Contact: phenomenology_roundtable@yahoo.com
The fees for this year’s Roundtable are: $30 for students and $60 for faculty.
For more information regarding the Phenomenology Roundtable, please visit:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Loyola University, Chicago","Chicago, Illinois, United States","","","-87.65","41.85","Not Specified","","http://phenomenologyroundtable.wordpress.com","","","","","","","philevents4577","19-5-2013 3:0 CDT","21-5-2013 17:0 CDT" 8666,"The Contemporary Significance of Ordinary Language Philosophy","The Contemporary Significance of Ordinary Language Philosophy
In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in the main
representatives of the so-called ordinary language tradition in 20th
century analytic philosophy. The overall aim of the conference is to
contribute to this revival of interest, by considering how the works of
thinkers in this tradition might be still be relevant, and how careful
investigations of ordinary language use can matter to issues at the top
of today's philosophical agenda. In this connection, it will be
important to take into account the many differences in philosophical
outlook and methodology that exist between philosophers such as
Wittgenstein, Austin, Ryle, Strawson and so on. The question of how deep
these differences go, and, indeed, whether we can talk of an ordinary
language ""tradition"" here at all, should lead us to consider the
character of the contemporary revival mentioned above. To what extent
can this revival usefully be described as a unified movement motivated
by a common dissatisfaction with more mainstream forms of analytic
philosophy? And to what extent do the differences between the various
contemporary attempts at revival make such a description misleading?
Analytical and Continental political theory are divided not only over substantial issues, but also over the very nature of political theorising. Theorists working within one tradition view with scepticism the work and conclusions of theorists within the other tradition, and the two traditions often speak past one another because they do not agree what theorising amount to in the first place. Further, the division is also marked by different conceptions of politics and the political. Consequently, Analytical and Continental theorists have different understandings of the role of and relationship between philosophy and politics.
We invite contributions that address the divisions between Analytical and Continental political theory, and between liberal normative theory and post-structuralism. Is it possible to bridge the different traditions? If so, what would this entail? If divisions will remain, what is the exact nature of those divisions? Are they primarily political or philosophical? And are there approaches that eschew these divisions?
Roundtable participants: Prof. Paul Patton, University of New South Wales, Prof. David Owen (University of Southampton) and Dr David Howarth (University of Essex)
Contact: Clayton Chin (c.chin@qmul.ac.uk) and Lasse Thomassen (l.thomassen@qmul.ac.uk).
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","School of Politics & International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London","London, England, United Kingdom","","","-0.12806","51.5219","External Site","http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6141408117#","","28-5-2013 9:0 BST","true","","","","","philevents4348","28-5-2013 9:0 BST","28-5-2013 17:0 BST" 8879,"The too Early Wittgenstein? - International Conference and Graduate Workshop","We invite papers from graduate students, or those who have recently completed their PhD, on any topic related to the conference topic. As part of the integrated workshop, graduate papers will be commented on by one of the invited speakers and discussed in concert. Papers should not exceed the number of 4,000 words, and be suitable for a 30-minute presentation. Papers should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words. Papers should further be anonymised in order to facilitate blind refereeing. Finally, papers should also be accompanied by a separate detachable cover sheet including name, title, institution, and contact details.
The deadline for receipt of submissions is 31st May 2013. We will notify authors of the decision regarding their papers by the 1st of July. Submissions are preferred in .doc or .pdf format. They should be e-mailed to bbk.wittgenstein@gmail.com. Receipt of submission will be confirmed by e-mail.
We hope to be able to offer travel bursaries for students in due course.
For any further information, please contact the conference organisers, either directly or at the above email address.
","CFP for conference or similar","","Sebastian Greve","Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London","London, England, United Kingdom","","","-1.2806E7","5.15219E7","E-Mail","","http://www.bbk.ac.uk/philosophy/our-research/the-too-early-wittgenstein","","","","","The too Early Wittgenstein? - International Conference and Graduate Workshop","8878","philevents4520","31-5-2013 0:0 BST","" 10187,"","Center of Phenomenological Studies, Department of Philosophy (Faculty of Art and Philosophy, Trnava University, Slovakia)https://www.facebook.com/cfstrnava/posts/1729423373864088
https://www.facebook.com/cfstrnava?ref=stream
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology (An Annual Journal)
Center of Phenomenological Studies at Trnava University in Trnava is preparing the first issue of The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology. The main topic of the issue concerns three areas of phenomenological inquiry: person, subject, and organism. These three points seem to be intertwined in various ways. We could see it as a mere question of Husserlian phenomenology of personhood on the one hand, or as a broader problem which includes epistemological, ontological or biological approaches.
The great traditional and contemporary themes—subjectivity and intersubjectivity, concept of person, emotionality and interpersonality, question of humanity—came under the concern of Edmund Husserl, the founding figure of phenomenology. Many remarkable thinkers have since come out of Husserlian School and thought over these intertwined themes and their mutual relations (a pre-personal comportment in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, or question of humanity, of humanism, of personal agency, normative nature of animal and human subjects, etc.). Currently, phenomenology turns its attention back to its very roots and focuses on the richness of phenomenological analysis in writings of Edmund Husserl. We intend to show that there are inspirational and unexplored questions arising from the thematic field of normativity and generativity—particularly with respect to problems of intersubjectivity and interpersonality—that relate to various specific and interconnected fields of study (social ontology and political phenomenology, phenomenology of person and values, phenomenological aesthetics, moral and religious experience).
