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2012-02-06T14:51:00.003-05:00

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$15,000 fellowships for MA in philosophy at Georgia State University

2011-12-16T14:16:00.002-05:00

Great funding opportunity for MA in philosophy!!

The Master's program of the Philosophy Department at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia is accepting applications from qualified students for its three Neurophilosophy Fellowships, its Legal/Political Philosophy Scholarship, its German Philosophy Scholarship, and its Assistantships. All funding packages cover two years of full tuition. Fellowships and scholarships provide $15,000/year, and Assistantships provide $5,000-$10,000/year.

Initial application deadline: February 1, 2012.

The M.A. program at GSU is highly ranked by the Philosophical Gourmet Report, and it has had great success in placing its students in well-regarded Ph.D. programs. More information about the department and on application procedures can be found at http://www.gsu.edu/philosophy.

Call for Undergraduate Essays

2011-12-14T17:57:00.001-05:00

The Interlocutor: Sewanee Philosophical Review is seeking high quality
undergraduate essays for its upcoming volume.

Please send this announcement to students who might have an interest
in this opportunity.

Our call for essays and instructions for submissions can be viewed at
http://www.sewanee.edu/philosophy/interlocutor/submit.html

The most recent volume is available at
http://www.sewanee.edu/philosophy/interlocutor/journal.html

If you or your students have questions, please feel free to contact
interloc@sewanee.edu

Undergraduate Journal CFP: Valey Humanities Review seeking Philosophy and related fields submissions

2011-12-14T17:56:00.002-05:00

Topic: anything in the humanities (literature, art history, history, foreign languages, religion, philosophy, poetry)

Length: essays in English: 3000-6000 words; foreign languages: 2000-6000 words

Format: Chicago style (though we can be flexible with this; students could submit what they have and then put it into Chicago before publication if accepted)

Deadline: January 10

Here’s the more detailed CFP:

The Valley Humanities Review is currently seeking essays in the humanities for publication in its Spring 2012 Issue. We seek essays of high quality, intellectual rigor and originality that challenge or contribute substantially to ongoing conversations in the humanities. Topics may include but are not limited to: literature, history, religion, philosophy, art, art history and foreign languages. VHR is also currently seeking poetry submissions; students may submit up to three poems. VHR is committed to undergraduate research and scholarship in the field; therefore, we only accept submissions by current or recently graduated undergraduate students. Our reading period runs from September 1 to December 15 of each year. All submissions received outside of these dates will be returned unread. All submissions should adhere to the Chicago style in formatting, footnoting and bibliography. Essays should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length, be free of errors and have an original title; essays in languages other than English may be 2,000 to 6,000 words. All submissions should be free of any identifying marks such as names, addresses, or school affiliations. Please give contact information in the body of your email. All contest submissions should be emailed to submissions-vhr@lvc.edu as a Word document attachment. Please visitwww.lvc.edu/vhr for more information.

CFP Undergraduate Philosophy Conference on Social Responsibility

2011-12-14T17:55:00.002-05:00

CALL FOR PAPERS
GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
On SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Date: 13 April 2012

Proposal:
Dialogue about social responsibility has been increasing over the last
few months. One need only think of the slogans of the Occupy movements
across the globe to recognize how the question of whether individuals,
societies, and even corporations have responsibility for their
neighbors, fellow citizens, coworkers, and employees. University
students are coming together to examine these issues both through
peaceful protests and open forum discussions. In this undergraduate
conference we hope to amplify the voices of our students by inviting
papers that explicitly deal with the questions of social
responsibility from an interdisciplinary perspective. We hope to see
papers addressing the merits, demerits, and sustainability of social
responsibility, as well as presentations which explicitly analyze
ethical systems. Papers from various disciplines are welcome as this
question has been raised throughout history from philosophers such as
Plato and Marx to inspiring activists of the 1960s and 70s like Martin
Luther King Jr. and Betty Friedan. We encourage papers outside of the
philosophical arena which explicitly question the virtue of social
responsibility and the role it plays in determining and informing
class, race and gender issues, religious conflicts, economic policies
as well as issues concerning today’s political climate. We would also
appreciate papers which question the methods of civil disobedience and
peaceful protest. Edited and reworked papers from class assignments
that touch on any of these issues are encouraged as this conference
hopes to promote undergraduate research, presentation, and
publication.

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Drew Dalton, author of Ethical Decision Making in
the Human and Social Services, Sympathy for the Devil: Resisting the
Tyranny of the Infinite Other and Longing for the Other: Levinas and
Metaphysical Desire .

Submission guidelines
Word limit: 4,000. Shorter papers are also welcomed as well as group
presentations.
Deadline for submission March 1, 2012.
To ask questions about the conference and to submit papers please
contact conference coordinator, Dr. Danielle A. Layne, at
dlayne@georgiasouthern.edu.
Top Seven Papers Will be Published in GSU PST Undergraduate Journal:
The Indefinite Dyad

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Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.

Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

CFP: Undergraduate Conference (Liverpool)

2011-12-14T17:52:00.002-05:00

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Liverpool

10^th – 11^th March 2012

Keynote Speakers

Richard Gaskin (University of Liverpool), Philosophy and Pain

Stella Sandford (Kingston University), John Locke – Continental Philosopher?

Call for Papers

To all philosophers! We are pleased to announce that the University of Liverpool Philosophy Society will be holding its first Undergraduate Philosophy Conference next March. Submissions are welcome from anyone with current undergraduate status or equivalent.

Your papers can be on any topic you wish, from analytic discussion to continental enquiry, and any branch of philosophy. This is an opportunity to pursue your own interests in philosophy and we are hoping for a wide variety of topics. Please note that the papers should be clearly written, argumentative and demonstrate some original thinking, not merely descriptive or a simple regurgitation of a particular philosopher's work. The required length is 3000-5000 words to ensure at least 20-30 mins presenting time.

If your paper is accepted, all expenses except travel will be covered by the conference.

Please submit your papers to H.E.Lewendon-Evans@student.liverpool.ac.uk. For each paper, please attach a cover letter that includes an abstract of the paper, your name, institution and email address. The submission deadline is midnight of Friday 10th February 2012.

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

CFP: Ephemeris, the Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

2011-12-14T01:23:00.000-05:00

Call for undergraduate papers

Thank you for your support of Ephemeris. The 2011 issue is available on request or download the essays from our website <http://punzel.org/Ephemeris>.

We thank the authors for great work and we look forward to more of it for our 2012 issue.

Ephemeris is an undergraduate journal of philosophy that is student-run and dedicated to publishing exceptional undergraduate writing grounded in the distinct value and interest of the philosophical endeavor.

Contributions: Contributions are solicited in all areas of the philosophical discipline. Contributions should take the form of essay, article, or short note. Review articles are welcome. Please include a short abstract describing the thesis of the paper and main conclusions.

Be sure to include your name, postal and email addresses, and the university or college in which you are enrolled as an undergraduate.

For more information about Ephemeris and submission guidelines, please visit our website at <http://punzel.org/Ephemeris>.

Email: Please send your work and any correspondence to <ephemeris.uc@gmail.com>. You should receive a confirmation of receipt in a matter of days.

Submission deadline is February 15, 2012.

We look forward to hearing from you or your students; and please pass the word along.

Funded opportunity for MA studies at the University of Saskatchewan

2011-12-09T16:56:00.001-05:00

An opportunity for graduating undergraduate students:

We have had good luck obtaining scholarships and graduate teaching fellowships for superior incoming students to our MA Program.

We offer both a course-based and a thesis-based MA and we think our relatively small program (10 - 15 students) allows for a richer philosophical and educational experience.
Our deadline for admission to the program with consideration for funding is February 1st, 2012.

We would appreciate it very much if you could forward this notice to your Undergraduate Director and undergraduate student list serve.

Student inquiries may be directed to:

Philip Dwyer, Graduate Director, philip.dwyer@usask.ca
Department of Philosophy
University of Saskatchewan
9 Campus Drive
Saskatoon, SK Canada S7N 5A6

Please refer to the following links for further information:
Department link: http://www.usask.ca/philosophy/
College of Graduate Studies and Research link: http://www.usask.ca/cgsr/grad_programs/programs/PHIL.php
Step-by-Step Application Process : http://www.usask.ca/cgsr/applying/index.php

DURHAM UNIVERSITY - TAUGHT MA IN PHILOSOPHY

2011-12-09T15:28:00.000-05:00

We are now inviting applications for October 2012 entry.

STUDYING AT DURHAM

Situated in the centre of a beautiful, historic city, Durham's Department of Philosophy has a large and thriving postgraduate community.

We have an exceptionally broad range of interests and expertise, and our Masters students are free to study a wide range of topics,

from applied ethics to the philosophy of action, and from Buddhist philosophy to aesthetics.

In 2012-13, we expect to offer the following Masters modules:

Mind and Action
Phenomenology and the Sciences of Mind
Current Issues in Ethics
Language Evolution and Culture
Current Issues in Metaphysics
Business Ethics
Philosophy and Religion
Philosophical Issues in Science and Medicine
Feminist Philosophy and Gender Theory
Current Issues in Aesthetics and Theory of Art
Science and the Enlightenment
Ethics, Medicine and History
Ancient Philosophers on Necessity, Fate and Free Will (taught in the Department of Classics)
Forms after Plato (taught in the Department of Classics)

For further information about the MA programme, the application procedure and funding opportunities, please contact the Director, Dr Elisabeth Schellekens (elisabeth.schellekens@durham.ac.uk).

