Pain is ubiquitous. But it continues to be poorly understood.Scientific advances have led to increasingly subtle and complex models of pain, but not yet consensus. Both in science and in philosophy, pain continues to generate deep and gripping questions.
The Pain Project has been holding workshops targeting four questions in particular: (1) How doespain relate to perception, whose role seems informational rather than motivational? (2) How does pain relate to emotional suffering, which is both implicated in and intriguingly parallels physical suffering?(3) How is pain illuminated by comparisons and contrasts between human and non-human pain? And (4) How is pain illuminated by considerations of atypical pain experiences?
The Pain Conference constitutes the culmination of these workshops and will be organized around research from presenters including:
Colin Allen (Indiana University; Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
Murat Aydede (University of British Columbia; Philosophy)
David Bain (University of Glasgow; Philosophy)
Michael Brady (University of Glasgow; Philosophy)
Victoria Braithwaite (Pennsylvania State University; Biology)
Jennifer Corns (University of Glasgow; Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
Frederique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris; Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
Valerie Hardcastle (University of Cincinnati; Philosophy and Psychology)
Richard Krueger (Columbia University; Psychiatry)
Siri Leknes (University of Oslo; Neuroscience)
Jennifer Radden (University of Massachusetts; Philosophy)
Adam Shriver (University of Western Ontario; Philosophy and Cognitive Science)
The conference is part of the larger Pain Project. The Pain Project is an international, interdisciplinary research project focused on relations amongst pain, perception, and emotion, as well as pain in non-human animals. It is part of an overarching research program, Pain and the Nature of Mind, run by the University of Notre Dame and funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
More information about the project and our research team can be found at: http://www.davidbain.org/pain
Registration fee: £50(includes tea/coffee and wine reception)
To register or for further inquiries please email Jennifer Corns at:
","Conference or similar","","Jennifer Corns","Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Glasgow","Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom","G12 8QQ","","-4.25763","55.8652","E-Mail","","http://www.davidbain.org/pain","18-6-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents4986","18-6-2013 9:0 BST","20-6-2013 17:0 BST" 9858,"Mind, Action and Responsibility: Empirical and non-empirical perspectives","Speakers:
Pamela Hieronymi
Joshua Knobe
Brian Leiter
Thomas Pink
Jesse Prinz
Gideon Yaffe
More info:
","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" 9632,"Breaking the Silence on Global and Local Intersections of Ethnicity, Spirituality, and Nonhuman Animals","As the poor become poorer, more prisons are constructed, and the global south struggles with exploitation, disease, hunger, and mass displacement, social justice activists are becoming more intolerant of global racism and discrimination. In kind, the theme of this year’s annual North American Conference for Critical Animal Studies is the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, animals, and spirituality. Some of the foundational questions that the conference is interested in discussing include: Can activists compare struggles of racism to nonhuman animal suffering? What is the intersectional history of ethnicity and animals? Do you have to be anti-racist to be an animal advocate? How has religion aided in the marginalization of people of color and nonhuman animals? How has religion aided in the liberation of people of color and nonhuman animals? How, if at all, do animal advocates challenge colonization, imperialism, and racism? What are the theoretical and scientific similarities between racism and speciesism? How have different ethnic and spiritual groups addressed animal advocacy?
Contact: icasnorthamerica@gmail.com
- - - please circulate - - -
ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference
PT-AI 2013 - “Philosophy and Theory of Artificial Intelligence”
21-22.09.2013
Oxford, St. Antony's College
http://www.pt-ai.org/2013/
INVITED SPEAKERS
Jean-Christophe Baillie (Aldebaran Robotics, Paris)
Theodore Berger (University of Southern California, L.A.)
Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY)
Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University, Boston)
Luciano Floridi (University of Hertfordshire & Oxford)
Stuart J Russell (UC Berkeley)
Murray Shanahan (Imperial College, London)
Michael Wheeler (University of Stirling, Scotland)
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ABSTRACTS
We request anonymous abstracts of 600-1000 words (plus references) in plain text or PDF, plus a short abstract of up to 120 words. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the proceedings. (We plan to provide a copy of the proceedings to the corresponding author.) We foresee slots of at least 30 minutes per talk, including discussion.
All submissions will be reviewed double-blind by at least two members of the programme committee.
Submission online at EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ptai13
=========================================
DATES
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 21.06.2013
Decisions announced: 12.7.2013
Conference: 21-22.09.13
Deadline for submission of full papers: 30.11.13
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THEMES
Participants from all disciplines that are relevant for fundamental issues of present and future AI, especially cognitive science, computer science, neuroscience and philosophy. A broad framework is set by questions like: What are the necessary conditions for artificial intelligence (if any); what are sufficient ones? What do these questions relate to the conditions for intelligence in humans and other natural agents? What are the ethical and societal problems that artificial intelligence raises, or will raise? Some of the key issues will be:
• AI and cognitive science
• consciousness
• dynamical systems
• embedded, situated, distributed cognition, extended mind
• embodiment, enaction, morphology
• ethics of AI and robotics
• brain emulation and simulation
• goals, emotions, values, free will
• hybrid systems, cyborgs
• information
• intelligence and intelligence testing
• intentionality
• interactive systems
• learning and evolution
• multi-agent systems
• notions and forms of computing for AI
• perception
• probabilistic systems
• reasoning
• social impact of present and future AI
• super-intelligence
• ...
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PUBLICATION
Details on the publication for 2013 are not yet finalized.
The papers from the 2011 event were published in a special volume of 'Minds and Machines' (22/2, with papers by Bostrom, Dreyfus, Gomila, O'Regan, Shagrir) and in an edited volume of the SAPERE series with Springer.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/0924-6495/22/2/
http://www.springer.com/engineering/robotics/book/978-3-642-31673-9
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REGISTRATION
Online registration will open early June. Participation fee will be £110, reduced £55. Accommodation at St. Antony's is available.
Thank you for your time,
Vincent C. Müller
Chair, PT-AI 2013
+-------------------------------
Vincent C. Müller
Professor of Philosophy
Anatolia College/ACT
Thessaloniki
James Martin Research Fellow
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Oxford
http://www.sophia.de
This is an international and interdisciplinary conference coordinated by the University of Leeds' Leeds Humanities Research Institute, the Institute of Communications Studies and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics.
The conference follows on from last year's highly successful 1st Ethics of Surveillance Conference with the question ""Moving towards Ubiquitous Surveillance"".
We pleased to be able to confirm as keynote speakers:
Keynote speakers:
PROF. GARY MARX
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, M.I.T., United States
PROF. CHARLES RAAB
Professor of Government at the University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science
PROF. CHRISTIAN FUCHS
Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster's Communication and Media Research Institute and the Centre for Social Media Research
DR. KIRSTIE BALL
Reader in Surveillance and Organisation at the Open University Business School, Milton Keynes
DR. MARK ANDREJEVIC
Deputy Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia
Contact: icicts@gmail.com.
Conference coordinators
Founders of the research group IC ICTs: Research Group on ICTs, Surveillance & Society
http://icicts.wordpress.com/
The Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI)
The Institute of Communications Studies (ICS)
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Applied Ethics IDEA CETL
Under the Auspices of
Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP)
Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University
and
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas:
Prediction and Decision Making (23120002) of the Ministry
of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
In the past two and a half decades, a number of attempts have been made in order to model various aspects of social interaction among agents including individual agents, organizations, and individuals representing organizations. The aim of SOCREAL Workshop is to bring together researchers working on diverse aspects of such interaction in logic, philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science and related fields in order to share issues, ideas, techniques, and results.
The first SOCREAL Workshop was held on 9 - 10 March 2007, and the second SOCREAL Workshop was held on 27 - 28 March 2010. Building upon the success of SOCREAL 2007 and 2010, its third edition, SOCREAL 2013, will be held on 25 - 27 October 2013.
SOCREAL 2013 will consist of lectures by invited speakers and presentations of submitted papers. Researchers from various fields, including logic, philosophy, ethics, computer science, cognitive science are hereby invited to submit an extended abstract (up to two thousand words) by 10 June 2013 to CAEP (caep@let.hokudai.ac.jp). Each abstract will be peer-reviewed by the program committee.
The abstract should be written in English and sent as an attachment in pdf format. Each abstract should include a title, names and contact details of all the authors. It is requisite for at least one of the author(s) of each accepted paper to attend the workshop and present the paper. The working language of SOCREAL Workshop is English.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
You can learn what SOCREAL Workshop is like from the web-site of SOCREAL 2010 located at:
http://www.hucc.hokudai.ac.jp/~k15696/home/sr10/ .
GRANTS
A limited number of grants of 20,000 to 40,000 yen will be available for postgraduate students and non-tenured scholars who present papers at the workshop on a competitive basis. Priority is given to overseas students and scholars. Anyone who wishes to apply for the grant should submit the completed Grant Application Form which will be made available shortly at the workshop web-site.