The Yearbook is opened also for different phenomenological topics (miscellanea) and book reviews. The paper extent should be not more than 30 norm pages (54.000 characters, including spaces and footnotes), and in the case of the book reviews 5 norm pages. Please, submit (firstly with the preliminary title of your paper and 200 words abstract) to The Yearbook to May 31, 2013 via e-mail: trajtelova@gmail.com. Final deadline for submission of the complete papers must be made to August 9, 2013 (by the same e-mail address). The complete paper should include English abstract (200 words), 6 keywords, contact information about author, and citations and bibliography according to Springer Referencing model (1. Sample page for footnotes (http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/Examples+in-text+referencesfootnotes.pdf?SGWID=0-0-45-642798-p35531443), 2. Reference guidelines for bibliographies
(http://www.springer.com/authors?SGWID=0-111-6-793422-print_view). The contributions are published exclusively in English, French or German language. Every paper must be revised by a native speaker before submission.
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology is a peer-reviewed journal including various research areas in phenomenological inquires. The Yearbook is edited by the Center of Phenomenological Studies at Trnava University, Slovakia.
Editorial Board
(Members of the Center of Phenomenological Studies at Trnava University, Slovakia)
Editor-In-Chief
Anton Vydra
E-mail: tonovydra@gmail.com
Deputy Editor
Jana Trajtelová
E-mail: trajtelova@gmail.com
Managing Editors
Michal Lipták
Michal Zvarík
Book Review Editor
Ladislav Tkáčik
E-mail: ladislavtkacik@kapucin.sk
Editorial Advisory Board
Jagna Brudzinska (Universität zu Köln, Köln, Germany)
Róbert Karul (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Sebastian Luft (Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA)
Karel Novotný (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
Elena Pagni (University of Florence, Florence, Italy)
Wojciech Starzyński (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland)
Anthony J. Steinbock (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA)
Jaroslava Vydrová (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Contact Information
The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology
Center of Phenomenological Studies
Department of Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts
Trnava University
Hornopotočná 23
918 43 Trnava
Slovakia
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" 10081,"Panels on Animals and Philosophy","June 5th 9:00-11:30 : Panel « Phenomenological Approaches to Animal Otherness »
→ Brett Buchanan (Laurentian University) Being Towards Extinction (details)
→ Don Beith (McGill University), Merleau-Ponty’s Animate Epistemology: Learning to Perceive (as) Animals
June 5th 14:00-16:30 : Panel « Animals: Rights, Veganism and Justice »
→ Valéry Giroux (Universite de Montreal), An Antispeciest Approach to Fundamental Rights
→ Sue Donaldson (co-author with Will Kymlicka of Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights, OUP, 2011), Unruly Beasts: Humans and Animals Sharing the Demos
June 6th 9:00-12:30 : Panel « Veganarchism and Paleoethics: Equality beyond Species »
→ Cynthia Willet (Emory University) Interspecies Living (a serious ethics with a comic twist).
→ Dinesh Wadiwel (University of Sidney), Resisting the War Against Animals: Counter-Conduct and Truce
→ John Sanbonmatsu (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Critical Theory and Animal Liberation(Rowman & Littlefield, 2011)
June 6th 14:00-17:30 : « Book Panel on Gary Steiner’s Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism (CUP, 2013) »
→ Patrick Llored (Université de Lyon) author of Jacques Derrida, Politique et éthique de l’animalité (Sils Maria, 2013)
→ Chloë Taylor (Université d’Alberta), « Foucault and the Ethics of Eating » (Foucault Studies, 2010)
→ Jan Dutkiewicz(PhD candidate in the Department of Politics at the New School for Social Research)
→ Gary Steiner (Bucknell University), Animals and the Moral Community (CUP, 2008), Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents: The Moral Status of Animals in the History of Western Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005)
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.
It is our great honour to announce the third conference on the Eastern thought, which will be organised on 28-30th November 2013 by the Eastern Philosophy Section of the Philosophy of Culture Department at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. This year’s meeting will be dedicated to the issues of sound, language and book which, although frequently featuring in contemporary Western thought, are rarely and still insufficiently addressed through their long lasting reflection in the Eastern cultures. Continuing the tradition established by our two highly successful conferences held in 2009 and 2011, we would like to invite scholars who conduct research into cultures, religions, and philosophies of the East (India, China, Japan, Tibet, Korea, and the Middle East), as well as those who are interested in the mutual influences between the East and the West.
Unquestionably, language is one of the central themes in contemporary philosophical, cognitive and cultural thought in the West. Having been researched from many different points of view, language appears both as a logical tool, a means of thinking or a medium of communication and as a creative factor within culture. Being a strictly human phenomenon, language has always sparkled interest – the Western civilisation is certainly not the first to explore it. Yet although it is broadly acknowledged that the Western linguistics owes its modern development to the Sanskrit grammarians, in case of other aspects of language it seems that the Western thinkers prefer to reinvent the wheel rather than to ask the ancients. Our goal in this conference is to show all the richness of the speculations, conceptions and solutions concerning language through various Eastern philosophies and cultures.
Sound
Starting at the same point where the Indian grammarians begin their science of language, we will first address THE SOUND. Just as phonemes are the basis of language, so the sound in general can be seen as one of the foundations of the phenomenal world. Thus we ask the following questions:
In the oral cultures – such as the Vedic India - sound is very strongly connected with acquiring and passing the knowledge. How does it influence the conceptions of sound, cognition, and knowledge itself? In Chinese, the term sheng or ‘sage’ refers to the faculty of hearing, whereas in Sanskrit, the revealed knowledge is called śruti, ‘heard’. Contrary to most of European languages, the Eastern concept of ‘knowledge’ does not refer to the faculty of seeing. What are the consequences of the relationship of knowledge to the sense of hearing?
