COLLOQUE ZÊTÊSIS - PHILOSOPHIE ANTIQUE ET SCIENCES DE L'ANTIQUITÉ
UNIVERSITÉ PARIS I - UNIVERSITÉ PARIS X
(organisé par Sandrine Alexandre, Thomas Auffret, Esther Rogan)
informations, renseignements : xianglang@hotmail.fr
Expression, conceptualisations, usages et enjeux éthiques et dramatiques
PROGRAMME
PARIS Ouest – Nanterre-La Défense (salle L 419)
Jeudi matin : 10h-12h. Le thème des modalités : de la théorie aux images
— 10h-11 : Karine Tordo-Rombaut : « La modalisation de l’objet de l’examen dans les dialogues de Platon »
— 11h-12h : Diogo Norberto Mesti Da Silva : « La simultanéité de la perception des images chez la République de Platon »
Jeudi après-midi : 14H-16H. Usages de la modalisation en éthique et en politique chez Platon et Aristote
— 14h-15h : Aurore Boni : « La délibération comme discours intérieur. Réflexions sur la notion de disposition : le cas de l’acratique chez Platon et Aristote »
— 15h-16h : Chad Jorgensen : « La Nécessité et la Contingence dans la pensée politique de Platon »
PARIS I – Panthéon Sorbonne (salle 216 - site Panthéon, 12, place du Panthéon)
Vendredi matin : 10H-12H. Un cas particulier de modalisation : le jeu du réel et de la fiction
— 10h-11h : Diane Demanche : « Le sage stoïcien : réalité ou fiction ? Incarnation et mutation de la vertu stoïcienne dans la Pharsale de Lucain »
— 11h12h : Marion Bourbon : « Jeu théâtral et réalité dans le stoïcisme impérial »
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","University of Paris","Paris, Île-de-France, France","","","2.3488","48.8534","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents5535","23-5-2013 9:0 CEST","24-5-2013 17:0 CEST" 9267,"Constructing the World: Author Meets Critics Workshop with David Chalmers","The Emmy Noether research group ""Understanding and the A Priori"" is hosting an author-meets-critics workshop with David Chalmers to discuss themes from his new book, ""Constructing the World"" (Oxford University Press 2012). The book concerns ""scrutability,"" the thesis that all the truths about the world can, in principle, be known on the basis of knowledge of just a limited class of basic truths. Chalmers argues for the scrutability thesis and investigates which sorts of basic truths can serve as the relevant ""scrutability base"". The book explores the implications of scrutability for a range of central philosophical issues: meaning and mental content, the existence of the analytic and the a priori, the refutation of skepticism, and the methodology of metaphysics, among others.
Participation in the workshop is open, but there is a limited number of available spaces, and email registration is required by April 30, 2013. There will be a workshop fee of 10 euros, payable at the workshop. For registration and inquiries, write to: contact@fromthearmchair.net.
","Conference or similar","","Brendan Balcerak Jackson","Emmy Noether Group ""Understanding and the A Priori""","Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany","","","7.09821","50.7374","E-Mail","","http://fromthearmchair.net/events/constructing-the-world/","30-4-2013 23:45 CEST","true","","","","","philevents4790","24-5-2013 9:0 CEST","26-5-2013 17:0 CEST" 9155,"Constructing the World: Author Meets Critics Workshop with David Chalmers","The Emmy Noether research group ""Understanding and the A Priori"" is hosting an author-meets-critics workshop with David Chalmers to critically discuss themes from his new book, ""Constructing the World"" (Oxford University Press 2012). The book concerns ""scrutability,"" the thesis that all the truths about the world can, in principle, be known on the basis of knowledge of just a limited class of basic truths. Chalmers argues for the scrutability thesis and investigates which sorts of basic truths can serve as the relevant ""scrutability base"". The book explores the implications of scrutability for a range of central philosophical issues: meaning and mental content, the existence of the analytic and the a priori, the refutation of skepticism, and the methodology of metaphysics, among others.
Questions about the workshop can be directed to: fkreitlo@smail.uni-koeln.de.
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","University of Cologne","Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany","","","6.95","50.9333","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4706","24-5-2013 11:0 CEST","26-5-2013 17:0 CEST" 9594,"The Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience","Organizers:
Dr. Jorge Gonçalves
Dr. Alexander Gerner
(Members of the Research Project: Cognitive Foundation of the Self)
“Fundamentos Cognitivos do Si”
Site: http://foundationsoftheself.squarespace.com/
Funding: PTDC/FIL-FCI/110978/2009
Entrance to the workshop is free but please register via email. Any additional question please contact: jorgealvesenator@gmail.com, alexandergerner@yahoo.com
The Altered Self and Altered Self-Experience
From a theoretical point of view the experiences in which the feeling of self is temporarily or permanently altered, pose opportunities to apply, critically verify or even renew theories of the self.
The altered self, from a human point of view, gains its most relevance when it is related to psychological sufferings, their comprehension, relief or treatment. However, not all altered self-experiences imply suffering or respective treatment.
In eastern (and some western) philosophical traditions a „No-Self“ is considered. Techniques of a Self/ No- self include states of meditation, mindfulness or effortless attention. Moreover, for some, self-alterations are desired as in technically achieved, or drug induced suspensions of a “fixed”, „regular“, „normalized“ or „orthodox“ experience of self. Other self-alterations are even conceived as deliberately induced „enhancements“ of the self.
Different conceptual and clinical notions of the altered Self and different modes of altered self-experience will be explored in this intensive workshop in order to clarify the notion of self.
Here a list of possible (not necessary, nor exclusive) topics to be treated in the workshop with some examples
(1) What can (Psycho-) pathologies of the self from different perspectives (Phenomenology, Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, Philosophy of Mind, Evolutionary Psychology, Cognitive (Neuro-) Sciences etc.) tell us about the phenomenon of the self?
Examples:
(2) Different conceptual approaches towards the altered self in philosophy of psychiatry and modes of treatment
Examples:
(3) Altered self in between the minimal/ primordial bodily self and the extended/ personal self
(4) Mineness, Ownership, Self-Control and its exuberance or denial in altered self states
Examples:
(5) Constitution, change/dynamics and alteration of the unity of self
Examples:
(6) Modeling or transcending the self? Philosophical concepts and the praxis of the No-Self in western and eastern (buddist, Indian, Japanese, Chinese) psychological philosophical traditions
(7) Altered bodily self-awareness: Altered self- affection, Hyper- and hypo-responsiveness of the bodily self
Examples:
(8) Altered Self-agency and altered self-concepts
(9) Altered Corporality of the self, altered self –perception, disembodiment and autoscopic self-experiences,
Examples:
(10) Techniques of alteration of the self and its philosophical groundings
Examples:
(11) Drugs and altered self-experience: pharmacological and technological inductions of altered self-experience.
