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CFP: Identity and Difference
2008-02-19 13:45:00
“Concepts of Identity and Difference ” 5th Annual Colloquium Graduate Philosophy Student’s Association, Concordia University Montreal, QC (Canada) 2-3 May 2008 _________________________________________ _________ We are welcoming paper submissions involving philosophical considerations of concepts of identity and difference, as well as interdisciplinary approaches to this topic, from realms such as logic, mathematics, linguistics, cognitive sciences, feminism, political theory, and the humanities. This is an interdisciplinary conference open ...

Philosophy post-1968 (University of Essex)
2008-02-07 17:54:00
http://www.essex.ac.uk/philosophy/departm ent/gradconference/gradconhome.html The call for papers can be downloaded here.
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Aurora (City University of New York)
2008-02-06 15:43:00
Aurora invites graduate students to submit papers in any area of philosophy for publication. The length of the submissions should range between 4000 and 6000 words. The aim of the journal is to publish the highest quality papers by philosophers starting their career. Hence submisisons should both be clearly written and present and maintain a defined ...
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CFP: SEP/FEP Conference
2008-02-05 23:36:00
Call for Papers for the 4th Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland, 29-31 August, 2008. The SEP-FEP Joint Conference offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present papers in any area of European Philosophy. Abstracts of no more than 500 words ...

CFP: Intercorporeality and Insubjectivity
2008-02-05 23:34:00
UCD, Philosophy Conference 2008 Perspectives on Intercorporeality and Insubjectivity Conference, Dublin, June 6/7 2008 We invite the submission of abstracts on the theme of intercorporeality and intersubjectivity from postgraduate students and professional philosophers working in philosophy and other relevant disciplines. Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words. Speakers will have approximately 30 minutes in which to deliver ...

Grounds for Critique: Realism in the Natural and Human Sciences
2008-01-31 15:48:00
Annual conference July 11-13 2008 The Conference calls for papers from all areas in the arts and humanities, the natural and social sciences. It invites participants from both within and outside critical realism who are interested to explore critical realist philosophy, method and practice, encouraging a broad focus on the nature and grounds of critique. We live ...
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CFP: German Philosophy since Kant
2008-01-21 15:27:00
Saturday 7 June 2008Avenue CampusUniversity of Southampton,Southampton, UKKeynote speaker: Stephen Mulhall (University of Oxford), ?The Meaning of the Question of Being: Wittgenstein and Heidegger Converse?The University of Southampton?s annual one-day Graduate Conference in Philosophy will this year be devoted to issues in and arising from German -speaking philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Academic ...

CFP: Shadows of Cruelty
2008-01-21 15:21:00
 Theme Issue for Angelaki: journal of theoretical humanitiesEdited by:Frida Beckman - The University of UppsalaCharlie Blake - Liverpool Hope University Proposed publication date: April 2009This collection intends to address recent and contemporary reconfigurations of Sadism and Masochismin philosophical, literary and image-based expressions of identity. How can theoretical approaches to Sadismand Masochism assist our understanding of technologiesof self ...
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CFP: Anarchism and Moral Philosophy
2007-12-13 15:39:00
The Anarchist Studies Network: A Political Studies Association Specialist Group for the Study of Anarchism Is organising a conference on the theme of Anarchism and Moral Philosophy and invites submissions for panels on Anarchism and moral Philosophy, whether in terms of meta-ethics (such what is the status of ethical judgements? From where do they derive?), normative ethics ...

Introduction to Philosophy
2007-12-07 15:12:00
Updates here have been slow recently as I have been inundated with thesis work. What time I have for web work has been taken up by my site for Introduction to Philosophy at htttp://py111.wordpress.com. I have decided to give the site a proper url of its own. The site can now be accessed ...
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CFP: Human Rights
2007-11-15 16:07:00
“Human Rights ” Essays in Philosophy: A Biannual Journal Volume 9, Number 2 (June 2008) Human rights have become the dominant framework by which the contemporary world morally evaluates particular laws and nation-states in terms of providing the social, political, and economic conditions required for an individual to be able to lead a good life. However, there are numerous ...
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CFP: Heroes and Philosophy
2007-10-30 14:03:00
I reckon this one might be worth a punt! The Blackwell Philosophy and PopCulture Series David Kyle Johnson, Editor davidjohnson@kings.edu William Irwin, General Editor wtirwin@kings.edu Abstracts and subsequent essays should be philosophically substantial but accessible, written to engage the intelligent lay reader. Contributors of accepted essays will receive an honorarium. Possible themes and topics might include, but are not limited ...
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CFP: Naturalness of Man and World
2007-10-26 15:44:00
The 10th International Conference of the Spinoza-Society, held at the Philipps University of Marburg, Sept. 26-26th 2008 Keynote Speakers: Dieter Birnbacher (Düsseldorf), Andrea Esser (Marburg), Alan Gabbey (Columbia University), Petra Gehring (Darmstadt), Barbara Merker (Frankfurt), Ursula Renz (ETH Zürich), Winfried Schröder (Marburg), Robert Spaemann (Stuttgart), Rudolf Stichweh (Luzern), Lutz Wingert (ETH Zürich) Call for papers for the following ...
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Truth and Falsity (Warwick)
2007-10-25 15:59:00
“True and false belong among those determinate notions which are held to be inert and wholly separate essences, one here and one there, each standing fixed and isolated from the other, with which it has nothing in common. Against this view it must be maintained that truth is not a minted coin that can be ...
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Introduction to Philosophy
2007-10-16 16:20:00
I have started a new site to extend the learning environment outside the classroom for my ‘Introduction to Philosophy ’ classes this year. It can be found at http://py111.wordpress.com/. Feel free to join the debate if you’re new to philosophy. Between now and the end of this year the subject is moral philosophy. ...
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Heidegger: Human, All Too Human
2007-09-07 18:21:00
Great errors, indeed.
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Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human
2007-09-06 20:47:00
… being a BBC documentary which, although lightweight in places, is an ample introduction.
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Virtue Terrorists
2007-08-24 14:46:00
“Mostly, what we’re concerned with is Jesus.” Whoever thought The Beatles were such a problem? http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/22/gw.teen. christians/index.html
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Philosophy and Rubbish
2007-08-20 18:55:00
This BBC News article introduces an Albanian chemist-cum-philosopher who is now producing the first translations of Bertrand Russell in Albanian. Though philosophy was his first love, he became a chemist for political reasons - and still got ten years in a brick factory for his trouble. He now assesses the levels of toxicity ...
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CFP: Beyond Signification
2007-08-17 10:19:00
On the 7th and 8th of December 2007 the Department of Philosophy at Free University Berlin will host its second International Graduate Conference in Philosophy. This year´s conference addresses the recent comeback of concepts such as substance, presence and reality in and outside the Humanities as well as the crisis of poststructuralism that accompanies it. Beyond ...

Sartre: Human, All Too Human
2007-08-16 13:24:00
Since a kindly soul has uploaded it to YouTube, I’m pleased to be able to bring you a recent BBC documentary on Sart re (6 parts). Part One Part Two Part Three Part Four Part Five Part Six
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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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