Music
One of the exceptional sound types, ineradicably present in the human world, is MUSIC – which, although recognized universally by all the civilizations, is nevertheless defined, valued and practiced in many disparate ways. Let us consider the following problems in the field of music:
The Chinese culture and languages specialists know that one of the most striking factors influencing notions of sound in general and music in particular is the fact that Chinese languages are tonal. What is the impact of this fact on the development of music and its notions?
How can we describe the differences in musical paradigms? How does a culture condition the perception and creation of music? It is obvious that development of music followed different patterns in Europe and in Asia. In Europe the most important component was the structure of musical pieces, which resulted in the development of polyphony and functional harmony in dur-moll system. In Asia the development of music followed different paths. Do the differences between the European and the Asian music result from differences in paradigms, or, as some Europeans maintain, from the lack of any development in the music of the Far East?
Word
Another particularly human kind of sound is a WORD. All civilizations are, in one or other way, cultures of the word - be it oral or written. In this section of our conference we would like to consider human being as a verbal being and the human culture as a word-world.
Writing
An indispensable part of the reflection on word and language is the question of WRITING and written texts. Not only our civilisation - as based partly on Judeo-Christian religion - is a civilisation of the Book. Other cultures also consider books - and Books - as their point of reference. Let us consider various themes connected with writing:
There is no need to mention the well recognized difference between oral and written cultures. How does the attitude to writing influence various cultures, their auto-definition, hierarchies and identities? What significance for a culture has the fact of recognizing literary and demotic languages?
Language
The final section of the conference will focus on the main theme of our interest - the LANGUAGE. Surprisingly enough for the Western world, philosophies of language existed in many cultures for long millennia. Yet we still do not benefit from them as much as they deserve it. Let us then reflect on the Eastern philosophies of language through the consideration of the following fields:
Registration and abstract submission
Abstracts of 250/300 words accompanied by a short bio should be sent to the Secretary of the Conference, Małgorzata Ruchel at malgorzata.ruchel@uj.edu.pl by the 15th of June 2013.
Please use the Abstract Submission Form available at the Eastern Philosophy Section website:
http://www.iphils.uj.edu.pl/zfw/eng/konf.html
Authors will be informed by e-mail on the acceptance of their abstract by the 25th of June. Proposals received after the deadline but before the 15th of July 2013 may be accepted if space in the programme is still available.
There is no registration fee. All participants are also invited to the Closing Dinner on Saturday the 30th of November.
The Organizers do not provide accommodation. However, we will recommend some good places to stay in Kraków. The relevant information will soon appear on our website.
Selected papers will be published in the peer-reviewed proceedings of the conference. The deadline for the submission of full papers will be announced at a later stage.
For more information contact: malgorzata.ruchel@uj.edu.pl
Conference website:
Contact: emw@flu.cas.cz.
Further information is to be found on:
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy","Prague, Hlavní Mesto Praha, Czech Republic","","","14.4378","50.0755","Not Specified","","http://www.flu.cas.cz/emw","","","","","","","philevents4582","24-6-2013 9:0 CEST","25-6-2013 17:0 CEST" 8395,"Paul Ricoeur and the Future of the Humanities ","The University of Groningen, The Radboud University Nijmegen and The Young Academy organize a conference on the impact of Ricoeur in the Humanities. This conference will take place in Groningen, the Netherlands, June 27-29, 2013.
Conference theme
In the realm of the humanities, Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) is widely viewed as one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. He published many important books and articles which made an impact on almost all areas of the humanities, including history, linguistics, literary studies, theology and philosophy.
In his works, Ricoeur combined the resources and insights of phenomenology and hermeneutics. In line with this double focus, he came to see ‘the text’ as a paradigm for addressing important historical, ethical and philosophical problems. This enabled him, among other things, to recast the problem of personal identity in terms of narrative emplotment; or to consider human action as a meaningful whole that is structured as a text.
However, in the last decades, the vast expansion of new media (video installations, social networks, games, etc.) is rapidly changing the landscape of the humanities, making it entirely different from the text-oriented culture in which Ricoeur was working. In addition, new research approaches like genetics and cognitive science, penetrate the humanities and introduce alternative paradigms which, at first sight, seem to be more in tune with the spirit of the times. Furthermore, considering the increasing marginalization of the humanities in many countries, their future course is far from self-evident. Under pressure of the financial crisis and a changing political reality, the humanities have to find new arguments for legitimating their existence and proving their importance.
Cultural, scientific and political developments like this, challenge Ricoeur’s perspective, but also create opportunities to keep his work alive and develop it in new and unforeseen directions. By means of this conference, we hope to confront present-day concerns with Ricoeur’s fruitful insights in order to help envision a future for the humanities.
Thus the aim of this conference is to investigate what Ricoeur’s extensive oeuvre has to offer in rethinking and re-imagining the humanities. We will do this by focusing on three domains of questions.
1. Questions of interpretation
How do we have to (re)locate Ricoeur’s work in relation to the humanities? Which of Ricoeur’s major contributions can be expected to remain relevant for the humanities? Etc.
