7823,"St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR 4)","<p>St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality provides a forum for new work on practical and theoretical reason, broadly construed.</p>
<p><strong>Program</strong><br></p>


<p><strong>Sunday, May 19</strong></p>
<p>Keynote Address:&nbsp; Michael Smith (Princeton)</p>

<p><strong>Monday, May 20</strong></p>

<p>Chrisoula Andreou (Utah)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Temptations, Resolutions, and Regret</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Rima Basu (USC)</p>

<p>Matthew Hanser (UCSB)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Doing Another&rsquo;s Bidding</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Jennifer Morton (CCNY)</p>

<p>Michael Huemer (Colorado)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; An Ontological Proof of Moral Realism</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Katia Vavova (Mt. Holyoke)</p>

<p>Antti&nbsp;Kauppinen (Trinity College Dublin)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Oughts First</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Barry Maguire (Princeton)</p>

<p>Conor McHugh and Jonathan Way (Southampton)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Fittingness First</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Daniel Fogal (NYU)</p>

<p><strong>Tuesday, May 21</strong></p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>Sarah Paul (Wisconsin)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Doxastic Self-Control</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Lindsay Crawford (UC-Berkeley)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>Andrew Reisner (McGill)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rationality, Agency, and the Enkratic Principle</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Kelly Heuer (Georgetown)</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>Ernest Sosa and Kurt Sylvan (Rutgers)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Place of Reasons in Epistemology</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: John Greco (SLU)</p>

<p>Paulina Sliwa (Cambridge)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Moral Worth and Acting from Moral Knowledge</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Elizabeth Harman (Princeton)<strong></strong></p>

<p>Bart Streumer (Reading)</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reasons and Ability</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Chair: Samuel Asarnow (Stanford)</p>


<p>Further questions can be directed to either John Brunero (bruneroj@umsl.edu) or Eric Wiland (wiland@umsl.edu).</p>


<p>To register:&nbsp;</p>

&nbsp;","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","University of Missouri St. Louis","Saint Louis, Missouri, United States","","Moonrise Hotel","-90.1979","38.6273","External Site","http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/registration.html","http://www.umsl.edu/~slacrr/registration.html","19-5-2013 9:0 CDT","true","","","","","philevents3742","19-5-2013 9:0 CDT","21-5-2013 17:0 CDT"
10264,"Practical Agency and Values","","Conference or similar","","Daniel Vanello","Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick","Coventry, England, United Kingdom","CV4 7AL","The Cowling Room (S2.77) (Social Sciences Building)","-1.51969","52.4068","E-Mail","","","19-5-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents5522","24-5-2013 9:0 BST","25-5-2013 17:0 BST"
9649,"Practical Agency and Values","","Conference or similar","","Daniel Vanello","Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick","Coventry, England, United Kingdom","CV4 7AL","The Cowling Room (S2.77) (Social Sciences Building)","-1.56065","52.3761","E-Mail","","","17-5-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents5064","24-5-2013 14:0 BST","25-5-2013 17:0 BST"
9664,"Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium","<p><strong>Call for Papers</strong></p>
<p><strong>1st International Symposium:&nbsp;</strong><strong>Speed, Silence and Solitude</strong></p>
<p><strong>Part of the Research Program on:&nbsp;</strong><strong>Space, Time and New Technologies of the Self</strong></p>
<p><strong>(International Network for Alternative Academia)</strong></p>
<p><strong><br></strong></p>
<p><strong>Saturday 25th to Monday 27th of May, 2013</strong></p>
<p><strong>Toronto, Ontario, Canada</strong></p>
<p>This trans-disciplinary research project is interested in exploring how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others<a name=""_GoBack""></a>.</p>
<p>From smartphones to tablets, from Apps to Twitter, the new technologies and the social media to which they have given rise increasingly occupy our time and mediate our relationships. They encourage us to develop fast friends, guide us as to locate fast food, even helps us to find places to practice fast yoga. They keep us ever in the presence of others, always connected, ever accessible. We find ourselves amongst those who are rushing to catch up on what they have always already been behind on starting. It is a world in which speed has become the measure of all things, in which silence is rare, and in which solitude has at one and the same time become hard to find and difficult to escape. How are these experiences reshaping the way we perceive the world, see ourselves and relate to others?</p>
<p>We invite colleagues from all disciplines and professions interested in exploring and explaining these issues in a collective, deliberative and dialogical environment to send presentation proposals that address these general questions or the following themes:</p>
<p><strong>1. Speed</strong></p>
<p>- How are our conceptions of time being recalibrated?</p>
<p>- What has happened to our concept of leisure?</p>
<p>- Have we lost the ability to look, to linger, to be bored? With what consequences?</p>
<p>- How has our new conception of time affected rituals and relationships? What affects has our new conception of time had upon our rituals and relationships?</p>
<p>- What are the advantages and disadvantages of the new cult of speed? What are we hurrying up for? What are we hurrying to escape?</p>
<p>- What is the impact of the &ldquo;slow movement&rdquo;?</p>
<p>- We seem in a rush in order to save time. But for what are we saving time? Can time be saved?</p>
<p>- What is the relationship between speed and mortality? Do our new notions of time better prepare and equip us to deal with our mortality? Are we attempting to outrace and outwit time?</p>
<p>- What are the relationships between acceleration, efficiency and effectiveness?</p>
<p>- Traditional metaphors of time no longer seem adequate. Time no longer seems to be like a river or an ocean. What new metaphors seem apt to capture 21st century notions of time?</p>
<p>- How has the new conception of time affected our perception of duration, anticipation and waiting? What has it done to patience?</p>
<p>- What new experiences does speed afford us? What experiences does it undermine?</p>
<p>- How do we conceptualize and measure slowness in the 21st century?</p>
<p><strong>2. Silence</strong></p>
<p>- What is the value of silence?</p>
<p>- Is silence any longer a possibility? Is it achievable?</p>
<p>- In what ways are the new media changing our experience of silence? Have we lost language-free/sound-free space? Have we wanted to?</p>
<p>- How are our understandings and valuing of introspection, reflection and thought being reconceived in a world filled with sound?</p>
<p>- It seems the new media at one and the same time are making it ever harder to find silent moments and ever more difficult to escape. How can these simultaneous yet opposing experiences be explained?</p>
<p>- How does hearing differ from listening? Are we witnessing the evolution of listening with the rise of new technologies?</p>
<p>- What does silence sound like? Can silence be conceptualized? How can it be captured in words? How is it captured in music?</p>
<p><strong>3. Solitude</strong></p>
<p>- How does solitude differ from loneliness? How does it differ from boredom?</p>
<p>- What are the effects of our new experiences of being &lsquo;alone together&rsquo;?</p>
<p>- What are the conditions for the possibility of solitude? Can these conditions be met in the 21st century?</p>
<p>- What underlies our desire for solitude?</p>
<p>- When do we seek solitude? Why do we sometimes fear it?</p>
<p>- How is new media encouraging solitude? How is it undermining solitude? How can these opposing effects be explained? </p>
<p>- How is our experience of travel and of vacation changing in response to a world always populated with others and other tourists? How much are we willing to pay to experience solitude?</p>
<p>- How are our notions of space being reconfigured in a world where there are always others?</p>
<p>- In a world always already populated with others, how are creativity, imagination and innovation being reconceived?</p>
<p><br></p>
<p>If you are interested inparticipating in this Annual Symposium, submit a 400 to 500 word abstract by Friday 12th of April, 2013.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>To submit an abstract online follow these steps: </p>
<p>1) Go to our webpage: <a href=""http://www.alternative-academia.net/"">www.alternative-academia.net</a></p>
<p>2) Select your Symposium of choice within the list of annual events (listed by period and city) </p>
<p>3) Go to LOG IN at the top of the page</p>
<p>4) Create a User Name and Password for our system and log in</p>
<p>5) Click on the Call for Papers for the Symposium</p>
<p>6) Go to the end of the Call for Papers page and click on the First Step of Submission Process button</p>
<p>7) Follow the instructions provided for completing the abstract submission process</p>
<p>To facilitate the processing of abstracts, we ask that you use Arial Font Size10 and that you use plain text, resisting the temptation of using specialformatting, such as bold, italics or underline.</p>
<p>For every abstract proposal submitted, we acknowledge receipt. If you do not receive a reply from us within three days, you should assume the submission process was not completed successfully.Please try again or contact our technical support for clarifications.</p>
<p>All presentation and paper proposals that address these questions and issues will be fully considered and evaluated. Accepted abstracts will require a full draft paper by Tuesday 30th of April, 2013. Papers presented at the symposium are eligible for publication as part of a digital or paperback book.</p>
<p>We invite colleagues and people interested in participating to disseminate this call for papers. Thank you for sharing and cross-listingwhere and whenever appropriate.</p>