Examples:
(12) Self-enhancement: Philosophical issues in non-invasive and invasive (Brain-) Technological and psychopharmacological interventions and changes of the minimal bodily self and the personal self
Examples:
among other topics of Altered Self and Altered Self-experience (ASASE)
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Institute of Philosophy of Language , Univerdade Nova de Lisboa","Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal","","","-9.15166","38.7399","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents5014","30-5-2013 9:0 WEST","31-5-2013 17:0 WEST" 9457,"","Metaphysicians of modality argue over whether ontology extends beyond the actual just as metaphysicians of time argue over whether ontology extends beyond the present; and we might also ask whether it is a stable position to hold that reality includes the non-present but not the non-actual. There are modal analogues of McTaggart's infamous argument for the unreality of time, and we can ask whether the modal and temporal arguments stand or fall together. We might wonder whether trans-world identity should be treated differently from identity across time, and whether if existence is contingent it must also be temporary, etc.
For this special issue of Thought we invite papers that make a contribution to either the metaphysics of time or of modality, or that illuminate the connections between them. Papers should correspond to the standard Thought guidelines and be no longer than 4500 words, including footnotes. Papers are to be submitted before 31st May 2013. When submitting please ensure you select article type as “The Metaphysics of Time and Modality Special Issue” to ensure your paper is reviewed via the special issue route.
The Third Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO-III) will be hosted by the Social Ontology Group at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Science and is open to researchers in all disciplines with an interest in the foundational structure of the social world.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third Conference of the European Network on Social Ontology (ENSO III) is now open for submissions. The present conference will scrutinize both the individual-level mechanisms that maintain and produce aspects of the social world as well as the more holistic features of societies and macro-social explanation. Contributions are expected from philosophers and non-philosophers alike, and submissions are particularly encouraged from fields such as cognitive science, behavioural science, economics and sociology, and other empirical research domains concerned with society and social affairs. In addition to discussions of other relevant topics, the present conference will involve a sustained focus directed at promoting the study of 1) social structure and agency, and 2) the explanation of social and collective action.
The European Network on Social Ontology is a vibrant community of academic scholars with a commitment to studying the philosophical aspects of human sociality from an empirically informed and multi-disciplinary point of view. The participants of the ENSO conference shall have an occasion to join the newly established International Network on Social Ontology (ISOS) and to learn more about the Journal of Social Ontology (JSO) that is published by De Gruyter. Further information can be found from: http://social.univie.ac.at/network/
The submissions for the conference are to be delivered via the EasyChair conference system by the 31st of May. The submissions should consist of an abstract of 500 - 1000 words outlining the main argument of the presentation and a short one-paragraph summary for publication in a conference booklet and/or on the website of the conference, if the paper is accepted. Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be delivered by mid-July. The submissions can be made at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=enso3
The costs of attending the conference will be kept within feasible limits for all participants. Please note that first-time users will need to register for EasyChair, and requests for technical assistance should be directed at Easychair rather than to the
organizers of the conference.
For more information, please contact enso-3@helsinki.fi
The European Network on Social Ontology is a vibrant community of academic scholars with a commitment to studying the philosophical aspects of human sociality from an empirically informed and multi-disciplinary point of view. The participants of the ENSO conference shall have an occasion to join the newly established International Network on Social Ontology (ISOS) and to learn more about the Journal of Social Ontology (JSO) that is published by De Gruyter. Further information can be found from:
http://social.univie.ac.at/network/
IMPORTANT DATES
The conference will take place in Italy, in a XVIIth century villa in front of one of Varese's lakes (http://www.hotelvillaborghi.it/) from July 28 to August 3, 2013.
The website is here: http://www.philosophie.ch/philipp/services/fine.php. Please ask Philipp Blum for the password to access the restricted area.
We invite all interested philosophers to send us 2-page abstracts of short talks (philipp.blum@philosophie.ch before the end of May.
Accepted speakers will have the costs for accommodation, lunches and some of the dinners covered (but, unfortunately not the costs of the travel).
For any further questions, please contact philipp.blum@philosophie.ch or damiano.costa@unige.ch
‘Being a Human Being, Being a Person’
16 July 2013,
Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford
Conference Call for Papers
This call for papers is directed to graduate students and researchers in philosophy and aims for submissions connected to, or developing the conference theme.
We invite abstracts of up to 500 words, to be sent in MS Word or Pdf format
to: m.slawkowski-rodeuw.edu.pl
Abstracts should be received by May 31st 2013 and acceptance notifications will be sent out by June 21st. The subject line of the email should be ""Paper submission"". The cover page should include your name, your institutional affiliation, the title of the paper, and your email address.
There are six places available for presentations. Selected papers will have a 20 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute question time. A post conference publication containing selected short papers is being considered.
For further deatils please refer to the conference page (link above)
","CFP for conference or similar","","Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode","Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford ","Oxford, England, United Kingdom","OX1 3LY","The Aula ","-1.25997","51.7561","E-Mail","","","","","","","Being a Human Being, Being a Person","9769","philevents5140","31-5-2013 21:0 BST","" 8553,"","Continuum Publishing, now part of the Bloomsbury group (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic), is launching a new series called Critical Introductions to Contemporary Metaphysics. We are now accepting book proposals for the series. The first title in the series is on Fictionalism and a volume on Realism is being discussed. Potential further topics include but are not limited to:
The editorial board consists of Bill Brewer, Albert Casullo, Thomas N. Crisp, Kit Fine, E. J. Lowe, Eric T. Olson, Peter Simons, and Tuomas Tahko.
If you're interested in submitting a proposal, feel free to get in touch with Dr. Tuomas E. Tahko at tuomas.tahko@helsinki.fi
More details here:
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Chrissy Meijns","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.ttahko.net/2013/critical-introductions-to-contemporary-metaphysics/","","","","","","","philevents4290","1-6-2013 9:0 BST","" 7600,"Annual Aquinas and ""the Arabs"" Conference in Paris","The Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group announces the date of its regular annual conference in Paris. The conference will take place at the Sorbonne and Institut Catholique de Paris 3-4 June 2013.
Call for Papers:
Deadline 15 February 2013
Send proposals for presentations of up to 40 min.
Include title with 150 word abstract and send to: Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu
Program announced 1 March 2013
Organizers: J.-B. Brenet, Isabelle Moulin, & Richard C. Taylor
","Conference or similar","Thomas d’Aquin et ses souces arabes / Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’","Daniel De Haan","Sorbonne and Institut Catholique de Paris, Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group","Paris, Île-de-France, France","","","2.3488","48.8534","Not Specified","","http://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/Aquinas_and_the_Arabs/Paris_%26_Wurzburg_June_2013.html","","","","","","","philevents3585","3-6-2013 9:0 CEST","4-6-2013 17:0 CEST" 9574,"Philosophy and the Outside II: Materiality/Immateriality","In-keeping with our exploration of philosophy’s outsides, this year’s CRMEP graduate conference will focus on the coupling ‘Materiality’ and ‘Immateriality’. Historically, philosophy has often been characterized as a distancing from the material domain of sensible reality and practices, seeking refuge in the immaterial domain of thought, ideas and forms. Increasingly, however, the problematic nature of this relationship has come to the fore through a number of highly debated and intertwined issues concerning philosophy’s connections across science, nature, art and politics. Different approaches to subjectivation, for instance, have explored the question of embodiment, the materiality of thought, and the notion of affects. New philosophies of art have reopened the problem of materiality through the conceptualisation of sound, matter, practice and nature. And in its relation to politics, philosophy has recovered the notion of materiality, placing it at the core of a number of concepts, such as labour, emancipation, and resistance. As a result, the materiality/immateriality distinction is increasingly coming to lend itself to possible reconfigurations of the mutual relations and interplay between these three topics: subjectivation, aesthetics, and politics.