2. Questions of discussion and context
In what way can we relate Ricoeur’s oeuvre to ideas and methods of other philosophers and scientists? Does Ricoeur’s paradigm of the text still provide a relevant framework for thinking about the basic questions that concern the humanities? If so, how can we bring Ricoeur’s perspective in a fruitful tension or dialogue with other, competing paradigms? Etc.
3. Questions of application
How can Ricoeur’s attributions to the humanities be adapted (if necessary) and applied to the new and changing situation of contemporary humanities? What are the possibilities and problems that we will have to explore while further elaborating on Ricoeur’s contributions to the humanities? Can we derive arguments and insights from Ricoeur that will improve our understanding of the contemporary situation of the humanities? Etc.
We are planning to publish a selection of the papers of this conference in a proceedings collection.
Organizing committee
- Martijn Boven (Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen)
- Eddo Evink (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen)
- Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen)
More information: http://ricoeur.com/the-future-of-the-humanities/
Contact: info@ricoeur.com
","Conference or similar","","Martijn Boven","Faculty of Philosophy | Faculty of the humanities, University of Groningen","Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands","9712 GL ","","6.5634498E15","5.32204E8","Not Specified","","http://ricoeur.com/the-future-of-the-humanities/","","","","","","","philevents4172","27-6-2013 17:0 CEST","29-6-2013 17:0 CEST" 8373,"","European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy V, 2, 2013
Pragmatism and the Social Dimensions of Doubt: Fresh Perspectives
Guest editor: Mathias Girel (Ecole normale supérieure, Paris)
Debunking pathological doubts and sundry variants of skepticism has certainly been one of the most prominent features of Pragmatism since its inception in the early 1870s. Peirce's theory of inquiry, James's Will to Believe, and Dewey's Quest for Certainty, to mention only a few instances, to which Wittgenstein, as a non-standard pragmatist might be added, have offered several very different strategies to address this question. Extant scholarship has already devoted substantive accounts of this feature of pragmatism. Still, in addition to providing a rebuttal of the ""paper-doubts"" of the would-be skeptic, pragmatists have also been quite responsive to the social dimensions of doubt. As regards the causes: Peirce, when he claims that we cannot doubt at will, mentions repeatedly that one of the strongest factors of doubt is the doubt of other competent inquirers. As regards the consequences: doubt has consequences on epistemic trust, on the way we discuss truths, either about the sciences or about the ""construction of good"". Readers of Dewey's Quest for Certainty and of some of his most important political writings can easily see how practical uncertainty can degenerate into a practical and political skepticism, preventing the emergence of publics.
This social aspect of the question has received less attention than the general pragmatist strategy towards skepticism, for which we already have important papers and monographs. Fundamental contributions --- whether conceptual or historical --- on the social dimensions of doubt in a pragmatist perspective would greatly benefit extant scholarship.
Several contexts have made this inquiry more urgent still. Firstly, doubt about the sciences --- about scientific certainty, scientific consensus and scientific normativity --- has been increasingly enrolled within several strategies and used to promote public controversies: can pragmatism offer, for example, an account of reasonable doubt in the sciences that would dismiss pathological doubts about the sciences, in the same way as the classical pragmatists have dismissed cartesian unreasonable doubts? Secondly, the emergence of a new kind of pragmatism, inspired by Sellars and focusing on the social articulation of the space of reasons, had prompted new developments and sometimes a reconstruction of the main notions of classical epistemology : what are the main insights of linguistic pragmatism about this central notion? Thirdly, the social sciences have made extensive use of pragmatist resources in the past decades and it is time to see if they can in return cast some light on one of the core notions of pragmatism.
This issue of the European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy wants to investigate the perspectives that pragmatisms, old and new, open up on the social articulation of doubt. We will welcome any contribution on this topic that will (i) clarify classic or neo pragmatists accounts of doubt in its social setting, or (ii) use pragmatist insights in other disciplines --- sociology, anthropology, political science, HPS --- to explore the social dimensions of doubt, or (iii) compare pragmatist views with authors and perspectives belonging to other philosophical streams, or (iv) propose new theories inspired by pragmatism. Contributions offering new insights on the theory of inquiry, or providing a new reading of classical pragmatism, will be considered of central interest.
Papers should be sent to mathias.girel@ens.fr before June, 30, 2013. Papers should not exceed 12.000 words and must include an abstract of 200-400 words and a list of works cited. Papers will be selected on the basis of a process of blind review. Acceptance of papers will be determined before August, 10, 2013. Papers will be published in December 2013.
","CFP for publication or other deadline","","Chrissy Meijns","","","","","","","Not Specified","","http://www.journalofpragmatism.eu","","","","","","","philevents4153","30-6-2013 9:0 BST","" 9906,"Who’s Afraid of the Forms?","Our seminars will be led by Professors De Warren, Hopkins, Majolino and Palombi. Seminars can be found in the program or abstract section and will address topics in the philosophy of science, ontology, ethics and politics.
Participants should submit their materials by May 31. Details about registration, travel arrangements and accommodation, and fees can be found on our website.
If you need further information, email us at
phenomenologyinfo2013@gmail.com.