<p>Hope to meet you in Toronto!</p>

<p>Symposium Coordinators: </p>
<p>Wendy O'Brien,&nbsp;Professor of Social and Political Theory,&nbsp;School of Liberal Studies&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning</p>
<p>Toronto, Ontario, Canada</p>
<p>Email: <a href=""mailto:Wendy.OBrien@humber.ca"">Wendy.OBrien@humber.ca</a></p>

<p>Alejandro Cervantes-Carson,&nbsp;General Coordinator</p>
<p>International Network for Alternative Academia</p>
<p>Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain</p>
<p>Email: <a href=""mailto:acc@alternative-academia.net"">acc@alternative-academia.net</a></p>

<p>*****</p>
<p>Informational Note:</p>
<p>Alternative Academia is an international network of intellectuals, academics, independent scholars and practitioners committed to creating spaces, both within and beyond traditional academe, for creative, trans-disciplinary and critical thinking on key themes. We offer annual and biannual symposiums at sites around the world, providing forums that foster the development of new frames of reference and innovative structures for the production and expansion of knowledge and theory. Dialogue, discussion and deliberation define both the methods employed and the values upheld by this network.</p>
<p>Visit our website at: <a href=""http://www.alternative-academia.net/"">www.alternative-academia.net</a></p>
","CFP for conference or similar","","Alejandro Cervantes-Carson","International Network for Alternative Academia","Toronto, Ontario, Canada","","","-7941630.0","4.37001E7","External Site","http://www.alternative-academia.net","http://www.alternative-academia.net","","","","","Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium","9663","philevents5072","25-5-2013 9:0 BST",""
9663,"Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium","<p>Speed, Silence and Solitude, 1st International Symposium</p>
<p>(International Network for Alternative Academia) </p>

<p>Saturday 25th to Monday 27th of May, 2013</p>
<p>Toronto, Ontario, Canada</p>

<p>Abstract deadline: 12th of April, 2013</p>

<p>This trans-disciplinary project seeks to explore how new technologies are re-calibrating our notion of time, re-configuring our ideas of space and, as a result, how they are re-envisioning our understanding of the self and its relation to others<a name=""_GoBack""></a>.</p>

<p>Symposium Email: <a href=""mailto:acc@alternative-academia.net"">acc@alternative-academia.net</a></p>
<p>Webpage: <a href=""http://www.alternative-academia.net/"">www.alternative-academia.net</a></p>