From this standpoint, our conference seeks to address the materiality/immateriality distinction in modern and contemporary philosophy. In which ways can philosophy problematize materiality and immateriality to reconfigure and transform its fundamental questions? Beyond the dualism of the materiality/immateriality distinction, how can we think the intricacies of their conjunctions? What are the privileged and possible standpoints from which to thematize or critique their relation? In which ways can we conceptualize the passage from immateriality to materiality as the crossing of a threshold? Does this crossing open up new theoretical spaces?
A One-Day Conference-workshop with Antonia Birnbaum (University of Paris
VIII)
The common trait of modern philosophical reconfigurations of the materiality/ immateriality couplet was the impulse to problematize, through various strategies, overlooked intricacies and unexplored arrangements of terms hidden within traditional dualistic paradigms. This produced, as a consequence, new modalities of theoretical and practical endeavour. What then, if anything, survives of this impulse today? And, in light of the contemporary philosophical and non-philosophical conjuncture, what would now constitute an adequate treatment of the material/immaterial distinction? These are some of the questions which this conference-workshop will address.
Thinking through materiality and immateriality with Antonia Birnbaum, we will address questions of subjectivity, politics, sensation, experience and cognition through the lenses of contemporary philosophy. And we expect to unfold anew the shifting contours of idealism and materialism alike, by negotiating their respective interrogations of conceptual, sonic, artistic, feminist, and scientific terrains. On this trajectory we shall encounter Adorno’s imageless materialism, Rancière’s disidentification, Deleuze’s materialist pragmatics, Laruelle’s materio-logic, Delanda’s aesthetic of emergence, and more. We will finish with an open roundtable discussion looking at the thematic threads that have been pursued during the day.
Antonia Birnbaum is a philosopher and an art critic based in Paris. She has written extensively on Nietzsche, Descartes, Benjamin, politics and contemporary art, and will be presenting her recent work on subjectivity and emancipation in Rancière and Foucault.
Registration for the conference is free. To register please visit
Speakers:
For any other inquiries we can be reached at
See the conference blog at:
The Aquinas and 'the Arabs' International Working Group announces a conference on ""Aquinas and Metaphysics in the Arabic Tradition"" that will be held 7-8 June at Würzburg. The conference is organized by Profs. Jörn Müller, Dag Hasse and Richard C. Taylor.
Among the program presenters are Pasquale Porro, Deborah Black, Dag Hasse, R. E. Houser, Olga Lizzini, Luis López-Farjeat, Richard C. Taylor, and David B. Twetten.
There will be a workshop for Ph.D. students held on Friday 7 June before the evening plenary lecture opening the conference.
Friday 7 June, E487
10.00-11.00 Richard Joyce (Victoria University of Wellington): “Psychological Fictionalism”. Commentator: Victor Moberger (Uppsala).
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.15 Niklas Olsson-Yaouzis (Stockholm): “The Scylla and Charybdis of Analytical Sociology”.
Commentator: Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (Stockholm).
12.15-13.40 Lunch
13.40-14.40 Samantha Vice (Rhodes): “Moral Pessimism and Human Value”. Commentator: Per Algander (Uppsala).
14.45-15.45 Mikael Pettersson (Stockholm): “Negative Images: On Photography, Causality, and Absences”. Commentator: Emma Wallin (Stockholm).
15.45-16.00 Coffee
16.00-17.00 David Plunkett (Dartmouth): “Conceptual History and Conceptual Ethics”. Commentator: Björn Eriksson (Stockholm).
Organizers: Jens Johansson (Uppsala) and Jonas Olson (Stockholm) jens.johansson@filosofi.uu.se, jonas.olson@philosophy.su.se
No registration and no attendance fee. See:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Stockholm University","Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden","","","18.0","59.0","Not Specified","","http://www.philosophy.su.se/om-oss/evenemang/stockholm-june-workshop-in-philosophy-2013-1.131356","","","","","","","philevents5365","7-6-2013 10:0 CEST","7-6-2013 17:0 CEST" 8496,"Necessity, Analyticity, and the A priori ","","Conference or similar","","Sam Roberts","CSMN/Dept of Philosophy. (IFIKK), University of Oslo","Oslo, Norway","0316 ","","10.7253","59.936","E-Mail","","http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/ppp/events/conferences/workshop-mmm-ppp.html","1-6-2013 11:0 CEST","true","","","","","philevents4258","10-6-2013 11:0 CEST","11-6-2013 17:0 CEST" 8168,"Metaphysics and Mind","A five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar on metaphysical issues in the philosophy of mind led by John Heil, 10 June - 12 July 2013. Visiting faculty will include E. J. Lowe, Graham Oddie, and Alyssa Ney.
Sixteen participants will be chosen from among eligible applicants interested in metaphysical issues that arise in the philosophy of mind. Early sessions of the seminar will be devoted to discussion of fundamental metaphysical themes including the nature of properties, causality, laws of nature, powers, and qualities. Later sessions will be devoted to discussion of metaphysical themes of special interest to participants.
Seminar stipend: $3,900.
For more information, please visit the seminar website:
Programme available on UEA Wittgenstein workshop page.
Registration free but required.
","Conference or similar","UEA Wittgenstein workshops","Oskari Kuusela","School of Philosophy, University of East Anglia","Norwich, England, United Kingdom","NR4 7TJ","ARTS 01.06","1.29834","52.6278","External Site","http://www.uea.ac.uk/philosophy/news-and-events/wittgenstein-workshop","http://www.uea.ac.uk/philosophy/news-and-events/wittgenstein-workshop","4-6-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents5412","11-6-2013 9:0 BST","11-6-2013 17:0 BST" 9194,"Priestfest: A conference in honour of Graham Priest","For over 35 years, Graham Priest's philosophical work has challenged and delighted a variety of audiences. On 12--14 June 2013, at the University of Melbourne, there will be a conference held in honour of this wide-ranging and influential philosopher.
See CFP on this website. Submissions open until 25 March.
","Conference or similar","","David Ripley","University of Melbourne","Melbourne, Victoria, Australia","","","144.963","-37.8141","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4738","12-6-2013 9:0 EST","14-6-2013 17:0 EST" 3565,"Describing & Exploring Early Phenomenology","DESCRIBING & EXPLORING EARLY PHENOMENOLOGY
The North American Society for Early Phenomenology
June 12-14th, 2013, at King’s University College, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Lester Embree, Florida Atlantic University
“Speculations about Bridging the Göttingen-Freiburg Gap in Phenomenology”
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
NASEP invites scholars to submit abstracts on any aspect of early phenomenology. This encompasses all philosophical investigations into the members of the Munich and Göttingen circles, their place within the early period of phenomenology (roughly 1900-1939), their relationships to their students and contemporaries, and their contributions to the development of phenomenology. The aim of this conference is to investigate the works of early phenomenologists across a broad range of topics, including epistemology, ontology, ethics, mathematics, logic, aesthetics, politics, etc. Figures covered include, but are not limited to: Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, Alexander Pfänder, Adolf Reinach, Moritz Geiger, Carl Stumpf, Theodor Conrad, Johannes Daubert, Hans Lipps, Hedwig Conrad-Martius, Wilhelm Schapp, Dietrich Mahnke, Edith Stein, Alexandre Koyré, Jean Hering, Winthrop Bell, Alfred von Sybel, Maximilian Beck, Roman Ingarden, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Fritz Kaufmann, Theodor Celms, Aron Gurwitsch, Gustav Shpet, Gerda Walther, Wolfgang Köhler, Dorion Cairns, and Eugen Fink. We also welcome papers on the relationship between early phenomenology and the School of Brentano, Hermann Lotze, Theodor Lipps, the American Pragmatists, and the Neo-Kantians.