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 24 June 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 15 July 2013
Deadline for Grant Application: 10 September 2013
Workshop: 25-27 October 2013
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS
Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway, and Southwest University, China)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University, Japan)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Thomas Agotnes (University of Bergen, Norway, and Southwest University, China)
Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Stanford University, USA)
Jose Carmo (Universidade da Madeira, Portugal)
Mamoru Kaneko (Waseda University, Japan)
Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Yuko Murakami (Tohoku University, Japan)
Yasuo Nakayama (Osaka University, Japan)
Okada Mitsuhiro (Keio University, Japan)
Manuel Rebuschi (Nancy University, France)
Nobuyuki Takahashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Allard Tamminga (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Berislav Zarnic (University of Split, Croatia)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Koji Nakatogawa (Hokkaido University)
Shunzo Majima (Hokkaido University)
Yoshihiko Ono (Hokkaido University)
Tomoyuki Yamada (Hokkaido University)
CONTACT
Tomoyuki Yamada (yamada@let.hokudai.ac.jp)
Further information will be made available shortly at the workshop
web-site to be located at:
Conference convenor: Alan Tapper alandtapper@gmail.com
","Conference or similar","Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) Conference","Chrissy Meijns","School of Philosophy and Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia","Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia","","","115.767","-32.05","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents4624","27-6-2013 9:0 WST","30-6-2013 17:0 WST" 10561,"","Catalyst: A Social Justice Forum is an online, peer-reviewed journal.
As members of cultures dominated by media, we tend to construct our identities out of models presented to us by the internet, TV, film, music, and various kinds of print media (Kellner 1995). What it is for us to be “healthy” is no exception. Through the norms embedded in its images, sounds, and messages, a media culture invests its consumers with a potent sense of what it means to achieve health—including the proper ways to pursue and, quite often, purchase it. As a result, we are constrained in our capacity to adopt—and even to imagine—alternative conceptions of “health,” both for ourselves and for the groups of which we are a part. Furthermore, this problem is not easily quarantined by political borders. As U.S. media culture spreads globally, countless others might be infected by its conceptions of “health.”
We invite abstracts that adopt one or both of the following approaches. (1) Abstracts should consider particular products of U.S. media culture and expose ways in which those products are invested with conceptions of “health” that reinforce dominant interests. On this approach, each abstract will focus on a particular film, song, advertising campaign, TV show, corporate website, magazine issue, novel, or another product of U.S. media culture, tying its conception of “health” to the powerful interests that it serves. (2) Abstracts should explore ways in which media culture has been—or could be—co-opted as a tool of resistance, empowering poor, marginalized, or oppressed groups/individuals to advance their own conceptions of “health” as they aspire to what might be called “health from below.” Final submissions are due June 30th.
For more information, see this journal's website:
We invite papers written towards the conference theme of emerging technologies and will give these preference, but we also welcome papers in applied ethics, broadly construed, that address political, economic, social, and cultural issues in applied ethics beyond the conference theme. This includes, but is not limited to:
meta/normative ethics, bio/medical ethics, engineering ethics, ethics of science and technology, information ethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, feminist/gender/sexuality ethics, and international/global ethics.
Those participants who wish to present papers are requested to submit a 150–300 word abstract in a MS-Word file (.doc) to CAEP (caep@let.hokudai.ac.jp) by Sunday, June 30, 2013. Presented papers may be considered for publication in both our print and electronic journal upon submission and review.
Up to ten travel awards of between 20,000 and 30,000 JPY (equivalent to approx. 200–300 USD) are available for overseas graduate students and non-tenured scholars who present papers. The grant application form is available from the CAEP webpage: http://ethics.let.hokudai.ac.jp/ja/files/grantapplicationformiaec13.doc
For further details, please visit our website: http://ethics.let.hokudai.ac.jp
Conference Chair: Shunzo Majima (majima@let.hokudai.ac.jp)
Program Chair: Takashi Masubuchi (tmasubuchi@let.hokudai.ac.jp)
","CFP for conference or similar","8th International Conference on Applied Ethics","Chrissy Meijns","Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Hokkaido University","Sapporo-shi, Hokkaidō, Japan","","","141.347","43.0642","Not Specified","","http://ethics.let.hokudai.ac.jp","","","","","Applied Ethics in an Era of Emerging Technologies","9798","philevents5157","30-6-2013 18:0 BST","" 9881,"","Deadline for Abstracts: 1th July, 2013
Editors: Claus Strue Frederiksen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Samuel O Idowu, London Metropolitan University, UK
Asli Yüksel Mermod, Marmara University, Turkey
Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Description
Many businesses and organizations are involved in the practice of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and all of them in Governance – they are constantly involved in decision-making, managing etc. Whereas both CSR and Governance have attracted a good deal of academic attention, the relation(s) between them are unclear. However, CSR could be viewed as a form of governance, and governance could be seen through the lens of CSR – practices
of governance could be analysed and criticised from the point of view of “social responsibility”.
One area where the relationship between CSR and governance becomes even clearer concerns the issue of standards. Businesses and organizations actively engaged in CSR often refer to one or the other standard, e.g., UNGC (UN’s Global Compact), AccountAbility’s AS1000 (etc.) standard, the ISO26000 standard or the framework of the “Triple Bottom Line”. Ideally, relying on a standard provides good guidance for the CSR-policies of companies, that is, their governance, and moreover makes it possible to benchmark the level of engagement and competence of the businesses.
A series of corporate scandals which have affected corporations in virtually every continent of the world have in fact reinforced the importance of good corporate governance in companies regardless of where these companies are based in the world. The UK took the lead with the Cadbury Report of 1992 and a series of others which followed that in providing some guidelines on good governance. The OECD Seven Principles on Good Governance of 1999 and a revised version in 2004 have been used globally by governments and stock exchanges in setting the scene for good governance. All these are the preconditions for scholarly activities to thrive on corporate governance.
We welcome original contributions that relate to “CSR as Governance”, or that can shed light on any of these concepts, both theoretically and practically.
Some of the issues we would like to see addressed are:
Contrubutions from philosophers working in the areas of business ethics, applied ethics, CSR and related are STRONGLY encouraged!
Hopefully, chapters in the book will provide insightful and thought provoking answers to these and many other important questions relating to CSR standards.
Key audience: We believe that the issues focused on by the book are of interest to both practitioners (e.g., consultants, key personnel responsible for CSR in organizations), academics (in business schools and other institutions that engage in CSR-studies) and of course the relevant students. Moreover, we hope to mix “on the ground” observations and empirical focus (“Practices”) and theoretical criticism and deliberation (“theories”) seem to us the ideal way of approaching the issue of CSR and good governance.
Contributions
Contributors would fall in two main categories: practitioners (e.g., consultants or NGO-representatives) with solid knowledge and experience as concerns specific CSR and/or governance; and academics with solid credentials within the fields of governance, business ethics and CSR.
Each of the Chapters would be between 5,000 – 7,000 words. Relevant cases under each of the sub-themes are also welcome.
Schedule
Main deadlines:
All papers shall be peer-reviewed by contributors. The submission deadline for initial expressions of interest in the form of abstracts of approximately 300 words is Thursday 1st July 2013. Abstracts should be sent as e-mail attachments to any of the four Editors Claus Strue Frederiksen clausf@hum.ku.dk Samuel O Idowu s.idowu@londonmet.ac.uk, Asli Yuksel Mermod, asliyuksel@marmara.edu.tr Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen, mejn@hum.ku.dk
The book will be published by a major European publishing company.
Speakers: Alex Broadbent, Nancy Cartwright, Michael Marmot, Alfredo Morabia, Justin Parkhurst, Anya Plutinski, Jacob Stegenga, and Sridhar Venkatapuram.
Organised by Alex Broadbent (abbroadbent@uj.ac.za)and Sridhar Venkatapuram (svenkatapuram@gmail.com)
Register here: http://www.brocher.ch/en/events/evidence-in-healthcare-reform/
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
Health care financing and provision is undergoing a crisis around the world. In Europe, the cost of medical care are increasing, along with levels of national spending on healthcare. Moreover the rate of increase exceeds the rate of regional economic growth. Something must be done, but it is far from clear what is the right political or social response. In much of the developing world, on the other hand, the situation is the reverse: increases in prosperity, particularly in the BRICS countries, have not been accompanied by significant healthcare investment; or else significant healthcare investment has benefited only a small portion of society. South Africa, for example, has some of the best medical care in the world, but it is not available to the majority of the population, and preventable morbidity and mortality remains shockingly high. And in North America, there are both high medical costs and highly unequal access, something which the present government has spent considerable political capital attempting to remedy. In short, there is very little apparent agreement on how a healthcare system should be organized in order to be effective, efficient, and equitable, despite a near-universal acceptance that health is both morally and economically important to individual and national wellbeing.