Organisers:
Susi Ferrarello & Fabrizio Palombi
Is there disagreement? That is, do we really disagree? From the standpoint of everyday life, the answer seems to be clear. Disagreements among us are legion: about scientific, political, and social questions, about questions of right conduct and religion, about questions concerning subjective preferences and aesthetic taste. From the standpoint of rationality, however, it is not so clear how these disagreements should be assessed. Shouldn’t the forceless force of the better argument carry the day in almost all cases of disagreement? Isn’t it possible in principle to determine which view is the better one among rival views? Aren’t disagreements better seen, therefore, as intermediate stages on the way toward a more comprehensive agreement – at least among all those who conduct themselves rationally? If not, can a disagreement itself be rational, even when two interlocutors share the same epistemic presuppositions and the same relevant information? Is “reasonable disagreement” an enduring feature of our practices and reaches deeper than we generally assume? What is the theoretical and practical relevance of persistent disagreement? Does the latter lead to the acceptance of relativism, skepticism, or pluralism?
A detailed exposition of the topic and all relevant information concerning the character and history of the colloquium as well as matters of accommodation and costs can be found on our website.
Passive comprehension of all three languages of the colloquium (French, German, and English) is a prerequisite for all applicants.
The Joint Meeting of the SACP (http://www.sacpweb.org/) and the ASACP (http://philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/asacp/) in 2013 will be held at the National University of Singapore (http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/philo/). The conference theme, ""Conflict and Harmony: From Embodied Emotions to Global Realms,"" is designed to invite scholars representing Asian traditions of thought to present their research on the many ways in which philosophers of these heritages thematize the dynamics of conflict and harmony. Relevant topics could span a broad range of problematics, from the internal conflicts of desires and ideas, emotions and reason, body and mind, and how to resolve these in practice to social, political and global conflicts and strategies for their resolution. The theme will also accommodate discussions of the continuing conflicts or historical development from conflicts to reconciliation between different schools of thought and philosophies in different traditions or between tradition! The theme is intended to increase engagement amongst participants. However, the conference will consider abstracts and presentations on various topics that correspond to members' areas of interest as well.
Contact: Mary Bockover (Mary.Bockover@humboldt.edu), Michael Barnhart (Michael.Barnhart@kbcc.cuny.edu), or Roger Ames (rtames@hawaii.edu).
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" 8380,"Philosophical Investigation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud and Midrash","The Hebrew Bible occupies an anomalous position on the contemporary academic landscape. The field of biblical studies produces a steady stream of works on the compositional history, philology, and literary character of the biblical texts. But the ideas that find expression in the Hebrew Scriptures—the metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy of the biblical authors—have seldom been explored by the field of biblical studies in a systematic fashion. At the same time, philosophers, political theorists, and historians of ideas, who see the study of ideas as the principal interest of their work, tend to assume that the biblical texts fall outside the scope of their disciplines. The result is that despite general agreement that the Bible has had an unparalleled significance in the history of the West, its ideas have remained, until recently, largely beyond the reach of sustained academic investigation.
Much the same can be said about the other classical Jewish sources as well: The Talmud and Midrash seem frequently to explore subjects of intrinsic philosophical interest. Yet these texts remain all but unknown to philosophers, political theorists, and historians of ideas.
The ongoing neglect of the Hebrew Bible, Talmud, and Midrash by philosophers is especially striking given the rapidly growing interest in theological questions in philosophy departments throughout the English-speaking world. Over the last generation, Christian philosophers have labored successfully to introduce “philosophical theology” (or, more recently, “analytic theology”) into philosophy departments at leading universities. In keeping with longstanding Christian philosophical tradition, this discipline has focused on a priori argumentation concerning the concept of God as “perfect being,” and has usually been conducted with little reference to the Bible. As a consequence, philosophical theology has until now continued the larger pattern of academic neglect of the ideas of the Hebrew Scriptures and other Jewish sources. This has also meant that philosophical theology has been of only very limited relevance to Jews, whose tradition of philosophical and theological speculation is largely text-based.
This is unfortunate because philosophy as a discipline could contribute much to the elucidation of the Hebrew Scriptures and classical rabbinic texts. The law-oriented emphasis of much traditional rabbinic exegesis has meant that these texts have not usually been investigated using philosophical tools and with an eye for philosophical questions. So we can ask what do philosophical questions and the answers that have been given until now teach us about the Bible and Talmud? What, for example, does the nature of the mind or language, reality or morals, as understood by philosophers, have to offer us in enhancing or extending the insights from these traditional sources?
The Institute for Advanced Studies at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem, with the generous support of the John Templeton Foundation, has launched an initiative aimed at developing a Jewish “philosophical theology” that will seek to advance the study of the ideas of the Hebrew Scriptures, the Talmud and Midrash in the academic setting.
The interdisciplinary conference on “Philosophical Investigation of the Hebrew Scriptures, Talmud and Midrash,” to be held in Jerusalem on July 22-25, 2013, will be the fourth in a series of annual conferences. For the 2013 conference, the organizing committee will give priority to papers and symposiums exploring Human Action: Justice, Righteousness, Love and Awe. The conference will seek to bring to light the nature and significance of normativity and action in Jewish theology by clarifying the meaning of Jewish theological categories having to do with human evaluation and action, and by fitting them into an overall Jewish account of human life and flourishing.
A limited travel fund will be available to assist scholars and students wishing to attend the conference.
