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CFP: Polish Journal of Philosophy
2007-08-15 12:06:00
We invite the submission of articles on any aspect of philosophy, provided that they are not of a primarily expository or historical character. The articles should not exceed the length of 8000 words and should conform to the specific guidelines provided on our website www.pjp.edu.pl. You are welcome to send us either electronic or ...
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Democracy and Knowledge: Key Issues
2007-07-31 14:02:00
We might draw an analogy between democracy and knowledge and the traditional philosophical tension between politics and truth. Philosophers since Socrates have tended to align philosophy with truth and rhetoric with the sophistic world of the political. However, ?truth? has connotations rather different to those of ?knowledge?. While there are various philosophical ...
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CFP: Philosophy as Therapeia
2007-07-31 13:52:00
Symposium on Philosophy as Thera peia: Perspectives from India and Europe Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference, University of Liverpool, 19th-21st June 2008 We are inviting proposals for papers on the topics outlined below. Please send abstracts to Clare Carlisle (Clare.Carlisle@liv.ac.uk) by 30th September 2007. Papers presented at the Symposium will be published by Cambridge University Press ...
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Heraclitus for 7 Year Olds
2007-07-26 20:12:00
BBC News An interesting article for those of us who think that philosophy should play a larger part in the curriculum for pre-university studies. 
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Hiatus
2007-07-20 15:07:00
There hasn’t been much activity here recently as I was away in Poland at Democracy and Knowledge and now have some pressing deadlines coming up.  There’s plenty to write about, but it’s going to have to wait a while!  To keep updated, you can use the RSS services at the bottom of the menu on the ...
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Kaleidoscope
2007-07-05 14:32:00
Kaleidoscope is a peer-reviewed on-line scholarly journal, which publishes articles, notes, discussions and reviews with a particular focus on inter-disciplinary studies. The journal publishes in English bi-annually, in September and April. Submissions are encouraged from postgraduate students and post-doctoral scholars from the arts and humanities and the natural and social sciences. The editors welcome full ...
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CFP - Nature & Classification
2007-06-14 10:47:00
?Natur e and its Classification? 1st International Conference hosted by the AHRC funded Metaphysics of Science Project University of Birmingham, 12th-14th October 2007 As part of a three year AHRC funded Metaphysics of Science project investigating the closely-related topics of causation, laws, dispositions and natural kinds, the universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham invite paper submissions for the international conference ?Nature ...

CFP - Universal Pragmatics
2007-05-25 15:37:00
ECREA Section for the Philosophy of Communication First Bi-Annual Conference 25 YEARS OF UNIVERSAL PRAGMATICS FACTS and FICTIONS 08-09 NOVEMBER 2007 | UNIVERSITY OF SURREY | GUILDFORD Rethinking communication theory seems to be in vogue again. Even though it is dangerous to seek to predict future theoretical trends, the field of communication theory seems likely to continue to generate ...
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South Park Scientology
2007-05-16 17:54:00
Scientology has been in the news more often than usual this week thanks to the Panorama controversy. Most people are of the impression that it is a celebrity cult, but don’t know much about the beliefs that Scientologists hold. This is understandable, given the lengths that they go to to control the dissemination ...
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Neurological Ethics?
2007-05-12 01:46:00
This science article from the Wall Street Journal discusses recent American research into a neurobiological basis for morality. “Knock out certain brain cells with an aneurysm or a tumor, they discovered, and while everything else may appear normal, the ability to think straight about some issues of right and wrong has been permanently skewed. “It tells ...
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Habermas: The Basics
2007-05-11 23:35:00
In this video, Jürgen Haber mas outlines the broad contours of his work (deliberative democracy and communicatve rationality). The discussion isn’t very theoretical, but certainly gives a flavour of the Habermasian project.
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CFP - Monsters and the Monstrous
2007-05-08 11:54:00
Monsters and the Monstro us: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil Monday 17th September - Thursday 20th September 2007 Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project will have a dual focus with the ...
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CFP - Forum/Society for European Philosophy
2007-05-03 19:58:00
Call for Papers for the 3rd Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Phil osophy and the Forum for European Philosophy at The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK.  The conference will be held on September 8th-10th 2007. The FEP-SEP Joint Conference offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present papers in any area of ...