Against this backdrop, this symposium is convened to examine the philosophical underpinnings of effectiveness, efficiency and equity. Public and political debate about healthcare reform inevitably focuses on who should pay and who should provide. This workshop, however, seeks to address the prior question of what works: what healthcare measures are effective for improving population health, how we know they have been effective, and what evidence we need before confidently deploying them in a given sociopolitical setting. Indeed, much of the tumult surrounding health care reform can only be understood when health policy is seen to share important common elements with other public policies. It is not determined only by scientific evidence, nor must it answer only to that evidence. It is also variously influenced by legal rights, bureaucratic norms, political negotiations, and market mechanism, and it must balance these forces against the scientific evidence for effectiveness. In this workshop we focus on the way scientific evidence fits into this complex sociopolitical setting: how it can, how in fact it does, and how it ought to influence healthcare reform.
In particular, the symposium has the following goals:
To register, visit:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Brocher Foundation","Genève, Genève, Switzerland","","","6.0","46.0","External Site","http://www.brocher.ch/en/events/evidence-in-healthcare-reform/","http://www.brocher.ch/en/events/evidence-in-healthcare-reform/","20-7-2013 9:0 CEST","true","","","","","philevents5536","4-7-2013 9:0 CEST","5-7-2013 17:0 CEST" 8978,"Emotion, Morality and Value","We are pleased to announce the fifth edition of our International Summer School in Affective Sciences (ISSAS’ 2013), which will take place this year from July 5 to 13 at the Château de Bossey, an 18th-century manor house located in an outstanding natural environment overlooking Lake Geneva and the French Alps.
This year the central topic of the summer school is ""Emotion, Morality and Value"", organized by the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (SCAS).
The scientific program for 2013 comprises (i) plenary lectures in which leading scholars from different disciplines who have made crucial contributions in the area will present the conceptual foundations of their approach, their methodological procedures, recent results, and their ideas on promising future perspectives, (ii) practical workshops in which students will discuss key topics of interest in the domain and become familiar with various research methodologies, and (iii) group work in which the students, throughout the course of the summer school and with the help of the faculty, will design an interdisciplinary research project that will be presented and discussed with the plenary on the last day.
The varied program and its hands-on orientation make ISSAS 2013 highly attractive to young researchers from different disciplines. In addition, they will enjoy an opportunity to form strong professional ties with each other, as well as with the invited faculty members. They can use these contacts to build a substantial scientific network even at an early stage in their careers.
Important dates
Application deadline: March 24, 2013
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2013
Registration deadline: June 15, 2013
Conference: July 5-13, 2013
More information (including the application procedure) can be found on the ISSAS 2013 website:
The aim of the international conference Planning Later Life – Bioethics and Politics in Aging Societies is to critically reflect on the relevance of modern medicine in shaping the lives and situations of aging and elderly persons today. It discusses and contrasts the ethical, social and political consequences of demographic change in the field of medicine and health care as well as the implications of the rise of anti-aging medicine and prevention, and recent trends in dementia research and care. The conference is interdisciplinary, combining perspectives from ethics, sociology, cultural anthropology and nursing sciences.
Contact: mark.schweda@medizin.uni-goettingen.de.
The conference will take place within the framework of the BMBF-funded research project Biomedical Life Plans for Aging. Values Between Individual Ethical Reflection and Social Standardization:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Universität Göttingen","Göttingen, Germany","","","9.92969","51.5384","Not Specified","","http://www.biomedizinische-lebensplanung.uni-goettingen.de","","","","","","","philevents2820","10-7-2013 9:0 CEST","12-7-2013 17:0 CEST" 10626,"Merton Workshop on Applied Formal Ethics","'How to Defend the Asymmetry Intuition in Population Ethics'
- Johann Frick (Harvard)
'Justice and Private Education'
- Daniel Halliday (Melbourne)
'The Asymmetry'
- Ralf M. Bader (Oxford)
'Measuring Unfairness and Lotteries'
- Gerard Vong (Fordham)
Please note that this is a pre-read workshop. Participants are expected to read the papers in advance.
","Conference or similar","","Ralf M. Bader","Merton College, Oxford","Oxford, England, United Kingdom","OX1 4JD","Hawkins room","-1.25596","51.7522","E-Mail","","","11-7-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents5765","12-7-2013 10:0 BST","12-7-2013 17:0 BST" 3276,"The British Society for Ethical Theory (BSET) 2013 Conference","Abstracts and programme now available, along with all the details about registration and postgraduate bursaries.
PG bursaries - apply by 14th JuneLate fee - from 21st June
Note - BSET is not organising accommodation this year.
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","The British Society for Ethical Theory, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London","London, England, United Kingdom","","","-1.47009","53.3811","External Site","http://www.bset.org.uk/2013.html","http://www.bset.org.uk/2013.html","15-7-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents2973","15-7-2013 9:0 BST","17-7-2013 17:0 BST" 9510,"","Studies in Theoretical & Applied Ethics is a new book series which focuses
on philosophical ethics, understood in a broad, inter-disciplinary sense.
The editors seek original monographs, as well as collections of new essays,
which explore the philosophical problems in ethics, both in the traditional
areas and areas of emerging concerns. The editors are particularly
interested in contributions which can help to bridge disciplines and
genres, and welcome suggestions for projects that bring together
scholarship in, for example, the sciences, business, law, medicine,
history, and literature. The series is published by Cambridge Scholars
Publishing and edited by Chris Herrera and Alexandra Perry.
To submit a proposal please send the following information by email to
Chris.Herrera@Montclair.edu and APerry@Bergen.edu:
1. Description of the book (1-2 page overview; outstanding features;
format; status of the book)
2. Tentative table of contents
3. At least one sample chapter
4. CV for book author(s) or editor(s) (if an edited volume, cv's do not
need to be included for each individual author)
Please write ""Studies in Theoretical & Applied Ethics Book Series Proposal""
in the subject line.
2013 Dartmouth Summer Ethics and Practical Reason Workshop
Friday July 19 – Saturday July 20
SCHEDULE
Friday July 19:
2:00 – 3:30. Tyler Doggett (Vermont)
Comments: Nico Cornell (Wharton/Penn)
3:30 – 4:00. Tea
4:00 – 5:30. Doug Lavin (Harvard)
Comments: Matty Silverstein (NYU-AD)
6:00. Dinner
Saturday July 20:
9:30 – 11:00. Tamar Schapiro (Stanford)
Comments: Kenny Walden (Dartmouth)
11:00 – 11:30. Elevenses
11:30 – 1:00. Jamie Dreier (Brown)
Comments: David Plunkett (Dartmouth)
1:00 – 2:30. Lunch
2:30 – 4:00. Nishi Shah (Amherst)
Comments: Dana Howard (Ohio State)
FORMAT
Before the workshop: circulate papers.
First 10 minutes: presenter summary.
Next 20 minutes: comments & replies.
Remaining time: open discussion.
Please note: everyone attending the workshop is expected to have read the papers before coming.
LOGISTICS
All talks will be held at Dartmouth College, exact location TBD.
Dinner will be buffet-style and held in TBD.
Lunch on Saturday is DIY.
The workshop is free. All welcome, but please let us know if you’re coming by
writing to dartmoral@gmail.com. Papers will be distributed by email.
The workshop is sponsored by the Dartmouth Philosophy Department and organized by Nico Cornell, David Plunkett, Timothy Rosenkoetter, and Kenny Walden.
","Conference or similar","","David Plunkett","Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College","Hanover, New Hampshire, United States","","","-72.2887","43.7044","E-Mail","","http://www.dartmouth.edu/~phil/events/","12-7-2013 9:0 EDT","true","","","","","philevents5791","19-7-2013 2:0 EDT","20-7-2013 17:0 EDT" 9264,"Development Ethics: Questions, Challenges, and Responsibilities ","A four-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on development ethics.
Twenty-five participants will be chosen from among eligible applicants.
Stipend: $3300.
For more information, see the website.
","Conference or similar","NEH Summer Institute","Fred Gifford","Michigan State University","East Lansing, Michigan, United States","48824","","-84.4839","42.737","External Site","http://nehinstitute.philosophy.msu.edu/","http://nehinstitute.philosophy.msu.edu/","4-3-2013 9:0 EST","true","","","","","philevents4787","22-7-2013 9:0 EDT","16-8-2013 17:0 EDT" 9043,"","The Northern Plains Ethics Journal’s editorial board welcomes submissions in the humanities focusing on ethical issues affecting the Northern Plains - very broadly understood - for the inaugural edition of the journal. Submissions need not be focused solely upon the United States of America’s Northern Plains, but the ethical issues submissions address should be made relevant to the region.
The Northern Plains Ethics Journal will be the first peer-reviewed ethics and philosophy journal in North Dakota. The mission of the NPEJ is to create a high-quality dedicated publication platform to promote democratic participation in social and ethical issues affecting the Red River Valley and beyond.
To fulfill this mission, the NPEJ will become a marketplace for the accumulation, dissemination, discussion, and recognition of scholarship, ideas, and other work related to ethical issues affecting the USA’s Northern Plains. The NPEJ’s will provide a broad foundation for accessing work related to understanding and investigating past and present social and ethical issues, which will be instrumental and critical in finding solutions for challenges faced by communities in the region, country, and world.
