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CONF: History of Analytical Philosophy
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From: sandra lapointe <lapointe@mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy – Call for Symposia
SSHAP is currently considering proposals for symposia on any topic in the history of analytical philosophy to be held at the next Central APA (February 26-March 1, 2014, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL) and Pacific APA (April 16-20, 2014, San Diego, CA). Time allowed for symposia is 3 hours (including discussion). Symposia should include a minimum of three and a maximum of four contributions. Submissions should be clearly identified as “Symposium proposal” and include:
1) The title of the symposium
2) A clear indication of the APA meeting at which the symposium is to be held
3) A brief description of the topic and its relevance (200 words)
4) The name, email, affiliation and academic status (student, lecturer, assistant professor, etc.) of each participant
5) The title of each contribution as well as a 200 word abstract.
6) The name, email, affiliation and academic status of the person who will be chairing the symposium
Symposium proposals should be sent electronically to:
sshap@mcmaster.ca
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 25 July 2013. Authors will be notified shortly thereafter.
Do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Best,
Sandra
Sandra Lapointe
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Academic Director
Lewis and Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship
Contact:
Dr. Sandra Lapointe
Department of Philosophy
McMaster University
University Hall 310A
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1
Tel: 905-525-9140, ext. 24312
Fax: 905-577-0385
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~lapointe/website/Home.html
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CONF: Naturalism in German Idealism
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From: Alison Fernandes <alisonsfernandes@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: Naturalism in German Idealism
the New York German Idealism Workshop
a joint undertaking of the Philosophy departments of
Columbia University and New School for Social Research presents a Conference on
Naturalism in German Idealism
October 25-26 2013
Invited speakers:
Robert Brandom (University of Pittsburg), Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University),
Terry Pinkard (Georgetown University), Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)
We invite submission of high quality papers from dissertation phase PhD students to the ‘Naturalism in German Idealism’ Conference.
Questions concerning Naturalism hover over much of contemporary philosophy. To what degree does responsible epistemic and ethical enquiry presuppose Naturalism? On what basis might we commit to a world lacking supernatural entities or features? To what extent is our world discoverable through systematic empirical enquiry? How do we understand second nature as falling within a Naturalist picture? Naturalism has become a hallmark of a reasonable and rational philosophical view, and yet articulating a clear and substantive notion of Naturalism remains both a difficult and highly controversial affair.
Equally contested is the relation between German Idealism and such contemporary commitments to Naturalism. Thinkers ranging from Kant, Fichte and Hegel, to romanticists such as Schelling, Hölderlin, Schlegel, were concerned to articulate our place in the world, developing and critiquing accounts of the individual, scientific enquiry and the nature of systematic philosophy. But what is far from clear is whether these philosophers articulated their views in a way consistent with contemporary commitments to Naturalism. Or rather: do their own projects expand and deepen contemporary thinking about these issues? Do we dilute what is radical and challenging in these views, when we take them to be committed to a naturalistic project? Do they help us understand Naturalism in a way that takes us beyond scientism? Or help us negotiate the relationship between the space of laws and the space of reasons, between the commitments of science and normative engagement in the world?
We welcome submissions that explore such questions, or more generally deal with the relationship between German Idealism, broadly construed, and Naturalism. Papers may concern the commitments of a specific figure in the tradition, or treat the topic more generally. We also welcome papers that consider the work of more contemporary philosophers, such as Pierce, Dewey, McDowell, Brandom, insofar as they concern themselves with these broader themes.
Submissions should be suitable for blind refereeing and consist in:
• An extended abstract of 500-750 words (in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format).
• A paper of 3500-4000 words, suitable for a 30 minute talk.
• A separate cover sheet including name, title of paper, affiliation, email address and contact details.
Submissions should be sent to nygiw.naturalism@gmail.com no later than June 15, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be sent in mid July. Further details, including a provisional program, will be posted as they become available. Please check our website for updates: https://www.facebook.com/nygermanidealism.
If you have any questions, please contact the workshop organizers at nygiw.naturalism@gmail.com.
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CfP: TOPOI – The Philosophy of Information
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From: Driscoll, Penny <p.j.driscoll2@herts.ac.uk>
Subject: TOPOI – Call For Papers: The Philosophy of Information
Sent on behalf of Prof Luciano Floridi
TOPOI – Calls For Papers: The Philosophy of Information
http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245
Deadline for paper submissions: 1 August 2013.
Guest Editors:
Bert Baumgaertner, UC Davies and University of Idaho
http://www-philosophy.ucdavis.edu/people/bbaum
Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire and University of Oxford
http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Welcome.html
INTRODUCTION
The information revolution has been changing the world profoundly and irreversibly for some time now, at a breathtaking pace, and with an unprecedented scope, making the creation, management, and utilisation of information vital issues. Such revolution has brought enormous benefits and opportunities. However, it has also greatly outpaced our understanding of its foundations and consequences, and raised conceptual issues that are rapidly expanding, evolving, and becoming increasingly serious. Today, philosophy faces the challenge of providing a foundational treatment of the concepts and phenomena underlying the information revolution, in order to foster our understanding and guide the responsible construction of our information society. This challenge is met by the philosophy of information, a thriving new area of research that investigates the conceptual nature and basic principles of information, including its ethical consequences.
THE ISSUE
The issue will contain a selection of the best papers presented at the 5th Workshop on the Philosophy of Information, organised by the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics, in collaboration with the AHRC project ‘Understanding Information Quality Standards and their Challenges’ (2011-2013) and Google UK. The issue will be open to contributions dealing with any philosophical aspects of information, at the crossroads of epistemology, metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science, semantics, and ethics.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
All papers will be subject to double-blind peer-review, following international standard practices. Manuscripts should be submitted exclusively through the Online Manuscript Submission System (Editorial Manager), accessible at http://www.editorialmanager.com/topo/
Please save your manuscript in one of the formats supported by the system (e.g., Word, WordPerfect, RTF, TXT, LaTeX2E, TeX, Postscript, etc.), which does NOT include PDF. Make sure to select the appropriate article type for your submission by selecting PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION as the appropriate tab from the scroll-down menu:.
For any further information please contact:
Luciano Floridi, l.floridi@herts.ac.uk or
Bert Baumgaertner bbaum@ucdavis.edu
Mrs. Penny Driscoll, BA (Hons), MA
PA to Prof Luciano Floridi
Research Chair in Philosophy of Information
UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics
University of Hertfordshire
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Research Fellowship: Philosophy of Religion
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From: Klaas Kraay <kraay@ryerson.ca>
Subject: 2013-2014 Research Fellowship in the Philosophy of Religion
Dear Colleagues,
I am delighted to announce the launch of a research project entitled “Theism: An Axiological Investigation”.
This Templeton-funded project will support various initiatives, including one Research Fellowship for the 2013-2014 academic year.
Junior, mid-career, and senior philosophers are all welcome to apply for this position.
The successful applicant will either receive a stipend/salary or funds for teaching release.
To learn more about this project, and to see the call for applications for the Research Fellowship, please visit the project website:
www.ryerson.ca/~kraay/theism.html
Applications are due on June 14, 2013.
- Klaas
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Klaas J. Kraay
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5B 2K3
Ph: 416.979.5000 x1-6165
Fax: 416.979.5272
Web: www.ryerson.ca/~kraay/
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CONF: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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From: Hawaii University International Conference <HUIC.noreply@us.emaildir2.com>
Subject: 2014 HUIC Conference on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences – May 10, 2013
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Book Series: History and Philosophy of Technoscience
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From: Alfred Nordmann <nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de>
Subject: Book Series History and Philosophy of Technoscience
We would like to announce a new series of monographs and collected papers. It explores research practice across the disciplines and throughout history by foregrounding its technological setting:
- when the problems to be investigated are themselves the product of science and technology in the modern world,
- when technical and predictive control is sought within the technological infrastructure of models, instruments, measurements, computational methods, and media technologies,
- when research accomplishments change the world materially more so than our thinking about it.
From nanotechnology to the environmental sciences, from alchemy to pharmacy, from solid state physics to human factors research, how are problems defined, what counts as an explanation, how are findings validated, how do values enter in? And most importantly for civic observers of contemporary research: How is robustness and reliability achieved even where we lack theoretical understanding?
Members of the editorial board include Hanne Andersen (Aarhus), Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent(Paris), Martin Carrier (Bielefeld), Graeme Gooday (Leeds), Don Howard (Notre Dame), Ann Johnson (South Carolina), Cyrus Mody (Rice), Maureen O’Malley (Sydney), Roger Strand (Bergen), and Nancy Tuana (Pennsylvania State). For more information write to Alfred Nordmann or Philip Good or see www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience
Looking forward to queries, suggestions, and submissions,
Alfred Nordmann (Darmstadt Technical University)
and Philip Good (Pickering & Chatto Publishers)
pgood@pickeringchatto.co.uk
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Alfred Nordmann
* Professor am Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schloss, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany, +49(0)6151/162995
* Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina, USA
* Book series www.pickeringchatto.com/technoscience
* Office for Interdisciplinary NanoTechnologyStudies www.nanobuero.de
* Genesis and Ontology of Technoscientific Objects www.goto-objects.eu
* Interdisziplinärer Studienschwerpunkt www.cisp.tu-darmstadt.de/nag
Homepage www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de/nordmann
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CONF: Exploring Awe and Wonder
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From: Bruce Janz <bbjanz@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: Exploring Awe and Wonder conference, 6-8 September 2013. CFP Deadline June 15 2013
Call for papers
Interdisciplinary conference
Exploring awe and wonder
6-8 September 2013
Institute for Simulation and Training
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation’s
Research Grant: Space, Science and Spirituality
http://www.chdr.cah.ucf.edu/spaceandspirituality/
The concepts of awe and wonder occupy an important place in the history of ideas, often associated with the beginnings of philosophy and with religious experience. In contemporary times, however, they are under-studied and rarely discussed. It is not clear that such experiences are more rare in our time. One might argue that given our ability to explore more and more corners of the physical and intellectual universe using technology and advanced science, and our capacity for representing the results of such explorations in art, film and various mass media, we should expect that experiences of awe and wonder are more common.
The interdisciplinary conference, Exploring Awe and Wonder, will bring together researchers in psychology, emotion theory, neuroscience, philosophy, art history, religious studies, and other relevant fields to explore the science and phenomenology of awe and wonder. Proposals for presentations in these areas are welcome. A special session on Space, Science and Spirituality is being organized to present current research on the experience of awe and wonder during space flight.
Keynote speakers
Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate)
Michelle Shiota (Psychology, Arizona State University)
Invited speakers
Jonathan Cole (Neuroscience, Bournemouth University)
Joerg Trempler (Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Yale Center for British Art)
Jeff Williams (NASA, Astronaut)
Send abstracts and session proposals by June 15, 2013 to
Bruce Janz
Department of Philosophy
Center for Humanities and Digital Research
University of Central Florida
Bruce.Janz@ucf.edu
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Bruce B. Janz
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Philosophy
Graduate Faculty, Texts & Technologies PhD.
Psychology Building 220
University of Central Florida
4111 Pictor Lane
Orlando FL 32816-1352
TEL: 407-823-5408
DEPT: 407-823-2273
FAX: 407-823-6658
bruce.janz@ucf.edu (UCF)
bbjanz@gmail.com (personal)
brucejanz.com
Director, Center for Humanities and Digital Research
Colbourn Hall 205
chdr.cah.ucf.edu
B. Janz, Philosophy in an African Place. Lexington Books, 2009
http://goo.gl/V0hNm Paperback version now available
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CONF: Kant
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From: Alberto Vanzo <alberto.vanzo@email.it>
Subject: Final CfA: 2013 UK Kant Society Annual Conference
2013 UK Kant Society Annual Conference
Heythrop College, University of London
28-30 August 2013
Keynote speakers:
Pamela Sue Anderson (Oxford)
Paul Guyer (Brown)
Papers are invited from academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students on any aspect of Kant’s philosophy. While papers in all areas of Kant’s philosophy are welcome, we encourage the submission of abstracts dealing specifically with Kant’s philosophy of religion.
If you are interested in giving a presentation, please email two files to Alberto Vanzo (<alberto.vanzo@email.it>): one including your name and affiliation, and a second one with an abstract of 800-1200 words excluding any self-identifying information. Deadline: 15 May. We aim to announce which papers have been accepted by 1st June.
For information, please email the conference organiser, Rory Phillips (<Rory.Phillips@heythropcollege.ac.uk>) or the UKKS Conference Convenor, Alberto Vanzo (<alberto.vanzo@email.it>).
The conference is sponsored by the Analysis Trust and the Mind Association.
Posted in Calls for Papers, UK and Ireland
CONF: Philosophy and Museums
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From: Gary Kemp <Gary.Kemp@glasgow.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference 2013 (Glasgow, Scotland)
From: Gary Kemp <Gary.Kemp@glasgow.ac.uk>
Subject: CFP: Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference 2013 (Glasgow, Scotland)
CFP: Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference 2013
Philosophy and Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics and Ontology
24th to 26th of July 2013
University of Glasgow and the Burrell Collection
Submissions of short papers are invited for an international conference on Philosophy and Museums, to be held at University of Glasgow and at the Burrell Collection on the 24th to 26th of July 2013. The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday 31st May.
Keynote Speakers:
David Brown (St Andrews), ‘Contexts and Experiencing the Sacred’
Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), ‘The Museum of Big Ideas’
Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), ‘Word and Object’
Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), ‘Museums and the Nostalgic Self’
Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), ‘“A Sudden Surprise of the Soul”: Wonder in Museums and Early Modern Philosophy’
Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), ‘What do we see in Museums?’
Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College, New York), ‘A Curious Case of Collecting’
Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), ‘Replicas and the Role of Museums’
Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf, Minnesota) and Jil Evans (Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts), ‘How To Get Into A Work Of Art’
Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow), ‘Museums, Ethics and Truth’
There has been much interest lately on the part of academics, museum professionals and policy makers on interactions between universities and museums. Critical theory, influenced by Continental philosophy, has had a shaping role on the discussions which have taken place; however, so far there has been little attention to what the insights of philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition might bring to the table. This conference will highlight the scholarship of philosophers in this tradition who have engaged with museums and taken seriously the philosophical questions they raise.
This international conference will bring together philosophers from a spectrum of philosophical sub-disciplines, ranging from ethics, through aesthetics, to metaphysics and philosophy of religion. It will explore how their work contributes to the understanding of museums and what light it can shed on the philosophical questions raised by museum practices. The conference will address such questions under three main headings: Ethics, Aesthetics and Ontology.
Papers should take 30 minutes to present and be submitted in a form suitable for blind review. Our aim is to involve speakers with a variety of perspectives. It is intended that papers presented at the conference should be suitable for publication as a special supplementary volume of Philosophy (scheduled to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2014). It is a condition of accepting the invitation to participate in the conference that we would have the first right of refusal on a final version of any paper delivered at the conference. Please consult the conference website for further details of the topics which papers might address:
The extended deadline for submissions of papers is 31st May 2013. The conference fee will be waived for accepted speakers and lunch and dinner for three days will be provided. Speakers are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.
Papers should be submitted, and enquiries addressed, to Dr Anna Bergqvist (a.bergqvist@mmu.ac.uk).
Organisers: Victoria Harrison, Gary Kemp and Anna Bergqvist
The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, Glasgow Life, the Scots Philosophical Association, the Journal of Philosophy of Education, the Mind Association, the Aristotelian Society, Hutchesons’ Grammar School; and within the University of Glasgow, The Hunterian Museum, the School of Education and the School of Humanities.
Posted in Calls for Papers, UK and Ireland
CfP: Pictorial and Spatial Representation
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From: Gabriel Greenberg <gabriel.greenberg@gmail.com>
Subject: CFP: “Pictorial and Spatial Representation”, a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Subject: CFP: “Pictorial and Spatial Representation”, a special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Pictorial and Spatial Representation”
Special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology
Guest editors: Valeria Giardino and Gabriel Greenberg
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2013
The Theme
Pictorial and spatial representation play an essential role in a vast range of human communication and reasoning, exemplified by the widespread use of diagrams, maps, pictures, iconic gestures, comics, and film.
In this special issue of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology, we seek to bring together work from philosophy and cognitive science (including psychology, linguistics, and computer science) that breaks new ground in the study of spatial representation generally. Recent developments in these fields set the stage for new and exciting perspectives on this poorly understood, but philosophically and scientifically central subject matter.
The primary subject of this special issue is the public use of pictorial and spatial representations, including uses in a variety of functional roles, such as communication, externalized reasoning and proof, planning, and navigation. We will exclude research on the more familiar subject of spatial cognition, including perception and mental imagery, except insofar as it is related to public representational phenomena. We encourage submissions which pinpoint specific media, but which also address fundamental semantic concepts like content, veridicality, and validity as they apply to the variety of spatial representations. In addition, we welcome contributions which draw connections between contemporary philosophical and scientific research, as well as work which fosters rigorous engagement with empirical results and formal methods.
Potential articles might discuss:
- The analysis of diagrams, pictures, or maps in terms of:
- Syntax, semantics, or pragmatics;
- Content, reference, or veridicality;
- Validity, reasoning, or proof.
- The cognitive, communicative, and practical functions of spatial representations (including pictorial representations).
- Taxonomies of spatial representations.
- The difference between spatial representations and linguistic representation.
- The relationship between cognition or perception and spatial representation.
Invited Authors
TArticles by the following authors will be featured:
- Patrick Maynard (Western Ontario)
- Sun-Joo Shin (Yale)
- Matthew Stone (Rutgers)
- Barbara Tversky (Columbia)
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 1 August 2013
Target publication date: 31 March 2014
How to submit
Prospective authors should register at: www.editorialmanager.com/ropp to obtain a login and select Pictorial and Spatial Representation as the article type. Manuscripts should be approximately 8,000 words and conform to the author guidelines available on the journal’s website.
About the journal
The Review of Philosophy and Psychology (ISSN: 1878-5158; eISSN: 1878-5166) is a peer-reviewed journal, published quarterly by Springer, which focuses on philosophical and foundational issues in cognitive science. The journal’s aim is to provide a forum for discussion on topics of mutual interest to philosophers and psychologists and to foster interdisciplinary research at the crossroads of philosophy and the sciences of the mind, including the neural, behavioural and social sciences. The journal publishes theoretical works grounded in empirical research as well as empirical articles on issues of philosophical relevance. It includes thematic issues featuring invited contributions from leading authors together with articles answering a call for papers.
Contact
For any queries, please email the guest editors: valeria.giardino@gmail.com and gabriel.greenberg@gmail.com.
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