Ron Paul: Republican Senator
2007-04-30 17:24:00
The Senate needs more Republican s like this. Ron Paul is a dyed-in-the-wool conservative who is one of the most outspoken of the Republicans against the war. He offers a number of robust constitutionalist arguments against U.S. foreign policy. The more impotent democrats could learn a lot from this guy, that’s for sure.  One ...
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?New? Commentary on Aristotle
2007-04-26 21:06:00
It isn’t every day that something like this happens. Research ers using spectral imaging techniques have uncovered the commentary within a text known as the Archimedes Palimpest. Medieval recyclers seem to have thought this pagan work unworthy of preservation, because they just scrubbed it off and re-used the manuscript. The original is on ...
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Fascist America?
2007-04-24 10:25:00
Naomi Wolf has an interesting article in The Guardian today which compares the present climate in the United States with the ferment of fascism in the middle of the 20th Century in Europe. I would say it’s pretty uncomfortable reading. Here’s a summary of the list for all wannabe fascists to keep handy. 1.) ...
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Zizek on Philosophy
2007-04-20 18:15:00
… and chocolate laxatives.
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CFP - Pli (Warwick)
2007-04-11 15:16:00
Pli invites submissions for the next volume (Volume 19) which will be concerned with the notions of sense and nonsense. ‘The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.’ Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections ‘In order to be able to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides ...

CFP - Studies in Social Justice
2007-04-10 13:55:00
The Editors of Studies in Social Justice invite submissions all year round. Studies in Social Justice is published twice yearly by the Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor. This electronic journal publishes articles on issues dealing with the social, cultural, economic, political, and philosophical problems associated with the struggle for social justice. ...
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Honneth in London
2007-03-30 13:55:00
Axel Honneth spoke in London last week as part of the Forum for European Philosophy series of ‘Conversations’. He was talking to Peter Dews, and the conversation spanned from his confessions of undermotivated scholarship in the 1960s to a brief discussion of his latest work on reification. The talk - which was both ...
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10th Essex Conference
2007-03-27 13:17:00
I am pleased to announce the schedule for the 10th International Graduate Conference in Philosophy at the University of Esse x. The Conference will be held at the University on Saturday, 28th April 2007, and will feature papers by our visiting keynote speaker Dr. Karin de Boer (University of Groningen) and Dr.Wayne Martin (University ...
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CFP: Recognition
2007-03-12 16:20:00
The Centre for research in ethics at the University of Montreal (CREUM) is sponsoring an international workshop on “The Plural States of Recognition ,” to be held in Montreal, September 27-29, 2007. Twenty-four invited scholars will speak on three major themes that are at the cutting edge of academic research on recognition. Poster session. Three student poster sessions ...

Baudrillard Dies
2007-03-07 16:10:00
Jean Baudrillard, French philosopher and cultural realist, died today aged 77. His work, based upon Nietzschean sentiments of seduction and imitation, is most enduringly represented by the notion of the ‘hyper-real’. His notorious assertion that the first Gulf War ‘did not take place’ has been somewhat abused, but his concept of the ‘event’ ...
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CFP - HABERMAS & VIOLENCE
2007-03-06 11:43:00
Panel “Haber mas and Viol ence ” - during the Political Theory Workshops, Fourth Annual Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, 3 - 5 September 2007 We are currently looking for contributions to the panel on “Habermas and Violence” to be held at the Fourth Annual conference of the Political Theory Workshops. We are specifically looking at the writings of ...
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Last Days of Friedrich Nietzsche
2007-02-19 13:11:00
Who ever would have thought that this footage existed? Assuming it is authentic, it has a rather macabre feel… Just in case you were wondering, this is Nietzsche toward the end.
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