Submissions should be sent by email to Professor Dennis Cooley, Managing Editor, at dennis.cooley@ndsu.edu by no later than 31 July 2013. There is no limit to word length.
Accepted papers should conform to the journal’s style standards found at the website: http://www.plainsethics.com/Journal/about/journal_about.html.
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Chrissy Meijns","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.plainsethics.com/Journal/about/journal_about.html","","","","","","","philevents4631","31-7-2013 9:0 BST","" 10636,"What is welfare and can we measure it?","In recent years, the enhancement of human welfare, well-being or happiness
have become focal concern in public discourse, among professional bodies and
government think tanks, policy makers and philosophers, at national,
European and global levels. The question of how to conceptualise, assess and
measure welfare is crucial to ethical debates over social justice. Welfare
is also a key concept in many academic disciplines, including philosophy,
psychology, economics and highly relevant for the law as well.
Emergent issues about welfare that need further discussion include:
The Institute of Applied Ethics at the University of Hull, UK is organising an interdisciplinary workshop on these questions on 28 and 29 November, 2013 and is now calling for paper proposals. This workshop will be an occasion for in-depth discussion of a relatively small numbers of papers (about ten) which will be circulated to participants in advance.
Abstracts would be especially welcome on the themes above, although submissions on any aspect of the nature and measurability of welfare will be considered. We are planning to publish selected papers from the workshop in a journal special issue.
Please send abstracts (approx. 300 words) for consideration to Peter Cserne (p.cserne@hull.ac.uk) and Tony Ward (A.Ward@hull.ac.uk) by 31 July. Decisions will be communicated early August. If your abstract is selected you will be asked to provide a short paper (3,000-5,000 words) by 31 October to be circulated among participants.
For any question about the workshop, please contact Peter Cserne (p.cserne@hull.ac.uk).
CALL FOR PAPERS
Values in the Environment Relations and Conflicts The Xth IIAA International Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics, Lahti, Finland, 1.8.-3.8.2013.
The International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) will arrange the Xth Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland, 1.8.-3.8.2013. The theme of the conference is Values in the Environment: Relations and Conflicts
Environments are arenas for different sorts of values. Environments are valued for their beauty and aesthetic experiences they afford, but there are also moral and ecological values that need to be taken into consideration, for example, in decision-making concerning particular areas both in human and in natural environments.
Different values can also come into conflict with one another. The ecologically best environment is not necessarily the most valuable environment from an aesthetic point of view. How should the weight of the different values present in environments be assessed? Is aesthetic value in some ways inferior to other sorts of values or could aesthetic value perhaps serve as a reason for preserving parts of the environment?
There is also an interesting question about the possibility of aesthetically appreciating damaged environments. How does the morally questionable background of an environment affect its aesthetic value? Can a mine or a quarry, for example, be considered beautiful?
The value of natural environments and green spaces in urban environments on promoting human well-being has also been increasingly recognized. How should these results be taken into account in urban planning? One increasing challenge faced by urban planning is the development of more environmentally sustainable cities. Could aesthetics in some ways aid in achieving this goal?
We invite researchers from different fields of the humanities, social and environmental sciences to discuss these questions. People interested in exploring them are asked to send an abstract of about 400 words to iiaa-info@helsinki.fi by the 15th of February 2013. The time allotted to each paper is 40 minutes (30 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion).
Keynote Speakers
Nathalie Blanc (CNRS, Paris)
Yrjö Haila (University of Tampere, Finland)
Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston, USA)
Conference fee: 100 and 50 graduate students
Contact person: Kalle Puolakka, kalle.puolakka[at]helsinki.fi
Within the context of a shifting research environment, the Journal of Philosophy, Science, and Law is inviting authors to submit new manuscripts that address the responsible conduct of research (RCR). Scientific research is conducted in a significantly different environment than it was 20 – or even 10 – years ago. Among the most notable changes are: new technologies that both yield highly novel results and decrease the transparency of the methods used; the increased pressure on academic researchers to secure intellectual property rights to their research; and interdisciplinary research efforts that are conducted collaboratively across the globe. These changes raise new challenges and questions about modern research practices.
Topics suitable for this Call for Papers include but are not limited to:
Manuscripts submitted for inclusion in this special issue must be original work and should not be under consideration with any other journal. The word count for submitted manuscripts, including references and notes, should not exceed 5000 words. Manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.
Authors should adhere as closely as possible to the Journal’s publication guidelines: http://www.miami.edu/ethics/jpsl/submission.html.
Authors should submit their manuscripts and abstracts via email attachments no later than August 1, 2013 to Dr. Levi Wood: LBWOOD(at)PARTNERS(dot)ORG
The email subject line should read JPSL-RCR.
Accepted manuscripts will be published online in December 2013/January 2014.
Editor-in-Chief: Rocci Luppicini, University of Ottawa, Canada
Published: Quarterly (both in Print and Electronic form)
Submission deadline: August 1, 2013
Special Issue on Technoethics and New Military Technologies
Guest Editor: Marcus Schulzke, State University of New York at Albany
New military technologies are transforming warfare, allowing wars to be fought at longer distances, with greater asymmetries of risk, and at higher speeds than ever before. Some of these technologies seem to mark radical new directions in the way wars are fought by upsetting traditional military roles and introducing entirely new domains of conflict. Emerging technologies of war create many pressing ethical challenges, which call for a serious examination of these technologies and a reexamination of existing standards for determining the justice and morality during war.
Many of the ethical challenges associated with new military technologies arise from how these technologies are designed. Some devices or techniques may seem to be intrinsically unethical or intrinsically better suited to waging just wars. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other remote weapons allow their operators to carry out attacks from thousands of miles away, raising the question of whether these machines are essentially unjust or whether their power to carry out discriminate attacks makes their use ethically obligatory. Nonlethal weapons, cyberweapons, and nanoweapons likewise create new problems for determining what weapons can have an ethical use in war. Other challenges arise from how new military technologies are employed. Technological asymmetries that give some militaries substantial advantages over less developed opponents raise questions about fairness between combatants and whether risk asymmetry can be so extreme that it hinders ethical conduct. The use of advanced weaponry complicates ongoing debates about just war theory and military ethics, such as the debate over the morality of targeted killing, by changing the way attacks are carried out. Finally, new military technologies test the adequacy of the moral and legal concepts that are used to make normative sense of war. For example, new technologies and the techniques associate with their use strain conventional standards of determining combatant and noncombatant status by leading military personnel and civilians to play novel roles.
This special issue of the International Journal of Technoethics on “Technoethics and New Military Technologies” aims at exploring the many ethical issues surrounding the design and use of the many new technologies used to wage wars. Topics may include, but are not limited to, ethical issues relating to:
Submitting to the International Journal of Technoethics:
Prospective authors should note that only original and previously unpublished articles will be considered. Interested authors must consult the journal’s guidelines for manuscript submissions prior to submission (www.igi-global.com/ijt). All article submissions will be forwarded to at least 2 reviewers. Final decisions regarding acceptance/revision/rejection will be based on the reviews received from the reviewers. Each research paper should be between 5,500 to 8,000 words in length. The submission deadline is August 1, 2013.
All inquiries and submissions should be directed to:
Marcus Schulzke
Project on Violent Conflict
Department of Political Science
State University of New York at Albany
Email: MSchulzke@albany.edu
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Chrissy Meijns","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.igi-global.com/ijt","","","","","","","philevents5155","1-8-2013 9:0 BST","" 10083,"2nd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference","Conference Theme: Ethics
This will be a conference open to submissions in all areas of ethics.
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines:
Deadline to submit: August 1, 2013
For more information, visit us at http://ugphil.sdsu.edu/ or find us on facebook http://facebook.com/ugphil.sdsu
","CFP for conference or similar","","Rashed Ahmad","Philosophy Department, San Diego State University","San Diego, California, United States","92182","","-117.071","32.7756","Not Specified","","http://ugphil.sdsu.edu/","","","","","2nd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference","10082","ugphil.sdsu","1-8-2013 23:45 BST","" 9991,"Cyberwar, Cybercrime and Cyberdefence: Mapping the Ethical Terrain","Keynotes:
Cybersecurity is an increasingly prominent feature in national and international security, and threatens civilian and military interests. An effective response to emerging threats to cybersecurity, however, requires a comprehensive understanding of the problem and its potential solutions.
Contact: Mr Shannon Ford (shford@csu.edu.au).
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University","Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia","","","149.128","-35.2835","Not Specified","","","","","","","","","philevents5296","5-8-2013 9:0 EST","6-8-2013 17:0 EST" 8192,"Sixth Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME)","Contact: Benjamin Hale (bhale@colorado.edu) and Alastair Norcross (Alastair.Norcross@colorado.edu).