<p>Keywords: </p>
<p>Philosophy, Information technology, Trans-disciplinary studies, Multidisciplinary studies, Interdisciplinary studies, Social Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, History, Discourse, Culture, Arts conferences, Media, Film studies, Internet</p>","Conference or similar","","Alejandro Cervantes-Carson","International Network for Alternative Academia","Toronto, Ontario, Canada","","","-7941630.0","4.37001E7","External Site","http://www.alternative-academia.net","http://www.alternative-academia.net","13-4-2013 23:0 EDT","true","","","","","philevents5072","25-5-2013 9:0 EDT","27-5-2013 17:0 EDT"
8314,"Fourth International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction","<p>The LORI workshop series aims at bringing together&nbsp;researchers working on a wide variety of logic-related fields concerned&nbsp;with the understanding of rationality and interaction. These include&nbsp;Game Theory and Decision Theory, Philosophy and Epistemology,&nbsp;Linguistics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The series&nbsp;aims at fostering a view of Logic as an interdisciplinary endeavor, and&nbsp;supports the creation of a Chinese community of interdisciplinary&nbsp;researchers.</p>
<p>We invite submissions of contributed papers bearing on any of the broad&nbsp;themes of the LORI workshop series. More specific topics of interest for&nbsp;this edition include but are not limited to:</p>
<ul>
<li>argumentation and its role in interaction</li>
<li>norms, normative multiagent systems and social software</li>
<li>semantic models for knowledge, for belief, and for uncertainty</li>
<li>dynamic logics of knowledge, information flow, and action</li>
<li>logical analysis of the structure of games</li>
<li>belief revision, belief merging</li>
<li>logics of preference and preference representation</li>
<li>logics of intentions, plans, and goals</li>
<li>logics of probability and uncertainty</li>
<li>logical approaches to decision making and planning</li>
<li>logic and social choice theory</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Important dates:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Paper submission: June 1, 2013</li>
<li>Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2013</li>
<li>Camera ready version: August 1, 2013</li>
<li>Conference dates: October 9 - 12, 2013</li>
</ul>
<p>Submissions: papers can be submitted via Easychair<br>(https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=lori4</a>)</p>
<p>Publication: The proceedings of LORI-4 will be published in the Springer&nbsp;LNCS/Folli series.<br><br>Chairs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Program chairs: &nbsp;Davide Grossi (University of Liverpool) and Olivier&nbsp;Roy (Ludwig Maximilians University)</li>
<li>Organizing chair: Huaxin Huang (Zhejiang University)</li>
</ul>
<p>Program committee:</p>
<ul>
<li>Thomas &Aring;gotnes (University of Bergen)</li>
<li>Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)</li>
<li>Albert Anglberger (Ludwig Maximilians University)</li>
<li>Alexandru Baltag (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Hans van Ditmarsch (LOIRA)</li>
<li>Jan Van Eijck (University of Amsterdam and CWI)</li>
<li>Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Jiahong Guo (Beijing Normal University)</li>
<li>Wesley Holliday (UC Berkley)</li>
<li>Tomohiro Hoshi (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University)</li>
<li>Guo Meiyun (Southwest University)</li>
<li>Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland)</li>
<li>Henry Prakken (Utrecht University)</li>
<li>Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences)</li>
<li>Antonino Rotolo (University of Bologna)</li>
<li>Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland)</li>
<li>Kaile Su (Griffith University)</li>
<li>Wenfang Wang (National Yang Ming University)</li>
<li>Yanjing Wang (Peking University)</li>
<li>Minghui Xiong (Sun Yat-Sen University)</li>
<li>Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)</li>
</ul>","CFP for conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University","Hangzhou, Zhejiang Sheng, China","","","120.161","30.2936","Not Specified","","","","","","","Fourth International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction","8313","philevents4113","1-6-2013 9:0 BST",""
10294,"Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems","<p>The Institute of Philosophy and the SimTech Cluster of Excellence at the University of Stuttgart invite doctoral and&nbsp;early career researchers to submit posters for presentation at the Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural&nbsp;and Artificial Systems conference to be held at the University of Stuttgart between&nbsp;22nd and 24th July 2013. &nbsp;</p>
<p>We are pleased to be able to offer four bursaries (up to 200 &euro; for travel plus accommodation and conference dinner)&nbsp;to doctoral and early career researchers who have submitted their doctoral thesis within the last two years.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p>To apply&nbsp;please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn (catrin.misselhorn@philo.uni-stuttgart.de) by&nbsp;June 1st.</p>
<p>Registration and contact: Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn (catrin.misselhorn@philo.uni-stuttgart.de). &nbsp;</p>
<p>For more information please visit the conference website:</p>","CFP for conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Institute of Philosophy and the SimTech Cluster of Excellence, Universität Stuttgart","Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany","70569","Internationale Begnungsstätte Eulenhof","9.11083","48.7447","Not Specified","","http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/philo/termine/caac","","","","","Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems","10293","philevents5541","1-6-2013 10:0 BST",""
10081,"Panels on Animals and Philosophy","<p><u>June 5th 9:00-11:30&nbsp;: Panel &laquo; Phenomenological Approaches to Animal Otherness &raquo;</u><br><br>&rarr; <strong>Brett Buchanan</strong> (Laurentian University) Being Towards Extinction (details)<br>&rarr; <strong>Don Beith</strong> (McGill University), Merleau-Ponty&rsquo;s Animate Epistemology: Learning to Perceive (as) Animals</p>
<p><u>June 5th 14:00-16:30&nbsp;: Panel &laquo; Animals: Rights, Veganism and Justice &raquo;</u><br><br>&rarr; <strong>Val&eacute;ry Giroux</strong> (Universite de Montreal), An Antispeciest Approach to Fundamental Rights<br>&rarr; <strong>Sue Donaldson</strong> (co-author with Will Kymlicka of <em>Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights</em>, OUP, 2011), Unruly Beasts: Humans and Animals Sharing the Demos</p>
<p><u>June 6th 9:00-12:30&nbsp;: Panel &laquo; Veganarchism and Paleoethics: Equality beyond Species &raquo;</u></p>
<p>&rarr; <strong>Cynthia Willet</strong> (Emory University) Interspecies Living (a serious ethics with a comic twist).<br>&rarr; <strong>Dinesh Wadiwel</strong> (University of Sidney), Resisting the War Against Animals: Counter-Conduct and Truce<br>&rarr; <strong>John Sanbonmatsu </strong>(Worcester Polytechnic Institute), <em>Critical Theory and Animal Liberation</em>(Rowman &amp; Littlefield, 2011)</p>
<p><u>June 6th 14:00-17:30&nbsp;: &laquo; Book Panel on Gary Steiner&rsquo;s Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism (CUP, 2013) &raquo;</u><br><br>&rarr; <strong>Patrick Llored</strong> (Universit&eacute; de Lyon) author of Jacques Derrida, Politique et &eacute;thique de l&rsquo;animalit&eacute; (Sils Maria, 2013)<br>&rarr; <strong>Chlo&euml; Taylor</strong> (Universit&eacute; d&rsquo;Alberta), &laquo;&nbsp;Foucault and the Ethics of Eating&nbsp;&raquo; (Foucault Studies, 2010) <br>&rarr; <strong>Jan Dutkiewicz</strong>(PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research)<br>&rarr; <strong>Gary Steiner</strong> (Bucknell University), Animals and the Moral Community (CUP, 2008), Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005)</p>","Conference or similar","Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC)","Christiane Bailey","http://www.congress2013.ca/program, University of Victoria","Victoria, British Columbia, Canada","","","-123.0","48.0","External Site","http://www.congress2013.ca/program","http://christianebailey.com/eptc-tcep-2013/","5-6-2013 9:0 PDT","true","","","","","philevents5375","4-6-2013 9:0 PDT","7-6-2013 17:0 PDT"
8605,"Intersubjectivity as Interaction – In the footsteps of Merleau-Ponty","<p>Maurice Merleau-Ponty&rsquo;s notion of the body-subject has proven to be truly innovative in connecting body, mind and world. His phenomenological work is an important source of the emerging new paradigm of embedded, embodied, enactive, extended cognition (4EC)</p>
<p>This conference focuses on a particular theme in the expanding field of 4EC, i.e. intersubjectivity as interaction.&nbsp;</p>
<p>The aim is to investigate to what extent and in what sense Merleau-Ponty&rsquo;s insights of notions such as body, world, consciousness and action, help us with the problem of intersubjectivity.</p>
<p><strong>Confirmed keynotes:</strong></p>
<p>S&oslash;ren Overgaard<br>Hanne de Jaegher</p>
<p><strong>Invited keynote:<br></strong>Shaun Gallagher</p>
<p>Contact:&nbsp;intersubjectivityasinteraction@gmail.com</p>","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Departments of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophical Anthropology and History of Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen","Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands","","","5.85462","51.8429","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4326","6-6-2013 10:0 CEST","7-6-2013 17:0 CEST"
9508,"ECTA 2013 European Conference on Theory of Action. Reasons for Action and Praxiology - Broadening the Borders","<p><strong>ECTA 2013</strong></p>
<p><strong>EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON THEORY OF ACTION:</strong></p>
<p><em>Reasons for Action and Praxiology &ndash; Broadening the Borders</em></p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>June, 12-14th 2013</p>
<p>Poznan, Poland</p>
<p>Enquiries: <a href=""mailto:ecta2013@praxiologies.com"">ecta2013@praxiologies.com</a></p>
<p>Web address: <a href=""http://ecta2013.org"">ecta2013.org</a></p>
<p><strong>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</strong></p>
<p><strong>WOJCIECH GASPARSKI (Kozminski University, Poland)</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><strong>TIMO AIRAKSINEN</strong><strong>&nbsp;(University of Helsinki, Finland)</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong><strong>GERHARD SEEL</strong>&nbsp;<strong>(University of Bern, Switzerland)</strong></p>
<p><strong>BOB BRECHER</strong>&nbsp;<strong>(Brighton University, United Kingdom)</strong></p>
<p>Theory of reasons for action has been one of the most important areas of research in practical philosophy for over a half century, but mainly in English-speaking cultural area. Still, it is a&nbsp;<strong>dominant approach to the theory of action</strong>&nbsp;today.</p>
<p><strong>Praxiology</strong>&nbsp;&ndash; a general theory or study of efficient action (with a seminal work of Tadeusz Kotarbinski from Warsaw-Lvov School) &ndash; is another important type of investigation on the field of practical philosophy. It also has quite a long tradition, but has been popular mainly in Poland and France.</p>
<p>While these two types of investigation of action are equally important, there has never been either a philosophical &lsquo;battle&rsquo; or &lsquo;cooperation&rsquo; between reasons for action theorists and praxiologists. It seems, that the researchers of both types of inquiry have so far not entered into dialogue to get a better understanding of the nature of action.</p>
<p>The most basic goal of this strongly interdisciplinary conference is to offer a small contribution to such communication.&nbsp;<strong>We invite praxiologists, reasons for action theorists, theorists of practical rationality and practical philosophers</strong>&nbsp;to exchange ideas and communicate. This will help to grasp a fuller understanding of the differences and similarities between various types of reflection on action. The conference will offer insights into the understanding of action in philosophical, social and cultural aspects.</p>
<p>THEMES</p>
<p>- &nbsp;the nature of reasons for action: problems of contemporary debate,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;praxiology and &lsquo;the grammar of action&rsquo; &ndash; old and new tasks,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;types of reflection on action, the methodology of action theories,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;connections and dependencies between theories of reasons for action and praxiology,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;similarities and differences in understanding action in terms of praxiology and reasons for action theory,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;theories of reasons for action and praxiology in the face of individual and collective action,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;theory of action and the (philosophical) picture of an agent,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;reasons for action and emotions,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;planning theory and praxiology</p>
<p>- &nbsp;philosophical theories of action and other sciences (psychology, sociology, neurosciences, ethics, management science, economics),</p>
<p>- &nbsp;differences between theories of action and cultural relativism,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;social aspects of theorizing action,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;praxiology and pragmatism,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;theory of rationality and theory of action,</p>
<p>- &nbsp;efficient action, rational action, and moral action.</p>
<p>Selected conference papers will be published as a collection of edited papers in <a href=""http://www.transactionpub.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=series-category&amp;Store_Code=TRANSPUB&amp;Category_Code=1503""><strong><em>Praxiology: The International Annual of Practical Philosophy and Methodology&nbsp;</em></strong><strong>Series</strong></a></p>
<p><br> Conference dates: June 12-14th 2013</p>
<p>Extended CFP deadline: March 31st 2013</p>
<p>CFP decision: by April 15th 2013</p>
<p>Registration deadline: April 31tst 2013</p>
<p>HONORARY PARTNERS</p>
<p><strong><em>THE PRESIDENT OF THE CITY OF POZNAN</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>EUROPEAN BUSINESS ETHICS NETWORK POLSKA</em></strong></p>
<p>Organizer:</p>
<p>Praxiologies.com Team in cooperation with Adam Mickiewicz University</p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p><strong>More details: <a href=""http://ecta2013.org/"">ecta2013.org</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p>","Conference or similar","","Piotr Makowski","Dept. of Social Sciences / Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University","Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland","60-813","D.S. Jowita","16.0","52.0","External Site","http://ecta2013.org/","http://ecta2013.org/","11-6-2013 11:0 CEST","true","","","","","philevents4955","12-6-2013 21:0 CEST","14-6-2013 17:0 CEST"
7486,"Society for Philosophy and Psychology","<p>The SPP sponsors an annual meeting, usually held in June. Meetings consist of invited lectures and symposia, contributed papers, and a Presidential address. Social events include a receptions and lunch meetings. SPP encourages suggestions for the invited portion of the program for upcoming meetings. These should be directed to this year's Program Co-Chairs. We also encourage members (especially non-philosophers) to submit contributed papers to the meeting.</p>","Conference or similar","","Tom Polger","Society for Philosophy and Psychology","Providence, Rhode Island, United States","","","-95.7129","37.0902","External Site","http://www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html","http://www.socphilpsych.org","15-6-2013 9:0 EDT","true","","","","","philevents3532","13-6-2013 9:0 EDT","15-6-2013 17:0 EDT"
9858,"Mind, Action and Responsibility: Empirical and non-empirical perspectives","<p><strong>Speakers:</strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Pamela&nbsp;Hieronymi</p>
<p>Joshua&nbsp;Knobe</p>
<p>Brian&nbsp;Leiter</p>
<p>Thomas Pink</p>
<p>Jesse&nbsp;Prinz</p>
<p>Gideon&nbsp;Yaffe</p>
<p>More info:</p>","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Centre for Philosophical Psychology and Centre for Law and Cosmopolitan Values, University of Antwerp","Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium","","","11.9128","50.3135","Not Specified","","http://webh01.ua.ac.be/bence.nanay/paw.htm","","","","","","","philevents5198","19-6-2013 10:0 CEST","20-6-2013 17:0 CEST"
9907,"","<p>Topic:&nbsp;<strong>Action</strong>, n. 7 September 2013</p>
<p>If you are interested, please submit your essay (min 10.000 characters - max 20.000)&nbsp;to:&nbsp;philosophicalnews@gmail.com.</p>
<p>Deadline:&nbsp;<strong>30th of June</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>PHILOSOPHICAL NEWS</strong> &nbsp; ISSN (paper format) 2039-7194 ISSN &nbsp;(online) 2037-6707&nbsp;<br><strong></strong> <strong><br></strong> <strong>Editor-in-chief:</strong>&nbsp;Elisa Grimi <strong>Editorial Board</strong>: Antonio Allegra, Marco Bellia, Marco Damonte, Marco Stango, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza</p>
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Chrissy Meijns","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.philosophicalnews.com","","","","","","","philevents5236","30-6-2013 9:0 BST",""
8061,"Free Will and Moral Responsibility Workshop","","Conference or similar","","Benjamin Matheson","Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester","Manchester, England, United Kingdom","M13 9PL","Board Room, Arthur Lewis Building","-2.23348","53.4659","E-Mail","","","7-6-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents3929","2-7-2013 9:0 BST","2-7-2013 17:0 BST"
10184,"Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action","<p>Deadline for Submission: 5th July 2013<br><br>Experimental Philosophy Group UK invites the submission of 500-word&nbsp;abstracts for 45-minute presentations or poster presentations on&nbsp;&lsquo;Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action&rsquo; for their upcoming&nbsp;workshop.<br><br>We welcome submissions presenting recently completed experimental work,&nbsp;engaging with the work of any of this year&rsquo;s keynote speakers, proposing new&nbsp;experimental work, discussing existing empirical studies in the fields of&nbsp;Philosophy of Mind and Action, introducing novel approaches in this area or&nbsp;raising relevant methodological questions.<br><br>All high-quality submissions considered. Submissions encouraged from all&nbsp;levels of academia. 500-word abstracts to be sent as PDF or Word documents&nbsp;to&nbsp;experimentalphilosophyuk@gmail.com</a>&nbsp;by 5th July 2013. Subject line of&nbsp;email should read &ldquo;SUBMISSION [YOUR NAME]&rdquo;. In the body of the email please&nbsp;state your name, affiliation and in which category (presentation or poster)&nbsp;you wish your submission to be considered. &nbsp;Submissions for presentations&nbsp;that are unsuccessful will be automatically considered for poster&nbsp;presentation. Presenters should be prepared to obtain funding from their&nbsp;home department, or to fund themselves.<br><br>Experimental Philosophy Group UK aims to provide a forum for UK-based&nbsp;researchers from all disciplines who are engaged in or interested in the&nbsp;investigation of philosophical topics using empirical methods. &nbsp;This&nbsp;workshop will have a focus upon (i) providing a platform for UK-based&nbsp;experimental philosophers, (ii) providing a forum for constructive&nbsp;discussion and collaboration to help and encourage new experimental work,&nbsp;(iii) encouraging constructive debate about the relevance of empirical&nbsp;findings to the philosophical study of Mind and Action.</p>","CFP for conference or similar","4th Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK","Chrissy Meijns","University of Bristol","Bristol, England, United Kingdom","","Wills Memorial Building","-2.59665","51.4552","Not Specified","","http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk","","","","","Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action","10183","philevents5453","5-7-2013 9:0 BST",""
10193,"Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action","<p>Experimental Philosophy Group UK invites the submission of 500-word abstracts for 45-minute presentations or poster presentations on &lsquo;Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action&rsquo; for their upcoming workshop. Keynote presentations will be given by Natalie Gold (KCL), James Moore (Goldsmiths), Regina Rini (Oxford) and Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside).</p>
<p>We welcome submissions presenting recently completed experimental work, engaging with the work of any of this year&rsquo;s keynote speakers, proposing new experimental work, discussing existing empirical studies in the fields of Philosophy of Mind and Action, introducing novel approaches in this area or raising relevant methodological questions.</p>
<p>All high-quality submissions considered. Submissions encouraged from all levels of academia. 500-word abstracts to be sent as PDF or Word documents to experimentalphilosophyuk@gmail.com by 5th July 2013. Subject line of email should read &ldquo;SUBMISSION [YOUR NAME]&rdquo;. In the body of the email please state your name, affiliation and in which category (presentation or poster) you wish your submission to be considered. Submissions for presentations that are unsuccessful will be automatically considered for poster presentation. Presenters should be prepared to obtain funding from their home department, or to fund themselves.</p>","CFP for conference or similar","4th Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK","James Andow","Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol","Bristol, England, United Kingdom","","","-2.59665","51.4552","Not Specified","","","","","","","Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action","10192","xphiuk4","5-7-2013 23:45 BST",""
10293,"Collective Agency and Cooperation in Natural and Artificial Systems","<p>We are pleased to be able to offer four bursaries (up to 200 &euro; for travel plus accommodation and conference dinner)&nbsp;to doctoral and early career researchers who have submitted their doctoral thesis within the last two years.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p>
<p>Registration and contact: Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn (catrin.misselhorn@philo.uni-stuttgart.de). &nbsp;</p>
<p>For more information please visit the conference website:</p>","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Institute of Philosophy and the SimTech Cluster of Excellence, Universität Stuttgart","Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany","70569","Internationale Begnungsstätte Eulenhof","9.11083","48.7447","Not Specified","","http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/philo/termine/caac","","","","","","","philevents5541","22-7-2013 10:0 CEST","24-7-2013 17:0 CEST"
10020,"Will and Action in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy","<p>Graduate students are invited to submit papers related to this year&rsquo;s theme of &ldquo;Will and Action.&rdquo; We welcome papers on all periods of Ancient and Medieval philosophy.</p>
<ul>
<li>Please send submissions to uwoancientmedievalphilcolloq@gmail.com</li>
<li>Papers should not exceed 4500 words, and should include an abstract not exceeding 150 words.</li>
<li>Submissions must be in pdf or doc format and prepared for blind review.</li>
<li>In your email, please include your name, paper title, and institutional affiliation.</li>
<li>Only one submission per author.</li>
</ul>
<p>Deadline for Submission: August 1, 2013 &nbsp;</p>","CFP for conference or similar","Eighth Annual Western Ontario Colloquium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy","Lauren Sidlar","Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario","London, Ontario, Canada","","","-81.274","43.0089","Not Specified","","","","","","","Will and Action in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy","10002","philevents5304","1-8-2013 9:0 BST",""
9869,"Mind, Language and Action","<p><strong>Scientific Organizers</strong>:</p>