Please direct correspondence to meiravj@shalem.ifas.org.il
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","Institute for Advanced Studies, Shalem Center","Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel","","","35.2137","31.7683","Not Specified","","http://bibleandphilosophy.org/conferences","","","","","","","philevents4159","22-7-2013 11:0 IDT","25-7-2013 17:0 IDT" 9988,"Hermeneutics of Science and Technology - A Reconsideration","Registration: please register to the conference on the website: http://ishs.hu/registration
Background
The International Society for Hermeneutics and Science (ISHS) was established in 1993 to develop an understanding of the role of hermeneutics in natural sciences (and technology) through, among other activities, organizing meetings, and facilitate discussions.
http://www.ishs.hu/
The first ISHS conference was organized twenty years ago, in September 1993 in Hungary and the last one was held in August 2010 in Austria. In between we had many meetings, conferences, workshops, etc. as you can consult our webpage:
http://www.ishs.hu/meetings
In these decades there happened some essential changes in the intellectual environment of the studies on science and technology - and perhaps some parts of them was influenced by activities of the society.
On the 2013 - twentieth anniversary - conference of the ISHS we would like to consider these changes: to understand in a better and clearer way the specificity of this approach to the philosophy of science and technology, to enumerate the contributions of this view to the understanding of nature, of science, of technology, of human being, of society, and so on, moreover to reconsider the possibilities of the hermeneutic views on science, technology, and the related fields in the recent cultural and intellectual environment.
To support this possibility we figured out a special structure of our 2013 conference: the context change will be included into the structure of the conference in a way. The conference starts in Vienna, Austria and after two conference days we will take a ship to travel along the river Danube to Budapest, Hungary, where the conference will be finished with two another conference days. It is probably unnecessary to emphasize the significance and the complexity of this Austrian/Hungarian context change – even in the case of conferencing and in many more points of view. Hopefully you will have some personal experience on them in August.
General plan of the conference
Part One: Vienna
28 July 2013, Sunday, Vienna
Arrival at Vienna
Evening: Informal meeting at the Hotel bar
29-30 July 2013 Monday & Tuesday, Vienna
Lectures
29 July 2013, Monday, Vienna
Evening: Bus travel to Pfaffstatten visiting a Heurigen
30 July 2013, Tuesday, Vienna
Evening: free for Vienna sight seeing etc.
Part Two: Vienna-Danube-Budapest
31 July 2013, Wednesday, Vienna-Danube-Budapest
7.45h: Bus transfer to the Danube ship station in Vienna
Ship starts at 9.00h and arrives in Budapest at 14.30h.
Free time for Budapest
Part Three: Budapest
1-2 August 2013, Thursday & Friday, Budapest
Lectures
1 August 2013, Thursday, Budapest
Evening: free time
2 August 2013, Friday, Budapest
Evening: Farewell Party in Budapest
3 August 2013, Saturday, Budapest
Ship goes back to Vienna at 9.00h and arrives in Vienna at 15.30h.
The venues
Vienna: We are so lucky that in Vienna the conference (lectures and accommodations) is accommodated in a very nice Castle-Hotel: the Hotel Wilheminenberg. Here you can see it: http://www.austria-trend.at/Hotel-Schloss-Wilhelminenberg/en/
Budapest: the lectures will be held on the Lagymanyos Campus of the Eotvos University (here you can see it:http://ttk.elte.hu/)
Accommodations
Vienna: We would propose the above mentioned Hotel Wilheminenberg. Number of room available till May 5, double rooms for individual use (this means, that the double rooms can be used as single rooms) in a relatively good price. Costs for hotel room and breakfast for one day: Euro 115,- (all taxes are included).
If you choice this, please reserve your accommodation directly at the Hotel Wilhemienberg latest by May 5. Important: All participants have to use special reservation code of the conference when booking: ISHS CONFERENCE 2013
Contact for reservation: Mrs. Nicole Gedlicka +43 1 4858503 555.
Reservations should be made to the following e-mail address:
reservierung.schloss.wilhelminenberg@austria-trend.at
Budapest: A list of hotels in different categories close to the campus will be offered soon on the webpage of the conference: http://www.ishs.hu/accommodation2013
Financial information
The conference fee will be Euro 350,-
Conference materials, conference rooms, coffee breaks & 2 lunches in Vienna and in Budapest as well as the fee of the Farewell Party in Budapest are included in the conference fee. Accommodation and travel to Budapest and back, and the Heurigen in Pfaffstatten is not included.
Travel options: The price for ship ticket (Vienna-Budapest-Vienna): Euro 125,- Alternative if you do not like shipping: there are frequent trains from Vienna to Budapest and back for Euro 80,- If you like it a bus travel to Pfaffstatten, visiting a Heurigen will be payed Euro 25,-.
Schedule and important dates
We would be really happy to meet you on the conference. If you need any additional information do not hesitate to contact one of the organizers:
Guenther Fleck
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
guenther.fleck@univie.ac.at
Paul Ertl
Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
paul.ertl@meduniwien.ac.at
Olga Kiss
Corvinus University
Budapest, Hungary
kissolga@uni-corvinus.hu
Laszlo Ropolyi
Eotvos University
Budapest, Hungary
ropolyi@caesar.elte.hu
Revue électronique de philosophie phénoménologique
BAP is soliciting papers from all areas of philosophical phenomenology, presenting original and innovative research on all aspects of the field, for electronic publication in Volume 9 (2013).
Papers may be submitted in English, French, and German. They should be sent in electronic form as Word (*.doc, *.docx), Rich Text Format (*.rtf), or OpenOffice Writer (*.odt) to the following address: d.seron[at]ulg.ac.be. Only electronic submissions are acceptable.
Papers should be submitted together with an abstract of about 200 words. The author should include her name, address, status, and affiliation. The review generally does not accept manuscripts that have been published previously.
All submissions are subject to double blind peer review prior to publication. Acceptance or refusal will be notified to the author after 1-2 months, based on the recommendation of the advisory board.