Visit our website at:
Under the auspices of Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania) in association with EDHEC Business School (Lille), the Hoover Chair (Louvain) and CARMAE (Bucharest)
This summer school is open to PhD students from any discipline (philosophy, law, management,...) and will look into various dimensions of CSR from a normative perspective. It will cross approaches from philosophy and management. The following six professors will be contributing this year:
The number of students is limited to 20. Besides the advanced seminars on the above mentioned topics, there will be individual tutorials - through peripatetic walks in the beautiful Rimetea countryside - enabling each student to discuss his/her research topic in depth.
Fee, including accomodation and food: 450 Euros per person
Applications by advanced MA students intending to to a PhD will also be considered
By February 10, applicants should send a short mail to Axel Gosseries and Cristian Ducu (cristian.ducu@etica-aplicata.ro) indicating their interest in applying (please use as a subject ""Rimetea 2013"").
By February 25, we should receive a single PDF file including a two page CV with publication list (if any) and a two page presentation of their PhD project. A clear research question should be stated.
Decisions on acceptance will be made by March 15.
This info will also be available in the coming days on the following site:
This conference will be organised by
the European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare
(ESPMH) and the Institute for Biomedical Ethics,
University of Basel, Switzerland.
Anyone wishing to present a paper at the conference should submit an abstract (500 words maximum) before 1 March, 2013.
For more information: Professor Bert Gordijn, Secretary of the ESPMH,
Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9 (Ireland).
E-mail: bert.gordijn@dcu.ie
","Conference or similar","27th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE","Tim Jacquemard","European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH)","Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland","","","7.58349","47.5586","External Site","http://www.espmh.org/","http://www.espmh.org/","25-2-2013 0:45 CET","true","","","","","philevents4118","14-8-2013 10:0 CEST","17-8-2013 17:0 CEST" 8151,"Climate Change, Sustainability and an Ethics of an Open Future","Climate change, dwindling resources, and growth of the global population have emerged as challenges for all areas of political action in modern societies. These challenges have been on the political agenda since the ""Limits to Growth"" report was released in 1972. While the challenges are well known, and while there appears to be some form of consensus that sustainability is a goal worth striving for, there is little discussion of how the changes necessary to achieve this goal will affect our political institutions, our social relationships, our moral responsibilities, and our self-understanding in general. The more far-reaching the necessary changes are, the more pressing the following questions will become: To what extent are political and economic institutions - national as well as global - capable of realizing sustainable politics and what is its ethical basis? To what extent will personal liberties, such as freedom of movement, property rights, and reproductive autonomy, need to be limited in order to realize sustainable politics? How could we extend the current system of human rights to incorporate the rights of future generations? Can we expect human beings to take responsibility for the living conditions of future generations, and how do such responsibilities affect philosophical and eschatological theories? An ethics of an open future must develop criteria for moral action under conditions of uncertainty. A developed theory of the principle of precaution in ethics and law is, however, lacking.
This will be the 50th Societas Ethica conference. It is realized in cooperation with the ESF Network ""A Right to a Green Future"".
Contact: johanna.romare@liu.se
","Conference or similar","Societas Ethica Annual Conference","Chrissy Meijns"," Societas Ethica","Soesterberg, Utrecht, Netherlands","","Kontakt der Kontinente","5.28611","52.1183","Not Specified","","http://www.societasethica.info","","","","","","","philevents4000","22-8-2013 9:0 CEST","25-8-2013 17:0 CEST" 8256,"Who Owns It: Land Claims in Latin America. Their Moral Legitimacy and Implications","Conflicts due to unresolved land claims are a pressing political and social issue throughout Latin America. The aim of this two-day bilingual seminar is to bring together different perspectives on the moral and political legitimacy of land claims in Latin America. We welcome contributions about both indigenous and non-indigenous groups making land claims in Latin America.
We invite submissions in Spanish or English that address the issue of land claims in Latin America both from a theoretical and applied perspective. Suggested topics of papers may include:
- The normative justification of land claims in Latin America
- Land claims in Latin America: What type of claims do the different groups make?
- Land claims in Latin America: Constitutional and legal perspectives
- Land claims in Latin America: What do current economic policies favor?
- The value of land in Latin America: as a means or an end?
- Land in Latin America: Its social and cultural importance for vulnerable populations
- Control and ownership of natural resources by indigenous communities/local groups
- Poverty, development and land tenure in Latin America
- Individual versus collective (or communal) land rights
- Social movements and land claims: Mapping diverse ways of resistance
- ‘Land-grabbing’ by agribusinesses and foreign investors: Tracing new ways of colonization
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words. Please send your submissions in PDF, Word or RTF formats to Alejandra Mancilla, at woiproject@yahoo.com, no later than the 15th March 2013. It is also possible to submit a short paper, which should not exceed 4000 words. The organizers will cover the costs of travel and accommodation in Bogotá for those authors whose abstracts/papers are selected for the seminar.
","Conference or similar","","Alejandra Mancilla","Institute of Bioethics, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana","Bogotá, Colombia","","","-74.0758","4.59806","Not Specified","","http://www.hf.uio.no/csmn/english/research/projects/who-owns-it/index.html","","","","","","","philevents4076","28-8-2013 3:0 COT","30-8-2013 17:0 COT" 8722,"Sámi Customary Rights in Modern Landscapes: Indigenous People and Nature Conservation","The conference aims to explore how culturally defined values, ideologies and policies have formed, and continue to form, the basis of Indigenous rights and management models of nature conservation areas in Sápmi. Comparisons with, or cases of, the situations of other Indigenous Peoples are welcome. The conference seeks to bring together different disciplines such as history, political science, law, cultural geography, sociology and anthropology. The purpose is to combine different scientific disciplines such a history, political sciences and law. Some specific issues include:
The conference is part of the research project Indigenous Rights and Nature Conservation in Fennoscandinavia, financed by Formas, Sweden. For information about the research project Indigenous Rights and Nature Conservation in Fennoscandinavia, see our website:
www.indigenous-nature.eu/
The conference language will be English. Registration will be during the morning of Wednesday the 28th of August. The conference will begin after lunch on the 28th and continue until Friday afternoon the 29th of August. The conference will be held in Luleå in northern Sweden. Luleå is the regional centre of the county of Norrbotten, a nice harbor town with a large archipelago for tourism and recreation.
Optional excursion
On Friday the 30th a scientific and cultural excursion will be arranged to parts of Sápmi. We will visit cultural heritage sites of local Sámi people and also travel out into nature to see how reindeer herding and other interests are reconciled in conservation areas. The excursion is optional and will be self-financed by the participants. It is estimated to cost a maximum of 1000 SEK, including transportation and food.
E-mail: camilla.sandstrom@pol.umu.se
Phone: +46-90-7866450
Publication
The conference aims to publish a selection of conference papers as a special issue for a high ranked academic journal.
Registration
In order to plan for the conference we need your registration. You can register even if you do not have any paper for presentation. The conference fee is 1500 SEK, including meals and conference dinner.
First date for registration: 1 April 2013
Last date of registration: 5 August 2013
You may register and pay the conference fee on the website: www.ltu.se/samilandscapes
For accommodation, restaurants, events, etc. see: www.visitlulea.se. For your convenience there is also rooms reserved at Elite Hotel.
For information concerning practical arrangements, please contact:
Conference manager Meit Levin, Luleå University of Technology.
E-mail: meit.levin@ltu.se
Phone: +46-920-491622
For information concerning the content of the conference, please contact:
Prof. Lars Elenius, Senior lecturer at Luleå University of Technology.
E-mail: lars.elenius@ltu.se
Phone: +46-70-3131259
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Umeå University","Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden","","","22.1546","65.5842","External Site","http://www.ltu.se/samilandscapes","http://www.ltu.se/samilandscapes","28-8-2013 9:0 CEST","true","","","","","philevents4415","28-8-2013 10:0 CEST","29-8-2013 17:0 CEST" 10243,"","Call for Papers
Milestone Education Review (The Journal of Ideas on Educational & Social Transformation)
ISSN: 2278-2168
Respected Faculty/Scholar/Professor,
Milestone Education Review (The Journal of Ideas on Educational & Social Transformation) is an online peer-reviewed bi-annual journal of Milestone Education Society (Regd.) Pehowa (Kurukshetra). For us education refers to any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character, or physical ability of an individual. The role of education must be as an instrument of social change and social transformation. Social transformation refers to large scale of social change as in cultural reforms and transformations. The first occurs with the individual, the second with the social system. This journal offers an opportunity to all academicians including educationist, social-scientists, philosophers and social activities to share their views. Each issue contains about 100 pages. This is a special call for papers for Milestone Education Review, Year 04, No. 01 (April, 2013) issue.
Theme: Stress and Mental Health
Talking about stress has become part of normal everyday conversation. We might talk about being stressed by our partners, our children, our financial worries and, of course, our jobs. Most of us recognise the symptoms of stress as feeling anxious, worrying more than usual, not being able to concentrate, and not sleeping well. But we don't always take our feelings of stress that seriously, assuming either that its part and parcel of life or that it will pass. So understanding of stress is important for us in order to deal with it effectively .Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened or upset your balance in some way. When you sense danger – whether it’s real or imagined – the body's defenses kick into high gear in a rapid, automatic process known as the “fight-or-flight” reaction, or the stress response. The stress response is the body’s way of protecting you. When working properly, it helps you stay focused, energetic, and alert. In emergency situations, stress can save your life – giving you extra strength to defend yourself, and achieve success in any domain. So stress response also helps you rise to meet challenges. Stress is good when it is in appropriate proportion but stress beyond certain level may lead to various psychological, physical and cognitive problems such as body aches and pain, constipation, chest pains, rapid heartbeat, loss of sex drive, frequent cold, headaches, memory problems, inability to concentrate, anxiety, constant worrying, depression, general unhappiness, moodiness etc. which may further hamper one’s personal, social and occupational life or overall well-being of an individual
Therefore effective stress management is the key towards success and overall well-being. We therefore invite your papers on the following theme:
· Stress Management and Coping
· Stress and Well-being.
· Pressures and Stress.
· Stress at workplace in Public and private sector
· Personality and Stress
· Stress and Health Problems
Guest Editors: Dr. Nidhi Verma, Assistant Professor,
Department of Psychology, Kurukshetra University,
Kurukshetra
Last date for paper submission: 31st August, 2013
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Desh Raj Sirswal","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://milestonereview.webs.com","","","","","","","philevents5501","31-8-2013 17:0 BST","" 10527,"2014 New Zealand Bioethics Conference: New Questions, New Answers","The 2014 New Zealand Bioethics Conference “New Questions, New Answers” will feature plenary, panel and elective sessions.
Abstracts for elective sessions will be considered on any topic, however topics for the 2014 conference will include:
Abstracts must be submitted electronically using the Abstract Submission Form by 1 September 2013.http://www.events4you.co.nz/nzbioethics/abstractsubmission.html
For all enquiries contact:
Sally Boult, Conference Organiser
Phone +64 3 487 6622
Fax +64 3 487 6625
Email sally@events4you.co.nz
***
Call For Papers: Slavery and Emancipation goo.gl/Ha4Cj
Wednesday 4th September – Friday 6th September 2013
MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory (Manchester) goo.gl/E58yS
Historically, the institution of slavery was the focus of a great deal of philosophical research. Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Wollstonecraft, Bentham, Locke, Rousseau, Paine, Wilberforce, Grotius, Pufendorf, Nietzsche, Marx, and many others, considered such topics as the definition of slavery, the rightness or wrongness of slavery, which sorts of people could or should be enslaved, and whether (and if so, when) they should be emancipated.
In recent years, by contrast, philosophers have shown little interest in slavery. Yet they have nonetheless produced a plethora of work on related topics, such as freedom and equality. This is not because slavery is no longer with us; indeed, according to some accounts there are more slaves now than at any other time in history. Given that 2013 marks the 175th anniversary of the final emancipation of all enslaved persons in the British Empire, this seems an appropriate time to renew our philosophical focus on slavery and on those who enslave and are enslaved.
Possible topics to be addressed include, but are not restricted to:
—What is slavery? How is slavery different from other forms of unfreedom/inequality/labour etc? —What was mistaken about historical arguments for slavery? —How do we best explain the wrongness of slavery? Why were the actions of slave owners, slave traders, or those involved in the initial enslavement, wrong? —Do people not involved in slavery have obligations to oppose slavery? —Are slaves obliged to resist their own enslavement? —Can a person consent to be a slave? —What is the relationship between slavery and sexism/racism/ableism/heteronormativity etc? —What do slave narratives tell us about the nature or wrongness of slavery or about the rightness of emancipation? —What is emancipation? —Who can emancipate whom, when, and from what? —Is emancipation all that is owed to slaves? Does the legacy of slavery and emancipation require further action?
We welcome expressions of interest from graduate students, from junior researchers, and from established scholars. If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please submit, to both convenors, an abstract of 500-1000 words (or a complete paper), by Friday 31st May 2013. We will expect a full version of your paper on Emancipation Day, Thursday 1st August 2013. We hope this will give participants the opportunity to read the papers in advance and to give and receive more detailed feedback during the workshop.
Convenors: Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, natcole@umich.edu Simon Roberts-Thomson, serobertsthomson@gmail.com
***
Roles are socially pervasive and normatively demanding. They have an enormous and complex impact on our practical decision making. When judging whether she should illegally hack an apparently corrupt POLITICIAN’s bank account, for example, an INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST cannot ignore the specific duties and purposes of both her own and the politician’s social roles.
High-profile discussions of particular roles can be found across the spectrum of applied ethics (e.g. COMBATANT in war ethics; PRACTITIONER in medical ethics; PARENT in family ethics; WOMAN in feminist theory; WORKER in economic policy), but work on role ethics as a topic in its own right is surprisingly rare. There are signs that this is changing and that roles per se are beginning to attain the profile they deserve within ethical and political theory. The ROLE ETHICS workshop is designed to foster this process.
Proposals in the form of an anonymous abstract are invited on the themes below. Deadline: 31 May 2013
One goal of the workshop is to achieve a greater understanding of both the unity and the diversity of roles. All roles seem to share a core set of features. They:
Yet roles can also be distinguished along a great many morally salient parameters, such as:
Voluntary (ADOPTIVE PARENT) vs involuntary (CONSCRIPT); highly codified (COMMANDING OFFICER) vs loosely specified (FRIEND); wWidely socially recognized (TEACHER) vs contested (SLAVE); biologically defined (GESTATIONAL MOTHER) vs socially constructed (‘MUMMY’); easily left (ASSISTANT CHEF) vs inalienable (BIRTH CHILD); short-term (JUROR) vs long-term (DALAI LAMA); professional (DENTIST) vs ad hoc (WITNESS TO A MURDER); broad in brief (PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL) vs narrow in brief (EXPERT WITNESS); open to all (CONSUMER) vs invitation only (GODPARENT); decision making (EUTHANASIA PATIENT) vs decision facilitating (EUTHANASIA DOCTOR)
Workshop contributors can use specific roles as case studies but should address general questions, including but not limited to:
For details on submitting, see:
","Conference or similar","MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory","Alex Barber","University of Manchester","Manchester, United Kingdom","","","-2.23394","53.4668","Not Specified","","http://www.roleethics.org","","","","","","","philevents5548","4-9-2013 9:0 BST","6-9-2013 17:0 BST" 9872,"Paternalism and Libertarian Paternalism","Paternalism continues to be an important topic in moral and political philosophy/theory. But what it is? Most agree that it involves some sort of interference with a person motivated and/or justified by her good. However, Seana Shiffrin has denied that paternalism need to have this rationale, and proponents of libertarian paternalism typically deny that it need be interfering. It seems even the two most basic elements – interference and benevolence – may not be so basic. What is the most constructive strategy in light of this controversy? Do we keep the conceptual discussion going or can we somehow get around it or do without it?
Libertarian paternalism is a recent political program founded on behavioural research. We now know that what we prefer depends on the context and not only the content of a choice. So our wellbeing can be promoted not only by restricting the content of our choices - blocking or discouraging harmful options, but also by designing or changing the context of our choices - making good options more salient, appealing or otherwise more likely to be chosen. Libertarian paternalists say we should use choice context to promote wellbeing, without restricting content. Can this distinction be maintained? Is libertarian paternalism a coherent strategy? How are pro and con positions on libertarian paternalism related to pro and con positions on paternalism proper?
We warmly invite all scholars who regard process philosophy as a viable tool in face of contemporary issues of philosophy and the modern world.
","Conference or similar","International Whitehead Conferences","Jakub Dziadkowiec","The International Process Network, The Whitehead Metaphysical Society","Kraków, Poland","","","19.0","50.0","External Site","https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=iwc9poland","http://www.iwc9-poland.com/","30-3-2013 2:45 CET","true","","","","","philevents4436","9-9-2013 12:0 CEST","12-9-2013 17:0 CEST" 9136,"","The Editorial Board of Diametros - An Online Journal of Philosophy is planning to publish a special edition of the journal dedicated to actual and possible applications of Thomas Aquinas’ moral theory to the problems of contemporary practical ethics. The thematic scope of the publication is considerably broad, and that in two respects. On the one hand, we believe that there are a number of issues in St. Thomas’ moral philosophy, in particular his doctrine of natural law, which need to be considered in relation to contemporary practical ethics. On the other hand, Aquinas’ moral theory will certainly shed new light on many issues in practical ethics, especially in bioethics. Thus we do not wish to limit the scope of the articles published in the special edition. However, we would appreciate that the articles not be focused too narrowly on specific issues, so that the special edition will be of interest to a broader audience and not only to specialists in St. Thomas’ ethics.