Abstracts should be prepared for blind review, and should not exceed 300 words. Deadline for submissions is extended to March 10th, 2013.
Both senior researchers and graduate students are welcome to submit proposals. Graduate students should indicate their status in the email with their submission.
Applicants will be notified by April 1st as to whether or not their proposal has been accepted.
Information regarding accommodations and conference fees will be sent out once the list of speakers has been decided.
Please send submissions and inquiries to:
Dr. Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray, NASEP President
phenomenology@me.com
NASEPBlog: http://nasepblog.wordpress.com/author/nasepblog/
NASEP FB Page: http://www.facebook.com/NorthAmericanSocietyForEarlyPhenomenology
","Conference or similar","NASEP Annual Conference","Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray","The Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy, King's College University, Western University","London, Ontario, Canada","","","-81.233","42.9834","Not Specified","","http://nasepblog.wordpress.com/author/nasepblog/","","","","","","","http://www.facebook.com/NorthAmericanSocietyForEarlyPhenomenology","12-6-2013 8:0 EDT","14-6-2013 17:0 EDT" 9980,"Graduate Conference on Ontology","The Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw invites PhD students to present their research on contemporary analytic metaphysics during the Graduate Conference on Ontology.
The principal aim of our Conference is to create an opportunity for young researchers to give talks on their PhD projects in the broad areas of analytic metaphysics, metaontology and ontology. Notification of acceptance to selected speakers will be sent by 1 June 2013. Papers in Polish and English will be accepted.
Dates: 14-15th June 2013 r.
Place: room 209, the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, Warsaw
The conference fee is 50 PLN. The costs of travel and accommodation need to be covered by the participants.
Deadline for submission is 15 May 2013. Abstracts of up to one page and ready for blind review should be forwarded to m.nakoneczny@uw.edu.pl.
","Conference or similar","","Michal Nakoneczny","Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw","Warsaw, Poland","","Room 209","21.017","52.2392","E-Mail","","","15-5-2013 23:45 CEST","true","","","","","philevents5289","14-6-2013 9:0 CEST","15-6-2013 17:0 CEST" 8746,"","Call for Papers for: Experiential Reasons – a Collection of Essays on Disjunctivism, Conceptualism and the Transcendental Role of Experience
Editors: Johan Gersel, Rasmus Thyboe Jensen, Søren Overgaard, Morten Sørensen Thaning
With this Call for Papers we invite contributions to an edited collection of essays on disjunctivism and conceptualism in the philosophy of perception. In addition to the papers accepted via this call, the volume will contain papers presented at the forthcoming workshop Experiential Reasons to be held at the University of Copenhagen, October 29-30 2013. The speakers of the workshop are Bill Brewer, Hannah Ginsborg, John McDowell, Alan Millar, Charles Travis.The authors of the papers accepted through this CFP will be invited to participate in the workshop.
The workshop is supported by the Mind Association who has first refusal on the edited volume for their Occasional Series published by Oxford University Press. The papers selected through this call cannot be guaranteed publication. Subsequent to the workshop the book-manuscript will be submitted to OUP and all papers will be individually refereed.
Theme of the workshop and the essay collection
McDowell has coined the name ‘minimal empiricism’ for the view that experience must be able to make our thinking answerable to how things are. The central motivation for minimal empiricism is the idea that unless experience can play the claimed normative role, we will be unable to make sense of our thoughts as being about the world. Though debated, minimal empiricism is less controversial than the specific picture of experience McDowell recommends in light of the requirement. He has argued that only in so far as we accept both disjunctivism and conceptualism about experience can the requirement of minimal empiricism be fulfilled. With this combined workshop and book project we wish to bring together researchers who take the challenge of minimal empiricism seriously but have divergent views on how to meet it. The fact that we find apparent agreement on the existence and nature of the challenge leading to opposite conceptions of experience begs the question: Where do these disagreements stem from? Our hope is to drive forward the debate by soliciting the participants to make explicit their understanding of the requirement of minimal empiricism and to pinpoint their dissatisfaction with alternative ways of fulfilling the requirement. Our focus will be on fundamental questions pertaining to the epistemic and transcendental role of experience:
This list of question is by no means exhaustive of the questions we invite you to address. It is meant to indicate the kind of questions we are interested in pursuing.
Practical information
For any questions regarding the submission of papers please contact Rasmus Thybo Jensen: rtj@hum.ku.dk or Johan Gersel: jgersel@hum.ku.dk
The organizers of the workshop Experiential Reasons (Copenhagen 29-30, 2013) acknowledges the support of the Mind Association, the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, and the Danish Research Council for Independent Research, Humanities.
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Johan Gersel","","","","","","","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4435","15-6-2013 9:0 BST","" 9810,"Libertarian Free Will: Problems and Prospects","Abstracts (of 2-3 double-spaced pages prepared for blind review) due by June 15, 2013 by e-mail to EJ Coffman (ecoffma1@utk.edu)
If libertarianism about freedom and moral responsibility is true, then people sometimes act freely and accountably without being causally determined to do so. Frequently maligned within the history of philosophy, this view has gained increasingly sympathetic attention among philosophers. But many stark questions remain, including:
The TVA conference (http://web.utk.edu/~acureto1/tva/) is an annual event aimed at encouraging philosophical conversation about topics pursued by established research clusters at the University of Tennessee Department of Philosophy. The website for the 2013 TVA conference is:
","CFP for conference or similar","Second Annual Tennessee Value and Agency (TVA) Conference","Chrissy Meijns","University of Tennessee, Knoxville","Knoxville, Tennessee, United States","","","-83.9207","35.9606","Not Specified","","http://web.utk.edu/~acureto1/tva/tennessee-value-and-agency-2013-conference/","","","","","Libertarian Free Will: Problems and Prospects","9809","philevents5165","15-6-2013 9:0 BST","" 8550,"Philosophy: Restoring the Soul","Philosophy's original practitioners understood its primary purpose as that of restoring the soul to its divine likeness through the cultivation of wisdom. Platonic philosophy especially explored right action, reason, contemplation and divine inspiration as the interconnected means through which the inherent excellencies of an immortal soul could be made actual.In modern times this original view has, to a large extent, been abandoned – indeed the very notion of the self as an immortal soul is usually considered as a affirmation of non-rational religions, rather than thoughtful philosophy. Without the reality of an essential soul, ethics cannot be based on its powers, and thus the development of the virtues, too, is brought into question. The direction of human energies, in this worldview, becomes a more or less arbitrary matter – one more relative activity in a relativistic universe.
This conference is invited to consider three main areas of interest:
Bookings should be received by us not later than Monday, 30 April 2013.
More details will be found on our website or direct from the Conference Secretary on info@prometheustrust.co.uk
","Conference or similar","The Prometheus Trust’s Eighth Annual Conference","Chrissy Meijns","Prometheus Trust","Warminster, Wiltshire, United Kingdom","","Ivy House","-2.18108","51.2046","External Site","http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk","http://www.prometheustrust.co.uk","30-4-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents4287","21-6-2013 9:0 BST","23-6-2013 17:0 BST" 9920,"Explanation in Metaphysics A workshop on the nature, varieties, and prospects for explanation in metaphysical inquiry","Organised by Fabrice Correia and Alexander Skiles on behalf of the
University of Neuchâtel, the University of Geneva, and eidos – the Centre in
Metaphysics.
To attend, RSVP by sending an email to:
Fabrice Correia (fabrice.correia@unine.ch) or Alexander Skiles (askiles@nd.edu).
Subscribe to the workshop Facebook page for updates at:
http://www.facebook.com/events/483994068310621/
More information will be posted on the official workshop website at:
A one-day free workshop on the work of Martin Heidegger. Everyone's invited.
Keynotes:
Other Participants:
When:
10.45am - 6.00pm
Sunday June 23, 2013
Where:
Room details to come,
University of Melbourne.
Applications to the summer institute should be submitted by March 15.
Applications should include a short letter describing interests in philosophy of cosmology, your current research, and an up-to-date CV. To be considered applications should be sent by email to
Professor Barry Loewer loewer@rci.rutgers.edu
","Conference or similar","","Michael Hicks","University of California, Santa Cruz","Santa Cruz, California, United States","","","-122.031","36.9741","External Site","http://philocosmology.com","http://philocosmology.com","15-3-2013 9:0 PDT","true","","","","","philevents4716","23-6-2013 9:0 PDT","15-7-2013 17:0 PDT" 8904,"The Northern Institute of Philosophy Early Career Conference","CONFERENCE AIMS
Our ultimate aim is to showcase outstanding research by early career researchers. While there are a number of opportunities for graduate students and more senior philosophers to present and discuss their research, there are relatively few for researchers who have recently finished their PhDs and are building a career in philosophy. This series has been established as a step towards addressing this imbalance.
THOUGHT: A Journal of Philosophy EARLY CAREER SPECIAL ISSUE
The papers selected for the conference will be invited for inclusion in a special Early Career issue of the journal, Thought. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)2161-2234
The editors of the journal may request revisions which must be met to their satisfaction before publication of the paper will be guaranteed.
Meals (lunches and one social dinner) and accommodation will be provided for speakers.
Please direct any questions to the conference organisers on earlycareerconference@gmail.com
DFG Research Group Causation | Laws | Dispositions | Explanation
PROGRAM
Laura Franklin-Hall (New York): “The Possibility of Biology”
Andreas Huettemann (Cologne): “The Stability of Physical Macro Behavior”
Marie I. Kaiser (Geneva): “Parthood in Biology”
Alexander Reutlinger (Cologne): “Explaining Universality”
Markus Schrenk (Cologne): “Mechanisms: Law-abiding after all”
Jessica Wilson (Toronto): “Nonlinearity and Metaphysical Emergence”
FURTHER INFORMATION
http://www.clde.uni-koeln.de/?page_id=1164
REGISTRATION
Please send an email to Alexander.Reutlinger@uni-koeln.de to express your interest to participate and to acquire further information.
The second HUJI graduate conference in analytic philosophy. Keynote speakers are Jason Stanley from Rutgers and Ruth Weintraub from Tel-Aviv.
","Conference or similar","","David Kashtan","Hebrew University of Jerusalem","Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel","","Room 3001, Rabin Building","35.2442","31.7934","Not Specified","","https://sites.google.com/site/hujigrad2013/","","","","","","","philevents4518","30-6-2013 11:0 IDT","1-7-2013 17:0 IDT" 9927,"Masterclass: The Metaphysics of Kit Fine","Kit Fine, Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University, will give a Masterclass in metaphysics at Tübingen’s Department of Philosophy, which will provide graduate students the opportunity to discuss their work with one of the leading metaphysicians working today. We invite graduate students to submit papers on any aspect of Kit Fine’s metaphysics, including Finean themes concerning mereology, modality, time, essence, grounding and postulation. Please submit papers by 30 June 2013 to Prof. Dr. Thomas B. Sattig (thomas.sattig[at]uni-tuebingen[dot]de). Papers should not exceed 4000 words. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of July.
","CFP for conference or similar","Tübingen Masterclass in Theoretical Philosophy 2013","Alessandro Torza","Philosophisches Seminar, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen","Tübingen, Germany","72070","","9.05543","48.5194","Not Specified","","","","","","","Masterclass: The Metaphysics of Kit Fine","9926","philevents5247","30-6-2013 9:0 BST","" 10115,"Unconceived Alternatives and Scientific Realism","Aims and scope
This conference is the first dedicated to a critical study of the argument against scientific realism developed by Kyle Stanford, which he calls ‘the problem of unconceived alternatives’.
The historical record of scientific inquiry, Stanford suggests, is characterized by a persistent failure on the part of successive generations of enquirers to conceive of alternatives to their own, alternatives that would have been both well-confirmed by the evidence available at the time and sufficiently serious as to be ultimately accepted by later scientific communities. Moreover, Stanford has argued further that this historical pattern strongly suggests that there may be equally empirically adequate and scientifically serious alternatives to our own best theories that remain currently unconceived.
This conference has four aims: (i) to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of the most up-to-date forms of, and responses to, the problem of unconceived alternatives, (ii) to ask whether it really is the original challenge to realism that Stanford supposes, (iii) to bring social epistemology into the debate by asking how the social structures of scientific enquiry affect those enquirers’ abilities to identify and develop alternatives to prevailing theories, (iv) to consider metaphysical and epistemological issues concerning our capacity to exhaust what Stanford calls the ‘space of epistemic possibilities’.
Contact: unconceived.alternatives@gmail.com
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","St John’s College, Durham University","Durham, England, United Kingdom","","","-1.57566","54.7768","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents5401","1-7-2013 9:0 BST","2-7-2013 17:0 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" 9391,"Empedocles' Metaphysics","Traditionally, the concept of territory emerged both from the ethology of animal aggression and from a geopolitics of nations and their borders. Against this double root, the works of Deleuze/Guattari aimed for the idea of a transcendental earth, where expression is previous to aggression, and deterritorialized people more fundamental than any nation. Territory becomes a fundamental concept for several domains of thought. From this expressive conception of nature, the concept of territory and the twin concept of deterritorialization, allowed an immense theoretical shift beyond its strictly biological context, expanding its operative to a multitude of political, epistemological, aesthetic or anthropological problems.
This conference intends to think all those problems, departing from the concept of territory, and spreading to its multiple political, aesthetic, and scientific ramifications. But it intends to do so in a transversal way, excavating through all its more intriguing hiding places, and exploring all its possibilities, intricacies, configurations and connections. With this, we aim not only to deepen our knowledge of Deleuze's theoretical legacy, but more importantly, to think the current moment in politics, art, metaphysics and science. In order to do so, this conference aims to bring together a wide range of researchers in philosophy, science, art and politics.