» Web site of the review: http://popups.ulg.ac.be/bap/
» Call 2013: http://www.pheno.ulg.ac.be/doc/div/bap-cfp-2013en.html
Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2013.
Further information: a.dewalque[at]ulg.ac.be - d.seron[at]ulg.ac.be
Bulletin d'analyse phénoménologique
Université de Liège
Département de philosophie
7, Place du Vingt-Août
B-4000 Liège
Belgium
‘My type of thinking is not wanted in this present age, I have to swim so strongly against the tide. Perhaps in a hundred years people will really want what I am writing.’
After more than sixty years since Wittgenstein’s death in 1951, despite large agreement as to his seminal influence on 20th century philosophy, scholars still disagree widely about the aims, contents, and methods of his philosophising. Likewise Wittgenstein research has come to maintain a position disconnected from philosophical research generally, and often seems neglected both by analytic and continental philosophy.
The event pursues two main goals. The first is to identify the unique character, that is, the distinctive method and style of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, which has struck so many as highly revolutionary, yet which also appears to be one of the main reasons for its recalcitrance to being employed in contemporary philosophy. The second is to explore the contemporary significance of Wittgenstein’s thoughts on his main areas of concern: language, psychology, and mathematics, their interrelatedness within Wittgenstein’s work and with his distinctive way of investigating philosophical questions.
Thinking happens at/in a place. Obviously, there always needs to be a site or a point of view where thinking occurs—a place at which a thought manifests, arrives, changes itself and proceeds along in new ways. At first, this statement sounds trivial and obvious. Of course, thinking in any manner presumes a place, just as every statement, every action, every sensation, and so forth does. It appears then that it would be nearly impossible for thinking to take place without actually taking place; thinking would simply have no impression or expression. Certainly, “place” can refer to a manifold of things—the body (lived and physical), political class, social status, socialized) gender, language, cultural networks, lifeworlds, and last but not least (geographical) landscapes as well as (historical) time periods. All of these are, within each constellation, not only the places that condition thought, rather each appears to allow only a determined, bordered, and restricted type of thinking according to each sense of place. And yet, deeply penetrating experiences of thinking in both the past and present always again raise the claim of being universal and in this sense of being inter- and/or trans-cultural, which always means between bodies and beyond the body, between and beyond the strata and settings of geography, time, language, gender, skin color, and so on.
The breadth of this problem prompts a question, namely, what are the theoretical approaches that can help us explore and understand the complexities of where thinking takes place? How can we comprehend this unfathomable concept of “a place”, and why does it seem that thinking presupposes it— or rather, if anything, does place shape thinking? Can one speak at all of a “pure” place, unaffected by thinking, without running into problems? Or, on the contrary, does thinking have to be bound to a certain place? Might “universal” thinking be possible, in a way that thinks between and beyond places and that occurs always from elsewhere? Does a plurality of places change or resituate the apparent tension between thinking and place?
Organization: Murat Ates, Mag. and James Garrison, M.A.
Institutional Support: Univ. Dr. Georg Stenger, Univ. Dr. Franz Martin Wimmer
The conference is a collaboration between the University of Vienna’s
Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Arts and Sciences (IWK)
Contact address: ates@mur.at or james.garrison@univie.ac.at
Mailing address:
University of Vienna
Neues Institutsgebäude
Department of Philosophy, z.H. James Garrison (D0302)
Universitätsstraße 7
1010 Vienna
Austria
Subtopics:
Legal Philosophy; Philosophy of Right; Morality & Law; Law & Marxism; Legal Positivism; Legal Realism; Virtue Ethics; Virtue & Jurisprudence; Utilitarianism, Deontology & Law; Dworkin &
Interpretivism; Philosophical Approaches to Legal Problems; Justice & Globalization; International Law; Natural Law; Bentham, Austin & Dworkin; Natural Law & Natural Rights; Law, Authority & Morality; Law of the Land & International Law; Ancient Law; Laws of Manu & Other Hindu Lawgivers; Confucius Theory of Virtue; Islam & Law; Law & Human Rights; Postmodernism & Law; Virtue & Knowledge; Morality & Society; Confucius Ethics; Perfectionist & Situational Ethics; Moral Relativism; Humanism & Positivism; Ethnic Identity & Culture; Human Nature & Human Culture; Cultural Anthropology; Consumption & Morality; Politicizing Consumer Culture & Effects on Morality; Dynamics of Group Culture; Ethnic Boundaries; Constructing & Deconstructing Ethnic Identity; Cultural Transformation; Culture & Morality; Christian Ethics; Buddhist Ethics; Hindu Ethics; Jewish Ethics; Islamic Ethics & Global Ethics.
The above list is suggestive and not exhaustive.
Advisory Board Members:
Panos Eliopoulos (Greece), Yolanda Espina (Portugal), Gordon Haist (USA), Robin Kar (USA), Elizabeth Koldzak (Poland), Simi Malhotra (India), Maria Marczewska (Poland), Debkumar Mukhopadhyay( India), Rizwan Rahman (India), Ming Shao (China), Tommi Lehtonen (Finland), Andrew Ward (UK), Su-Chen Wu (Taiwan)
Contact:
Chandana Chakrabarti (chandanachak@gmail.com)
Vice President
Institute of Cross Cultural Studies and Academic Exchange
This workshop will focus on the historical links between the traditions of idealism and pragmatism.