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Iza Zwiech","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.diametros.iphils.uj.edu.pl/?l=2&p=anr100&m=101","","","","","","","philevents4690","10-9-2013 9:0 BST","" 7554,"The Ethics of Consumption: The Citizen, The Market, and The Law","EurSafe 2013 is an international forum for discussion of ethical issues at the intersection between social, economic and legal aspects of consumption of food and agricultural products.
Please see the conference web site for further details:
","Conference or similar","11th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics","Chrissy Meijns","European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics","Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden","","","17.6454","59.8585","Not Specified","","http://www.slu.se/eursafe2013","","","","","","","philevents3560","11-9-2013 9:0 CEST","14-9-2013 17:0 CEST" 9252,"Ethical issues in new biotechnology in agriculture","The format for this one-day workshop involves four invited speakers plus selected submitted papers. We aim at intensive discussions and exchange on current ethical issues in biotechnology between scholars from the fields of e.g. philosophy, agrarian sciences, economics, ethics, political science, or sociology.
Potential topics include for discussions are ethical issues prompted e.g. by:
Contact: per.sandin@slu.se
Mistra Biotech is an interdisciplinary research program focusing on use of biotechnology for sustainable and competitive agriculture and food systems. The program started in 2013 and is funded by The Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). More information about the program is available at: www.slu.se/mistrabiotech
The workshop is a satellite event to the EurSafe Congress (European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics) which runs in Uppsala between 11 and 14 September 2013, hosted by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). This year’s conference theme is “The Ethics of Consumption”. More information and registration at the conference web site: www.slu.se/eursafe2013
","Conference or similar","Mistra Biotech workshop","Chrissy Meijns","Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences","Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden","","","17.6454","59.8585","Not Specified","","http://www.slu.se/eursafe2013","","","","","","","philevents4776","11-9-2013 9:0 CEST","11-9-2013 17:0 CEST" 10230,"License to operate ","The theme of the EBEN 2013 Annual Conference is “License to operate”. In a narrow sense the ‘license to operate’ means the stakeholders’ approval of a particular business project that can affect their lives. The term could be understood differently, however. It could be applied to the acceptance or non-acceptance of the expansion of profit-seeking business into sectors of activity that, at least in Europe, were formerly performed by the state or non-for profit institutions (healthcare, education, utilities, etc). Or, more broadly, the ‘license to operate’ could refer to an implicit social contract between corporations and society at large.
The discussion about the legitimacy of corporations is an old one. But we think that the context has evolved and that the awareness and the expectations of the public have changed.
The conference is preceded by a one-day doctoral workshop.
Details on:
","Conference or similar","26th European Business Ethics Network (EBEN) Annual Conference","Chrissy Meijns","Université de Lille 1","Lille, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France","","","3.06667","50.6333","Not Specified","","http://eben2013.edhec.edu/","","","","","","","philevents5489","12-9-2013 10:0 CEST","14-9-2013 17:0 CEST" 10510,"Can psychology replace ethics?","In recent years, a broad interdisciplinary field of research has emerged that is dedicated to the empirical investigation of human morality. However, this development poses a professional as well as a discursive challenge for not only the field of ethics but also the empirical sciences: Can ethics still maintain a claim of validity despite the fact that empirical research suggests that not reason, but intuition guides human action? Do the participating academic disciplines bear a social responsibility for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary discussions in this context? The challenges that arise from the controversy surrounding ""rationality vs. intuition"" for our ethical self-image and practice of decision-making must be explored and discussed.
The symposium will be organized by the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities and will take place from March 8th-15th, 2014 in Tuebingen. It is interdisciplinarily oriented and conceptualized for young scholars from the humanities, natural sciences and social sciences (e.g., philosophy, theology, psychology, neuroscience, biology, sociology, law, education, etc.)..In addition to basic introductory lectures provided by international experts and thematic workshops, the participants will receive interdisciplinary feedback on their own academic work.
Applications should consist of an abstract in English (500 words), a CV, a publication list and a one-page letter of motivation (in English or German). Applicants should have experience in the field and demonstrate a willingness to engage in an intensive interdisciplinary exchange. Applications must be submitted by September 15th, 2013 in PDF format to the organizer of the symposium, Dr. Cordula Brand. (cordula.brand@uni-tuebingen.de).
The conference will be held in German and/or English, depending on the constellation of the participants. The contributions will be published in an anthology in English. To ensure a fruitful exchange and a timely release of the volume, participants are requested to submit their contributions by February 2014. In addition to a one-time allowance of € 300, costs of travel and accommodation will be covered.
Contact:
Dr. Cordula Brand
Eberhard Karls University of Tuebingen
International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities
Department of Ethics and Education
Wilhelmstr. 19
72074 Tübingen
cordula.brand@uni-tuebingen.de
http://www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/ethik-und-bildung.html
For more information please visit:
","CFP for conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Universität Tübingen","Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany","","","9.05222","48.5227","Not Specified","","http://www.izew.uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/ethik-und-bildung/klausurwoche-psychologie-statt-ethik.html","","","","","Can psychology replace ethics?","10509","philevents5685","15-9-2013 9:0 BST","" 9772,"Philosophy & Theory of Artificial Intelligence","See the CFP online http://www.pt-ai.org/2013/
","Conference or similar","PT-AI","Vincent C. Müller","Department of Philosophy, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford","Oxford, England, United Kingdom","OX2 6JF","Nissan Lecture Theatre","-1.26304","51.7635","Not Specified","","http://www.pt-ai.org/2013/","31-8-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents5143","21-9-2013 9:0 BST","22-9-2013 17:0 BST" 10219,"Whom and what can you trust in online / mediated environments? Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Philosophy, Computer Science, Media Studies","James Moor¹s seminal paper, ³What is Computer Ethics?² (1985), inaugurated a new generation of interdisciplinary reflection on how computing technologies evoked distinctive new ethical challenges. These challenges are often quite novel and their roots in specific technologies thus require equally novel and collaborative reflection across the otherwise diverse disciplines of philosophy, applied ethics, computer science, social science, and so on.
Especially over the past decade, increasing attention has been given to questions of trust and privacy in online and mediated environments. These questions are complicated by important differences between face-to-face and online/mediated experiences of trust and privacy - and further complicated by the increasingly important roles of Artificial Agents (AAs) and Multi-Agent Systems (MASs) such as those at work in ³recommendations for you² on commercial websites, web-page ranking algorithms used in popular search engines, and so on. At the same time, AAs and MASs are becoming increasingly autonomous capable of making decisions independently of human control. Such autonomy raises centrally philosophical questions: Are such AAs and MASs further capable of making autonomous ethical judgments including the specific sort of judgment denoted by phronesis or ³practical wisdom²? And: how would we know if we can or should trust these agents precisely as they become increasingly indispensible to our lives?
Our lecturers / mentors have each undertaken leading work in these domains, both within philosophically-grounded and -oriented reflection (J. Moor, J. Simon, M. Taddeo, H. Tavani) and within the contexts of online and mediated communication environments (D. Elgesem, E. Staksrud, C.Ess). Our faculty and PhD workshops are designed to further important dialogue and debate, and foster current doctoral research in these domains. The public debate will offer highlights of current insights and findings, along with critical discussion of our defining themes and questions.
For more details, including registration procedures, please see the workshops / lecture website.
Informed, autonomous consent is widely considered to be central to the ethics of human subjects research. However, it remains both conceptually and practically underspecified. A conceptually clear account of informed consent that is appropriate to the broad array of human subjects research, from medical to social science, has been elusive. Moreover, it has proven to be difficult to operationalize informed consent in practice. These challenges to the ethics of informed consent have been compounded by the globalization of research and rapid technological developments.
This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together practitioners and theorists at the leading edge of the ethics of informed consent to share their research and discuss the future of informed consent. The workshop is designed to be highly interactive, and to provide speakers with constructive feedback from colleagues working on related issues.
Please email questions to Ronald Sandler (r.sandler@neu.edu).
For more information about the workshop go to:
","Conference or similar","3rd Annual Workshop in Applied Ethics","Chrissy Meijns","Northeastern University","Boston, Massachusetts, United States","","","-71.0598","42.3584","Not Specified","","http://www.northeastern.edu/ethics","","","","","","","philevents4443","27-9-2013 4:0 EDT","29-9-2013 17:0 EDT" 10639,"Neuroenhancement — What could we do and what ought we to do?","Topic
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This year’s summer school will focus on the possibilities and perils of neuroenhancement from the perspectives of neurosciences, medicine and philosophy. We want to explore what could be achieved through neuroenhancements in theory, what can be done already, and where to draw the line.
Faculty
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### PD Dr. Jens Clausen
Jens Clausen is assistant professor at the Institute for Ethics and History in Medicine, University of Tübingen as of February 2008, managing director of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University Hospital Tübingen, and member of the Center of Integrative Neuroscience (CIN). He studied biology and philosophy and focuses his research on ethical and anthropological implications of modern neurosciences with special respect to brain technological devices, enhancement and regenerative medicine.
### PD Dr. Markus Fendt
Markus Fendt is Group Leader at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Magdeburg. Goal of the research in his laboratory is to understand the neural basis of innate and learned emotions. To elucidate the anatomical, physiological and pharmacological processes that underlie emotions, his group uses a multidisciplinary approach. He held positions at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, and at the Department of Animal Physiology, University of Tübingen.
### Dr. Dr. Andreas Franke
Andreas Franke works at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Mainz. His research interests are neuroethics and neuroenhancement. He studied medicine in Göttingen, Bern and Essen as well as sociology in Göttingen (MA). His dissertation in medicine was on apoptosis (programmed cell death in the retina of chicken and mice) while his sociological dissertation was on the topic of social resonance from different perspectives.
### Stephan Schleim, Ph.D.
Stephan Schleim is assistant professor for Theory and History of Psychology at the University of Groningen. His research interests are the theoretical foundations of the neuro-sciences and the scientific communication thereof. He is participating in the public and academic discourse on neuroenhancement/brain doping for almost ten years. He studied philosophy, computer Science, and psychology at the University
of Mainz and earned his Ph.D in cognitive science at the University of Osnabrück.
How to apply
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The summer school is aimed at advanced undergraduate students and graduate students working in neurobiology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines.
Board and lodging (in double rooms) will be provided for. There are no participation fees to be paid, although traveling costs and beverages have to be covered by the participants.
For your application please do submit:
Applications should be sent to info@fsci.uni-tuebingen.de or to our postal address:
FORUM SCIENTIARUM, Doblerstr. 33, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Application deadline: July 1st, 2013
* * * * *
TÜBINGEN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL is a joint venture of FORUM SCIENTIARUM and the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN).
TÜBINGEN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL (TISS) 2013
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Neuroenhancement — What could we do and what ought we to do?
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- September 29th to October 2nd, 2013
- Cloister Heiligkreuztal
Topic
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This year’s summer school will focus on the possibilities and perils of
neuroenhancement from the perspectives of neurosciences, medicine and
philosophy. We want to explore what could be achieved through
neuroenhancements in theory, what can be done already, and where to draw
the line.
Faculty
-------
### PD Dr. Jens Clausen
Jens Clausen is assistant professor at the Institute for Ethics and
History in Medicine, University of Tübingen as of February 2008,
managing director of the Clinical Ethics Committee of the University
Hospital Tübingen, and member of the Center of Integrative Neuroscience
(CIN). He studied biology and philosophy and focuses his research on
ethical and anthropological implications of modern neurosciences with
special respect to brain technological devices, enhancement and
regenerative medicine.
### PD Dr. Markus Fendt
Markus Fendt is Group Leader at the Institute of Pharmacology and
Toxicology, University of Magdeburg. Goal of the research in his
laboratory is to understand the neural basis of innate and learned
emotions. To elucidate the anatomical, physiological and pharmacological
processes that underlie emotions, his group uses a multidisciplinary
approach. He held positions at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical
Research in Basel, Switzerland, and at the Department of Animal
Physiology, University of Tübingen.
### Dr. Dr. Andreas Franke
Andreas Franke works at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy,
University of Mainz. His research interests are neuroethics and
neuroenhancement. He studied medicine in Göttingen, Bern and Essen as
well as sociology in Göttingen (MA). His dissertation in medicine was on
apoptosis (programmed cell death in the retina of chicken and mice)
while his sociological dissertation was on the topic of social resonance
from different perspectives.
### Stephan Schleim, Ph.D.
Stephan Schleim is assistant professor for Theory and History of
Psychology at the University of Groningen. His research interests are
the theoretical foundations of the neuro-sciences and the scientific
communication thereof. He is participating in the public and academic
discourse on neuroenhancement/brain doping for almost ten years. He
studied philosophy, computer Science, and psychology at the University
of Mainz and earned his Ph.D in cognitive science at the University of
Osnabrück.
How to apply
------------
The summer school is aimed at advanced undergraduate students and
graduate students working in neurobiology, neuroscience, psychology,
philosophy, and other relevant disciplines.
Board and lodging (in double rooms) will be provided for. There are
no participation fees to be paid, although traveling costs and
beverages have to be covered by the participants.
For your application please do submit:
- Brief cover letter
- CV
- Filled out application form:
Applications should be sent to or to our
postal address:
FORUM SCIENTIARUM, Doblerstr. 33, 72074 Tübingen, Germany
Application deadline: July 1st, 2013
* * * * *
TÜBINGEN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL is a joint venture of FORUM
SCIENTIARUM and the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience
(CIN).
","Conference or similar","Tübingen International Summer School (TISS)","Dominik Gerstorfer","Forum Scientiarum, Karl-Eberhards Universität Tübingen","72074 Tübingen, Germany, Germany","","","9.06041E27","4.85211E27","External Site","http://www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de/tiss","http://www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de/tiss","1-7-2013 10:0 CEST","true","","","","","TISS2013","29-9-2013 10:0 CEST","2-10-2013 17:0 CEST" 9078,"Fourth Workshop in Social and Political Thought at Michigan State University: Global Ethics and Capitalism. Rethinking Critical Theory","Fourth Workshop in Social and Political Thought at Michigan State University
with Carol C. Gould, Moishe Postone, and Tony Smith
Friday: 9am-6pm, Saturday: 9am-1pm
Description:
This workshop will be a forum for addressing the provocative ways in which recent scholarship situates Critical Theory in contemporary analyses of Capitalism in relation to normative questions ‘of a global scale.’ In this sense, the workshop will discuss the status and relevance of a critique of Capitalism in its global form in contemporary Critical Theory. An important aspect of this discussion is the extent to which a normative analysis of Capitalism can be related to an analysis of the immanent tendencies of Capitalism. Participants will confront and examine recent shifts of Critical Theory away from a Marxian notion of the critique of political economy, and the viability of critiques of Capitalism in light of recent conceptions of economic crises and accelerating globalization.
Main Speakers (with brief commentators)
Carol C. Gould (Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center)
Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2013; Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004; Rethinking Democracy: Freedom and Social Cooperation in Politics, Economy, and Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; Marx's Social Ontology: Individuality and Community in Marx's Theory of Social Reality, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 1978,
Moishe Postone (University of Chicago)
Critical Theory and the Twentieth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press (in preparation); Time, Labor, and Social Domination: A Reinterpretation of Marx's Critical Theory, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993
Tony Smith (Iowa State University)
Globalization: A Systematic Marxian Account, Brill Press (2005); Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production: A Marxian Critique of the “New Economy,” State University of New York Press, 2000; Dialectical Social Theory and Its Critics: From Hegel to Analytical Marxism and Postmodernism, State University of New York Press, 1993; The Role of Ethics in Social Theory: Essays from a Habermasian Perspective, State University of New York Press, 1991; The Logic of Marx’s Capital: Replies to Hegelian Criticisms, State University of New York Press, 1990.
Organization and RSVP
Prof. Christian Lotz
Prof. Kyle Whyte
Prof. Todd Hedrick
Michigan State University
Dept. of Philosophy
503 South Kedzie Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517.355.4490 (Dept.)
lotz@msu.edu/kwhyte@msu.edu/hedrickt@msu.edu
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Michigan State University","East Lansing, Michigan, United States","","","-84.4839","42.737","E-Mail","","","4-10-2013 9:0 EDT","true","","","","","philevents4648","4-10-2013 9:0 EDT","5-10-2013 17:0 EDT" 3466,"Envisioning Plurality: Feminist Perspectives on Pluralism in Ethics, Politics, and Social Theory","One meaning of pluralism within philosophy is that it seeks to bring underrepresented theoretical perspectives and underrepresented groups into the philosophical mainstream, transforming philosophy as a result. Yet what is meant by ""pluralism"" and how to assess whether or not pluralism has been achieved remains hotly contested.
While philosophy is often depicted as the academic field most in need of pluralistic correctives, other disciplines, too, struggle with the marginalization of those whom, due to their theoretical approaches or their bodies, have been pushed to the edges of their disciplines.
Keynote speakers:
Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, Alcoff has initiated public discussions of pluralism, through both her Pluralist’s Guide to Philosophy and her 2012 NYT op-ed piece addressing Arizona’s censorship of the teaching of critical race theory in public schools.
Jennifer Lisa Vest is a mixedblood (Black/Florida Seminole/German) poet and philosopher who holds the position of Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. Co-author of Philanthropy in Communities of Color, her book manuscript Sovereign Wisdom: Generating Academic Native American Philosophy is under review.
Invited Sessions:
Location: Fiesta Resort and Conference Center, Tempe, AZ: http://www.fiestainnresort.com/
Questions on this conference or the submission process may be directed to the Program Chair, Jean Keller, at feast2013@csbsju.edu.
For more information on FEAST or to see programs from previous conferences, go to:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory","Tempe, Arizona, United States","","Fiesta Resort and Conference Center","-111.94","33.4255","Not Specified","","http://www.afeast.org","","","","","","","philevents3156","17-10-2013 17:0 MST","23-10-2013 17:0 MST"