Preceding the conference, students can participate in the Deleuze Camp 7, which will take place from 1-5 July 2013, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal.
","Conference or similar","Deleuze Studies Conference","Marcia Belchior","Centre For Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL), Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon","Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande, Lisbon, Portugal","1749-016","Building C4, 3rd Floor, Room 4.3.24 (CFCUL, Conference room yet to be announced)","-9.1565E25","3.87561E23","External Site","http://deleuze2013.fc.ul.pt/conference/registration.php","http://deleuze2013.fc.ul.pt/conference.php","1-3-2013 9:0 WET","true","","","","","philevents4493","8-7-2013 9:0 WEST","10-7-2013 17:0 WEST" 8490,"Philosophy in the Abrahamic Traditions","This Conference is intended to provide a formal occasion and central location for philosophers and scholars of the Arabic / Islamic, Jewish and Latin Christian philosophical traditions of the Middle Ages to present and discuss their current work in medieval philosophy.
First held at Marquette University in 2008, this Summer Conference alternates between the University of Denver and Marquette University.
Conference Proposal Submission Guidelines:
Established Scholars: send a title and tentative abstract.
Graduate Students: send a title, abstract, CV and a supporting letter from your faculty advisor or dissertation director.
NOTE: Abstracts should be 150 words or fewer.
Send applications by email to Prof. Sarah Pessin at spessin@du.edu.
OPENING DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 7 December 2012. The Selection Committee will choose presenters on the basis of quality of proposals (title and abstract) and scholarly record as the primary criteria.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 March 2013
PROGRAM ANNOUNCED: April. The first review of submissions will take place March 1. This date should be considered the deadline for submissions since it is likely that the conference program will be completed at that time. Presenters will be asked to confirm their participation by paying the registration fee when offered the conference slot. Otherwise the program slot may be offered to one of the alternates.
Conference Registration Fee of $35 includes: Conference attendance for all three days Breakfast: bagels, fruit, pastry, coffee, tea, water After-lunch: coffee, tea, water, snacks For the Registration Form, see website.
NOTE: The organizers may be willing to consider video presentations followed by discussion via Skype for one or two sessions. Scholars outside the U.S. who are interested in this possibility should contact the organizers to discuss that possibility.
Organizers: Sarah Pessin & Richard C. Taylor
Website: http://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/The_Abrahamic_Traditions/2013_Summer_Conference_Denver.html
","Conference or similar","PHILOSOPHY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS, Sixth Annual Summer Conference","Daniel De Haan","Center for Judaic Studies, University of Denver","Denver, Colorado, United States","","","-104.985","39.7392","External Site","http://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/The_Abrahamic_Traditions/2013_Summer_Conference_Denver.html","http://academic.mu.edu/taylorr/The_Abrahamic_Traditions/2013_Summer_Conference_Denver.html","30-4-2013 9:0 MDT","true","","","","","philevents4251","10-7-2013 2:0 MDT","14-7-2013 17:0 MDT" 9247,"Minds & Metaphysics","Time: 9:30-18:00
Invited speakers:
Being a Human Being, Being a Person
The question of the nature of the human individual in her relation to the physical world and other people is one of the perennial problems of philosophy. These two ways of relating to reality could be said to respectively determine what we are and who we are. The distinction has been variously defined within different traditions of thought as body and soul dualism, the supervenience theory of the mind, aspect dualism and so on. From these varied pictures stem different ways of approaching the human individual within the realms of speculative philosophy, theology, secular law, or medicine and with the advance of modern science, different presuppositions, which form conceptual foundations for research in evolutionary biology, neuroscience, psychiatry, but also sociology or even economics.
The contemporary way of formulating the distinction begins with John Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, where he defines the ‘human being’ as a biological concept and the ‘person’ as a psychological (and forensic) concept. Locke suggests that coincidence under the one in no way guarantees coincidence under the other. The implications of this view are profound and continue to influence disciplines, both practical and theoretical, ranging from ethics and psychology to social policy and medical technology. Based on the distinction Locke provides the earliest systematic treatment of the issue of personal identity in modern thought. His view however has mainly proved to be a negative inspiration as arguments of such early critics as Leibnitz, Berkley, Hume, Butler or Reid were fatal to his theory. It is sometimes asserted that the progress in the experimental disciplines, including various forms of statistical research, has rendered the philosophical apriori approach inadequate, and will soon replace its convictions with concrete evidence. However, as a rule, the more one is tempted to think that philosophical premises have been avoided the less rigorous these premises tend to become.
The aim of the one-day conference is to consider the relation between the concept of a human being and that of a person, to explore the philosophical consequences of the various ways of defining the distinction and to address the problems arising with the application of these concepts as the framework for scientific research and the basis for the formulation of ethical dilemmas.
The questions addressed will include issues such as whether there can be human beings who are not persons and vice versa; what is the meaning of the concept ‘person’; is the idea of a ‘theory’ of a person coherent; and whether there might be an ambiguity in our use of the concepts of human being and person.
REGISTRATION
All those wishing to attend the conference are invited to contact Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode at m.slawkowski-rode@uw.edu.pl. Please title your message 'conference registration'.
The registration fee of 10 pounds includes a simple lunch, and tea and coffee for the day. Details concerning ways to pay, and the payment deadline will be given in the confirmation.
The conference is organised by Katharina Felka, Miguel Hoeltje and Alexander Steinberg. For more on the Big vs. Small conference, visit:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Universität Hamburg","Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany","","","10.0","53.55","External Site","http://bigvsmall.wordpress.com/","http://bigvsmall.wordpress.com/","1-7-2013 9:0 CEST","true","","","","","philevents4632","19-7-2013 9:0 CEST","20-7-2013 17:0 CEST" 10336,"The philosophy of Kit Fine","The conference will take place in Italy, in a XVIIth century villa in front of one of Varese's lakes (http://www.hotelvillaborghi.it/) from July 28 to August 3, 2013.
The website is here: http://www.philosophie.ch/philipp/services/fine.php. Please ask Philipp Blum for the password to access the restricted area.
For any further questions, please contact philipp.blum@philosophie.ch or damiano.costa@unige.ch
The Canadian Journal of Philosophy announces a call for papers for a Special Issue co-edited by Gurpreet Rattan and David Hunter.
The Nature of Propositions and their Grasp or Understanding
Propositions are of significant interest for the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophical logic. Propositions are thought to play various roles, including that of the meanings of sentences, the referents of 'that'-clauses, the primary bearers of truth, the objects of mental attitudes, and the objects of modal evaluation. The proposed volume focuses on two questions about propositions. One concerns their nature or metaphysics and the other their epistemology. More elaborately, the volume considers questions like:
Do propositions represent the world? If so, how does that constrain their nature? If not, how do propositions play the roles that they do? Are propositions objects? Or are they entities of a different sort? Do propositions have truth conditions? If so, are a proposition’s truth conditions essential to it? What determines a proposition's truth conditions? Are propositions simply to be identified with truth conditions? What does that mean? How should we think of propositions if truth is relative in some way? Are propositions contingent objects, or do they all exist in all possible worlds?