If you have any academic queries concerning the project or workshop, please contact Robert Stern (r.stern@sheffield.ac.uk); for organizational issues, please contact Kim Redgrave, who is the network administrator (k.redgrave@sheffield.ac.uk)
","Conference or similar","","Chrissy Meijns","University of Sheffield","Sheffield, England, United Kingdom","","","-1.4659","53.383","Not Specified","","http://idealismandpragmatism.org/workshop-2013","","","","","","","philevents5092","25-10-2013 9:0 BST","26-10-2013 17:0 BST" 9829,"The History of the Relation Between Idealism and Pragmatism","The objective here is to look in detail at how the classical American pragmatists saw themselves in relation to idealism. We will also trace the continuing development of this connection through into the twentieth century, as reflected in the work of figures such as Sellars, Apel, Habermas, Putnam, Rorty and Brandom.
","Conference or similar","Idealism and Pragmatism: Convergence or Contestation?","Kim Redgrave","Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield","Sheffield, England, United Kingdom","","Jessop West Exhibition Space and Humanities Research Institute","-1.48254","53.3812","Not Specified","","http://idealismandpragmatism.org/workshop-2013","","","","","","","philevents5175","25-10-2013 10:0 BST","26-10-2013 17:0 BST" 9978,"Word in the Cultures of the East: Sound – Language – Book","It is our great honour to announce the third conference on the Eastern thought, which will be organised on 28-30th November 2013 by the Eastern Philosophy Section of the Philosophy of Culture Department at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. This year’s meeting will be dedicated to the issues of sound, language and book which, although frequently featuring in contemporary Western thought, are rarely and still insufficiently addressed through their long lasting reflection in the Eastern cultures. Continuing the tradition established by our two highly successful conferences held in 2009 and 2011, we would like to invite scholars who conduct research into cultures, religions, and philosophies of the East (India, China, Japan, Tibet, Korea, and the Middle East), as well as those who are interested in the mutual influences between the East and the West.
Unquestionably, language is one of the central themes in contemporary philosophical, cognitive and cultural thought in the West. Having been researched from many different points of view, language appears both as a logical tool, a means of thinking or a medium of communication and as a creative factor within culture. Being a strictly human phenomenon, language has always sparkled interest – the Western civilisation is certainly not the first to explore it. Yet although it is broadly acknowledged that the Western linguistics owes its modern development to the Sanskrit grammarians, in case of other aspects of language it seems that the Western thinkers prefer to reinvent the wheel rather than to ask the ancients. Our goal in this conference is to show all the richness of the speculations, conceptions and solutions concerning language through various Eastern philosophies and cultures.
Sound
Starting at the same point where the Indian grammarians begin their science of language, we will first address THE SOUND. Just as phonemes are the basis of language, so the sound in general can be seen as one of the foundations of the phenomenal world. Thus we ask the following questions:
In the oral cultures – such as the Vedic India - sound is very strongly connected with acquiring and passing the knowledge. How does it influence the conceptions of sound, cognition, and knowledge itself? In Chinese, the term sheng or ‘sage’ refers to the faculty of hearing, whereas in Sanskrit, the revealed knowledge is called śruti, ‘heard’. Contrary to most of European languages, the Eastern concept of ‘knowledge’ does not refer to the faculty of seeing. What are the consequences of the relationship of knowledge to the sense of hearing?
Music
One of the exceptional sound types, ineradicably present in the human world, is MUSIC – which, although recognized universally by all the civilizations, is nevertheless defined, valued and practiced in many disparate ways. Let us consider the following problems in the field of music:
The Chinese culture and languages specialists know that one of the most striking factors influencing notions of sound in general and music in particular is the fact that Chinese languages are tonal. What is the impact of this fact on the development of music and its notions?
How can we describe the differences in musical paradigms? How does a culture condition the perception and creation of music? It is obvious that development of music followed different patterns in Europe and in Asia. In Europe the most important component was the structure of musical pieces, which resulted in the development of polyphony and functional harmony in dur-moll system. In Asia the development of music followed different paths. Do the differences between the European and the Asian music result from differences in paradigms, or, as some Europeans maintain, from the lack of any development in the music of the Far East?
Word
Another particularly human kind of sound is a WORD. All civilizations are, in one or other way, cultures of the word - be it oral or written. In this section of our conference we would like to consider human being as a verbal being and the human culture as a word-world.
Writing
An indispensable part of the reflection on word and language is the question of WRITING and written texts. Not only our civilisation - as based partly on Judeo-Christian religion - is a civilisation of the Book. Other cultures also consider books - and Books - as their point of reference. Let us consider various themes connected with writing:
There is no need to mention the well recognized difference between oral and written cultures. How does the attitude to writing influence various cultures, their auto-definition, hierarchies and identities? What significance for a culture has the fact of recognizing literary and demotic languages?
Language
The final section of the conference will focus on the main theme of our interest - the LANGUAGE. Surprisingly enough for the Western world, philosophies of language existed in many cultures for long millennia. Yet we still do not benefit from them as much as they deserve it. Let us then reflect on the Eastern philosophies of language through the consideration of the following fields:
There is no registration fee. All participants are also invited to the Closing Dinner on Saturday the 30th of November.
The Organizers do not provide accommodation. However, we will recommend some good places to stay in Kraków. The relevant information will soon appear on our website.
For more information contact: malgorzata.ruchel@uj.edu.pl
Conference website:
The conference is intended to serve a scholarly dialogue between analytic philosophers and recent developments of scholastic philosophy, which emerged mostly from analytic philosophy.
More Information and registration here: