our understanding of ourselves as responsible agents deeply permeates human life and is reflected in practices such as blaming, praising, accusing, forgiving, punishing, acquitting, and the like. It is common among philosophers to see these practices as intimately linked to a notion of human beings as free. The way that the link between freedom and responsibility is usually approached is from the perspective of the individual agent. This suggests the following central questions: What are the proper capacities that go into being a moral agent? How are one’s actions related to one’s intentions? Is the availability of alternative routes for action a necessary and sufficient condition for free, responsible agency? And what kind of threat does the thesis of determinism exert on these issues?
While these questions are still very much alive, there have been a number of challenges to this classical way of framing the idea of responsibility in terms of individual intentional actions. Various philosophers have raised the need to talk about collective responsibility, to shift the focus from individual agents to the entire cultural and historical milieu within which action takes place. Further challenges to the individualist frame can be found in psychoanalysis, or within hermeneutic philosophies of action, both of which question the idea of intention as being the first fact in our responsibility, or as being available in anything but a retrospective, narrative sense— and thereby seem, like determinism worn with a difference, to bring the very idea of freedom and responsibility into question.

This conference welcomes papers that address any of the ways in which questions of freedom and responsibility have been discussed, transformed, or disavowed; it further encourages participants to consider the intersections of these points of view, and to consider whether a full account of responsibility and its possibility requires a synthesis rather than a total change in perspective.

Papers should range in length between 3,000 and 4,500 words and be sent to: freedomandresponsibility@gmail.com

The deadline for submission is November 1st, 2011

Notification will occur by email on or before January 30th, 2012

Buffalo Workshop on Ethics and Adaptation

2011-10-16T22:55:00.000-07:00

Call for Abstracts: Buffalo Workshop on Ethics and Adaptation

Buffalo Workshop on Ethics and Adaptation: environmental ethics and
policy when the future does not resemble the past

An event to be held 10-11 March 2012 at the University at Buffalo.

In light of the changes we can expect to see as a result of climate
change, there is a need, recognizable in recent work in policy, law,
and ethics, to reconsider both the ethical norms relevant to our
changing world and the forms of justification provided for those
norms. The Buffalo workshop on Ethics and Adaptation will provide a
venue for beginning to address this need. This workshop will bring
together philosophers, policy scholars, and others working on issues
related to ethics, adaptation, and sustainability in light of a
rapidly changing environment.

That we now face a new set of theoretical and practical challenges in
ethics, policy, and law is clear. While historically, political change
and increased scientific understanding led to significant
transformation of our ethical viewpoints, these changes took place
within the fairly stable Holocene epoch. If, as many argue, we are now
in a less stable, human generated era, the “anthropocene” epoch as
some have called it, we have no precedent for understanding how to
modify our practical and evaluative standards. What sort of ethical
adaptation should we, or must we, make in an anthropocene epoch? How
should this lack of precedent influence our ethical norms and values
as we adapt to our changing world? While answers to these questions
will surely involve profound changes in our current policy, they may
also involve the nature of our moral concepts, the purported
universality or objectivity of ethical claims, the structure of
practical and political reasoning, or the very idea of flourishing and
the good.

Confirmed Workshop Attendees Include:

• Paul Baer (Co-Founder of Ecoequity and Georgia Tech, Public Policy)
• Jeremy Bendik-Keymer (Case Western Reserve University, Beamer-
Schneider Professor in Ethics)
• J. Baird Callicott (University of North Texas, Philosophy)
• Ben Hale (Colorado, Philosophy and Environmental Studies)
• Andrew Light (Center for American Progress and George Mason
University, Philosophy and Public Policy)
• Allen Thompson (Oregon State University, Philosophy and
Environmental Humanities)

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

• Capabilities, flourishing, and virtues in a time of climate change
• Disaster Ethics
• Whether or not the need for adaptation should have an influence on
our ethical, political, or legal norms
• Ethical considerations appropriate to policy in times of great
instability
• Ethical issues surrounding particular features of adaptation (e.g.,
does the need to adapt to a changing world influence the duty to
provide aid to the distant needy?)
• Ethical issues surrounding particular political practices (e.g.,
does the need to adapt to a changing world change the legitimacy of
international political institutions?)
• A framework for balancing the needs of human and non-human interests
in addressing climate change and extreme weather.
• The influence of epistemological or decision-theoretical
considerations on ethical norms or policy matters in times of great
uncertainty

Submission Procedure, Workshop Format, and Other Particulars:

500 word abstracts or preliminary proposals should be submitted by
1 November 2011 to Kenneth Shockley (kes25 at buffalo dot edu).

For those proposals selected, short (1500-2500 word) work-in-progress
papers will be due by 15 January 2012. We will discuss these
circulated drafts in light of the best available analysis of the world
to which we might be adapting. Each workshop participant will have 15
minutes to present or expand upon the work previous circulated. This
will be followed by 30 minutes of open discussion. There will be ample
time for open discussion and coordinating future projects and common
endeavors.

Accommodation will be provided for workshop participants. There will
be opportunities to publish the results of this workshop; Ethics,
Policy, and Environment has expressed an interest.

The timing of this workshop has been chosen to follow immediately upon
an earlier workshop, organized by the Anthropologist Ezra Zubrow,
titled, “The Big Thaw: Policy, Governance, and Climate Change in the
Circumpolar North”. “The Big Thaw” is scheduled to run from the 8th
to 9th of March. Participants will have the opportunity to participate
in this workshop as well.

Any questions should be addressed to Kenneth Shockley at kes25 at
buffalo dot edu.

Call for Book Reviews: Perspectives Postgraduate Journal

2011-10-16T22:54:00.000-07:00

Call for Book Reviews
Perspectives International Journal of Philosophy, Volume 4, 2012.

For Volume IV, 2012, we are seeking book reviews on recently published works. If you would like a list of books available for review please email perspectives@ucd.ie. If you have a recently published book in mind to review that is not on our list please let us know. We also accept reviews of books for consideration that are outside of this list.
CRITERIA FOR BOOK REVIEWS:
Submissions should be 2000-2500 words and about a recently published book. Contact the editors for a list of books available for review. Works should be typed and double-spaced. Complete style guidelines are available on our website. www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/papers.html Also include a brief biography for the contributors page, should your paper be accepted. Make sure to include all relevant contact information, including a permanent e-mail address.

DEADLINE FOR BOOK REVIEW SUBMISSION: 1 November 2011

Please send submissions
by email to perspectives@ucd.ie

TiLPS Conference on Computing Natural Reasoning

2011-10-16T22:52:00.000-07:00

Conference on Computing Natural Reasoning

COCONAT

December 15-16, 2011

Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science

URL: http://naturalreasoning.wordpress.com/
*deadline 1 November*

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About the Conference
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Logic was originally meant to systematize and analyze
arguments in natural language. But in the 20th century the
main developments in logic focused on mathematics and its
foundations. Recently, a number of researchers have focused
on logical systems tuned to natural language semantics to
reconnect with the older tradition. The logical and
conceptual underpinnings of some of these systems remains
unclear, although some recent work has begun to address
formal foundations.

The aim of this conference is to contribute to this
direction in semantics and to discuss logics, especially
proof systems, well-suited for natural language semantics
and to explore comparisons between these systems. We also
welcome input from the psychology of reasoning and are
interested in computer implementations of natural reasoning
systems.

Topics of interest include:

* fragments of first-order logic which are powerful enough
to represent interesting linguistic phenomena and yet
small enough to be computationally feasible;
* extended syllogistic logics;
* logics and algorithms for use in textual entailment;
* natural logic and computational semantics;
* proof theoretic semantics;
* natural logic and the psychology of reasoning;
* formalizations of inference tasks centered on linguistic
expressions;
* applications of natural logic;
* formal models of reasoning in specific domains ("team"
reasoning, models of reasoning in games).

We solicit talkss on relevant topics. There will also be
poster sessions, preceded by plenary 'flash' presentations
of posters.

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Invited Speakers
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TBA

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Workshop Organizers
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Dominik Klein
Kristina Liefke
Reinhard Muskens
Eric Pacuit
Sara Uckelman

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Programme Committee
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Reinhard Muskens
Eric Pacuit
Sara Uckelman
+ the invited speakers

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Submission
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*Talks:* Upload an abstract of no more than 2 pages (pdf, 11
pt, normal interspacing and margins, two columns allowed) to
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coconat2011.

*Posters:* Upload a poster description of no more than 2
pages (pdf, 11 pt, normal interspacing and margins, two
columns allowed) to
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coconat2011.

Please make clear whether you want to present a paper or a
poster.

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Important Dates
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Talk/poster submission: November 1, 2011
Author notification: November 7, 2011
Conference dates: December 15-16, 2011

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Max Scheler Society of North America

2011-10-16T22:51:00.000-07:00

The Max Scheler Society of North America invites members of the
international community of scholars to participate in their biannual
meeting. This year’s meeting will convene in conjunction with the
meeting for the Central Division of the American Philosophical
Association, Feb. 15-18, 2012 at Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, IL.
The intent of the society and the meeting is to foster a critical
discussion of Max Scheler’s work and its broader philosophical
significance. Papers working to show the relevance of Scheler’s
thought as it pertains to present philosophical discourse is
encouraged.

Participants will have about 25 minutes to present their work and
hence papers should be no more than 3500 words in length. Though
completed papers are preferred, abstracts of at least 500 words in
length will also be considered. Deadline for submission is November
1, 2011.

All submissions can either be sent electronically or via post to the
contact information given below. All papers and abstracts should have
a separate cover sheet with name and contact information.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by December 1.

Contact Information:

Zachary Davis
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy, St Johns Hall, B30
St Johns University, 8000 Utopia Parkway
Jamaica, NY 11439
(718) 990-5256 or davisz@stjohns.edu

New Science - New Risks

2011-10-16T22:49:00.002-07:00

New Science - New Risks
How do we and should we take risks under great epistemic uncertainty?

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
30-31 March 2012

Call for papers:
http://www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr/Events/All/Conferences/others/other_conf_2011-12/03-30-12_risk/03-30-12_risk_conf.html

Organizing Committee: Nils-Eric Sahlin (Chair), Melissa Finucane, John
D. Norton, Teddy Seidenfeld, and Paul Weirich.

Questions can be directed to Nils-Eric Sahlin, NIS50@pitt.edu or Karen
Kovalchick, rubus@pitt.edu.

www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr

Deadline: November 1, 2011

USC / UCLA Graduate Student Conference

2011-10-16T22:49:00.000-07:00

The graduate students of the University of Southern California and the
University of California, Los Angeles, invite graduate students to
submit papers in all areas of philosophy to be presented at the
seventh annual USC/UCLA graduate student conference. The date of the
conference is February 18, 2012 and will be held at USC. The keynote
speaker will be John MacFarlane.

Submission Guidelines:
The deadline for submitting papers is November 1, 2011. Papers should
be suitable for a 25-30 minute presentation (less than 4500 words).
Submissions should be suitable for blind review, and should include a
cover letter and a one-paragraph abstract. Please email papers as .doc
or .pdf attachments to:
uscucla.conference@gmail.com

For more information, please contact David Bordeaux at
dbordeaux@ucla.edu.
Notice of acceptance will be sent by December 20, 2011.

If electronic submission is impossible, please mail to:
Department of Philosophy c/o David Bordeaux
405 Hilgard
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1451

Midwest Workshop in the PhiloSTEM

2011-10-16T22:47:00.000-07:00

Midwest Workshop in the Philosophy of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (PhiloSTEM)

PhiloSTEM 2
The Second Midwest Workshop in the Philosophy of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
Department of Philosophy, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne (IPFW)
11-12 November 2011

This workshop continues the tradition of a friendly and open exchange of ideas, lectures, and work in progress.
Papers in any area of Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Technology and Engineering, or Philosophy of Mathematics are cordially invited.
Papers addressing historical aspects of these areas from a philosophical perspective are considered.
Please submit an extended abstract (1500 words) corresponding to a presentation of 30-40 min.
Some partial travel funds might be/become available.

Deadline for submissions: October 20, 2011
Details about the submission process are available at: http://users.ipfw.edu/munteani/philostem/
Organization committee: Ioan Muntean, Bernd Buldt (IPFW), Charles McCarty (IU).

Ioan Muntean
Department of Philosophy
Indiana University-Purdue University
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
Web: http://imuntean.net

Canadian Political Philosophy and Multiculturalism

2011-10-16T22:45:00.001-07:00

When: January 20-21, 2012
Where: Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario
Submission Deadline: October 21st, 2011

The Philosophy Graduate Students’ Association at Ryerson University is
pleased to invite abstracts of 300 words or less for their upcoming
graduate student conference focusing on the philosophical problems
associated with multiculturalism. We encourage papers on topics such
as personal identity and culture, multicultural education, political
accommodation for minority cultures, or other related topics. The
keynote will be Dr. John Russon from the University of Guelph.
Graduate student papers will be presented in 1-hour sessions from
January 20th to January 21st, 2012.

Abstracts should be prepared for blind review and sent before 12:00pm
on Friday, October 21st, 2011 to Leland.Harper@Ryerson.ca with
“Conference Abstract” as the subject, and the body of the e-mail
containing your institutional affiliation and contact information.
Those whose abstracts are accepted will be notified by mid-November
and a draft of full papers of no more than 3000 words will be required
before January 10th, 2012.

Fourth Online Consciousness Conference

2011-10-16T16:45:00.000-07:00

from Philosophy Sucks! by Richard Brown

Please post and distribute widely; apologies for cross-posting.

I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the fourth online consciousness conference. the Invited Program includes,

Bernard Baars, The Neurosciences Institute

Special Session on Attention, Awareness, and Expectation organized by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior featuring,
Floris P. de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior

Jackie Gottlieb, Columbia

David Heeger, NYU

Marisa Carrasco, NYU

Special Session on Action Consciousness organized by Myrto Mylopoulos, The Graduate Center CUNY; participants TBA

Special Session on the Social Conditions of Self Consciousness organized by James Dow, Hendrix University; participants TBA

Papers in any area of consciousness studies are welcome. Papers should be roughly 3,000-4,000 words and subsequent presentations, should the presenter choose to make one, should be about 20 minutes (though longer papers/presentations are acceptable). Submissions, suitable for blind review, should be sent to consciousnessonline@gmail.com by December 5th 2011. Those interested in being referees or commentators should also contact me. Authors of accepted papers are urged to make, or have made, some kind of audio/visual presentation (e.g. narrated powerpoint or video of talk) though this is not required to present.

For more information visit the conference website at http://consciousnessonline.com

Find Consciousness Online on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Consciousness-Online/361010842469

Minds, Bodies, Problems

2011-10-08T16:56:00.000-07:00

from Philosophy Sucks! by Richard Brown

Via István Aranyosi; for more info visit the conference website: http://minds.bilkent.edu.tr/

Conference Announcement and 1st CALL FOR PAPERS

Minds, Bodies, and Problems – A philosophy of mind conference

hosted by Bilkent University, Ankara, 7-8 June, 2012.

High-quality submissions are invited on the many aspects of the mind-body problem.

Some suggested topics include: naturalistic/physicalistic reduction of intentionality and/or phenomenal consciousness, the potential constitutive role of the body in mental states, the extended mind hypothesis, the potential conceptual role of the Peripheral Nervous System in the characterization of mental states/processes, body and mental causation, body/brain and free will, consciousness related topics in neuro- and bio-ethics, potential novel philosophical implications of focusing on less studied sense modalities: olfaction, proprioception, interoception, kinesthesia, etc.

Self-standing papers are preferred rather than papers responding to/commenting on another paper or book. Each talk will be 45 minutes long, including Q&A.

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Murat Aydede (University of British Columbia)

Prof. David Chalmers (Australian National University/New York University)

Prof. Tim Crane (Cambridge University)

Prof. Katalin Farkas (Central European University)

Prof. Shaun Gallagher (U. of Memphis/U. of Hertfordshire)

Interested speakers should submit an extended abstract (500-1000 words) by uploading it to the system to be found on the website of the conference:

http://minds.bilkent.edu.tr/

Submissions will be blindly refereed by a group of people comprising some of the keynote speakers, some of the faculty members of the Department of Philosophy at Bilkent University, and some members of the Turkish philosophical community.

We will select 8-10 speakers based on the submitted abstracts, and every effort is made to publish the final versions of the papers in an edited volume. The criteria of selection are both the perceived quality of the papers and the maximization of the conference’s overall diversity as far as the topics are concerned.

Abstract submission deadline: 15 January, 2012.

Expected date of a decision: 1 March, 2012.

Registration details:

Selected speakers will be asked to pay a conference fee of 160 EUR, which will cover the following:

- Three nights’ accommodation (6, 7, 8 June, 2012) in on-campus guest apartments.

- Lunches and dinners on 7 and 8 June, 2012.

- Breakfast on 8 June, 2012.

- Coffee, tea, and refreshments during the two conference days.

There will also be a two-day post-conference trip (9-10 June, 2012) to Cappadocia, which interested participants will have to pay for separately at a concession rate (approximately 100 EUR) which will cover transportation, tour guide, 4-star hotel accommodation, breakfast, dinner, and two lunches. For information on Cappadocia, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappadocia

The conference fee will also cover a fourth night at Bilkent upon return from Cappadocia, for of those who opt for joining us on that trip.