Is grasp of or understanding of a proposition an epistemic relation to a proposition? If so, is it a form of acquaintance? If not acquaintance, what kind of epistemic relation is it? And if it is not an epistemic relation, what kind of relation is it? Are there in-principle limits to understanding? Are there propositions that cannot in-principle be grasped or understood? How is thinking about a proposition related to grasping or understanding the proposition? What cognitive capacities are required to think about propositions?
Answers to these questions are important for understanding philosophical puzzles about representation, understanding, truth, necessity, reference to abstract objects, and the possibility of agreement and disagreement. This volume aims to bring together original papers that discuss these questions.
Submissions should not exceed 10,000 words and should be prepared for blind review. Please include a brief abstract. These should be sent by August 1, 2013 to David Hunter at david.hunter@ryerson.ca
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","David Hunter","","","","","","","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4241","1-8-2013 9:0 BST","" 9581,"Schelling and Naturphilosophie","Call for Applications
We are pleased to announce the Pittsburgh Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy, held at Duquesne University. Details for the program are as follows:
Schelling and Naturphilosophie
August 5 - 9, 2013 (Optional Participants’ Conference, August 3-4)
“What then is that secret bond which couples our mind to Nature, or that hidden organ through which Nature speaks to our mind or our mind to Nature?” (Ideas for a Philosophy of Nature)
“The concept of nature does not entail that there should also be an intelligence that is aware of it. Nature, it seems, would exist, even if there were nothing that was aware of it. Hence the problem can also be formulated thus: how does intelligence come to be added to nature, or how does nature come to be presented?” (System of Transcendental Idealism)
Seminar Leaders:
Prof. Iain Hamilton Grant (University of the West of England, Bristol)
Prof. Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
Course Description:
In recent years there has been a surge of research on the work of the German philosopher F.W.J. Schelling, aided in the English-speaking world by a number of recent translations. This movement has included reexaminations of Schelling as a figure in the history of philosophy, as a source of influence on a number of twentieth century thinkers, and as a rich resource for addressing contemporary philosophical debates.
Schelling’s distinctive influence in the history of philosophy has been, in part, a product of his objective approach to transcendental idealism. In opposition to Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre, which argued that the subject must be the fundamental ground for transcendental idealism, Schelling argued that an objective approach, taking the form of Naturphilosophie, is equally necessary for explaining the subject-object form of knowledge. Additionally, in his later works, Schelling’s concepts of freedom, existence, and the non-ground, would give some of the earliest critiques of Hegel’s absolute idealism, and would later influence thinkers like Kierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche. In the twentieth century, the impact of his work would continue. His Freiheitsschrift, for instance, forms an important part of the conceptual context within which Martin Heidegger developed his notions of event, ground, and the plight of the human being, operative in the 1930s and early 40s. Likewise, Schelling’s influence profoundly marked Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s later ontology of the flesh, his understanding of art, the unconscious, and the provocative task of doing a “psychoanalysis of Nature.”
More recently, Iain Hamilton Grant has mobilized Schellingian Naturphilosophie as a basis for recasting epistemological and metaphysical or ontological issues regarding the relation of physics and metaphysics, the nature of time, the nature of ground, and more broadly calling for a radical reevaluation of the post-Kantian philosophical framework dominant over much of the last two centuries. This project has established one of the major arms of the recent movement to rethink the realist/anti-realist debate. Likewise, Jason Wirth has revitalized Schellingian accounts of the Good, intellectual intuition, aesthetics, nature, and life in contemporary debates. He has also worked to put Schelling into conversation with a number of other recent thinkers, both Western and, notably, of the Japanese Kyoto School.
Other contemporary philosophers have also taken up Schelling in related manners. Markus Gabriel, for instance, has integrated Schelling’s notion of non-ground into his “domain ontology” and its treatment of the nature of the world (or more properly the non-existence of the world), mythology, evil, contingency, and necessity. Further, in the Lacanian meta-psychology of Slavoj Žižek and Adrian Johnston, Schelling’s philosophy has been used to give an account for the genesis of the transcendental subject out of natural and material substance conceived with reference to Trieb, or drive.
This summer symposium will bring together interested graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior faculty for a week of discussion, lecture, and close textual study concerning this important philosopher. The topic for the seminar is Schelling's Naturphilosophie. We will examine questions about nature, objectivity, matter, life, knowledge, and whether or not transcendental philosophy can be reconciled with the findings of the empirical sciences. All texts and discussion will be in English.
Application:
We invite current graduate students, postdoctoral students, and junior faculty in philosophy or related disciplines to submit an application composed of a C.V. and a short letter of intent (500 words maximum) to pghsummersymposium2013@gmail.com. The deadline for applications is April 5, 2013. The seminar will be limited to 20-30 participants. For more information as it becomes available, we have created a website for the symposium:
http://pghsummersymposium.wix.com/pghsummersymp2013
Participants’ Conference (August 3-4):
In order to facilitate a further exchange of ideas and research, a participants’ conference will be held the weekend before the seminar begins. Applicants who receive notice of acceptance as participants will be asked - if interested - to submit an abstract of up to 500 words on any theme related to the topic of the seminar. The participants’ conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday, August 3-4, 2013.
Financial Information:
There will be a $125 registration fee for each participant of the seminar. This money will be used for a conference dinner, celebration, and daily expenses such as coffee, etc. Please note that participants will be responsible for arranging their own housing as well as financing most of their own meals for the duration of the symposium. However, with respect to lodging, we expect a number of arrangements with graduate students will be available on a first come, first serve basis.
","Conference or similar","Pittsburgh Summer Symposium in Contemporary Philosophy ","James Bahoh","Department of Philosophy, Duquesne University","Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States","","","-79.9913","40.4373","External Site","http://pghsummersymposium.wix.com/pghsummersymp2013","http://pghsummersymposium.wix.com/pghsummersymp2013","6-4-2013 13:45 EDT","true","","","","","philevents5005","5-8-2013 0:0 EDT","9-8-2013 17:0 EDT" 8633,"Reference, Conceptual Change, and Free Will","Keynote Speaker: Shaun Nichols (Arizona) ""Free Will and Error""
The aim of this conference* is to assemble a small group of philosophers to discuss in-progress work on issues connected to reference and/or conceptual change as it pertains to free will and moral responsibility. (A 'conference*' is something very much like a conference, but not necessarily corresponding to all the significant or even the essential features of widespread conceptions of a conference.) The aspiration is to have a small, workshop-ish event.
Contact: mrvargas@usfca.edu.
Seating will be limited, so for those interested in attending but not presenting, please contact the organizer in advance.
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","University of San Francisco","San Francisco, California, United States","","","-122.419","37.7749","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4352","9-8-2013 1:0 PDT","13-8-2013 17:0 PDT" 9994,"Florida State University Graduate Philosophy Conference on Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Agency","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.
The conference will take place at Florida State University on October 11 and 12, 2013. Keynote speakers will be:
John Martin Fischer, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside
Randolph Clarke, Professor of Philosophy, Florida State University
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:
Prepared for blind review
No more than 4,000 words
Suitable for 25-minute presentation
Preceded by an abstract of 150-250 words
Along with the paper, please also submit a cover page with the following information:
Presenter’s name
Institutional affiliation
Contact information (email address or phone number)
Title of paper
Abstract of the paper
Word count
The deadline for submissions is August 15. We will notify those whose papers have been accepted by September 13.
For questions or further information, please contact Kyle Fritz (kgf10@fsu.edu), Dan Miller (djm09@fsu.edu), or Robyn Waller (rar09h@fsu.edu).
","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","" 9028,"Groundedness in Semantics and Beyond","","Conference or similar","","Jonne Speck","University of Oslo","Oslo, Oslo, Norway","","","10.7218","59.9399","E-Mail","","http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/research/projects/ppp/events/conferences/groundedness-2.html","15-8-2013 9:0 CEST","true","","","","","philevents4623","23-8-2013 9:0 CEST","24-8-2013 17:0 CEST" 8429,"LanCog Workshop on the Epistemology of Modality","Van Inwagen once wrote (in his influential paper ‘Modal epistemology’ from 1998) that “modal epistemology is a subject about which little is known”. Today, the discipline has flourished. A lot has been written since then and research on the topic continues to be the focus of a large community of philosophers. We certainly know more today about the topic than we did in 1998, but it would be daring to say that our epistemic situation is much better. The discipline has witnessed a Rationalist Renaissance and is now witnessing what might end up being an anti-rationalist turn. This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussion and to reflect, via the contributed talks and informal discussions, the state of art of the discipline
","Conference or similar","","Joao Branquinho","Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon","Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal","1600-214","","-9.15925E33","3.87551E33","Not Specified","","http://epistemologyofmodality.weebly.com/","","","","","","","philevents4203","29-8-2013 9:0 WEST","31-8-2013 17:0 WEST" 9385,"","Topoi: An international Review of Philosophy, is planning to devote a special issue on Time and Time Experience. The editors will be Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan) and Roberto Ciuni (Bochum University).
The deadline for the initial submission is 31 August 2013. Accepted papers will be published in 2014. Formatting instructions for submissions can be found at: http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245; click “Instructions for Authors” on the right. All submissions for this issue should be made through Topoi Editorial Manager (http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/default.asp), selecting “S.I.: Time and time experience (Torrengo/Ciuni)” as Article Type.
Confirmed invited authors: Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University, Chicago) Robin Le Poidevin (University of Leeds) Barry Dainton (University of Liverpool) Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick)
At least since the beginning of philosophising in Western culture, the concept of time has baffled the human mind. This is not surprising, since temporal aspects seem to dwell reality as well as the core of our thought and language. Thus, the reflection on time finds its “natural” location in many different spheres (and possibly at their overlaps) such as metaphysics, phenomenology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and the study of perception and cognition. Many recent and influential contributions in analytic philosophy have focused on the question whether the temporal aspects of our experience reflect aspects of reality, or they are rather mere projections of some sort. Many features of our experience fall under such a “issue of realism”: the sense of passage, the perception of change, memory, expectation of future events and planning for actions, decisions, and timely behaviour, to name a few.
In this context, it is crucial to keep clear the distinction between the role of metaphysical enterprise and psychological enterprise (both broadly construed). On the one hand, if we claim that a certain temporal feature of our experience is not a genuine feature of reality – clearly, a metaphysical claim – we also need a psychological justification of why we ordinarily think of it as a part of reality. On the other hand, explanations of our experience of temporal reality depends on what we take temporal reality to be like. It seems thus that the answer to the question ‘what is time?’ and the answer to the question ‘how does our temporal cognition work?’ get support from each other. If this is the case, certain methodological questions become also crucial; in particular: how should we construe the distinction between genuine representations of reality and metaphysically misleading representations of reality? Are hard sciences playing a central role here? Or should we look rather at ordinary phenomenology? More generally, what criteria should we set for appraising the different realist and anti-realist options? The general aim of the volume is to shed some light on such an interplay between the analysis of the reality of time and the analysis of our experience of time, by presenting new positions on the market.
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Chrissy Meijns","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245","","","","","","","philevents4868","31-8-2013 9:0 BST","" 9447,"","Special Jubilee Issue of: “Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica” in Celebration of the 200thAnniversary of Søren Kierkegaard’s Birth.
In the bicentennial year of Søren Kierkegaard’s birth (May 5, 1813 - May 5, 2013) the “Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica” celebrates the work and influences of the Danish philosopher with a Monographic Issue dedicated to the theme of the “Communication of Existence”, a central topic in the philosopher’s thought. The questions we propose to be addressed include: How is it possible to “communicate”, to “share” a singular existence? Can a singular existence have a universal meaning? What are the limits, and the potential, of a philosophical language? How does Kierkegaard in his multifaceted and original production confront this problem? What kind of language does he employ and, especially, for what purpose?
We welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives – philosophical, theological, psychological or literary – dealing with this topic.
Authors interested in publishing their articles are requested to send them via e-mail to the address: neoscolastica@unicatt.it, with an attachment file in the formats: .doc or .docx together with a .pdf version.
Please attach both a fully blinded version of your paper as a ""Manuscript"" and a separate ""Cover page"" indicating full name of the authors, academic title, university affiliation and full contact details. For further details, please see guidelines.
The articles can be written in the following languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish. Furthermore, each submission cannot exceed 5000 words, respectively.
The submission should contain an abstract in English, not exceeding 150 words.
Contributions are sent to two independent reviewers in a double-blind procedure prior to the publication decision. Authors may be requested to change or improve their articles when suggested by reviewers.
Deadline for submission of manuscripts is September 1st, 2013. The issue will appear, at the latest, in December 2013, and will be comprised of both articles by invited authors, and submitted articles from the call for papers.
Further enquiries may be addressed to ingrid.basso@unicatt.it
Editorial Staff Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica
L.go Gemelli, 1 - 20123 Milano, Italy
neoscolastica@unicatt.it
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Chrissy Meijns","","","","","","","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4907","1-9-2013 9:0 BST","" 9084,"The Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress","Deadline for panel proposals: April 1st, 2013
Deadline for papers, posters, and short contributions: September 1st, 2013
Please consult the full call for papers at http://peirce-foundation.org/2014cfp.html
","CFP for conference or similar","","Mats Bergman","University of Massachusetts Lowell","Lowell, Massachusetts, United States","","","-71.3162","42.6334","Not Specified","","http://peirce-foundation.org/2014.html","","","","","The Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress","7697","peirce_centennial","1-9-2013 23:45 BST","" 10061,"8th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'13)","The AAIA'13 will bring researchers, developers, practitioners, and users to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of artificial intelligence. We hope that theory and successful applications presented at the AAIA'13 will be of interest to researchers and practitioners who want to know about both theoretical advances and latest applied developments in Artificial Intelligence. As such AAIA'13 will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues.
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Organization","Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland","","","19.9167","50.0833","Not Specified","","http://fedcsis.org/aaia","","","","","","","philevents5357","8-9-2013 10:0 CEST","11-9-2013 17:0 CEST" 8144,"9th International Whitehead Conference: Society and Process: From Theory to Practice","Feel free to contact the main organizer, especially if you would like to chair a section: Bogdan Ogrodnik at: bogrod@interia.pl.
For information about the conference, please visit:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","International Process Network","Kraków, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland","","","19.9167","50.0833","Not Specified","","http://iwc9-poland.com","","","","","","","philevents3993","9-9-2013 10:0 CEST","12-9-2013 17:0 CEST"