<p>Dani&egrave;le Moyal-Sharrock<br>Annalisa Coliva<br>Volker A. Munz</p>
<p><strong>Sections</strong>:&nbsp;</p>
<ol>
<li>Wittgenstein</li>
<li>Enactivism and extended mind</li>
<li>Memory</li>
<li>Language-acquisition</li>
<li>Intentional mental contents (and qualia)</li>
<li>Forms of agency</li>
</ol>
<p><strong></strong>&nbsp;<strong>Invited Speakers</strong>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Maria Alvarez (London)<br>David Backhurst (Kingston, Ontario)<br>Chantal Bax (New School for Social Research)</p>
<p>Jose Bermudez (College Station, TX)<br>Sven Bernecker (Vienna)<br>Anat Biletzki (Quinnipiac, CT &amp; Tel Aviv)<br>Clotilde Calabi (Milan)<br>Tim Crane (Cambridge)<br>Cora Diamond (Charlottesville, VA)<br>Jerome Dokic (Paris)<br>Shaun Gallagher (Memphis, TN)<br>Hans-Johann Glock (Zurich)<br>Laurence Goldstein (Canterbury)<br>Ian Ground (Sunderland)<br>Garry Hagberg (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)<br>Jennifer Hornsby (London)<br>John Hyman (Oxford)<br>Camilla Kronqvist (Turku)<br>Sandra Laugier (Paris)<br>Paolo Leonardi (Bologna)<br>Diego Marconi (Turin)<br>Elise Marrou (Paris)<br>Anat Matar (Tel Aviv)<br>Sofia Miguens (Porto)<br>Gabriele Mras (Vienna)<br>Erik Myin (Antwerp)<br>Elizabeth Pacherie (Paris)<br>Christopher Peacocke (New York, NY)<br>Luigi Perissinotto (Venice)<br>Eva Picardi (Bologna)<br>Sabine Plaud (Stra&szlig;burg)<br>Ursula Renz (Klagenfurt)<br>Paul Standish (London)<br>David Stern (Iowa City, IA)<br>Charles Travis (London)<br>Michael Tomasello (Leipzig)<br>Paolo Tripodi (Turin)<br>Fr&eacute;d&eacute;rique de Vignemont (Paris)</p>



","Conference or similar","36th International Wittgenstein Symposium 2013","Chrissy Meijns","Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society","Kirchberg am Wechsel, Lower Austria, Austria","","","15.9833","47.6","Not Specified","","http://www.alws.at/index.php/symposium/","","","","","","","philevents5206","11-8-2013 9:0 CEST","17-8-2013 17:0 CEST"
9994,"Florida State University Graduate Philosophy Conference on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency","<p>The Philosophy Graduate Student Association (PGSA) of Florida State University is now accepting submissions for their graduate conference on free will, moral responsibility, and agency.</p>
<p>The conference will take place at Florida State University on <strong>October 11 and 12, 2013</strong>. Keynote speakers will be:</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Randolph Clarke, Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University</p>
<p>Those interested in submitting high quality papers related to free will, moral responsibility, or the wider notion of agency should email their submissions to fsupgsa@gmail.com. Papers addressing the relationship between scientific developments and free will are also welcome. Papers should fulfill the following criteria:</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Prepared for blind review</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; No more than 4,000 words</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Suitable for 25-minute presentation</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Preceded by an abstract of 150-250 words</p>
<p>Along with the paper, please also submit a cover page with the following information:</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Presenter&rsquo;s name</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Institutional affiliation</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Contact information (email address or phone number)</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Title of paper</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Abstract of the paper</p>
<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Word count</p>
<p><strong>The deadline for submissions is August 15</strong>. We will notify those whose papers have been accepted by September 13.</p>
<p>For questions or further information, please contact Kyle Fritz (kgf10@fsu.edu), Dan Miller (djm09@fsu.edu), or Robyn Waller (rar09h@fsu.edu).&nbsp;</p>","CFP for conference or similar","","Robyn Repko Waller","Department of Philosophy, Florida State University","Tallahassee, Florida, United States","","","-84.2807","30.4383","Not Specified","","","","","","","Florida State University Graduate Philosophy Conference on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency","9993","philevents5298","15-8-2013 0:0 BST",""
9125,"International Masterclass “Shared Agency” with Professor Michael Bratman","<p>Starting with his groundbreaking &lsquo;Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason&rsquo; (1987), Michael Bratman has made highly influential contributions to topics such as agency, planning, intention and moral responsibility. His work has been influential in various areas of scientific research ranging from artificial intelligence to the social sciences. Bratman is also a pioneer in the investigation of collective intentionality. In his new book &lsquo;Shared Agency&rsquo;, he outlines how his planning theory of individual agency can be used to provide the basis for an account of shared agency:</p>
<p>Bratman's book ""seeks a framework for understanding these basic forms of sociality:&nbsp;&nbsp;What concepts do we need?&nbsp;&nbsp;In what do these forms of sociality consist?&nbsp;&nbsp;How are they related to relevant forms of individual agency? What norms are central to such sociality? How are these social norms related to norms that apply in the first instance to individual agency?&nbsp;&nbsp;These are questions about the conceptual, metaphysical and normative foundations of our sociality.&nbsp;&nbsp;And a conjecture of this book is that a rich account of individual planning agency facilitates the step to these forms of sociality.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is independent reason &ndash; grounded in the diachronic organization of our temporally extended agency &ndash; to see planning structures as basic to our individual agency.&nbsp;&nbsp;And once these planning structures are on board we can expect them to play central roles in our sociality. The planning theory of individual agency highlights distinctive roles and norms of intentions, understood as plan states.&nbsp;&nbsp;And the conjecture is that appeal to these planning structures enables us to provide adequate resources &ndash; conceptual, metaphysical and normative &ndash; for an account of sufficient conditions for these basic forms of sociality.&nbsp;&nbsp;Shared agency emerges, both functionally and rationally, from structures of interconnected planning agency. This is a deep continuity between individual and social agency. And this is an aspect of the fecundity of planning structures, the idea that planning structures ground a range of practical capacities that are central to our lives.""&nbsp;</p>
<p>(Bratman, M., forthcoming,&nbsp;<em>Shared Agency</em>, Oxford University Press)</p>
<p>Organized by Angelica Kaufmann and Jens van 't Klooster</p>
<p>Contact:&nbsp;Angelica.Kaufmann@ua.ac.be</p>
<p>More information at :&nbsp;</p>","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp","Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium","","","4.40346","51.2199","Not Specified","","https://sites.google.com/site/angelicakaufmann/other-activities","","","","","","","philevents4680","24-8-2013 10:0 CEST","25-8-2013 17:0 CEST"
10331,"","<p>Research Topic in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology</p>
<p>What levels of explanation in the behavioural sciences?</p>
<p>Topic Editors:</p>
<p>Giuseppe Boccignone,&nbsp;Universit&agrave; di Milano, Italy&nbsp;<br>Roberto Cordeschi,&nbsp;Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Italy&nbsp;</p>
<p>Deadline for abstract submission:&nbsp;31 Aug 2013</p>
<p>Deadline for full article submission:&nbsp;31 Jan 2014</p>
<p>Complex systems are to be seen as typically having multiple levels of organization. For instance, in the behavioural and cognitive sciences, there has been a long lasting trend, promoted by the seminal work of David Marr, putting focus on three distinct levels of analysis: the computational level, accounting for the What and Why issues, the algorithmic and the implementational levels specifying the How problem.&nbsp;<br><br>However, the tremendous developments in neuroscience knowledge about processes at different scales of organization together with the complexity of today cognitive theories suggest that there will hardly be only three levels of explanation. Instead, there will be many different degrees of commitments corresponding to the different granularities&mdash;from high-level (behavioural) models to low-level (neural and molecular) models of the cognitive research program. For instance, Bayesian approaches, that are usually advocated for formalizing Marr's computational level and rational behaviour, have even been adopted to model synaptic plasticity and axon guidance by molecular gradients. As a result, we can consider the behavioural scientist as dealing with models at a multiplicity of levels.&nbsp;<br><br>The purpose of this Research Topic in Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology is to promote an approach to the role of the levels and explanation and models which is of interest for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, behavioural scientists, and philosophers of science.&nbsp;<br><br>We solicit original empirical work, review and opinion papers, and methodological and epistemological papers that can provide both state-of-the-art views and advancement proposals for our understanding of the proposed topic. The following are potential issues: How can the autonomy of explanatory levels be properly understood in behavioural explanation? Is reductionism a satisfactory strategy? If so, how can it be justified? How can high-level and low-level models be constrained in order to be actually explanatory of both behavioural and neurological or molecular evidence? What is the kind of relationship between those models? What is the actual contribution to explanation provided by Bayesian modelling?</p>","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Giuseppe Boccignone","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/SpecialTopicDetail.aspx?name=theoretical_and_philosophical_psychology&st=1674&sname=What_levels_of_explanation_in_","","","","","","","philevents5565","31-8-2013 9:0 BST",""
10183,"Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action","<p>Contact:&nbsp;experimentalphilosophyuk@gmail.com<br><br>Experimental Philosophy Group UK aims to provide a forum for UK-based&nbsp;researchers from all disciplines who are engaged in or interested in the&nbsp;investigation of philosophical topics using empirical methods. &nbsp;This&nbsp;workshop will have a focus upon (i) providing a platform for UK-based&nbsp;experimental philosophers, (ii) providing a forum for constructive&nbsp;discussion and collaboration to help and encourage new experimental work,&nbsp;(iii) encouraging constructive debate about the relevance of empirical&nbsp;findings to the philosophical study of Mind and Action.</p>","Conference or similar","4th Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK","Chrissy Meijns","University of Bristol","Bristol, England, United Kingdom","","Wills Memorial Building","-2.59665","51.4552","Not Specified","","http://sites.google.com/site/experimentalphilosophygroupuk","","","","","","","philevents5453","12-9-2013 9:0 BST","13-9-2013 17:0 BST"
10192,"Experimental Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind and Action","<p>Information about registration deadlines and how to register will be published once available.</p>
<p>Experimental Philosophy Group UK aims to provide a forum for UK-based researchers from all disciplines who are engaged in or interested in the investigation of philosophical topics using empirical methods. This workshop will have a focus upon (i) providing a platform for UK-based experimental philosophers, (ii) providing a forum for constructive discussion and collaboration to help and encourage new experimental work, (iii) encouraging constructive debate about the relevance of empirical findings to the philosophical study of Mind and Action.</p>","Conference or similar","4th Workshop of the Experimental Philosophy Group UK","James Andow","Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol","Bristol, England, United Kingdom","","","-2.59665","51.4552","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","xphiuk4","12-9-2013 9:0 BST","13-9-2013 17:0 BST"
10199,"Aims and Norms VI","","Conference or similar","","Timothy Chan","The Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN), University of Oslo","Oslo, Oslo, Norway","0371","","10.722","59.9382","Not Specified","","http://www.hf.uio.no/csmn/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences-and-seminars/aims-and-norms-vi.html","","","","","","","philevents5465","13-9-2013 9:0 CEST","13-9-2013 17:0 CEST"
8313,"Fourth International Workshop on Logic, Rationality and Interaction","<p>The LORI workshop series aims at bringing together&nbsp;researchers working on a wide variety of logic-related fields concerned&nbsp;with the understanding of rationality and interaction. These include&nbsp;Game Theory and Decision Theory, Philosophy and Epistemology,&nbsp;Linguistics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The series&nbsp;aims at fostering a view of Logic as an interdisciplinary endeavor, and&nbsp;supports the creation of a Chinese community of interdisciplinary&nbsp;researchers.</p>
<p>Publication: The proceedings of LORI-4 will be published in the Springer&nbsp;LNCS/Folli series.<br><br>Chairs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Program chairs: &nbsp;Davide Grossi (University of Liverpool) and Olivier&nbsp;Roy (Ludwig Maximilians University)</li>
<li>Organizing chair: Huaxin Huang (Zhejiang University)</li>
</ul>
<p>Program committee:</p>
<ul>
<li>Thomas &Aring;gotnes (University of Bergen)</li>
<li>Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)</li>
<li>Albert Anglberger (Ludwig Maximilians University)</li>
<li>Alexandru Baltag (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Hans van Ditmarsch (LOIRA)</li>
<li>Jan Van Eijck (University of Amsterdam and CWI)</li>
<li>Ulle Endriss (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Nina Gierasimczuk (University of Amsterdam)</li>
<li>Jiahong Guo (Beijing Normal University)</li>
<li>Wesley Holliday (UC Berkley)</li>
<li>Tomohiro Hoshi (Stanford University)</li>
<li>Fangzhen Lin (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)</li>
<li>Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University)</li>
<li>Yongmei Liu (Sun Yat-Sen University)</li>
<li>Guo Meiyun (Southwest University)</li>
<li>Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland)</li>
<li>Henry Prakken (Utrecht University)</li>
<li>Ramaswamy Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences)</li>
<li>Antonino Rotolo (University of Bologna)</li>
<li>Jeremy Seligman (University of Auckland)</li>
<li>Kaile Su (Griffith University)</li>
<li>Wenfang Wang (National Yang Ming University)</li>
<li>Yanjing Wang (Peking University)</li>
<li>Minghui Xiong (Sun Yat-Sen University)</li>
<li>Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)</li>
</ul>","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Center for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University","Hangzhou, Zhejiang Sheng, China","","","120.161","30.2936","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4113","9-10-2013 9:0 CST","12-10-2013 17:0 CST"
9993,"Florida State University Graduate Philosophy Conference on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency","","Conference or similar","","Robyn Repko Waller","Department of Philosophy, Florida State University","Tallahassee, Florida, United States","","","-84.2807","30.4383","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents5298","11-10-2013 15:0 EDT","12-10-2013 17:0 EDT"
10002,"Will and Action in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy","<p>&ldquo;Will and Action in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy&rdquo; is organized by Lauren Sidlar (lauren.sidlar (at) uwo.ca) and Henrik Lagerlund (hlagerlu (at) uwo.ca) in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. All inquiries should be directed to the organizers.</p>
","Conference or similar","Eighth Annual Western Ontario Colloquium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy","Lauren Sidlar","Department of Philosophy, The University of Western Ontario","London, Ontario, Canada","","","-81.274","43.0089","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents5304","18-10-2013 9:0 EDT","19-10-2013 17:0 EDT"
8194,"New Orleans Workshop on Agency and Responsibility (NOWAR)","<p>Contact: David Shoemaker:dshoemak@tulane.edu.</p>
<p>To see more about the workshop&rsquo;s general aims and other details, follow this link:</p>","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Tulane University","New Orleans, Louisiana, United States","","","-90.0751","29.9547","Not Specified","","http://murphy.tulane.edu/events/center-conferences-symposia/1888.php","","","","","","","philevents4028","7-11-2013 3:0 CST","9-11-2013 17:0 CST"
8237,"Trends in interdisciplinary studies","<p><strong>""Thinking with hands, eyes and things""</strong></p>
<p>We invite you to participate in the conference devoted to extra-neural aspects of cognition as well as controversies related to them.<br>The claim that both the body and the environment are involved in our experience of the world is a banal claim. However, the point is what a great role in our mental processes is played by the whole body as well as its interactions with the environment. Cognition may involve integration with our tools, and we may even delegate some of our thinking to the environment. According to situated cognition and extended mind approaches, humans use elements of their environment as external components of cognitive processes or as means enabling them to reduce the complexity of the cognitive problems they face. The theory of affordances connects observers and environments in the act of cognition and cuts across the dichotomy of subjective-objective. Some researchers treat immune system as one of cognitive systems. Proponents of embodied cognitive science claim that aspects of the body beyond the brain play a significant role in cognition. Conversely, there are many critical voices in answer to the statements above. They say that cognitive-scientific results do not enough support thesis of embodied, distributed, extended and situated cognition. According to those critics, nonneuronal body and elements of environment play a peripheral role in cognitive processing.</p>","Conference or similar","","Jan Iwańczyk","Centre for Philosophical Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University","Toruń, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland","87-100","","18.0","53.0","External Site","http://avant.edu.pl/trends/abstracts.html","http://avant.edu.pl/trends/","13-7-2013 3:0 CEST","true","","","","","Trends in interdisciplinary studies","8-11-2013 12:0 CET","10-11-2013 17:0 CET"
8274,"Political Decision and Truth","<p><strong>&laquo;&nbsp;Political Decision And Truth&nbsp;&raquo;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Interdisciplinary Symposium</strong></p>
<p><strong><br></strong></p>
<p><strong>&Oslash;&nbsp; <u>Date and place of event</u>: <strong>November 15-16, 2013 &ndash; Panth&eacute;on-Sorbonne University, Paris, France</strong></strong></p>
<p><strong><strong></strong> <br></strong></p>
<p>&Oslash;&nbsp; <u>Scientific committee</u>:</p>
<p>- Sophie Gu&eacute;rard de Latour (Universit&eacute; Paris I)</p>
<p>- Laurent Jaffro (Universit&eacute; Paris I) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<p>- Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois Kerv&eacute;gan (Universit&eacute; Paris I / IUF)</p>
<p>- Catherine Larr&egrave;re (Universit&eacute; Paris I)</p>

<p>&Oslash;&nbsp; <u>Contact</u>:</p>
<p>- Adeline Barbin: <a target=""_blank"">adelinebarbin@yahoo.fr</a></p>
<p>- &Eacute;lodie Djordjevic: <a target=""_blank"">elodie.djordjevic@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>- Symposium webmail: <a target=""_blank"">rationalites.pratiques@gmail.com</a></p>
<p><strong><br></strong></p>
<p><em>Argument*</em></p>
<p>We are used to saying a political decision is <em>good</em> or <em>fair</em>, or even <em>right</em> rather than to say it is <em>true</em>. Yet, that the statement &ldquo;true decision&rdquo; may seem unapt, clumsy, even meaningless, does not imply that there is generally no conception of truth involved in practical choice, and particularly in political decision-making. Thus our describing political decision as <em>good</em> or <em>bad</em>, or as<em> fair</em> or <em>unfair</em>, would express an ambiguous and controversial involvement of the concept of truth rather than its exclusion. At the same time, political debate purports to <em>demonstrate</em> that some are <em>right</em> and others <em>wrong</em>. Moreover, knowledge is permanently called for and required, including within the context of modern democracy, as shown by the use of <em>skillfulness</em> made in all <em>experts</em> debates. Those experts are supposed to <em>know</em> better than the average citizen what <em>ought </em>to be chosen, and what decisions <em>ought to</em> be made.</p>
<p>This conference aims to be an opportunity to explore the use of the notion of truth, which is often implied in the way we analyze and value political decisions. Among the different issues that are raised, two main directions &ndash; likely to be connected &ndash; take shape:</p>
<p>- The first one, more conceptual, addresses directly the questions of the determination and nature of the notion of truth involved in the political field.</p>
<p>The goal is to clarify the meaning of the notion of truth in the field of political decision-making. What kind of truth are we talking about? Which sense is most apt to make for a legitimate use of the notion? Certainly not the paradigm notion of truth we meet in theoretical fields and which implies the double attribute of necessity and universality. If the realm of human affairs is one where the modal status of things and events is contingence, where normativity is implied, and where we have to decide between various ends and values, it seems debatable and &ndash; to say the least &ndash; difficult to think of practical truth according to the model of theoretical truth.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it is probably not relevant to say that all decisions are merely <em>subjective</em> &ndash; not to say <em>arbitrary</em>: admittedly, political choices cannot claim to be <em>unquestionable</em> the way theoretical statements can be, but some of those choices are obviously considered <em>better</em> than others, and are considered to be so from a point of view that claims not to be merely subjective. Insofar as decisions can be <em>debated</em>, a debate presupposes the production and the confrontation<em> </em>of <em>reasons &ndash; </em>reasons which involve and mix in a problematic way concepts of fairness, goodness, and truth. So, exactly what are we discussing when we make a decision? Since one must determine the best <em>ends</em> to aim for and the best <em>ways</em> to achieve them, both practical and theoretical rationality &ndash; or, in Kantian terms, practical judgments and knowledge judgments &ndash; seem to be involved,&nbsp; without any sharp divide between each.</p>
<p>In order to get round difficulties &ndash; both epistemological and strictly political &ndash; which are linked to determination of a &ldquo;goodness&rdquo;, a &ldquo;fairness&rdquo; and a &ldquo;truth&rdquo;, well-known theories plead purely procedural conceptions of decision-making. But, what is the meaning of &ldquo;justice&rdquo; in those theories? Does this meaning really succeed in excluding every reference to such notions?</p>
<p>- The second direction is more contextual and is concerned with how the notion of truth is used in current public space, within modern, pluralistic, and representative democracy.</p>
<p>The notion is pervasive under different shapes. We appeal to experts in science, economics, even ethics. Think tanks have become common institutions whose explicit goal is to influence policy-making in virtue of their expertise. In France, the CCNE (National Consultative Ethical Committee) is an expression of the need for debate &ndash; especially about bioethics &ndash;, but equally of the preference for experts&rsquo; advice over citizens&rsquo; opinions. While political pluralism and democracy are not overtly questioned, a distinction between those who know and those who don&rsquo;t is consistently reasserted. So, what do those who know actually know? Even if they know <em>more</em>, why would they know <em>better</em> what ought to be done? Is there but one right answer to a given problem? If so, the range of possibilities would be drastically reduced and would echo Margaret Thatcher&rsquo;s famous &ldquo;TINA&rdquo; slogan: &ldquo;<em>There is no alternative</em>&rdquo;. But then, exactly what is <em>practical</em> in political decisions: are they not reduced to a problem of pure knowledge, and politics to simple management business? On the other hand, it&rsquo;s not clear that such a reduction really is more value- and preconception-free: choosing means is only meaningful in relation to an end, even when aiming at this end does not result from an explicit decision.</p>
<p>Finally, questioning the relationship between political decision and truth is confronting the way we think of democracy and of the possibility for each political entity to make its own destiny. It&rsquo;s as well questioning the way we circumscribe and define the realm of the possible and the contingent, within which and no other something like a real political decision can be conceived: human agency takes place in a sphere where, while not everything can be known, one nevertheless has to choose and decide. Now, isn&rsquo;t the very definition of this sphere something that implies, at least in part, a decision? In other words, isn&rsquo;t it itself a genuinely political issue?</p>
<p>&laquo;&nbsp;Political Decision and Truth&nbsp;&raquo; Symposium (<a href=""mailto:rationalites.pratiques@gmail.com"">rationalites.pratiques@gmail.com</a>)</p>
<p>Organization&nbsp;: Adeline Barbin et &Eacute;lodie Djordjevic</p>
<p><a href=""http://phico.univ-paris1.fr/"">EA 3562 PhiCo &mdash; Philosophies Contemporaines</a></p>
<p><a href=""http://nosophi.univ-paris1.fr/"">&Eacute;quipe NoSoPhi</a></p>

<p>*We would like to thank warmly Nicolas Delon for his help in revising the English version of the argument.</p>","Conference or similar","","Adeline Barbin","Department of Philosophy PhiCo, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne","Paris, France","","","2.0","48.0","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4086","15-11-2013 9:0 CET","16-11-2013 17:0 CET"
10297,"","<p><strong>Call for Chapters: Machine Medical Ethics, Edited Collection, 2014</strong></p>
<p>You are warmly invited to submit your research chapter for possible inclusion in an edited collection entitled <em>Machine Medical Ethics</em>. Target publication date: 2014. <strong></strong></p>
<p>The new field of Artificial Intelligence called <em>Machine Ethics</em> is concerned with ensuring that the behaviour of machines towards human users and other machines is ethical. This unique edited collection aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers in this field to present new research and developments in <em>Machine Medical Ethics</em>. Areas of interest for this edited collection include, but are not limited to, the following topics:</p>
<p><strong>Foundational Concepts</strong></p>
<p>What is medical ethics?<br>What is machine medical ethics?<br>What are the consequences of creating or not creating ethical medical machines?<br>Can medical machines be autonomous?<br>Ought medical machines to operate autonomously, or under (complete or partial) human physician control?</p>
<p><strong>Theories of Machine Medical Ethics</strong></p>
<p>What theories of machine medical ethics are most theoretically plausible and most empirically supported?<br>Ought machine medical ethics be rule-based (top-down), case- based (bottom-up), or a hybrid view of both top-down and bottom-up?<br>Is an interdisciplinary approach suited to designing a machine medical ethical theory? (e.g., collaboration between philosophy, psychology, AI, computational neuroscience&hellip;)</p>
<p><strong>Medical Machine Training</strong></p>
<p>What does ethical training for medical machines consist in: ethical principles, ethical theories, or ethical skills? Is a hybrid approach best?<br>What training regimes currently tested and/or used are most successful?<br>Can ethically trained medical machines become unethical?<br>Can a medical machine learn empathy (caring) and skills relevant to the patient-physician relationship?<br>Can a medical machine learn to give an apology for a medical error?<br>Ought medical machines to be trained to detect and respond to patient embarrassment and/or issues of patient privacy? What social norms are relevant for training?<br>Ought medical machines to be trained to show sensitivity to gender, cultural and age-differences?<br>Ought machines to teach medicine and medical ethics to human medical students?<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Patient-Machine-Physician Relationship</strong></p>
<p>What role ought imitation or mimicry to play in the patient-machine-physician relationship?<br>What role ought empathy or caring to play in the patient-machine-physician relationship?<br>What skills are necessary to maintain a good patient-machine-physician relationship?<br>Ought medical machines be able to detect patient fakery and malingering?<br>Under what conditions ought medical machines to operate with a nurse?<br>In what circumstances should a machine physician consult with human or other machine physicians regarding patient assessment or diagnosis?<strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Medical Machine Physical Appearance</strong></p>
<p>Is there a correlation between physical appearance and physician trustworthiness?<br>Ought medical machines to appear human or non-human?<br>Is a highly plastic human-like face essential to medical machines? Or, is a static face sufficient?<br>What specific morphological facial features ought medical machines to have?<br>Ought medical machines to be gendered or androgynous?<br>Ought medical machines to possess a human-like body with mobile limbs?<br>What vocal characteristics ought medical machines to have?</p>
<p>As a new field, the target audiences are expected to be scientists, researchers, and practitioners working in machine ethics and medical ethics. The target audience will also include various stakeholders, like academics, research institutes, and individuals interested in this field, and the huge audience in the public sector comprising health service providers, government agencies, ministries, education institutions, social service providers and other types of government, commercial and not-for-profit agencies.</p>
<p>Please indicate your <em>intention to submit</em> your full paper by email to one of the editors with the title of the paper, author(s), and abstract. The full manuscript, as PDF file, should be emailed to that same editor by the deadline indicated below. Authoring guidelines will be mailed to you after we receive your letter of intent.</p>
<p>If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the editors, Simon van Rysewyk or Dr. Matthijs Pontier. Many thanks!</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT DATES:</strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Intent to Submit: </strong>June 10, 2013<strong><br>Full Version: </strong>October 20, 2013<br><strong>Decision Date: </strong>November 10, 2013<strong><br>Final Version: </strong>December 31, 2013<strong></strong><strong><br>Target Publication Date of Book: </strong>2014<strong><br></strong><strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Editors:</strong><strong><br></strong></p>
<p>Simon van Rysewyk</p>
<p>School of Humanities<br>University of Tasmania<br>Private Bag 41<br>Hobart<br>Tasmania 7001<br>Australia</p>
<p>Email: simonvanrysewyk@utas.edu.au</p>
<p>Dr. Matthijs Pontier</p>
<p>Post-Doctoral Researcher<br>The Centre for Advanced Media Research (CAMeRA)<br>Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam<br>Buitenveldertselaan 3<br>1081 HV Amsterdam<br>The Netherlands</p>
<p>Email: matthijspon@gmail.com</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br>Simon van Rysewyk</p>","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Simon van Rysewyk","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://simonvanrysewyk.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/call-for-chapters-machine-medical-ethics-edited-collection/","","","","","","","philevents5543","31-12-2013 0:0 GMT",""
9571,"","<p>The project, Love and Human Agency: An Interdisciplinary Investigation (<a href=""http://www.loveandhumanagency.org"">http://www.loveandhumanagency.org</a>), announces a prize competition for essays on love, caring, and human agency. Essays are invited on any of a wide range of topics related to the nature of caring or love (broadly construed), or to the roles that love or caring play in human thought and action. Examples of questions an essay might address include, but are not limited to: What is love? What is it to care about something or someone? How can an understanding of love contribute to our understanding of our capacity to value? What role does caring play in free or autonomous agency? What role should love play in the theory of practical reason? What connection is there between caring and moral character? How does the capacity for love develop in infants and children? What cognitive mechanisms or abilities are necessary for the capacity to care? What can we learn about the capacities to love and care from brain disorders that compromise these capacities? What role does the capacity to care play in moral or legal responsibility? <br><br>Essays are invited from philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, economics, law, and any other academic discipline whose methods can shed light on these or related questions. Essays must be unpublished and not accepted for publication at the time of submission, and they should be submitted electronically to <a href=""mailto:submissions@loveandhumanagency.org"">submissions@loveandhumanagency.org</a> no later than May 16, 2014. <br><br>Prizes will be awarded to three winning essays, with a top prize of $3000; they will also be considered for publication in an edited volume on love and human agency. Winners will be invited (travel and lodging expenses paid) to an interdisciplinary conference on love and human agency to be held at Franklin and Marshall College in Autumn, 2014, where prizes will be awarded. <br><br>The selection panel will be comprised of team members of the project on Love and Human Agency, in consultation with experts in specific disciplines as necessary. Winners will be announced in Summer, 2014.<br><br>Any questions about submission criteria or process should be sent to <a href=""mailto:queries@loveandhumanagency.org"">queries@loveandhumanagency.org</a>.</p>","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Bennett Helm","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://loveandhumanagency.org/essay-prize-competition/","","","","","","","philevents4998","16-5-2014 23:45 BST",""
9587,"","<p><strong>STUDIES IN APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, EPISTEMOLOGY AND RATIONAL ETHICS (SAPERE)</strong> <br><br> <strong>Editor-in-Chief</strong><br> Lorenzo Magnani, Department of Philosophy and Computational Philosophy Lab, University of Pavia, Pavia, ITALY<br><br> <strong>Editorial Board</strong><br> Atocha Aliseda, Universidad Nacional Aut&oacute;noma de M&eacute;xico (UNAM), MEXICO<br> Giuseppe Longo, Centre Cavaill&egrave;s, CNRS - Ecole Normale Sup&eacute;rieure, Paris, FRANCE<br> Chris Sinha, University of Lund, Lund, Sweden<br> Paul Thagard, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA<br> John Woods, University of British Columbia, CANADA<br><br> <strong>Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE) </strong>publish new developments and advances in all the fields of philosophy, epistemology, and ethics, bringing them together with a cluster of scientific disciplines and technological outcomes: ranging from computer science to life sciences, from economics, law, and education to engineering, logic, and mathematics, from medicine to physics, human sciences, and politics. The series aims at covering all the challenging philosophical and ethical themes of contemporary society, making them appropriately applicable to contemporary theoretical and practical problems, impasses, controversies, and conflicts. <br><br> Our scientific and technological era has offered &ldquo;new&rdquo; topics to all areas of philosophy and ethics &ndash; for instance concerning scientific rationality, creativity, human and artificial intelligence, social and folk epistemology, ordinary reasoning, cognitive niches and cultural evolution, ecological crisis, ecologically situated rationality, consciousness, freedom and responsibility, human identity and uniqueness, cooperation, altruism, intersubjectivity and empathy, spirituality, violence. The impact of such topics has been mainly undermined by contemporary cultural settings, whereas they should increase the demand of interdisciplinary applied knowledge and fresh and original understanding. In turn, traditional philosophical and ethical themes have been profoundly affected and transformed as well: they should be further examined as embedded and applied within their scientific and technological environments so to update their received and often old-fashioned disciplinary treatment and appeal. Applying philosophy individuates therefore a new research commitment for the 21st century, focused on the main problems of recent methodological, logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of modeling activities employed both in intellectual and scientific discovery, and in technological innovation, including the computational tools intertwined with such practices, to understand them in a wide and integrated perspective. <br><br> <strong>Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics </strong>mean to demonstrate the contemporary practical relevance of this novel philosophical approach and thus to provide a home for monographs, lecture notes, selected contributions from specialized conferences and workshops as well as selected PhD theses. The series welcomes contributions from philosophers as well as from scientists, engineers, and intellectuals interested in showing how applying philosophy can increase knowledge about our current world. <br><br><br> Initial proposals can be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, prof. Lorenzo Magnani, lmagnani@unipv.it: <br> &bull; A short synopsis of the work or the introduction chapter<br> &bull; The proposed Table of Contents<br> &bull; The CV of the lead author(s)<br> <br><br> For more information, please contact the Editor-in-Chief at lmagnani@unipv.it. <br> Indexed by ISI and Springerlink.</p>","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Lorenzo Magnani","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.springer.com/series/10087","","","","","","","philevents5009","18-3-2016 9:0 GMT",""