Payment details will be available to selected speakers by the time the final decision on the program will have been made.

The conference is open to the public, but the University is not able to arrange for accommodation and meals for non-speaker participants.

Two more reminders of the call for papers will be sent out: on 30 November, 2011, and on 30 December, 2011.

TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

2011-10-07T00:57:00.000-07:00

April 9-14, 2012

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Hotel

Tucson, Arizona

Sponsored by: The Center for Consciousness Studies, The University of Arizona http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu

Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) conferences have been held annually since 1994, alternating between Tucson, Arizona and other locations around the world. The tenth biennial 'Tucson Conference', Toward a Science of Consciousness will take place April 9-14, 2012.

Known for rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience, TSC includes neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, neurobiology, medicine, quantum physics and cosmology as well as art, mind technology and experiential and contemplative approaches. TSC is the largest interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. An estimated 500 scientists, philosophers, psychologists, experientialists, artists and students from over 60 countries are due to take part.

For the first time, Toward a Science of Consciousness will be held at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort Hotel in the Catalina Foothills above Tucson, Arizona (with a special conference rate of 99 dollars/room/night). See:http://www.loewshotels.com/en/Ventana-Canyon-Resort

Plenary/Keynote Session themes will include:

HOT or NOT: Debate on higher-order theories of consciousness
War of the Worldviews: Chopra and Mlodinow on consciousness
Consciousness and Echolocation
Fractal consciousness: Scale-free brain structure and dynamics
Retrocausality and consciousness
Searching for consciousness in coma and anesthesia

Speakers will include:

Daryl Bem, Ned Block, Melanie Boly, Deepak Chopra, Biyu Jade He, Daniel Kish, Victor Lamme, Hakwan Lau, George Mashour, Leonard Mlodinow, David Rosenthal, ...and others

As in previous conferences, program sessions will include Plenary and Keynote talks, Concurrent talks, Posters, Art/Science demos and exhibits, Pre-Conference workshops, Side trips and Social events in the Tucson conference tradition. For Information see: http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/

Abstract Submission

TSC 2012 Conference Abstract Submission System is now open. Abstracts considered for Plenary, Concurrent, Poster and Art/Tech Demo sessions

See: http://sbs.arizona.edu/project/consciousness/index.php

Schedule of Deadlines -- Tentative

December 10 Abstracts Due

January 5 Decisions

January 15 Early Registration Due

March 1 Final Abstract Edits Due

Call for Pre-Conference Workshop proposals

Proposals for pre-conference workshops are invited in all areas related to understanding conscious experience. Workshops provide in depth, detailed treatments of various methodologies, perspectives, reviews and approaches. Workshops may be solo presentations, or include two or more presenters. Attendance fees are $60 for 4 hour workshops and $80 for full day workshops, split evenly between presenter(s) and the conference which provides the room, A-V, promotion/advertisement and refreshments. A minimum number of registrants will be required.

The conference Plenary program opens Tuesday April 10 at 1:45 pm.

The pre-conference workshops will be held in three 4 hour sessions

1) Monday April 9th, 9 am to 1 pm

2) Monday April 9th, 2 pm to 6 pm

3) Tuesday April 10th, 9 am to 1 pm

Workshop presenters (up to 2 per workshop) also receive free registration for the conference. Please submit a 500 word (or less) abstract/summary and presenter information by email directly to center@email.arizona.edu

Deadline for Workshop proposals is November 1

Submitters will be notified by November 15

Contact:

Abi Behar-Montefiore, Manager, Center for Consciousness Studies, University of

Arizona - center@u.arizona.edu

Pitt/CMU Grad Conf.

2011-09-20T11:26:00.000-07:00

First Call for Papers:

14th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference

"Mind, Method and Morality"

The graduate students of the University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University invite graduate students to submit papers to our 14th annual graduate philosophy conference, on "Mind, Method and Morality," co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Conference setting: 6-7 April, 2012 at the University of Pittsburgh.

Keynote speaker:

Adina Roskies

Associate Professor of Philosophy, Dartmouth College

Faculty speaker:

Edouard Machery

Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Submission deadline:

19 December, 2011

Submission information:

We will consider submissions of high quality in any area of philosophy, especially those related to the theme "Mind, Method and Morality." This theme should be construed broadly, and may comprise among other things submissions related to the philosophy of mind, philosophy of the cognitive sciences, general philosophy of science, ethics and metaethics.

- All submissions must be prepared for blind review. The paper must have no identifying information and must include at the top an abstract of no more than 250 words.

- Submitted papers must be no more than 4500 words in length.

- Submitted papers must be received as .doc, .docx or .pdf files no later than 19 December, 2011.

Further information may be found at www.pitt.edu/~philgrad/. More coming soon.

To submit papers, follow instructions at www.pitt.edu/~philgrad/papers.html or www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pittcmuphi12.

Questions may be directed to PittCMUConference@gmail.com

New Journal: philoSOPHIA

2011-09-19T21:44:00.001-07:00

philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism

Call for Submissions and Invitation to Subscribe

SUNY Press is pleased to announce a new biannual journal: philoSOPHIA—
a philosophical journal that intertwines the rich traditions and
conceptual resources of continental philosophy and feminist theory.
The journal is edited by Elaine Miller and Emily Zakin, both Associate
Professors of Philosophy at Miami University of Ohio.

The inaugural issue features essays that explore animal imagery in
Freud’s works, specifically with reference to the elision of the
figure of the sister and the daughter in Freud’s works; argue that
contemporary deconstructive accounts of corporeal vulnerability can be
illuminated by Beauvoir’s account of the ethical problems posed by the
experiential ambiguities of violence; bring Irigaray and Chodorow
together to compare and partially synthesize their visions of the
maternal and of mother-daughter relations; trace Kristeva’s engagement
with Plato; and argue that Beauvoir’s account of aging illuminates not
only becoming woman, but also an unbecoming of masculinity. Please see
below for the tables of contents for the entire volume year.

The editors invite submissions from scholars who work at the
intellectual and philosophical intersections of continental philosophy
and feminist theory in the hope of opening a wider dialogue around a
diverse array of questions concerning sexual difference, sexuate
identity, women writing and being written about in philosophy, and the
interrogation of canonical texts.

Please direct editorial questions to Dr. Miller (millerep@muohio.edu)
and Dr. Zakin (zakinea@muohio.edu).

For more details on the journal and subscription information, visit
www.sunypress.edu.

Reasoning with Cases Workshop: Grad Student Travel Support

2011-09-19T21:04:00.001-07:00

The Center for Philosophy of Science will hold a workshop on Reasoning
with Cases in the Social Sciences, November 11-12, 2011. For details,
visit the Center Website at www.pitt.edu/~pittcntr.

We have limited support for qualified graduate students in a
philosophy or philosophy of science program wishing to attend. We
offer lodging for one night at a nearby hotel or reimbursement of up
to $140 against receipts for travel-related expenses. Qualified
graduate students are advanced in their graduate programs and working
on a dissertation directly related to the workshop.

Interested graduate students should contact Bryan Roberts,
bwr6@pitt.edu.

Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts

2011-09-19T21:03:00.000-07:00

The Society for the Study of Philosophy and the Martial Arts is seeking abstracts for papers to be given at our next meeting on the Group Program of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association to be held in Seattle, April 4-7 2012.

Topics on any philosophical inquiry related to the martial arts are welcome. Past topics include Nonviolence and Martial Arts, Women and Self Defense, the Concept of Ki, Martial Virtue, What Is a Martial Art, and many more.

Please send abstracts, inquiries about the Society to Joseph Lynch, jlynch@calpoly.edu.

Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy

2011-09-19T21:02:00.001-07:00

The UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA Hosts
The First Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy
May 4–6, 2012

The Department of Philosophy warmly invites the submission of
proposals in either French or English for individual papers,
roundtable discussions, and poster presentations for the first
Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy. We invite submissions in
all areas of Ancient Philosophy, and we welcome submissions from
graduate and postgraduate students.

The list of invited speakers and roundtable presenters includes:
Rachel Barney (University of Toronto),
François Renaud (Université de Moncton),
Martin M. Tweedale (University of Alberta),
John Thorp (University of Western Ontario),
Lloyd P. Gerson (University of Toronto),
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)

For individual papers (30 minutes presentation time) and poster
presentations, please submit an abstract (including a title) of about
300–500 words. For roundtable discussions, please submit a 300-word
abstract describing the roundtable theme and titles of 3 or 4
presentations (15 or 20 minutes presentation time each). Abstracts
should be prepared for blind review. In an email message to which your
proposal is attached please include your name, academic affiliation
and preferred postal address. Proposals for roundtable discussions
should also include in the email message the names and academic
affiliations of confirmed presenters. Please also indicate whether you
would like to serve as a commentator if your proposal is not accepted.
Those who would like to be considered solely as commentators are also
invited to contact the organizers.

Abstracts must be received by October 20, 2011 to be considered for
the colloquium. The selection panel will notify those who submitted of
its decision within two weeks. Those accepted must submit completed
papers by February 20, 2012. Please email your submissions (in .rtf,
.doc, .pdf format) to ccap2012@gmail.com. There will be a registration
fee for this colloquium.

For more information on the colloquium, submission guidelines, and
registration please visit http://ccap2012.tumblr.com.

Between Science and Citizens: Assessing Expertise in Policy Controversies

2011-09-19T20:57:00.001-07:00

Between Scientists & Citizens:
Assessing Expertise in Policy Controversies
June 1-2, 2012
Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Keynote speakers

Sally Jackson
Department of Communication
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Massimo Pigliucci
Department of Philosophy
Lehman College, CUNY

We are increasingly dependent on advice from experts in making
decisions in our personal, professional, and civic lives. But as our
dependence on experts has grown, new media have broken down the
institutional barriers between the technical, personal and civic
realms, and we are inundated with purported science from all sides.
Many share a sense that science has lost its "rightful place" in our
deliberations. Grappling with this cluster of problems will require
collaboration across disciplines: among rhetorical and communication
theorists studying the practices and norms of public discourse,
philosophers interested in the informal logic of everyday reasoning
and in the theory of deliberative democracy, and science studies
scholars examining the intersections between the social worlds of
scientists and citizens.

For this conference, we invite work from across the disciplines
focused on argumentation, reasoning, rhetoric, communication and
deliberation, with special emphasis on:

* lay assessment of expertise and expert testimony
* detection of and response to distorted science and "manufactured
controversy"
* pedagogies for developing critical thinking about science in
controversies
* roles scientists and scientific information play in civic
deliberations and policy-making
* transformation of arguments as they travel between technical,
personal and civic spheres
* expert testimony as a source of knowledge
* roles of traditional journalism, new media, "boundary organizations"
and "trading zones" in constructing public knowledge of science
* design of institutions for providing trustworthy advice on
controversial issues
* special problems of communicating scientific information in health,
organizational, legal, crisis, risk and other contexts

We expect to publish proceedings in an electronic format.

For consideration, submit a 250 word abstract with an additional 5-10
item bibliography, and a separate cover page with complete contact
information, to GPSSARG@gmail.com by October 31, 2011. For further
information, consult the conference website at https://sites.google.com/site/gpssarg/,
or contact Jean Goodwin (goodwin@iastate.edu).

Divine Omnipotence and Human Freedom

2011-09-19T20:55:00.000-07:00

Master-class in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom

Organized by
Templeton-Cluster-Intiative
„Divine Omnipotence, Human Freedom and the Problem Evil: Towards an
Analytic Concept of Theodicy“
of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
(Prof. Dr. Armin Kreiner)
and
Munich School of Philosophy
(Prof. Dr. Godehard Brüntrup)

Call for Applications:
Within the context of the John-Templeton Project "Analytic Theology" at the Universities of Innsbruck and Frankfurt and the Munich School of Philosophy, the Templeton-Cluster-Initiative of the Ludwig- Maximilians-University Munich and the Munich School of Philosophy is organizing a Master-class on "Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom" from February 16th 2012 until February 19th 2012, focussed on the classical theories of Thomism and Molinism and their modern continuations in form of analytical Thomism and analytical Molinism. The master class will be taught by Brian Leftow (Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK) and Kenneth Perszyk (Victoria University, New Zealand).

Recent PhDs (2006 or later) and current graduate students in philosophy and theology are invited to apply. By a “recent PhD” we mean an individual who completed his or her PhD in 2006 or later. We welcome applications from individuals of any philosophical persuasion with a strong interest in analytic philosophy vis-à-vis religious beliefs.

The organizers encourage submission of research paper by graduate students and recent PhDs. The papers should address topics within the overall concept of the master-class. There are 6 spots for such papers at the master-class; 30 minutes each. What the Master-class is aiming to achieve: Teaching, intensive work, discussion and fruitful exchange with graduate students over the period of four days on the topics above. We are planning a schedule of two sessions: 3 hours before lunch and 3 hours in the afternoon with possibilities for students to present their own research or graduate papers on different issues within the thematic field of the master- class.

Seminar Dates: February 16th – 19th 2012
Location: Fürstenried Castle, Munich
Teachers: Brian Leftow (Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK),
Kenneth Perszyk (Victoria University, New Zealand)
Application Deadline: October 31st 2011
Decision: November 30th 2011
Fees: 160€ [including tuition, room and full-board]
80€ [reduced fee for paper-presenters]

Application Instructions: Applications should submitted to
l.jaskolla@hfph.mwn.de including:
(1) a short academic CV
(2) a letter of motivation (500 words)
(3) [optional] a paper proposal (750 words)

MindGrad 2011

2011-09-19T20:51:00.000-07:00

This year's MindGrad conference will take place on the 3rd-4th of December, at the University of Warwick, UK; our guest speakers are Prof. Michael Tye (University of Texas) and Dr. Lucy O'Brien (UCL).

MindGrad is a postgraduate conference in the philosophy of mind, broadly construed; in previous years, we have been pleased to accept papers on topics as diverse as the mind-body problem, the location of bodily sensations, and personal identity in the context of dreams. We will consider well-written submissions, from graduate students, on any topic broadly related to philosophy of mind.

Papers should be suitable for presentation in 40 minutes, and prepared for anonymous review. Please use the following link to submit your paper, as a PDF, via the EasyChair Conference System:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=mindgrad2011

**The deadline for submissions is October 14th 2011**

The authors of papers selected for presentation will hear from us by October 30th at the latest. Travel and accommodation grants for speakers are available.

We are grateful for support from the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society.

Meaning, Culture and Values - Delhi, India

2011-09-19T20:46:00.000-07:00

INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Topic: Meaning, Culture and Values
Dates: January 5-7, 2012
Place: New Delhi, India

Abstract: 150 words
Email to chandanachak@gmail.com
Date of proposal acceptance: Week after the proposal is submitted

Subtopics:

Cognitive Meaning, Emotive Meaning, Suggestive Meaning, Myth and Metaphor, Meaning as Universal, Meaning as Form, Universal and Particular, Structure and Identity, Personal Identity, Reductionist view, Ethnic Identity and Culture, Society, Culture and Consumption, Politicizing Consumer Society and Culture, Social Identification, Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries, Constructing and Deconstructing Ethnic Identity, Evolution of Society, Encountering Different Cultures, Indian Civilization and Society, Cultural shock, Society and Effect of Colonization, Media and Society, Morality and Society, Rules of conduct, Taoist view on Morality, Enlightened Anarchy, Values in Confucius Ethics, Perfectionist and Situational Ethics, Spirituality and Modern age, Humanism and Positivism, Reductionist Approach to Moral Responsibility, Ethnic Identity and Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Society, Culture and Consumption, Politicizing Consumer Culture Archaeological Approaches to Society, Social Identification, Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries, Constructing and Deconstructing Ethnic Identity, Evolution of Society, Asian Society and Culture, Cultural shock, Civilization and Effect of Colonization in Social Structure, Cultural Transformation, Role of Culture and Religion, Cultural Meaning, Buddhism and Post modernity: Buddhist Ethics, Buddhism and Philosophy of Deconstruction, Ethics of Modernity etc.

Advisory Board Members: Michael Allen(USA),Kisor Chakrabarti (USA), Linda B. Elder(USA), Gordon Haist(USA), Elizabeth Koldzak(Poland), Maria Marczewska(Poland), JoAnne Myers(USA)Eve Mullen(USA), Rizwanur Rahman(India), Ming Shao(China), Nancy Snow(USA),Tommi Lehtonen(Finland) Andrew Ward(UK), Mark Wood(USA)

Director: Chandana Chakrabarti

Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review (Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion).

http://legacy.lclark.edu/~sipr/SIPR2.html

Please note that there will be trips to various
historical,archaeological places before and after the conference.

Contact:
Chandana Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
Dean of International students
Director of the Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness
Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia
Phone: 336-324-3130
Mailing Address:
PO Box 79
Elon, North Carolina 27244

European Legacy, Celebrating David Hume’s 300th Birthday

2011-09-19T20:44:00.000-07:00

Special Edition of The European Legacy to Celebrate David Hume’s 300th Birthday:

I have been invited to put together a special edition of The European Legacy, published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, commemorating the 300th anniversary of the birth of David Hume (1711 - 1776).

I am writing to invite submissions for consideration for this special edition on any aspect of Hume's life and/ or writings, which may include Hume's relation to other thinkers and to the Enlightenment. Papers can be up to 30 double - spaced pages, although shorter papers, 15-20 pages, would also be welcome.

At this stage, I require a paper title, and an abstract of approximately 150 words. I will need the completed paper by December 1, 2011. You should hear back from me within two months.

Proposals, abstracts, papers should be submitted to me electronically at stweyman@yorku.ca

Stanley Tweyman
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3

SoTL in Philosophy

2011-09-19T20:39:00.000-07:00

The APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy invites proposals for a session on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in Philosophy at the Pacific Division meeting of the APA, April 4-7 2012, in Seattle, Washington. Ideally, the panel would include at least one presentation explaining what SoTL is and its value in contributing to the teaching of philosophy, and at least one presentation explaining a SoTL project that has been conducted in regards to teaching philosophy (or is in the process of being conducted, or is in the early stages of development).

Though definitions of SoTL vary and are often disputed, the following three points capture many of the main concerns of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, and can be found on the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching website (which offers a useful introduction to and history of SoTL) at http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/teaching-guides/reflecting/sotl/#what asking questions about student learning and the teaching activities designed to promote student learning in an effort, at least in part, to improve one’s own teaching practice, answering those questions by systematically analyzing evidence of student learning, and sharing the results of that analysis publicly in order to invite review and to contribute to the body of knowledge on student learning in a variety of contexts.

Both individual submissions as well as proposals for several panelists together are welcome. Please send a title, an abstract of no more than 500 words, and your name, email, and affiliation (if applicable) to Christina Hendricks at c.hendricks@ubc.ca.

Deadline is Oct. 3, 2011.

Political Project of the European Union

2011-09-19T20:36:00.001-07:00

The Political Project of the European Union:
Current State and Future Perspectives
8-10 December 2011
Lisbon

Faculty of Human and Social Sciences
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
www.ifl.pt

Key-note speakers:

Dario Castiglione (University of Exeter)
Sergio Fabbrini (LUISS Guido Carli, Rome)
Albert Weale (University College, London)

The conference aims to assess the political project of the European
Union both in its present contours and in its future prospects. The
conference takes place within the framework of an FCT sponsored
research project on Constitutionalisation and EU identity that the
Institute of Philosophy of Language and the Research Centre for Law
and Society of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa jointly carry out.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- The political identity of the EU: cultural, political, and
institutional aspects;
- The political meaning of constitutionalisation. How EU institutions
have promoted constitutionalisation, on what purpose, and with which
results.
- The debate on the democratic deficit and the legitimation of EU institutions;
- The monetary union, international financial crises, and national
sovereignty: the political implications of an economic project;
- Migration and solidarity: closure and openness of EU borders.
- Why are we members? Reasons to join the EU and widespread
expectations towards membership in new member states.
- The EU as an international actor? Assessing the political identity
of EU foreign policy.

Contributions are welcome from political scientists, sociologists,
philosophers, historians, and professionals.

Abstracts of appr. 500 words (suitable for a presentation of 25 min.)
should be sent to the address below by the 8th of October, 2011:

lisboneuconference@gmail.com

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the 15th of October.

A selections of extended contributions will be published in hard
cover. See our institute's publications series at
http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=series&pk=1552&concordeid=LPS##

For further information, do not hesitate to write to us.

--
Dr. Gabriele De Angelis
Research Fellow in Political Theory
IFL-FCSH
Universidade Nova
Av. de Berna 26
Edifício I&D
1100-228 Lisboa
Portugal

Workshop on Benatar's Better Never to Have Been

2011-09-19T20:35:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers: Benatar’s Better Never to Have Been

Special Issue of the South African Journal of Philosophy, one of the
most long-standing philosophy journals in Africa, accredited by the
ISI

Guest Editor: Thaddeus Metz (Humanities Research Professor at the
University of Johannesburg)

Invited Contributors: David Boonin (Professor of Philosophy at the
University of Colorado, Boulder) and Saul Smilansky (Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Haifa)

Professor David Benatar’s Better Never to Have Been (Oxford, 2006) is
the most intricate and careful exposition and defence of anti-
natalism. Benatar argues, on the basis of purportedly uncontroversial
premises, for a variety of surprising and radical conclusions about
the disvalue of our lives and our moral duties in light of it. Benatar
argues that no matter how much happiness people might experience
during their lives, it would always have been better for them never to
have been created. And from the claim that human life is never worth
starting Benatar further concludes that it is almost always immoral to
procreate and that abortion in the early stages of pregnancy is
morally required.

Contributions are sought for an issue of the South African Journal of
Philosophy devoted to several facets of anti-natalism and of Benatar’s
treatment of it in particular. These include, but are not restricted
to, the following:
• Precisely where is Benatar’s argument for anti-natalism most
questionable? How does it compare with other arguments for anti-
natalism? Do they share common premises or strategies? Which is the
most defensible?
• Is it plausible to hold anti-natalism without pro-mortalism, viz.,
the view that we should commit suicide?
• Under what conditions might one be justified in creating a person
whose life is not worth starting in terms of her well-being? Can it be
right to create such a person for the sake of helping others? How
might considerations of human dignity figure into a justification for
creating her?
• If a child is always worse off for having been created, what are the
moral responsibilities of her parents with respect to her? Is
compensation owed, and, if so, what kind and how much?
• If the typical human life is indeed a net harm, how should the state
get involved? Should it facilitate wrongful life suits, or discourage
procreation?
• From what standpoint is it appropriate to appraise the quality of
our lives? Standpoints range from the most subjective, that of an
individual, to that of ‘the universe’, the most objective viewpoint
available. Is there a principled way to determine where on the scale
is suitable?

Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2011. Manuscripts should be
submitted electronically to Thaddeus Metz (tmetz@uj.ac.za). Those
whose papers are selected for inclusion in the special issue will be
invited to participate in a workshop with Professor Benatar, to be
held at the University of Johannesburg on 23-24 November 2011.

John Dewey and the Child as Philosopher

2011-09-19T20:30:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers: “John Dewey and the Child as Philosopher”
2011 American Philosophical Association
Eastern Division Annual Meeting
December 27-30, 2011, at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C.

Joint Session of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children
and John Dewey Society (session date and time to be determined).

Overview: John Dewey was not a philosopher of education in the now- traditional sense of a doctor of philosophy who examines educational ends, means and controversies through the disciplinary lenses of epistemology, ethics and political theory, or of agenda-driven schools such as existentialism, feminism and critical theory. Rather, Dewey was an educator and a philosopher, who saw in each discipline reconstructive possibilities for the other, and who famously characterized “philosophy … as the general theory of education” ([1916] 1985, p. 338). Dewey wanted both disciplines to overcome their narrow preoccupations with acquiring information-as-knowledge and to adopt new self-understandings as enterprises aimed at personal and collective wellbeing.

Dewey’s recommendations for the reconstruction of philosophy and of education were shaped by his theory of experience: of the purposive organism inquiring, experimenting, collaborating and otherwise working toward consummate experience in its current situation – and (only) in that process, becoming “educated,” i.e., better able to solve problems in future situations. Dewey saw philosophers, scientists, teachers and school children, all, as agents of self-corrective growth, attempting to extract the most meaning from novel experiences through intelligent thought, feeling and action. In that regard, philosophers should know the serious playfulness that comes from direct engagement with the world, and children (especially in school settings), should experience the exhilaration of having their immediate desires and concerns expanded and mediated by disciplinary knowledge and know-how.

The John Dewey Society and the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) join in calling for papers that explore the notion of “the child as philosopher,” as informed by Dewey’s life and writings, to be presented at the IAPC group session of the 2011 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting, December 27-30, in Washington, D.C. Presented papers will also be considered for publication in a special issue of Education and Culture, the Journal of the John Dewey Society.

Possible topics include:

• What philosophical practices (e.g. analytic thinking, argumentation, dialogue, soma-aesthetics, reflective autobiography) do children and adolescents demonstrate?
• What are the relative merits of various and divergent approaches to pre-college philosophy education?
• What philosophies of education and what meta-philosophies support and detract from the notion of pre-college philosophy education?
• Why didn’t Dewey recommend children’s philosophical practice (Lipman 2004)?
• To what extent is Nussbaum’s recent critique, that Dewey “never addressed systematically the question of how Socratic critical reasoning might be taught to children of various ages,” (2010, 73) correct or incorrect?
• What reconstructive possibilities emerge from the mutual encounter of the disciplines of philosophy and education?

Submissions: Electronic submissions are required and should be sent to oylerj@verizon.net. Papers must be in MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Papers may not exceed 3000 words in length. Submissions should include a word count and 150 word abstract (not counted in total word count) on the title page. Papers should not contain any information identifying the author of the submission. In a separate title page document, please submit the following: title of the paper, abstract of the paper, author’s name, affiliation, email address and phone number. Submission deadline: Papers must be received by Monday, 3 October 2011.

Notification & Presentation. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by Monday, 31 October 2011. As requested by the APA, all papers will be posted on the IAPC website prior to the conference (www.montclair.edu/iapc). Presenters will be required to pay the conference registration fee, and APA members are encouraged to maintain their APA memberships. APA members are also encouraged to submit papers to the main program, in addition to participating in this group session. At the group session, a laptop and projector will be provided. Presenters who wish to use PowerPoint slides must submit them to oylerj@verizon.net no later than 5 December 2011.

Questions or comments: Maughn Gregory, Montclair State University, gregorym@montclair.edu

REFERENCES

John Dewey: The Middle Works of John Dewey, Volume 9, 1899-1924: Democracy and Education, 1916 (Jo Ann Boydston and Edwardsville, eds.; Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985).

Matthew Lipman: “Philosophy for Children’s Debt to Dewey,” Critical & Creative Thinking Vol. 12, No. 1 (May 2004), 1-8.

Martha Nussbaum: Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities (Princeton University Press, 2010).

Fordham Graduate Conference "the Truth of Ethics"

2011-09-19T20:26:00.000-07:00

Fordham University Graduate Conference
The Truth of Ethics
February 24-25, 2012, Fordham University

Keynote Speaker:
Prof. Stephen Darwall
(Yale University)

We invite papers of high quality relating to the topic "the Truth of Ethics," broadly
construed. Paper topics may address issues in moral epistemology, normative and meta-ethical theory, competing theories of truth, moral psychology, applied ethics, and other related areas. Sample questions include:

What does moral reasoning tell us about the nature of reason in general?

Do moral propositions have truth values? If so, how do we know them?

If not, then what is their status?

Need we revise traditional conceptions of truth to make room for ethics?

What is the relationship between theoretical and ethical norms?

Papers should be no more than 12 double-spaced pages and prepared for a 20
minute presentation. Please prepare the papers for blind review and in a separate
document include 1) your name, 2) your institution a liation, and 3) your area of
interest/specialization. Full papers preferred, but abstracts will be considered as well.

Submissions are due by October 1, 2011.
All submissions should be sent by email to: fordhamphilosophy@gmail.com

Essays in Philosophy issue on Philosophical Methodology

2011-09-19T20:24:00.003-07:00

Journal: Essays in Philosophy
Topic: Philosophical Methodology
Volume 13, Number 1
Issue date: January 2012
Submission deadline: October 1, 2011
Editor: James McBain (Pittsburg State University)

While philosophers employ the philosophical method, rarely do they
articulate exactly what that method is. What is it that philosophers
are doing when they do philosophy? How is it that philosophers are to
proceed in addressing and answering philosophical questions? Essays
in Philosophy invites submissions engaged with such questions on
philosophical method.

Topics for submissions may address issues such as (but are not limited to):

* Are there methods particular (only) to philosophy?
* Conceptual Analysis
* Explication (Theoretical or Pragmatic)
* Reflective Equilibrium as a Methodology for Philosophy
* The Role of the A Priori and/or A Posteriori in the
Philosophical Method
* The Role of Intuitions in the Philosophical Method
* The Impact of Experimental Philosophy on Philosophical
Methodology
* Is there one single Philosophical Method or are there many? What
would be the ramifications if there were more than one philosophical
method for attempting to solve philosophical problems?
* Philosophical Methodology in the History of Philosophy
* Do we need to justify the method(s) in philosophy?
* What is the relationship between the methodology in philosophy
and philosophical conclusions (or results)?
* Or any such related question.

All submissions should be sent to the general editor via email:
boersema@pacificu.eduboersema@pacificu.edu
boersema@pacificu.edu%3cmailto:boersema@pacificu.edu> > Or you
can visit the journal website at http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/

AAPT Session at Pacific APA 2012

2011-09-19T20:24:00.001-07:00

The American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) invites
proposals for our two-hour session at the upcoming Pacific APA meeting
in Seattle, April 4 to April 8, 2012. We are planning on three 20-
minute presentations with audience involvement and participation.

Proposals should focus on how to craft writing assignments that
succeed in developing students’ philosophical skills and on how best
to provide feedback on these writing assignments, especially for large
lecture classes and/or by instructors who carry heavy course loads.

The proposal should include some examples of actual writing
assignments that were given to students and how instructor feedback on
the assignments was judged to be helpful to students. Presenters are
also encouraged to relate their writing assignment examples to a given
pedagogical theory or approach.

Submissions are encouraged from teachers at two-year institutions, at
four year colleges, and at universities. Individual proposals and
panel proposals are welcome. The AAPT encourages workshop proposals
that are interactive and practical.

Proposals should be no longer than 300 words and submitted in either
Word or PDF to both Bill Anelli (anellib@mjc.edu) and Tziporah
Kasachkoff (tkasachkoff@yahoo.com).

Deadline for receipt of proposals is October 1, 2011.

The Wire and Philosophy

2011-09-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

Call for Abstracts: The Wire and Philosophy
Open Court Popular Culture and Philosophy Series
Deadline: October 1, 2011 http://www.opencourtbooks.com/categories/pcp.htm
Editors: Joanna Crosby, David Bzdak, and Seth Vannatta

The Wire was an HBO program that ran for five seasons in the first
decade of the 21st century. Any critic worth her salt has declared it
the best thing ever shown on television. Some will argue it’s the
best thing ever put on film. Ever. The Wire was created and
primarily written by author and former police reporter David Simon.
Each season of The Wire focuses on a different facet of the city of
Baltimore including the illegal drug trade, the port system of
commerce, municipal government, the public school system, and print
news journalism. Although the show is presented as a crime and
detective drama, the show is really about an American post-industrial
urban city, its institutions, virtues, and vices including drug use,
failure of the drug war, crime, corruption, racism and reverse racism,
failed educational policy, the ills of contemporary print journalism,
and the betrayal of people for short term profits. Issues ripe for
philosophical reflection include law, politics, ethics, race, class,
gender, sexual orientation, good, evil, beauty, and, truth.

Proposals should be 200-400 words, and should be lively presentations
of the topics and questions to be addressed in the full chapter. They
should relate in some way to philosophy, viewing The Wire
philosophically or viewing philosophy through the lens of The Wire.
Proposals due by October 1, 2011, but the earlier you submit them the
better. We will notify authors of acceptance shortly thereafter.
Complete chapters of about 4000 words will be due early in the spring
of 2012. Final drafts with revisions will be due later that summer.
Topics should be risk taking, entertaining, and given the subject
matter of The Wire, honest, critical, and edifying. The intended
audience is the fans of The Wire, not academic philosophers. Email
abstracts and personal contact information to Seth Vannatta at:
sethv43@gmail.com

Examples of topics and sample titles are below:

Social and Political Philosophy
• Labor, Capital and Globalization: Sobotka at the Decay of the Port
of Baltimore
• American Dream or American Lie? Plato, the Noble Lie, and the 21st
Century
• There’s a ‘Wire’ in Every City: The Post-Industrial Urban Landscape
• Hamsterdam – Giving the People what They Want
• The Big Lie and the Death of News Journalism

Character, Education, and Epistemology
• Bubbles: Dope Fiend, Deontologist and Humanitarian
• Robin Hood as Omar the Homo-thug
• Dr. Dewey and Mr. Presbo Go to the School House
• Betray the Youth and the Cycle Begins Again
• Knowing and Proving: The Epistemology of Law Enforcement

Ethics
• Who are the Bad Guys, and Does it Matter if They Get Caught?
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
• Making Money off Despair
• Is it Always Right to Lie? Deception and Police Interrogations.
• The Rules of Drug Dealing and Moral Responsibility in the State of
Nature

6th Conference on The Philosophy of Computer Games

2011-09-19T20:21:00.001-07:00

6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPUTER GAMES
THE NATURE OF PLAYER EXPERIENCE
January 29th-31st 2012

We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 6th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Madrid, Spain, on January 29th-31st 2012. Accepted papers will have a clear focus on philosophy and philosophical issues in relation to computer games. They will refer to specific examples from computer games rather than merely invoke them in general terms.

The over-arching theme of the conference is The Nature of Player Experience. Over the past decade, the topic of player experience has attracted attention from a multitude of disciplines and practices focusing on computer games. For this conference, we are soliciting proposals that examine the philosophical underpinnings of player experience from a variety of perspectives, including but not limited to those mentioned below.

* Imagination and interpretation
* World, space and experience
* Technology, process, and experience
* Experience of time in computer game play
* Embodiment and player experience
* Emotions and player experience
* Perspectives on aesthetics and player experience
* Perspectives on ethics and player experience
* Methodological and epistemological considerations on studying player experience

We invite abstracts of maximum 1000 words including bibliography. If your submission falls under one or more headings, please indicate which ones. Deadline for submissions is 17:00 GMT,October 1st, 2011. Please submit your abstract in PDF format through http://review.gamephilosophy.org. All submitted abstracts will be subject to double blind peer review, and the program committee will make a final selection of papers for the conference on the basis of this. Some papers may be accepted for alternative forms of presentation, such as poster sessions, workshops, or demonstrations. A full paper draft must then be submitted by January 1st, 2012 and will be made available on the conference website. There will be an opportunity to revise the paper after the conference. Notification of accepted submissions will be sent out by November 15th, 2011.

Olav Asheim
Euridice Cabanes
Gordon Calleja
Patrick Coppock
Olli Tapio Leino, program committee chair
Anita Leirfall
Daniel Parente
John Richard Sageng

This conference will be organized in conjunction with Madrid Game Conference. The website 2012.gamephilosophy.org will be updated during September. If you have any questions, please contact the program committee at gamephilosophy2012.pc@gmail.com.

Ethics and Explanation

2011-09-19T20:18:00.001-07:00

CONF/CfA: Ethics and Explanation

This is a call for abstracts for those interested in presenting a paper at the forthcoming Ethics and Explanation Conference in Nottingham. The keynote speaker is Professor Alex Miller (Birmingham). Abstracts should fall under the themes of the conference, details of which are provided on the conference webpage here: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/ethics-explanation/index.aspx.

Prospective speakers should submit an abstract (maximum 1000 words) summarising the arguments of their paper. Abstracts will be evaluated by a committee comprising members of the Philosophy Department at Nottingham. Accepted speakers will be expected to talk for 40-50 minutes, and will have all UK-based travel and accommodation expenses paid. Please submit abstracts directly to: neil.sinclair@nottingham.ac.uk

Closing date: 30th September 2011.

This conference is supported by the Analysis Trust, Mind Association and Aristotelian Society.

Dr. Uri Leibowitz

Kantian Ethics and Moral Life

2011-09-19T20:17:00.000-07:00

KANTIAN ETHICS AND MORAL LIFE
Venue: City Campus, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Date: 20-21 September 2012

A vast amount of literature on Kant’s moral philosophy tends to focus
on the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and the Critique of
Practical Reason, discussing Kant’s views about the ground of morality
and its supreme principle, the categorical imperative, (the relation
between) its formulas, the good will and moral motivation, and the
problems and requirements of rational agency. This focus tends to
reaffirm the image of Kantian ethics as an abstract, formalistic and
rigorist theory. Asking to adopt the law of pure reason as the only
principle of morality, while sketching human beings as weak, deficient
and often irrational creatures, Kantian ethics seems to suggest that
the gap between its ideal of virtue and human nature is unbridgeable.

In the last decades however, a number of scholars has shown that a
less formalistic and rigorist reading of Kant’s moral philosophy is
possible. A more complete, detailed and balanced picture of Kantian
ethics appears by focusing on the views Kant presents in The
Metaphysics of Morals and Lectures on Ethics. These works offer a
fruitful analysis of themes like human virtue, moral feeling and the
role of moral education. Also, Kant’s Religion within the Boundaries
of Mere Reason and Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View provide
insightful discussions of the human existential moral condition. The
theory of human morality that Kant develops in these writings provides
a vital antidote to the so-called abstract rationalism and formalism
of his moral philosophy. It shows that Kantian ethics is capable of
offering us an attractive and feasible moral theory.

Even this new approach cannot conceal, however, that Kantian ethics is
very demanding. It requires that the standards of pure practical
reason are taken into account as overriding concerns in every
practical deliberation. And even though one can argue that Kantian
ethics is right to ask this, it still leaves open the question of how
to meet these standards in various concrete situations. Thus, even for
contemporary Kantian ethics, a number of questions remain unanswered.
How to live a moral life in the Kantian sense?. How to take into
account Kantian moral concerns as a citizen, a politician, a
businessman, a member of a family, etc.? How to give shape to Kantian
virtue as an individual? How to estimate the moral import of features
that are inextricably bound up with our existence as human (finite and
sensuous) beings?

The conference Kantian Ethics and Moral Life aims at bringing together
influential authors and young Kant scholars, permitting the
participants to engage into a debate concerning the various facets of
Kant’s views on how human beings can lead a moral life and on what
features are necessary and distinctive for leading a moral life. It
welcomes exegetical papers on topics related to Kant’s account of
moral life as well as papers that present a Kantian approach to
specific problems in (applied) ethics. Papers are also invited to
question and challenge Kant’s thought for its present-day relevance.
Over the last decades, the new, more balanced Kantian approach has
taken root in various fields of applied ethics, such as animal ethics,
human rights and international solidarity, medical ethics and business
ethics. The conference welcomes contributions from moral philosophers
who have been inspired by recent Kantian thinking to reflect on urgent
issues such as our duties towards (farm) animals, our duties towards
(far away) strangers, the nature of corporate social responsibility
(CSR) and the moral status of the corporation.

Substantial efforts will be made to publish all papers accepted for
the conference in proceedings and/or to publish selected and revised
papers in an edited volume.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Marcus Duewell (Universiteit Utrecht)
Paul Guyer (University of Pennsylvania)
Barbara Herman (UCLA)
Pauline Kleingeld (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Jens Timmermann (University of St. Andrews)

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

In addition to the plenary sessions there will be room for
presentations of short papers (20-30 min). If you wish to contribute,
please send an abstract of 500 words to liesbet.vanhaute@ua.ac.be. The
deadline for submission is 30 September 2011. Participants whose
abstract is accepted will be asked to send in a full paper by May
2012.

Looking forward to meeting you in Antwerp,
Kind regards,

Geert Van Eekert (University of Antwerp)
Wim Dubbink (Tilburg University)
Annelies Monseré (Ghent University)
Bart Vandenabeele (Ghent University)
Liesbet Vanhaute (University of Antwerp)
Stijn Van Impe (Ghent University)
Luc Van Liedekerke (University of Antwerp)

http://ugent.academia.edu/StijnVanImpe/Blog/16809/International-conference-KANTIAN-ETHICS-AND-MORAL-LIFE

Manipulation Workshop

2011-09-19T20:05:00.000-07:00

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied
Ethics and Public Policy

Manipulation

March 16-17, 2012

The Bowling Green Workshop in Applied Ethics and Public Policy will
take place in Bowling Green, Ohio on March 16-17, 2012. The keynote
speaker will be Marcia Baron (Indiana University).

Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to submit a 2-3
page abstract (double-spaced) by September 30, 2011. We welcome
submissions in all areas in applied ethics and philosophical issues
relevant to public policy. Special consideration will be given to
papers relevant to this year’s conference theme: manipulation. The
theme is to be construed broadly, however, and we encourage
contributions from any area of moral and political philosophy where
manipulation is of interest or concern.

Only one submission per person is permitted. Abstracts will be
evaluated by a program committee and decisions made in October 2011.
Please direct all abstracts and queries to:
pibarra@bgsu.edu

Further information about the Workshop will be available on the
workshop website:

http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/phil/conferences/manipulation

Perspectives on Structuralism

2011-09-19T20:04:00.000-07:00

“Perspectives on Structuralism,” International
Workshop, February 16-18, 2012
Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in cooperation with the Munich
Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP), LMU Munich, Germany

http://posmunich.wordpress.com

Since its first exposition in Sneed´s seminal work, the structuralist
approach has engendered a large series of conceptual and historical
investigations of scientific theories. Particularly welcome are
contributions relating the structuralist program to methods,
approaches, and research agendas along the entire spectrum of
philosophy, particularly in the philosophy of science and logic.

Organizers
Holger Andreas (Munich, Germany) and Frank Zenker (Lund, Sweden)

Themes include (but are not limited to)
- Semantic Reasoning with Structuralism
- Model-theoretic Foundations
- Cartography of Structuralist Approaches
- Statements in the Non-Statement-View
- Structuralism and Belief Revision
- Epistemology of Structuralism
- Future Perspective and Potentialities

Contributors
- Wolfgang Balzer (Munich, Germany)
- José Díez (Barcelona, Spain)
- Jaakko Hintikka (Boston, USA, and Helsinki, Finland) (pending)
- José Falguera (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
- Ulrich Gähde (Hamburg, Germany)
- Peter Gärdenfors (Lund, Sweden)
- Hannes Leitgeb (Munich, Germany)
- Pablo Lorenzano (Quilmes, Argentina)
- C. Ulises Moulines (Munich, Germany)
- Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf, Germany)

Please send an extended abstract (1000 to 1500 words) prepared for
blind review on or before September 30, 2011 to
frank.zenker@fil.lu.se. Expect decisions within three weeks.

Review criteria: Originality, quality, relatedness to current issues
(7 point scales, equal weights).

Publication: Final paper due March 31, 2012. Internal review by April
31, 2011. Selected papers online March 31, 2013 with an international
peer-reviewed journal (to be announced).

Bursaries: Provided by a grant to Holger Andreas from the Center for
Advanced Studies.

Frank Zenker
Department of Philosophy & Cognitive Science
Kungshuset, Lundagård, 222 22 Lund, Sweden
http://internt.ht.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=992&lang=en&p=FrankZenker

6th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at SIUE

2011-09-19T20:02:00.001-07:00

The Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Southern Illinois
University Edwardsville is pleased to announce that the Polymath, a
scholarly journal run by the College of Arts and Sciences at Southern
Illinois University Edwardsville, has agreed to publish some, but not
all, of the papers featured at the Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference. Those papers that will be published in the Polymath will
all be peer-reviewed.

Please visit our website for further information and updates about our
conference:

http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/philosophy/upc

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Eric Brown from the Washington University

The Department of Philosophy and Phi Sigma Tau (Illinois Pi Chapter)
of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are pleased to announce
that they will be hosting the 6th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference, November 4th-5th, 2011. All undergraduate students are
encouraged to submit papers on any topic of philosophical interest.

Submission Deadline: September 30th, 2011

Submission Guidelines:
• Papers should be 12-15 pages in length (20-25 minutes
presentation time).
• All personally identifying information should be removed from
the body of the paper.
• A cover sheet including your name and contact information should
be attached separately.
• Electronic submissions only; they should be emailed to:
blueck@siue.edu (Subject Line: “Undergraduate Conference Submission”)
• For compatibility reasons, please be sure to save the files
in .rtf or .doc

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Bryan Lueck
at blueck@siue.edu.

Philosophy of Biology at Madison Workshop (POBAM)

2011-09-19T20:01:00.001-07:00

The Philosophy Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is
excited to announce the second biennial Philosophy of Biology @
Madison Workshop (POBAM). The workshop is designed to provide a
biennial forum for new work in the philosophy of biology. The format
of the workshop will provide an opportunity for speakers to receive
constructive feedback from interested colleagues, and for other
participants to become acquainted with new work in the field.

The workshop will take place in Madison from Friday, June 1st through
Sunday, June 3rd 2012.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Allen Orr (University of Rochester).

We welcome submissions on any topic in the philosophy of biology or
general philosophy of science with a biological focus. Submissions
should not be work that has already appeared in print or is about to
be published. There is a limit of one submission per person.

Those who would like to present their work at the workshop must submit
an abstract of 2-3 double-spaced pages. You will also be asked to
include a title and short description. You can submit your abstract
online by visiting http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/pobam/submit.html

Submission deadline: September 30, 2011

Abstracts will be reviewed by a program committee. Those submitting
abstracts will be notified in early December of the program
committee’s decision.

For more information about the conference, please see
http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/pobam

Ethical Theories East and West

2011-09-19T19:59:00.001-07:00

Call for Abstracts: Ethical Theories East and West

The Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion
will have a Paper Session on the topic
"Ethical Theories East and West"
at the meetings of the AP Pacific Division
in Seattle during April 4-7, 2012

Abstract 150 words due: SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Email abstract to: Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti <chandanachak@gmail.com>

Please direct replies to
Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti,
chandanachak@gmail.com

Kentucky Philosophical Association Fall 2011 Meeting

2011-09-05T22:18:00.000-07:00

Kentucky Philosophical Association Fall 2011 Meeting

Saturday, October 22, 2011
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099

Keynote Address
Sandy Goldberg, Northwestern University
“Mutuality and Assertion”

Presidential Panel
Panelists TBD
“Women and Philosophy”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission: Submissions on any philosophical topic are welcome.
Papers should be no longer than 3,000 words, suitable for reading
aloud, and prepared for blind review. Include the following
information as a cover page in a separate file:
1) Title of paper.
2) 150-word abstract.
3) Author’s name.
4) Author’s institutional affiliation.
5) Author’s email address.
6) Indicate whether you would be willing to serve as a
commentator should your paper not be accepted.
Please send submissions by email to Minh Nguyen at
Minh.Nguyen@eku.edu, with ‘KPA Submission’ appearing in the subject
line.

Deadline: September 22, 2011.

Contact: Minh Nguyen, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Eastern
Kentucky University, 268 Case Annex, 521 Lancaster Avenue, Richmond,
KY 40475; 859-622-8667; Minh.Nguyen@eku.edu.

Long Island Philosophical Society Meeting 2011

2011-09-05T22:16:00.001-07:00

The Long Island Philosophical Society (LIPS) invites submissions for presentation at its Fall 2011 Meeting, which will be held at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University on October 15, 2011.

Paper Submission Deadline: September 16th, 2011

Presentations on any philosophical topic, including teaching philosophy, are welcome. Papers should have a reading time of 20-30 minutes (approximately 10 pages). Please send submissions, formatted for blind review, with a cover page indicating your name, institution, and paper title to Glenn Statile at StatileG@stjohns.eduStatileG@stjohns.edu>.

Arete, Undergrad Journal of Rutgers

2011-09-05T22:12:00.001-07:00

Arete, The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Rutgers University, is now accepting paper submissions for publication in its Spring 2012 issue. On the order of 5 papers will be published, on the internet and in print (limited run).

Traditionally only work from college upperclassmen is encouraged. Analytic rigor is prerequisite for publication. Papers from any field of philosophy are welcome.

Submissions should not exceed 8,000 words, with a cover page, abstract, and citations in Chicago format. Please do not include information in the text of your paper that identifies the author or the institution you attend. Submit papers by attachment, (from an email address we can use to correspond with you) in Word document or PDF format, to rundergrad.philo.journal@gmail.com by September 16^th, 2011.

We will email you on or shortly after that date to confirm our receipt of your paper. Based on the number of submissions we have received in the past, it will take us some time to read all the papers submitted for this issue. Consequently the authors of papers accepted for publication will be notified in December.

Sincerely,

Brian Pollex

Editor-In-Chief

2012 ISME Conference

2011-09-05T22:09:00.001-07:00

Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2011

The 2012 International Society for Military Ethics Conference will be
held 24-27 January 2012 in Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, University of
San Diego, 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110.

This year's theme will be "Civil-Military Relations and Social Issues
in the Military." Papers and proposals for panels or other program
segments consistent with this theme are welcomed.

In keeping with our usual practice, papers on any aspect of military
ethics or just war theory will be considered.

General submission guidelines

Please note the following guidance on submission deadlines. Proposals
are due 15 September 2011. Full working drafts of papers will be
favored over one-page proposals. Proposals or papers MUST contain the
author's name, institution, and contact information on the first
page; the contact information must include email address, command or
institutional affiliation, and telephone number. Once you are
notified that your proposal or draft has been accepted, you must
submit your full paper by 1 December 2011.

If you would like to make a presentation at the conference, please
submit a paper, a draft, an outline, or a proposal to Dr. Richard
Schoonhoven at the United States Military Academy by 15 September
2011. Submit your proposal as a word processor file in MS Word format
attached to an e-mail addressed to Dr. Schoonhoven
(Richard.Schoonhoven@usma.edu). Document file name should be author's
first and last name and brief paper title: e.g., John Smith: States,
Promises and Treaties.

We expect to be able to notify authors of presentations selected by
approximately 15 October 2011. Prior to the conference, the papers
will be published on the ISME Web Page,
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?UniversityofSanDiego/442dc34863/1a7a47346e/fb99318fc4. Disclaimer: ISME and the program chair assume no responsibility for
papers that are misdirected, lost in transmission, or otherwise not
received and acknowledged. Acknowledgement is by e-mail only. If you
prefer that your paper not be posted, please clearly inform us.

In order to provide adequate time for discussion of presentations,
each presenter should plan to be limited to 15 minutes. Please bear
this time limit in mind as you craft your papers.

ISME Information

For additional information about the International Society for
Military Ethics point your browser to:

http://cts.vresp.com/c/?UniversityofSanDiego/442dc34863/1a7a47346e/fdd58247eb

You may direct questions to: isme@sandiego.edu

Society for Phil. Study Contemp. Visual Arts

2011-09-05T22:08:00.002-07:00

The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts
(SPSCVA) invites papers to be presented at its divisional meeting held
in
conjunction with the Pacific Division Meeting of the American
Philosophical Association in 2012. Papers may address any topic that
involves the connection between philosophy and the visual arts: film,
photography, video games, or other aesthetic media.

Presentations should be 20-25 minutes (10-12 pages in length).
Participants
must be currently paid members of the SPSCVA. (You do not need to be a
member of the SPSCVA to submit a paper for consideration.) Please
submit
full papers only (not abstracts). The Society also welcomes proposals
for
panels, author-meets-critics, or other special sessions, as well as
volunteers to serve as panel chairs and commentators.

Please submit papers or panel proposals as e-mail attachments, with
SPSCVA
initiating the subject line in your email.

Submission Deadline for APA Pacific Division Meeting: September 15, 2011
[April 4-7, 2012, Westin Seattle, 1900 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101)
APA Pacific proposals should be sent to:
Richard Nunan (College of Charleston) at nunanr@cofc.edu

SAAP at APA Central

2011-09-05T22:08:00.000-07:00

*Call for Papers or Panels: *The Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy (SAAP) invites submissions for inclusion in a
session at the annual meeting of the Central Division of the American
Philosophical Association (APA Central), in Chicago, February 15-18,
2012.

*Theme: *The organizers invite proposals that focus on any area of
American Philosophy, but have a special interest in sessions relating
classical American philosophy to contemporary debates in philosophy.

*Submission Guidelines: *Please send abstracts or panel proposals of
500 words to Lee McBride at Lmcbride@wooster.edu by September 15,
2011. Please include your current institutional affiliation and
contact information. Notification of acceptance will be sent out
shortly thereafter. Completed papers due January 30, 2012.

*For more information *about the Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy, please see our website: http://www.american-philosophy.org/

*Persons interested in commenting or chairing *sessions should contact
Lee McBride at Lmcbride@wooster.edu.

Origins of Mind

2011-09-05T22:07:00.000-07:00

Origins of Mind is a forthcoming volume in the Springer Book Series in Biosemiotics. Abstracts (of ~150 words) are solicited by September 15*; formal invitations to contribute to the book will be sent by October 1. The final book manuscript will be sent to Springer in June 2012.

Book précis:

Origins of Mind will address a question that is fundamental to both science and philosophy: how and why did organic mindedness come to exist in the natural world? Researchers in the life and mind sciences will be invited to contribute papers that present or critique either comprehensive theories on the origins of organic mindedness, or accounts of the origins of specific cognitive capacities, e.g., mental representation, meaning-making, language and other forms of symbolic communication, moral behavior, creativity, etc.

*If you already submitted an abstract for the book proposal, you do not need to submit anything at this time. The book’s table of contents will be decided, and formal notification of inclusion in the book will be emailed, by October 1.

--
Liz Stillwaggon Swan, PhD
Hist & Phil of Science Fellow
Center for the Humanities
Oregon State University

http://lizswan.com

North American Wittgenstein Society 2011

2011-09-05T22:05:00.000-07:00

The program committee invites papers for the thirteenth annual meeting
of the North American Wittgenstein Society. The meeting will take
place along with the Pacific Division meeting of the American
Philosophical Association, to be held April 4 - 7, 2012 at the Westin
Seattle in Seattle, WA.

The program committee is interested in papers which discuss
Wittgenstein's connection with ordinary language philosophy or in
papers which discuss philosophical problems illuminated by
Wittgenstein's later work. Papers which are primarily exegetical are
discouraged.

Papers should be prepared for blind review. The author's name and
institution should appear on a separate cover page and not in the
paper itself. Submissions (along with the cover page and a brief
abstract) should be sent as .pdf or .doc attachments to an email with
the subject line "NAWS 2012". Submissions longer than 3,000 words will
not be considered. Please include a word count with your abstract.
When submitting your paper, please also indicate whether you'd be
willing to serve as a commentator in the event that your paper is not
selected for presentation.

Deadline: September 15, 2011

Email: wittgensteinsociety (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/wittgensteinsociety/

Philosophy of Waste

2011-09-05T22:04:00.000-07:00

Philosophy and Waste

14th Annual "Building Bridges"

Graduate Student Philosophy Conference

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

November 4-5, 2011

Keynote Speaker: Professor Timothy Morton

Professor of English (Literature and the Environment) at University of California Davis

Deadline for submissions: September 15, 2011

This year's Building Bridges conference will be held at Southern Illinois University Carbondale November 4-5, 2011. The topic is the concept of “waste” – the useless, used up, decayed, disgusting, and/or dismissible. Today we speak of wasting food, time, words, and lives; we produce waste that piles up in landfills, oceans, and homes. What does philosophy have to say about this concept, its presuppositions, and its consequences for contemporary life? We welcome contributions that explore different styles, forms, and media. We construe this topic broadly and invite papers and presentations from all areas of philosophy, as well as philosophically interesting papers from other disciplines.

Submission Guidelines:

Papers should not exceed 3000 words and should be prepared for blind review. Please do not include any personal information in the paper. On a separate cover page include the following items:

The paper's title

The author's name

Institutional affiliation

E-mail address

Word count (3000 words maximum)

An abstract (150 words maximum)

E-mail a copy of your paper and your personal information, as attachments, in MS Word format (.doc) or in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to nsmaligo@siu.edu. Please title the file of your paper with an abbreviated paper title and title the file of your contact information with your last name and first initial.

Conference Statement:

The purpose of “Building Bridges” is to bring into dialogue diverse elements not commonly associated. We seek interdisciplinary as well as intra-disciplinary themes that address problems from multiple philosophical standpoints, from different traditions, or in which two or more thinkers not customarily brought into conversation are compared. Our goal is to provide a pluralistic forum for constructive and critical communication across boundaries. For more information visit our website: http://philosophy.siuc.edu/Graduate/bridges.html

Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action

2011-09-05T22:03:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers

Special Issue of *Philosophical Explorations* on ”Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action”

Guest Editors: Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011

Invited Contributors: Fred Adams (University of Delaware) & Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana), Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota), Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University), Richard Menary (University of Wollongong) and Kim Sterelny (Australian National University and Victoria University).

Background and Aim

According to the thesis of extended cognition, cognitive processes do not need to be located inside the skin of the cognizing agent. Humans routinely engage their wider artifactual environment to extend the capacities of their naked brain. They often rely so much on external aids (notebooks, watches, smartphones) that the latter become a proper part of a hybrid (human-artifact) cognitive system.

The thesis of extended cognition has been influential in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, linguistics, informatics, and ethics, but, surprisingly, not in epistemology. The discipline concerned with one of the most remarkable products of human cognition, viz. knowledge, has largely ignored the suggestion that her main object of study might be produced by processes outside the human skin.

In this special issue of *Philosophical Explorations* we therefore are looking for papers that explore the ramifications of the thesis of extended cognition for contemporary epistemology in general, and for conceptualizations of epistemic action in particular. The special issue will include five invited papers (by Fred Adams & Kenneth Aizawa, Ronald Giere, Sanford Goldberg, Richard Menary and Kim Sterelny), plus two contributions selected from the papers submitted in response to this open call for papers.

We expect contributions discussing the impact of extended cognition on issues as: epistemic agency and responsibility, cognitive ability, ownership of belief, the distribution of epistemic credit, the sources of belief, artifactual testimony, the growth of knowledge, non-propositional knowledge, the evolution and reliability of extended cognitive processes, the varieties of extended epistemic action.

Submission Details

Please send a pdf-version of your paper (max. 8000 words) to Krist Vaesen (k.vaesen@tue.nl). Contributions that do not make it to the special issue may be considered for publication in one of the regular issues of *Philosophical Explorations*.

Further Inquiries

Please direct any inquiries about this call for papers to Krist Vaesen (k.vaesen@tue.nl).

Pacific Division Submission Deadline Extended

2011-09-01T17:51:00.000-07:00

Due to continuing power outages and floods in the wake of Hurricane Irene, the deadline for submissions of papers and posters to be considered for the 2012 Pacific Division meeting has been extended. The new deadline is Sunday, September 4 (2011).

Submissions are accepted on-line only at http://www2.apaonline.org.

Dominic McIver Lopes
Secretary-Treasurer

SSPP 2012

2011-08-25T14:01:00.000-07:00

Pete Mandik is the program chair for the 104th annual meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, to be held March 22-24, 2012 in Savannah, GA. SSPP meetings feature concurrent programs in philosophy and psychology, as well as plenary sessions jointly sponsored by the philosophy and psychology program committees. The deadline for all submissions is November 1, 2011.

Invited Speakers:

David Rosenthal (CUNY Graduate Center)

William Bechtel (UC San Diego)

Jesse Prinz (CUNY Graduate Center)

Invited Symposia:

Cognition and the Social: Carrie Figdor, Bryce Huebner, Anthony Chemero

Perplexities of Perception: Brian Keeley, Robert Briscoe, Berit Brogaard

Fictionalism, Falsehood and the Epistemic Value of Truth: Anthony Dardis, Chase Wrenn, Tad Zawidzki

Explaining Consciousness: Richard Brown, Josh Weisberg, Kenneth Williford

The Philosophy Program Committee encourages the submission of papers and symposium proposals. Their selection will be based on quality and relevance to philosophy, psychology, and other sciences of the mind. The aim of the committee is to present as balanced a program as the quality of submissions in each area permits.

Papers: Submissions exceeding 3,000 words will not be considered. Submissions should include a word count and an abstract of no more than 150 words. Self-reference should be deleted to permit blind reviewing; authors should indicate their identity only on the cover letter that accompanies their submission. All papers submitted and presented should employ gender-neutral language. Please submit file as lastname.firstname.doc or lastname.firstname.rtf or lastname.firstname.pdf.

Papers, along with the Abstract Submission Form on the website, should be submitted electronically to:

Dr. Pete Mandik petemandik@gmail.com

Certain papers may be selected for commentary depending on overall programmatic considerations. People who wish to comment on a paper or to chair a session may volunteer by sending a short version of their curriculum vitae directly to the program chairperson at the above address.

Please specify ‘SSPP Submission’ in the subject line. If the paper is being submitted in consideration of a Graduate Student Travel Award, please specify ‘SSPP Submisson– GSTA.’ If the paper should be considered for the Griffith prize, please specify ‘SSPP submission – Griffith.’

Further info can be found at the SSPP website and especially in the SSPP August Newsletter.

Brown University Graduate Philosophy Conference

2011-08-24T17:03:00.000-07:00

The 6th Annual Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference

Presented by the Philosophy Department at Brown University, Providence, RI

Nov. 11th and 12th, 2011

Keynote Speaker:

Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

We invite papers of high quality in any area of philosophy. Applicants must submit papers electronically as .pdf, .doc, or .rtf files. Please submit as separate documents:

1. a cover sheet with author information,

2. an abstract without any author information

(maximum 150 words), and

3. a paper without any author information

(maximum 3,000 words)

New submission deadline: September 1st, 2011

Please submit in blind review format, with all identifying information on the cover sheet only. Each page should be titled and numbered.

Email submission address: brownphilgradconf11@gmail.com

For more information contact Phil or Brett at brownphilgradconf11@gmail.com

New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Character

2011-08-18T00:17:00.000-07:00

The Character Project at Wake Forest University is very excited to launch its funding competition entitled "New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Character." This $300,000 RFP is aimed at work in philosophy on the topic of character, and proposals can request between $40,000 and $100,000 for projects not to exceed one year in duration. We hope to make between 5-6 awards. A residential incentive of $6,000 for one semester or $12,000 for an academic year will be offered to philosophy RFP winners who are willing to move to Wake Forest University during the award period, and this stipend would not count as part of the research funding request. A willingness to move will not be taken into account when evaluating proposals.

Since work here will primarily be theoretical, the funding is aimed at semester or yearlong sabbatical research leave projects involving a book manuscript or series of substantive articles on character.

This competition is supported by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.

Letters of Intent are due by: September 1, 2011

For more details, please visit www.thecharacterproject.com

Deadline: 5th Annual Midwest Regional Grad Conf

2011-08-18T00:09:00.000-07:00

5th Annual Midwest Regional Graduate Philosophy Conference

October 21-22, 2011 Northern Illinois University

Keynote Speaker: Keith DeRose, Yale University

Friday, October 21, 3:00 p.m., Holmes Student Center, University Suite

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2011

Submissions of approximately 3,000 words in length on any topic in mainstream analytic philosophy are welcome. Papers relating to the work of Keith DeRose are encouraged. Submissions accessible to a general philosophical audience will be favored.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Please send the following as separate attachments in .doc or .pdf format to niugsac@gmail.com:

1. A cover page that contains the following information:

i. Author’s name

ii. Institutional affiliation

iii. Contact information (email, phone number, mailing address)

iv. Title of Paper

v. Word count

vi. The area of the paper (e.g. metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, etc.)

2. The paper itself, with a title page containing the title of the paper and an abstract of no more than 150 words. This file should be free of identifying information.

Responses to submissions will be sent by September 23, 2011. All questions concerning the conference should be directed to the NIU Graduate Student Advisory Council: niugsac@gmail.com

The conference is sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School of Northern Illinois University.

Ida B. Wells Philosophical Conference

2011-08-18T00:08:00.000-07:00

5th Annual Ida B. Wells Philosophical Conference
Friday, October 28 to Saturday, October 29, 2011
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152

Advisor: Dr. Bill E. Lawson
Coordinators: William Allen and Alfonso Giscombe

First Call for Papers
The Ida B. Wells Philosophical Association invites submission of
papers for the annual Ida B. Wells Philosophical Conference (IBWPC)
October 28 -29, 2011. We welcome submissions in all areas of
philosophy and particularly papers that illuminate African-American
experiences. The IBWPC is dedicated to furthering discussion of
philosophical issues that arise from the African-American experience,
as well as provide a context in which undergraduates and graduates can
be encouraged in their philosophical aspirations.

Keynote speakers:
Yolonda Wilson, Ph.D., Duke University
Kris Sealey, Ph.D., Fairfield University

Paper submission deadline: Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Eligibility for submission: Senior year undergraduates and Masters
students in the 2011-2012 academic year are eligible. Preference will
be given respectively to students intending to enroll in a Masters or
Doctorate program in philosophy the following academic year.

Submission Instructions: Papers should not exceed 3000 words and are
to be submitted electronically (PDF or Word) as an email attachment to
the contact person below. Please provide an abstract of your
submission and curriculum vitae. We will confirm receipt of submission
by email. We will also notify you (by the email address you provide)
if you have been chosen as a presenter.

Contact: William Allen
Email: wsallen@memphis.edu

Ida B. Wells Philosophical Association
313 Clement Hall
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152

Indiana Philosophical Association Fall 2011 Meeting

2011-08-18T00:06:00.000-07:00

Indiana Philosophical Association
Fall Meeting, 21-22 October 2011
Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana

Keynote Speaker
Jennifer Lackey
Northwestern University

Papers in any area of philosophy are welcome. Submitted papers should
be (i) no more than 14 double-spaced pages, (ii) prepared for blind
review, and (iii) accompanied by a separate page that includes title,
author information (name, affiliation, and contact information), and
an abstract not exceeding 150 words. Materials should be submitted as
either RTF or PDF files to Prof. Jared Bates at bates@hanover.edu.
Suggestions for commentators and sessions chairs (including self-
nominations) are also welcome.

Graduate Paper Prize
The IPA will present an award to the best paper submitted by a
graduate student. The award will be accompanied by a cash prize of
$100. Graduate student papers submitted for the competition should be
identified as such on the title sheet.

Information about local arrangements will be announced closer to the
meeting.

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2011
Deadline for Notifications: 15 September 2011
http://sites.hanover.edu/ipa/

Normative Implications of Moral Psychology

2011-08-18T00:04:00.000-07:00

University of Alabama at Birmingham
NOVEMBER 11-13, 2011
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2011

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) invites papers for a conference on the normative implications of recent work in moral psychology, broadly construed. The conference will be held in Birmingham, AL on November 11-13, 2011.

The conference, to be hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Center for Ethics and Values in the Sciences, will examine connections between moral psychology and normative issues in law, bioethics, social and politics issues, well-being, and similar topics. We welcome interdisciplinary research involving psychology, neuroscience, law, medicine, public health, political science, economics, game theory, and related fields.

Confirmed invited speakers include:
* Daniel Haybron (St. Louis University)
* Adina Roskies (Dartmouth)
* Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota)
* Peter Vanderschraaf (UC Merced)

Please send complete papers to the conference organizers, David Morrow and Erik Angner, at moralpsychconf (at) uab.edu. Papers should be prepared for blind review. The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2011. Conference participants will receive a modest stipend to defray
travel costs.

http://www.davidmorrow.net/uab-moral-psychology-conference

Miami 4th Annual Graduate Ethics Workshop

2011-08-18T00:02:00.001-07:00

University of Miami
4th Annual Ethics Workshop
Friday, October 21 - Saturday, October 22
Department of Philosophy and the UM Ethics Program
University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida

Keynote Speaker: Jeff McMahan, Princeton University

We welcome submissions from graduate students or post-docs in any area
of ethics. However, we are especially interested in papers related to
the work of our keynote speaker, Jeff McMahan. Such topics might
include, but are not limited to, the following: the ethics of war,
abortion, euthanasia, death, and personal identity.

The keynote address will be given on Friday, October 21 at 5:00pm.
Workshop sessions will take place in the morning and afternoon on
Saturday, October 22. Each workshop participant will work in closed
sessions with University of Miami graduate students, faculty, and our
keynote speaker, Jeff McMahan.

Submissions may be up to 6000 words in length, and should include an
abstract of no more than 400 words. Submissions should be suitable for
blind review, and may be sent to: MiamiEthicsWorkshop@gmail.com.

The deadline for submission is August 31, 2011.

Florida Philosophical Association

2011-08-17T23:52:00.000-07:00

Please see the below call for papers for the annual meeting of the
Florida Philosophical Association to be held at Nova Southeastern in
Ft. Lauderdale, November 3-5. The submission deadline is August 20th.

The FPA CFP can be found here: http://bit.ly/onZxvM

Also see the CFP for a special session on teaching philosophy, the
Graduate Paper Awards Competition and the Undergraduate Paper Awards
Competition. The submission deadline for the special session is August
10th. The Graduate Paper Awards Competition deadline is August 20th.
The undergraduate paper awards competition deadline is September
10th.

This CFP can be found here: http://bit.ly/ouEfPA

Best,
Joshua Rust
FPA Secretary

Not Just Wars: Extensions and Alternatives to the Just War Tradition in the 21st Century

2011-08-15T19:13:00.000-07:00

Not Just Wars: Extensions and Alternatives to the Just War Tradition in the 21st Century

Adam Henschke, Nick Evans, and Fritz Allhoff (eds.)

The Just War tradition has an enduring, if troubled legacy. In recent years, this legacy has been challenged not just by the two opposing radical views of political realism and pacifism, but by critics whose allegiance is often much closer to that of the Just War tradition itself. These critics have targeted the conceptual foundations of the tradition; its legitimacy in modern conflicts between non-state and state actors; challenges to the ability of Just War theories to meet the modern facts of changing states, international law, and novel technology. On top of this are changes to military doctrine, as professional armies expand their mandate to now frequently act as peacekeepers, “international law enforcement,” and even aid workers.

We are pleased to release a call for abstracts for a volume intended to draw together these alternatives and extensions to the Just War tradition into a single volume. This volume seeks to divide this set of challenges into thematic categories, to better outline the changing landscape of the Just War tradition. The motivating idea and common thread that will carry through the collection is to engage in a process of reflective equilibrium where the various authors will not only present some element in the Just War tradition to see how it applies to modern warfare, but how the facts about modern warfare can and ought to bear upon/change different elements in the philosophy and ethics that underpin Just War theories. We see the book as a link between theoretical discussions of modern warfare and the practical and real-world developments of warfare in the 21^st century.

Submissions may pertain—but not be limited—to any of the following:

· Theoretical challenges to just war theory, including the jus ad bellum/jus in bello distinction, jus ex bello/jus terminatio, jus post bellum and jus ante bellum.

· ‘Novel’ types of warfare, including insurgency, terrorism, peacekeeping, cyberwarfare, international policing, and ‘riskless’ warfare.

· Geopolitical changes to war: war beyond borders, the ICC, the ‘world-state’ and war, stateless wars.

· ‘New’ members of military world: child soldiers, lawyers, psychologists, anthropologists, mercenaries/private militaries/military contractors.

· New technologies and just war theory: weapons technologies used in war, enabling military technologies, the use of technology after war’s end (e.g. reconstruction, regime changes).

Any interested contributors are invited to submit a 250-500 word abstract by August 15, 2011 to Adam Henschke (adam.henschke@anu.edu.au). Editors will compile abstracts into a proposal to publishers, with writing commitments expected to ensue from January 1, 2012; essays will likely be due by December 31, 2012.

5th Annual Lighthearted Philosophers' Society Meeting

2011-08-15T19:10:00.000-07:00

Lighthearted Philosophers' Society
5th Annual Conference

Date: October 14 – 15, 2011 (Fri & Sat)
Location: Treasure Island, Florida
Thunderbird Beach Resort
http://www.thunderbirdflorida.com/
(That’s right: a beach-adjacent conference in October!)

Submission Deadline: August 15th, 2011

The Lighthearted Philosophers Society (LPS) is an organization for
philosophers who approach their work with a sense of humor. We strive
to create a venue for professional philosophy that is welcoming,
enjoyable, and engaging. Please join us in our merry ruminations!
Our conference last year attracted philosophers from all over the
nation--from
Philadelphia to California. Now in its fifth year, the LPS is
preparing for its
best conference yet!!
We are interested in both the philosophy of humor and humorous
philosophy from any field. We welcome witty papers from any area of
philosophy, and we’d especially enjoy papers on philosophical
questions about humor.

Submission Requirements:
All materials should be prepared for blind review; contact
information, affiliation, etc. should be included on a separate cover
sheet. Abstracts should be less than 350 words (and yes, we will
count!). Materials should be prepared with limited time in mind (3,000
words is preferable). Hecklers (commonly referred to as commentators)
will accompany each accepted submission. If you enjoy heckling as much
as being heckled, and would be interested in providing a commentary,
please indicate this with your submission.

Selected papers will be considered for the Joseph S. Ellin Memorial
Essay Prize ($100)

Those selected will be notified by August 30th.

Please submit your papers electronically to the following email
address:
lighthearted.philosophers@gmail.com

Environmental Ethics Sessions at the Central APA

2011-08-15T19:09:00.000-07:00

Submissions are invited for the International Society for
Environmental Ethics (ISEE) sessions at the 2012 Central Division
Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA). The meeting
will be held at the Palmer House Hilton hotel in Chicago, Illinois,
from Wednesday, February 15 to Saturday, February 18, 2012.

The International Society for Environmental Ethics invites submissions
of individual papers (approximately 20 minutes running time) or
proposals for themed sessions (particular topics, author-meets-
critics, etc.; 2 hours running time).

Submission of proposals:

* For individual paper submissions, please submit either: 1) a full
paper or 2) a 300-word abstract.
* For themed sessions, please submit the proposed session title, a
brief description of the session, names of presenters, and titles for
each paper. Paper abstracts (of up to 300 words) are strongly
encouraged. Participants should be confirmed as willing to attend if
the session goes forward.

Materials should be submitted in Microsoft Word or PDF format to
Marion Hourdequin by email: marion.hourdequin@coloradocollege.edu.

The deadline for submitting materials and proposals is August 15,
2011. Early submissions are most welcome. Decisions will be made by
mid-September.

Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium VII

2011-08-15T19:08:00.000-07:00

Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium 2011
Conversations VII: Social and Political Philosophy

November 16 - 18, 2011
Hosted by the Department of History and Philosophy, University of the
West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados

The broad theme for the seventh Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS)
will be social and political philosophy. In keeping with the spirit of
our conversations, we hope to bring together, for discussion on social
and political matters, thinkers operating in and across different
cultural and philosophical traditions as well as other disciplines
that share a boundary with philosophy. We invite papers examining
pertinent issues ranging from social and political ideals such as
equality, justice, and liberty through political ideologies such as
anarchism, Confucianism, conservatism, Marxism, and socialism, to
issues related to the distinctive problems of studying human society.
Also invited are papers on themes such as the nature of political
authority, individual rights and responsibilities within society;
racism, ethnicity, and gender discrimination; war and terrorism; crime
and punishment; development and social progress; social agency, the
relevance of Darwinian theory in the social sciences, etc. CHiPS
encourages dialogue across philosophical traditions, and so
particularly welcomes contributions that deal with or compare a
variety of philosophical traditions or approaches.

Our keynote speaker will be Professor Charles W. Mills. He is John
Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern
University, USA. Author of the seminal The Racial Contract and three
collections of papers, his work is in the general area of social and
political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory
centred on class, gender, and race. He will deliver a public lecture,
entitled “Racial Justice”.

CHiPS VII will be held in the third week of November to coincide with
UNESCO World Philosophy Day (this year November 17th). The Symposium
will begin on Wednesday 16th and end on Friday 18th.

In an effort to ensure well-prepared, quality presentations, abstracts
(300-500 words) are due by August 15, 2011. Participants whose
abstracts are accepted by the vetting committee will then be required
to submit their completed papers via email as an attachment in Open or
LibreOffice, Word, or Wordperfect by the firm deadline of October 15,
2011. (These papers will then be posted on-line for other participants
to consult prior to the conference with the intention that time at the
Symposium can be devoted much more to discussion than to exposition of
the written papers.) We hope that revised papers will continue to be
available on-line: those from the earlier symposia can be accessed
from http://www.cavehill.uwi.edu/fhe/histphil/Philosophy/ChiPS/ .

Contact persons:

Dr. Frederick Ochieng’-Odhiambo: frederick.ochieng-odhiambo@cavehill.uwi.edu

Prof. Ed Brandon: edbrandon@gmail.com

Ms. Roxanne Burton: roxanneeburton@gmail.com

Aggregation Workshop

2011-08-15T19:06:00.000-07:00

Third McGill Workshop in Ethics
One-Day Workshop on Interpersonal Aggregation 2011
October 29, 2011
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

When you are faced with a choice between saving one stranger and
saving five different strangers (and there are no morally relevant
differences amongst the six strangers), what is the right thing to do?
Intuitively, many people claim that it is right to save the five
strangers. However, John Taurek famously claimed that it is right to
flip a fair coin because this gives an equal chance of being saved to
each stranger. According to Taurek, the number of strangers should not
affect our moral judgment. The puzzle is that if you are non-
consequentialist, it seems that you must agree with Taruek's counter-
intuitive claim. Does this example show the limit of non-
consequnetialism? Is it possible for non-consequentialists to justify
the case for saving the five strangers without an appeal to
interpersonal aggregation? Is a weighted lottery a better procedure
than saving the greater number? Does it make sense to say that the
loss of five lives is worse than the loss of one life? Is there any
other good alternative principle? What is aggregation in the first
place? This topic has become known as the Aggregation Problem or
Number Problem, and its implications are important for many practical
problems such as population-level medical ethics, climate change, and
so on. The Third McGill Workshop in Ethics offers an opportunity to
discuss this rapidly growing literature (including, the works of Tim
Scanlon, Frances Kamm, Michael Otsuka, Judith Thomson, Iwao Hirose,
and others).

We invite highly qualified papers on the recent literature of Taurek's
Aggregation Problem. Papers should be suitable for blind-review and no
longer than 6,000 words. Please send paper (PDF file) through
www.mcgill.ca/aggregation/submit (we welcome papers from graduate
students).

Travel expenses (up to C$1,000) and accommodation (up to 2 nights) for
speakers will be covered.

Deadline for submission: August 15, 2011 (Notification of acceptance
by September 15, 2011)

For more information, please visit http://www.mcgill.ca/aggregation/workshop/aggregation

This workshop is organized by Iwao Hirose (McGill) and financially
supported by SSHRC and CIHR.

Journal of Cognitive Science

2011-08-15T19:03:00.000-07:00

Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Journal of Cognitive Science on David Chalmers's "A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition."

David Chalmers's 1993 paper, "A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition," contains his most systematic discussion of computation as a foundation for cognitive science. The paper has been posted online (http://consc.net/papers/computation.html), discussed, and cited during all these years. The paper will finally be published in a special issue of the Journal of Cognitive Science edited by the Journal's philosophy editor, Gualtiero Piccinini.

This particular special issue will be made available online for free, to insure wide publicity and universal access.

Chalmers's paper will be published together with other selected discussions of Chalmers's paper and related topics, and a response by Chalmers. All contributions will be peer reviewed.

If you'd like to contribute, please submit your paper of no more than 5,000 words to Gualtiero Piccinini at piccininig@umsl.edu . The deadline is August 15, 2011.

The Journal of Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary, international, peer reviewed journal, published by the Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul National University. Philosophy papers on any topic pertaining to cognitive science are always welcome. Also welcome are proposals for special issues on philosophical topics of interest to cognitive scientists. Information for authors may be found on the journal's website:

http://j-cs.org/index/index.php

Gualtiero Piccinini

Associate Professor
Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, Center for Neurodynamics
University of Missouri - St. Louis
http://www.umsl.edu/~piccininig/
http://philosophyofbrains.com/

ISUD, Olympia, Greece, June 2012

2011-07-31T01:05:00.000-07:00

International Society for Universal Dialogue

ISUD Ninth World Congress

Democratic Culture: Historical Reflections and Modern Transformations

22 – 27 June 2012
Olympia, Greece

The ISUD is an international association of philosophers and scholars
from a range of other disciplines devoted to promoting the discussion
of such fundamental issues as world peace, social justice, human
rights, and dialogical interrelations of diverse cultures. Through
this congress the Society hopes to stimulate philosophical reflection
and discussion on topics related to the central theme of dialogue
among cultures. Topics on philosophy of culture and politics,
democratic culture, cultural diversity and universality,
globalization, ethics of peace, social equality, justice, and harmony
are welcome, and so are respectively varied philosophical
perspectives.

Papers presented at the congress will be published in the ISUD bi-
annual proceedings under the title: OLYMPIAN DIALOGUES.

The deadline for abstracts is August 10, 2011. Please send a 300-500
words abstract in English by regular post or e-mail attachment in Word
to:

Dr. Panos Eliopoulos
Pallantiou 44
22100 Tripoli
Greece
E-mail: ksatriya@tri.forthnet.gr

For more information on the congress please visit our web site:
http://www.isud.org/
It will provide the conference participants with details about
transportation and hotel reservations, as well as with a list of
additional cultural tours after the conference.

Brown University Grad Conference

2011-07-31T01:04:00.000-07:00

The 16th Annual Shapiro Graduate Philosophy Conference

Presented by the Philosophy Department at Brown University, Providence, RI

Nov. 11th and 12th, 2011

Keynote Speaker:

Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

We invite papers of high quality in any area of philosophy. Applicants must submit papers electronically as .pdf, .doc, or .rtf files. Please submit as separate documents:

1. a cover sheet with author information,

2. an abstract without any author information

(maximum 150 words), and

3. a paper without any author information

(maximum 3,000 words)

Submission deadline: August 15th, 2011

Please submit in blind review format, with all identifying information on the cover sheet only. Each page should be titled and numbered.

Email submission address: brownphilgradconf11@gmail.com

For more information contact Phil or Brett at brownphilgradconf11@gmail.com

Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics

2011-07-31T01:03:00.001-07:00

The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics invites high quality
contributions from graduate students for its Autumn 2011 issue (vol. 8
no. 2). Successful contributions will be published alongside an
interview with Dominic Lopes.

PJA is one of the few postgraduate journals where submissions are
reviewed by academics rather than students.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 1 August 2011

Submissions may be on any topic in aesthetics and philosophy art. The
PJA welcomes papers from diverse perspectives (including analytic,
continental and historical ones). Submissions should be accessible,
concise and have recognisably philosophical content. They should be
roughly 3,000 words in length, but not longer than 3,500. On issues of
formatting (referencing style, etc.) authors should consult the
current issue of the journal at:
http://www.british-aesthetics.org/pjacurrent.aspx

Papers should be submitted in Rich Text Format (.rtf) via e-mail to
pjaeditor@british-aesthetics.org with ‘PJA submission’ in the subject
line. No identifying information about the author is to be included in
the paper; but please state your name and institutional affiliation in
the body of the email.

Submitted papers will be reviewed blind by the PJA editorial board.

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Vid Simoniti
Editor, Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
Graduate Student (Philosophy), University of Oxford

Josiah Royce Conference at IUPUI

2011-07-31T01:01:00.000-07:00

Josiah Royce Society Conference

Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

September 23–24, 2011

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: August 1, 2011

Keynote Speaker:

Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley (California State University – Bakersfield)

Conference Theme: Josiah Royce’s philosophy has been unduly neglected by American philosophers since his death in 1916. However, three recent developments in Royce studies might introduce his thought to a much larger audience than ever before. First, there is a critical edition of the works and papers of Josiah Royce underway at the Institute for American Thought at IUPUI. Second, a comprehensive index of the papers of Josiah Royce was recently completed through the hard work and effort of Frank Oppenheim, with assistance from Dawn Aberg and John Kaag. The Josiah Royce Comprehensive Index will give Royce scholars an opportunity to glean new insights into Royce’s writings. Third, there has been an increasing body of literature on Royce’s philosophy published within the last ten years. Recent scholarship on Royce include discussions of Royce’s contributions to feminist epistemology, international relations, medical ethics, logic, pedagogical theory, race theory, philosophy of science, race theory, and social philosophy.

With all the exciting recent developments in Royce studies, this is a good opportunity to reexamine Royce’s philosophy and its place in contemporary thought. This conference is a chance for scholars interested in Royce’s thought to contribute to the studies on this great thinker.

Submission Guidelines: Abstract submission is open to any scholar interested in the thought of Josiah Royce from graduate students enrolled at an accredited institution of higher education to senior tenured professors. For an abstract to be considered for acceptance, it must be no more than 500 words in length, and it must be sent as an email attachment no later than August 1, 2011.

In addition, all submission files must be saved and sent in .doc, .docx, or .rtf format to be considered for acceptance. Please prepare the submission file for blind review and name it “ANON SUBMISSION_ (Insert Paper Title).”

Each abstract submission should be accompanied by a cover letter, to be submitted as a separate file. The cover letter should include the following information:

(1) Author’s name
(2) Academic status (professor, unaffiliated, graduate student)
(3) Institutional affiliation (if any)
(4) Mailing address
(5) Email address
(6) Telephone number
(7) Paper title
(8) Eligibility for Costello Prize

Please email your abstract and cover letter to Dwayne Tunstall at tunstald@gvsu.edu. Please write “Royce Society Abstract Submission” in the subject line.

Notification of Acceptance: Notifications of acceptance will be made via e-mail no later than August 15, 2011.

Authors whose abstracts have been accepted and who qualify for the Harry Todd Costello Prize have until September 1, 2011 to submit their completed papers to be considered for the Costello Prize. Completed papers should not exceed 3500 words in length and should be emailed to Dwayne Tunstall at tunstald@gvsu.edu. Please write “Costello Prize Submission” in the subject line.

For all authors whose abstracts have been accepted, please keep in mind that papers to be presented should not exceed 3500 words in length.

The Harry Todd Costello Prize: The Harry Todd Costello Prize of $300 will be awarded to the best graduate student or recent Ph.D. paper on Royce as selected by the Program Committee. Those who are currently graduate students or whose Ph.D. was awarded after April 15, 2006 are eligible for the Costello Prize. Papers will be judged on scholarship, clarity of presentation, excellence of argument, and the contribution made to the development of Royce’s ideas and Roycean thought.

To register for the conference or to get more information about travel and lodging for the conference, please visit the Josiah Royce Society website.

Sessions on Power, Oppression and Ideology

2011-07-31T00:59:00.000-07:00

The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Call For Papers: Sessions on 'Power, Oppression and Ideology'
Central APA: Chicago, February 15-18, 2012
Deadline: August 1, 2011

The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World (SPCW), in
conjunction with the American Philosophical Association Central
Division annual meetings, invites papers for sessions relating to the
themes of Power, Oppression and Ideology. These sessions will take
place at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago from February 15 to
February 18, 2012. Each speaker will be allowed a maximum of 30
minutes for presentation and 30 minutes for Q and A.

Note: The Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World does not
subscribe to any particular approach or school of philosophy. Any
style of philosophy is welcome.

Papers prepared for blind review should not exceed 3000 words and
should be submitted electronically to Dr. Tim Christie at
twchrist@interchange.ubc.ca no later than August 1, 2011. In a
separate file, please include your identifying information (paper’s
title, author(s), institutional association (if any), mailing address,
e-mail address, and short abstract). The e-mail subject heading should
read 'SPCW-APA'.

For general information about SPCW please go to http://www.spcw.info/.
For more specific information about the Central APA 2012 sessions on
the themes of Power, Oppression and Ideology, please e-mail
twchrist@interchange.ubc.ca.

Feminism, Autonomy & Reproductive Technology

2011-07-31T00:58:00.000-07:00

A Special Journal Edition in Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology

The aim of this special issue is to offer an interdisciplinary analysis focusing on reproductive technology from philosophical and psychological perspectives, including diverse approaches from within each (feminist theory, analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, developmental theory, psychopathology and ethology.) We welcome papers that address questions such as these: How might the use of technology help or hinder women’s autonomy during labor and birth? Given recent developments in reproductive technology, do we need to rethink the concept of autonomy as it relates to labor and birth? Which social attitudes might pressure or coerce women to use technology during labor and birth? What social norms and values might pressure women differently within different societies to use such reproductive technologies? What attitudes of health care practitioners might pressure or coerce women to use technology during labor and birth? What moral and/or political implications follow from the use of technology during labor and birth and the impact of its use on women’s autonomy? Can women make autonomous choices if they cannot be informed adequately because of a lack of randomized, controlled studies on the use of technology during labor and birth? Does informed consent require that physicians inform laboring or birthing women of alternatives to the use of technology?

Papers must be complete and should not exceed 8000 words, although shorter papers of at least 6000 words are welcome. All papers will be blind reviewed. Please list your contact information, the title of your paper and a brief abstract (of no more than 200 words) in a separate attachment from your paper. All papers should be sent in regular .doc format with notes numbered consecutively and placed at the end of the main text rather than as footnotes. For more details please see the guidelines for submissions on the journal’s site at http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT Please enter “Special Issue Submission” in the subject heading of your paper submission. The deadline for papers is August 1st, 2011.

All papers should be e-mailed to: Dana Belu, Philosophy Department, Cal-State University at Dominguez Hills, dbelu@csudh.edu, Sylvia Burrow, Philosophy & Religious Studies Department, Cape Breton University, sjborrow@gmail.com and Elizabeth Soliday, Psychology Department, Washington State University Vancouver, esoliday@vancouver.wsu.edu.
If you have any questions please contact Dana Belu, guest editor-in-chief at dbelu@csudh.edu

Advancing Publicly Engaged Philosophy, Washington DC October 2011

2011-07-19T04:02:00.000-07:00

Call for Workshop Participants – “Advancing Publicly Engaged
Philosophy”

October, 6-8 2011, Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Keynote Speakers and Panelists Include:

William Galston (Brookings Institution), E. J. Dionne (The Washington
Post), Valerie Jarrett (Assistant to the President for Public
Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, invited), Peter Levine
(Tufts University), Thomas Pogge (Yale University), Mark Sagoff
(George Mason University), Henry Shue (Oxford University).

The Public Philosophy Network invites workshop participants for its
Fall 2011 conference on Advancing Publicly Engaged Philosophy in
Washington, D.C. Workshops will include a mix of presentations and
discussion on either substantive policy issues or practical matters
and best practices in public philosophy. The conference will also
include a mix of papers and panels on related issues which have
already previously been selected from a prior call for papers.
Workshop topics are listed below; a full description can be found at
http://publicphilosophynetwork.ning.com/page/workshopsdescriptions-1.

All workshops will be held on Friday, October 7th (panel and paper
sessions will follow on October 8th) in two three hour sessions,
morning and afternoon. Attendees can participate in both a morning
and afternoon workshop or only one. Please submit a brief proposal
(100-300 words) for participation in up to two workshops per session
(four maximum) by July 25, 2011 which describes your interest or
experience in the issues that will be addressed in your top workshop
choices. Please rank your choices. We will try to accommodate the
top choice of each applicant.

All workshop participants will be listed on the conference program.
Workshop participants will not be expected to make a presentation or
otherwise prepare materials for their workshops. To submit a request
for workshop participation, go to:

http://publicphilosophynetwork.ning.com/page/workshop-application

Currently Scheduled Workshops and Organizers

Morning Sessions

Philosophers Working in Collaborative Research Teams (Paul Thompson,
Michigan State)

Feminist Bioethics (Mary Rawlinson, SUNY Stony Brook)

Foundations and the Common Good (Mark Rosenman, Caring for Change)

Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) workshop (Henry Shue, Oxford
University, Matthew Lindauer, Justine Kolata and Gilad Tanay, Yale
University)

Punishment and Prisons (Rita Manning, San Jose State University)

Public Philosophy in Other Genres (Richard Hart, Bloomfield College)

Philosophical Debate with Religion (John Shook, University at Buffalo
and George Mason University)

Afternoon Sessions

Bioethics and Biopolitics (Jonathan Moreno, University of
Pennsylvania)

Climate Change (Nancy Tuana, Penn State University and Andrew Light,
GMU and Center for American Progress)

Agriculture and Animal Welfare (Ike Sharpless, University of
Massachusetts, Lowell)

Philosophy through Public Dialogue (David Morrow, University of
Alabama at Birmingham)

Philosophy and/in the City (Sharon Meagher, University of Scranton)

Philosophical Approaches to Cross-Disciplinary and Intercultural
Research (Stephen Crowley, Boise State University and Michael
O’Rourke, University of Idaho)

Philosophy and the Digital Public (Chris Long and Cori Wong, Penn
State University)

Opportunities for Philosophers for National Science Foundation Funding
(Bob Frodeman, University of North Texas)

Please notify us if you require accommodation for disability.

Hotel Information: To get the group discount rate for the Washington
Plaza reservations must be made by September 9, 2011. Call in:
202-842-1300 or 800-424-1140, reference Public Philosophy Conference.
On line: Go to www.washingtonplazahotel.com and click on RESERVATIONS
at the top of the page, click GROUPS at the top of the next screen and
enter Attendee Code GMU9123 when prompted.

Conference registration: $45, which will include two breakfasts, two
lunches and coffee breaks. Registration will be available at
http://publicphilosophynetwork.ning.com/page/conference-registration
soon. Some financial aid will be available, especially for students.
More details will be forthcoming shortly.

Public Philosophy Network Conference Committee

Andrew Light, George Mason University, Program Co-Chair

Noelle McAfee, Emory University, Program Co-Chair

Robert Frodeman, University of North Texas

Sharon Meagher, University of Scranton, Co-Chair, PPN Executive
Committee

Paul Thompson, Michigan State University

Nancy Tuana, Pennsylvania State University

For information about the Public Philosophy Network, go to
http://publicphilosophynetwork.org

The conference is co-sponsored by the American Philosophical
Association, George Mason University’s Institute for Philosophy and
Public Policy, Michigan State University’s Kellogg Chair of
Agricultural Ethics, Pennsylvania State University’s Rock Ethics
Institute and the University of North Texas’ Center for the Study of
Interdisciplinarity.

Questions? Please e-mail us at alight1@gmu.edu

Perspectives Postgraduate Journal

2011-07-19T03:54:00.000-07:00

1st CFP: Perspectives International Journal of Philosophy, Volume 4, 2012.

Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed annual publication operating out of the School of Philosophy at UCD, Ireland. Perspectives features articles, book reviews and interviews encompassing a broad range of current issues in philosophy and its related disciplines.

Call for Articles

The theme of the 2012 issue of Perspectives is ‘Philosophy and the Environment’. We are seeking articles that reflect current research on philosophy and the natural environment. We welcome submissions from both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy. We equally welcome submissions from related disciplines (including the human and natural sciences, literature, art history, culture studies, animal studies and other fields) seeking to explore the philosophical dimensions of recent research on environmental themes.

Topics addressed may include (but are not limited to) the following:

Animal Ethics
Animal Philosophy
Animal Rights
Deep Ecology
Ecophilosophy
Embodiment and Nature
Environmental Ethics
Feminism and the Environment
Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism and the Environment
Philosophy and Animal Studies
Philosophy and Biodiversity
Philosophy and Conservation
Philosophy and Ecocriticism
Philosophy and Evolution
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Ecology
Philosophy of Literature and the Environment
Philosophy, Technology and the Environment
Political Philosophy and Nature
Religion, Philosophy and Nature
The Animal Other
The Animal Question

Submissions should be between 5000-7000 words. Please include a brief abstract (200 words) with keywords. Also include a brief biography for the contributor’s page, should your paper be accepted. Make sure to include all relevant contact information, including a permanent e-mail address. Please submit two versions of your article, one version prepared for blind review. The following url provides additional information on article criteria and style requirements.

http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/resources/instructions_for_authors_style_guidelines_for_articles.pdf

Contributors are asked to email their submissions to
perspectives@ucd.ie

DEADLINE FOR ARTICLE SUBMISSION: 31st July 2011.

Alabama Philosophical Society

2011-07-19T03:45:00.000-07:00

Alabama Philosophical Society
49th Annual Meeting
23-24 September 2011

Keynote Speaker:
Michael Watkins
Auburn University

Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front
12 Via Luna Drive
Pensacola, FL 32561

General CFP: Papers in any area of philosophy are welcome. Submissions should not exceed 3,000 words, should include a 100 word abstract, and should be prepared for blind review.

Undergraduate Essay Competition: Undergraduate students are invited to submit a paper for the 2011 APS Undergraduate Essay Competition. The winning paper will be awarded a prize of $75. The winner should be prepared to present his or her paper at the APS 2011 conference.

Papers in any area of philosophy are welcome, and should not exceed 3,000 words. Submissions should include a 100 word abstract, be clearly marked "Undergraduate Essay Competition," and include the author's name and contact information on a separate title page.

All submissions must be e-mailed by 22 July, 2011.

E-mail submissions: DOC, RTF, or PDF format to alabamaphilsoc@gmail.com.

Please watch http://alphilsoc.org/ for updates. For inquiries, contact Allan Hillman at hillman@jaguar1.usouthal.edu or 251-460-6248.

Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front (866.916.2999 - Group Code ALP) will hold rooms until 30 August.

Freedom, Action, Politics - Graduate Conference

2011-07-01T10:43:00.000-07:00

The Philosophy Graduate Students of Loyola University Chicago Invite Submissions to
The Philosophy Graduate Student Conference
Freedom, Action, Politics

September 9-10, 2011

Keynote Speakers:
Robert Pippin, University of Chicago
Diana Meyers, Loyola University Chicago

Conference website: FreedomActionPolitics.com

9/11 has ushered in an era marked by considerable shifts in the meanings, discourses and practices of freedom. What some view as liberation others see as occupation; what some view as freedom’s preservation others see as its undermining. These questions further exacerbate longstanding concerns about freedom and agency, including economic relations, civic participation and self-determination. What is the meaning of freedom? How does it relate to action? What is its political function?

The philosophy graduate students of Loyola University Chicago invite papers from a broad range of philosophical perspectives, from ancient to contemporary to discuss these issues. By inviting both continental and analytic approaches, we seek to portray a multifaceted picture of freedom, action and politics in our age. Suggested topics include:

* What constitutes a free act?
* What makes an action revolutionary?
* What is the goal of politics?
* Should all politics be in service of freedom?
* What are the conceptual boundaries of “freedom”?
* Whose freedom is at issue in “free market” and “free trade”?
* Where is freedom in the age of biopolitical control?
* What should politics of freedom be in a world of global interconnectedness?
* What metaphysical accounts of freedom have been provided in the history of philosophy?
* What are the religious accounts of freedom?
* How do sexual orientation, gender and race inform our understanding of freedom, action and politics?
* What are the contemporary rhetorical uses of “freedom”?

PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER:

A $250 prize will be awarded for best conference paper

TRAVEL GRANTS:

Three modest travel grants will be awarded to presenters coming from over 400 miles away from Chicago.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

All submission should be sent for blind review by July 15th, 2011

Submission options:
● Full papers (up to 3000 words) with 100 words abstract
● Long abstract (500-800 words)
● While both submission options are welcome, priority will be given to full papers

NOTE: For consideration for the “Best Paper” prize, full paper must be submitted.

Electronic submission at freedomactionpolitics@gmail.com (in .pdf and .doc formats) is encouraged.

Hard copies may be addressed to: Giancarlo Tarantino Loyola University Chicago, Crown Center, 3rd floor. 1032 West Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60660

Applicants will be notified of acceptance by July 31st, 2011.

For more information visit freedomactionpolitics.com

Leeds CMM Graduate Conference

2011-07-01T10:40:00.000-07:00

The Centre for Metaphysics and Mind at the University of Leeds is
hosting the 6th Annual CMM Graduate Conference on Saturday 10th September
2011.

The conference will follow a two-day workshop on metaphysical
indeterminacy at Leeds, details of which will be posted on our website when they
become available.

Submissions are welcome from current graduate students on any area of
metaphysics. Metaphysics should be broadly construed to include not
only traditional metaphysical topics, but also the metaphysical aspects of
e.g. philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion,
and aesthetics.

Submissions of any length up to 5,000 words will be considered.

Each paper presented at the conference will be followed by a response
from a member of academic staff or PhD student from the University of Leeds,
Department of Philosophy.

As with last year's conference we hope to be able to pay some or all
of the travel and accommodation costs for those people whose papers are
accepted. (This is dependent on the success of our funding applications.)

Please submit complete papers by e-mail to cmmgrc@gmail.com
Please mark your submission clearly as such. Receipt will be
acknowledged asap.

All papers should be suitable for blind review (we cannot guarantee
blind refereeing if your paper is not suitably anonymised). Please
include a cover page with title, abstract and contact details.

Deadline for receipt of submissions is Monday 18th July, 2011.

Decisions will be announced by Wednesday 10th August.

For more general details on the conference please consult:

https://sites.google.com/site/cmmgrc

or e-mail cmmgrc@gmail.com

Educating for Wisdom in the 21st Century University

2011-07-01T10:37:00.000-07:00

Educating for Wisdom in the 21st Century University

2011 Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture

Thursday, October 27-Saturday, October 29

Institute for Faith and Learning, Baylor University, Waco, Texas

While the pursuit and transmission of wisdom historically has been at the heart of education, some critics of the modern academy claim that wisdom has been relegated to second-class status among the university's other goals. Separated from other aims—like discovering new knowledge or imparting marketable skills to eventual job seekers—wisdom too often is seen as the sole province of a few disciplines like philosophy and theology, and not at the center of the entire university's work and purpose.

But without wisdom, how is new knowledge to be used—towards what end? Without wisdom, how are university graduates prepared to seek meaning and significance in their lives, whatever their employment? Without wisdom, how does the university fulfill its enduring mission to nurture our human nature and serve the deepest needs of our communities, nation, and world?

We invite scholars and teachers from across the disciplines, college and university administrators, and students (both undergraduate and graduate) to join us as we explore these questions:

What is the nature of wisdom? Is it something that we construct, seek, or are drawn into? How do we encounter it in various disciplines? What curricular and co-curricular efforts might encourage wisdom's formation in students? How might educating for wisdom transform scholarly research? How might Christian universities—drawing upon the resources of the Christian traditions—seek and share wisdom and a love for what is true, good, and most beautiful? How might such wisdom be offered in the service of others?

Confirmed speakers include:

Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary—eminent Old Testament scholar and theologian
Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Chester—professor of theology and biological sciences and director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences
Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University—director of American Studies and Julian Clarence Levi Professor Chair in the Humanities; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and named by Time Magazinein 2001 as "America's Best Social Critic"
John Haldane, University of St Andrews—professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs; Gifford Lecturer, University of Aberdeen; BBC Radio contributor; chairman, Royal Institute of Philosophy
Anthony Kronman, Yale Law School—Sterling Professor of Law and former dean of the law school; author ofEducation's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life
Candace Vogler, University of Chicago—David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy

Possible topics include:

Biblical, theological, and philosophical sources of wisdom
Wisdom as an intellectual and moral virtue
Wisdom in the sciences
Pedagogical practices and the cultivation of wisdom
Educating for wisdom and the global perspective
Liberal education and the crisis of the modern university
The history of the university and the loss and recovery of wisdom
John Henry Newman and the modern university
Co-curricular formation in wisdom
The possibility of wisdom in a culture of techne

Proposals for individual papers, panel discussions, and responses to current books are welcome. Abstracts of no more than 750 words should be submitted by July 15, 2011 online at www.baylor.edu/ifl/bsfc_cfp.

Visit www.baylor.edu/ifl/bsfc2011, call 254-710-4805, or send an e-mail to ifl@baylor.edu for more information.

73rd Meeting of Southwestern Philosophical Society

2011-07-01T10:35:00.000-07:00

73rd Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Philosophical Society
November 18-20, 2011
Austin, TX

Conference URL: http://www.southwesternphilosophical.com/

Overview: Papers on any theme or problem in philosophy are welcome. Presented papers will be published in the Society’s journal, Southwest Philosophy Review. The Society gives an annual award of $100 to the best paper accepted for the program written by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. (degree must have been granted within three years of the meeting). Authors who are eligible for the prize should indicate this on the cover page of their submission.

Submissions: Electronic submissions are required and should be sent to swpssubmissions@gmail.com. Papers must be in MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Papers submitted in any other format cannot be processed. Papers may not exceed 3000 words in length. Submissions should include a word count and 150 word abstract (not counted in total word count) on the title page. Papers exceeding this length will not be considered. Papers should not contain any information identifying the author of the submission. Submission deadline: Papers must be received by Friday, 15 July 2011.

In a separate title page document, please submit the following: title of the paper, abstract of the paper, author’s name, affiliation, email address and phone number.

Membership: You must be a member to present. To join the society, send inquiries to: Deb Heikes, University of Alabama - Huntsville, heikesd@uah.edu

Questions or comments:. Dave Beisecker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, beiseckd@unlv.nevada.edu

WMU Medical Humanities

2011-07-01T10:33:00.000-07:00

Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference

September 29-‐30, 2011; Kalamazoo, Michigan

Overview: Proponents of medical humanities contend that the humanistic dimensions of medicine and health are a critical component of those disciplines; not only do these dimensions help us to understand the very nature of medicine and health, their apprehension allows caregivers to relate to their patients, to treat those patients with respect and dignity, and to provide more holistic and empathetic care. The Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference aims to explore a range of themes within the medical humanities, though a primary focus will be on why medical humanities matter, whether in practice or in the training of our health care professionals. A secondary focus will be on what the medical humanities are; how is it that we delimit the attendant issues?

The conference is meant to be highly interdisciplinary, drawing participants from a wide range of backgrounds, including those from both academic and medical communities. Submissions are welcome on topics that engage some facet of the medical humanities, including their importance and conceptual scope. Furthermore, we welcome submissions that engage any of the following: medical ethics, history of medicine, religious and/or spiritual perspectives on medicine, health care communication, medical anthropology, sociology of medicine, cross-‐cultural approaches to medicine, medicine in literature and/or poetry, musical therapy, or medicine as represented in the visual arts.

Submission Guidelines: Submissions should include name, departmental/institutional affiliation, project title, and an abstract not to exceed 500 words. Proposals should be submitted electronically by July 15—in either .doc/.docx or .pdf format—to medical-‐humanities@wmich.edu. Unless otherwise specified, all submissions will be considered for both the conference program and for the poster session; please indicate if you would prefer to be considered for only one category. Acceptances will be announced by August 1, and further details will appear on the conference website as they are available.

Philosophy and the Martial Arts

2011-07-01T10:30:00.000-07:00

We are currently intending to produce an edited collection of academic essays on the philosophy of the martial arts, to be published by a good academic publisher. We invite contributions.

The martial arts may be Eastern or Western, ancient or modern. The scope is not restricted to any school or tradition of philosophy, and we do not favour any particular area of expertise, e.g. aesthetics, metaphysics, ethics. The important thing is that the essays be of high philosophical quality and be related to a or some martial art(s).

Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two scholars before inclusion in the volume. An appropriate publisher will be approached if and when we have a sufficient number of suitable papers.

Papers must be received by the editors by 1st July, 2011. Expressions of interest and requests for information can be sent to Damon Young,youngd@unimelb.edu.au.

Please circulate this CFP widely.

Damon Young, University of Melbourne, Australia
youngd@unimelb.edu.au

Graham Priest, University of Melbourne/CUNY, USA
gpriest@unimelb.edu.au

North American Nietzsche Society

2011-07-01T10:25:00.000-07:00

CALL FOR PAPERS for theNANS Program at the 2012
APA Central Division

The Program Committee of the North American Nietzsche Society invites
papers on all aspects of Nietzsche's philosophical thought for
presentation at one or more Society sessions to be held in conjunction
with the American Philosophical Association 2012 Central Division
meetings, to be held February 15-18 in Chicago at the Palmer House
Hilton Hotel.Submitted papers will be blind-reviewed by the Program
Committee, and will be assessed in terms of their quality, interest,
and suitability for presentation.

• Authors are expected to be members of NANS, either at the time of
submission or by the time the program is held.
• Presentation time for each paper is to be no more than 25 minutes
(sufficient for reading approximately 12 normal manuscript pages).
Authors are therefore requested to submit papers of no greater length.
Longer papers will be considered, but account will be taken of whether
they appear to admit readily of shortening or summarizing.
• Submission of a paper constitutes a commitment by its author to
permit its publication in the annual NANS issue of International
Studies in Philosophy if selected for presentation. Selected papers
longer than 12 pages may have to be published in shortened form.
• Since papers are to be blind-reviewed, the author's name (and
institution) should appear only on a separate cover page, and not on
the first or last page (or page headings) of the paper itself.
• The deadline for submissions is July 1, 2011.
• Authors will be notified on or about September 1st whether their
papers have been selected.

Electronic submission required (preferably in Word/.doc format) to:
NANS Assistant, Justin Remhof northamericannietzschesociety@gmail.com

Inquires can be directed to the NANS assistant or the executive
director, Richard Schacht:
E-mail: rschacht@illinois.edu

CFP: Essays in Philosophy volume on Philosophical Methodology

2011-06-21T02:52:00.000-07:00

Journal: Essays in Philosophy

Topic: Philosophical Methodology
Volume 13, Number 1
Issue date: January 2012
Submission deadline: October 1, 2011
Editor: James McBain (Pittsburg State University)

While philosophers employ the philosophical method, rarely do they articulate exactly what that method is. What is it that philosophers are doing when they do philosophy? How is it that philosophers are to proceed in addressing and answering philosophical questions?

Essays in Philosophy invites submissions engaged with such questions on philosophical method.

Topics for submissions may address issues such as (but are not limited to):

Are there methods particular (only) to philosophy?
Conceptual Analysis
Explication (Theoretical or Pragmatic)
Reflective Equilibrium as a Methodology for Philosophy
The Role of the A Priori and/or A Posteriori in the Philosophical Method
The Role of Intuitions in the Philosophical Method
The Impact of Experimental Philosophy on Philosophical Methodology
Is there one single Philosophical Method or are there many? What would be the ramifications if there were more than one philosophical method for attempting to solve philosophical problems?
Philosophical Methodology in the History of Philosophy
Do we need to justify the method(s) in philosophy?
What is the relationship between the methodology in philosophy and philosophical conclusions (or results)?
Or any such related question.

All submissions should be sent to the general editor via email: boersema@pacificu.edu

Or you can visit the journal website at http://commons.pacificu.edu/eip/

Workshop on Semantic Content

2011-06-20T20:05:00.000-07:00

Workshop on Semantic Content
4-6 November 2011
University of Barcelona

Semantic theories provide a systematic description of the meanings of
the sentences of particular natural languages, or at least of
simplified models of such languages, for a number of explanatory
purposes. The notion of the content of, or proposition expressed by, a
sentence is central to most semantic theorising: the predictions a
semantic theory yields concern which semantic content (or which
proposition) each sentence expresses in a possible context of use.

In the last ten years or so, philosophers and semanticists have
engaged in a debate about the best way to model various forms of
context dependence. One of these is the debate about whether the
semantic contents of sentences can contain so-called ¨unarticulated
constituents¨. Another debate is about the question whether the truth-
values of semantic contents should be relativized to novel parameters.
These disputes cannot be resolved without a clarification of the
notion of a semantic content that is central to the disputes.

The workshop aims to re-assess the motivation for the notion of
semantic content both historically and in the light of current
theorizing, in order to articulate the theoretical role and purpose of
this notion (if any), and in order to make progress in resolving
disputes about the correct semantic content of sentences of various
problematic kinds.

Invited Plenary Speakers:

Anne Bezuidenhout (University of South Carolina)
Delia Fara (Princeton University)
Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
Jason Stanley (Rutgers University)

Contributions:

Contributions are invited in one of two forms:
EITHER a 1000 word extended abstract which provides information not
just about the conclusions but also about the line of argument
OR a full paper of up to 4000 words.
Full papers are preferred and will have an advantage in the
competition with mere abstracts.

Papers prepared for blind review should be sent to
semantic.content.project@gmail.com by 30 June 2011. We are applying
for funding to cover speakers' accommodation costs.

Faith, Film and Philosophy 2011

2011-06-20T20:04:00.000-07:00

Faith, Film and Philosophy Seminar
“Faith, Philosophy, & Mystery in Film”

September 30th & October 1st, 2011

Gonzaga University’s Faith and Reason Institute and Whitworth
University’s Weyerhaeuser Center for Faith and Learning are pleased to
announce their Fifth Annual Seminar on Faith, Film and Philosophy,
entitled “Faith, Philosophy, & Mystery in Film.” The seminar and its
associated public lectures are part of a series of jointly-sponsored
programs focused on “Faith, Reason and Popular Culture.” The
conviction behind these programs is that if Christian institutions of
higher learning are to respond properly to their charge to be places
where faith seeks understanding, then they must engage contemporary
popular culture. Film is among the most powerful and important forms
of popular culture. Thus, the seminar organizers seek scholars who
will engage in two days of discussion investigating issues of faith
and philosophical import raised by contemporary popular film.
Presenters need not have any formal academic appointment.

Seminar sessions will take place on Friday (September 30) and Saturday
(October 1). Public lectures associated with the seminar will be given
on the evenings of 28-30 September 2011.

This year’s seminar examines the mystery genre in film. One of the
most popular forms of narrative in the contemporary world is mystery
fiction, where a crime is committed and eventually solved by an
amateur or professional detective. On the silver screen, mystery is
almost as old as film itself, with the first Sherlock Holmes movie
appearing in 1903. Mysteries are among the very finest movies ever
made (e.g., Alfred Hitchcock’s) as well as among the very worst
(countless forgotten B-movies); and they are so well-known that the
list of parodies and spoofs is almost as long as the list of serious
attempts at good mystery. One would think that mystery fiction is as
old as story-telling itself, yet the genre did not really come into
its own until a century and a half ago. What is it about the mystery
that modern audiences find so enthralling?

Possible topics for seminar papers include the following, though
proposals on related topics are welcome and encouraged.

• Mystery and epistemology, or how the detective comes to know
whodunit?
• Mystery and moral or political philosophy: the author or detective’s
assumptions about justice, the natural law, or the lack thereof.
• Mystery and Christianity from Fr. Brown to the Name of the Rose: how
might religious faith impede or accelerate the solving of crimes?
• Mystery and the mystery of being: do mystery stories eventually lead
to nihilism or to optimism? Or are there no metaphysical implications
to mystery?
• Mysteries and faith: do the faith commitments of mystery writers
affect the types of mysteries they write and do any such effects show
up on the screen?
• Science and mystery, or the CSI factor: the role of forensics and
technology
• Drawing the line, or how to separate Sherlock Holmes from James
Bond: what makes a mystery different from action adventure? From
horror?
• The use and abuse of history for mystery: the character and purpose
of period mystery films
• Signs of the times: portrayals of religion in mystery films
• Pulp and projector: why do so many mystery novels make their way to
the big screen, and what is lost or gained in the process?
• Juvenile mystery (Nancy Drew, etc.)
• The changing faces of mystery from the Golden Age of Hollywood to
the present
• Dames and mystery, from femmes fatales to Miss Marple
• Open versus closed mysteries: the art and philosophy behind telling
the audience who the culprit is earlier in the film (open) or waiting
until the end (closed)
• Famous detectives vis-à-vis any of the topics mentioned above
• Directors, producers, or screenwriters vis-à-vis any of the topics
mentioned above

Ideally, most of the films discussed in the seminar should be less
than thirty years old; if an author wishes to discuss a wider span of
film history (e.g., the changing depictions of Sherlock Holmes from
the 1930s on), weight should be given to the more recent or at least
to relatively well-known examples. Obscure films, which one would not
reasonably expect the seminar audience to have seen, should be
generally avoided.

Proposals not longer than one page (double-spaced), and in Word
format, should be submitted electronically to the attention of
Margaret Rankin at faithandreason@gonzaga.edu no later than 29 June
2011, and should include title, author(s), institutional association
(if any), mailing address, email address, and the text of proposal.
The seminar organizers will send acceptances by 06 July 2011.

For further information consult www.gufaithreason.org.

Two Workshops in Social Epistemology

2011-06-20T20:01:00.000-07:00

Copenhagen Lund Workshops in Social Epistemology
SEPT 27, 2011: University of Copenhagen, Denmark
DEC 9, 2011: University of Lund, Sweden
http://www.fil.lu.se/conferences/conference.asp?id=43&lang=se

Themes
- Pluralistic Ignorance
- Information Cascades
- Belief Polarization
- Echo Chambers

To present formal or informal work on one or more of the above themes,
please send a max. 500 word abstract on or before JUNE 27 to
frank.zenker@fil.lu.se, indicating which of the above two dates you
prefer.

Confirmed Speakers
- Alessio Lomuscio
- Cristina Bicchieri
- Hans van Ditmarsch
- Mark Colyvan
- Wiebe van der Hoek

Bursaries
Accommodation and travel cost covered from European locations.
Intercontinental travel subsidized.

Publication
Authors are invited to submit to a special issue of Synthese. Editors:
Carlo Proietti & Frank Zenker.

Details
- Before drafting an abstract, please read pp. 1-3 of
http://www.fil.lu.se/files/conference144.pdf
- Researchers with a non-philosophy background welcome!

Organizer
Frank Zenker
Lund University, Department of Philosophy & Cognitive Science
http://internt.ht.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=992&lang=en&p=FrankZenker

Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/staff/Zenker/zenker.htm

Time and Agency

2011-06-14T06:00:00.000-07:00

George Washington University

November, 18-19 2011

Invited Speakers:

● J. David Velleman, New York University
● Lynne Rudder Baker, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
● Shaun Gallagher, University of Central Florida
● John J. Drummond, Fordham University
Actions have a duration, they sometimes follow on intentions directed toward the future and are themselves sometimes directed toward bringing about future events. They may also be caused by past events, or be brought on by motives or reasons. Actions are also individuated from within a temporally extended continuous stream of activity. They are performed by agents, whose selves or practical identities may or may not be unified through psychological continuity, through their standing plans for the future, or through narratives. Agents inhabit a world that is temporally ordered, and that ordering is reflected in action. In seeing themselves as standing under an obligation, agents recognize reasons for future actions, and in judging them responsible for those actions we in turn trace their agency to past decisions on their part.

Whatever perspective one takes on the above issues, it is clear that action and agency cannot be understood apart from time. We are soliciting strong papers in both the analytic and continental traditions. Papers will ideally be written in a manner that will be clear and accessible to scholars from different backgrounds working on the philosophy of action.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

● Causal and teleological theories of action.
● Action individuation within a stream of activity.
● Future-directed intention, intention in action, and the temporality of directions of fit.
● Plans, personal policies, and other diachronic volitional states.
● Diachronic personal identity, practical identity, continuity, and narrative.
● Historical and time-slice views of moral responsibility.
● Temporality, movement and the life world.
● Temporal aspects of free will, determinism, and fatalism.
● Narrative time and the explanation of action.
● Retention and protention in agency.
● Heidegger on conscience, being-toward-death, or the relation between mood and action.
● Ricoeur on birth, life, character, habit, and consent to the involuntary.
● Psychoanalysis on deferred action.
Please send papers or abstracts for a talk of approximately 40 minutes. Ideally, submissions should not be under review for publication. Abstracts should be around 1,500 words, although complete papers (with a brief abstract) will receive priority in consideration. Please include a short CV or author bio (these will be used to interest possible publishers and will not be involved in selection of papers for the conference). Abstracts, papers, bios, and correspondence should be sent to the conference organizers, Michael Sigrist, msigrist@gwu.edu and Roman Altshuler, raltshul@ic.sunysb.edu. Please indicate with your submission whether you would be willing to serve as a commentator.

Deadline for submissions: July 1, 2011

Decisions will be sent out by: August 31

Sponsored by The George Washington University Department of Philosophy