Full details of the programme are provided at http://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/postgrad/taught/taughtphil/

POSTGRADUATE OPEN DAY

If you would like to visit our Department, do come along to our Postgraduate Open Day on Wednesday 1^stFebruary 2012.

If you wish to attend this event, or would like more information on it, please contact our Postgraduate Secretary, Jonathon Gilderoy (0191 334 6553; philosophy.pgsec@durham.ac.uk).

CFP: WCU Grad Conference: Ethics in Dialogue (West Chester, Pennsylvania)

2011-12-08T12:52:00.001-05:00

Call for Papers: West Chester University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Submissions for an undergraduate panel are also encouraged!!!!

Ethics in Dialogue

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Robert Bernasconi
Penn State University

Questions of the right have long concerned philosophers,
and the field of ethics has been approached from any
number of angles. Though ethical investigation can and
often does stand alone, what are the concerns of ethics
when applied to, and in dialogue with, other pursuits,
such as metaphysics, ontology, scientific inquiry, history,
literature, aesthetics, neuroscience, ecology,
phenomenology, and contemporary analytic philosophy?

Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Philips Memorial Hall
West Chester University

Please submit papers between 3,000 and 3,500 words
formatted for blind review by February 14th to:
wcuphilosophyconference2012@gmail.com

Submissions for an undergraduate panel are also
encouraged!!!!

CfP: Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Colloquium

2011-12-04T12:17:00.002-05:00

Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Colloquium

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PAPERS

The Philosophy Department and the Philosophy Club at East Tennessee
State University present

5th Annual
Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Colloquium
East Tennessee State University

Date: March 30 – 31, 2012

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Diane Perpich, Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Clemson University

Papers are now being accepted for both undergraduate and graduate
presentations. All papers will be evaluated by blind review process.
At the conference, the keynote speaker will choose the best
presentation from the undergraduate and graduate categories, awarding
a $50 prize for each. A limited number of hotel accommodations may be
available at a discounted price.

Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome. Papers should be
approximately 10 pages, or 20 minutes presentation time. The papers
should not contain any identifying information.

Abstracts should be one paragraph, approximately 150 words, double
spaced, and should be attached to the paper. The abstracts should not
contain any identifying information.

Cover Sheets should be on a separate sheet, and should contain the
author’s name, the title of the paper, institutional affiliation,
address, phone number, and e-mail address.

The deadline for papers submitted electronically is February 4th,
2012.

Papers submitted as hard copy must be postmarked by February 1st,
2012.

Notification of acceptance will occur by February 18th, 2012.

Please send submissions to, or request further information from:
etsuphilosophyconf@gmail.com

Dr. David Harker
Dept. of Philosophy and Humanities
P.O. Box 70656
Johnson City, TN 37614

CFP: Puget Sound Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Call for Papers

2011-11-30T00:15:00.000-05:00

Puget Sound
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

March 30-31, 2012
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA

Keynote address by Niko Kolodny (UC Berkeley)

Call for Papers

Undergraduates are encouraged to submit papers on any topic of
philosophy. Selection criteria will include both overall quality as
well as diversity of theme and thesis. Submissions should be
approximately 3000 words and should include a brief abstract (no more
than 250 words.) Longer papers will be considered but presenters will
have 30 minutes to present their work.
Submission deadline: January 15, 2012.

Send submissions as an email attachment, prepared for blind review, to
PugetSoundPhilosophy@gmail.com. In the body of the email include the
author’s name, college affiliation, contact information, and title of
the paper. Include no identifying information in the file with the
paper.
Decisions will be made by mid-February.

For more information, check the conference website:
http://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/philosophy/philosophyconference/
or email PugetSoundPhilosophy@gmail.com or atubert@pugetsound.edu
with any questions.

CFP: Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal

2011-11-30T00:11:00.002-05:00

Submission Guidelines:
Stance welcomes papers concerning any philosophical topic. Current
undergraduates may submit a paper between 1500 and 3500 words in
length (footnotes may extend the word limit 500 words at most). Stance
asks that each undergraduate only submit one paper for the journal per
year. Papers should avoid unnecessary technicality and strive to be
accessible to the widest possible audience without sacrificing clarity
or rigor. They are evaluated on the following criteria: depth of
inquiry, quality of research/academic rigor, creativity, lucidity,
struggle, significance, and, most importantly, originality.

Submission Procedures:
• Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word (.doc) format and sent as an
attachment to ballstatestance@gmail.com
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including quotations, excerpts,
and footnotes)
• The right margin should not be justified
• To facilitate our anonymous review process, submissions are to be
prepared for anonymous review. Include a cover page with the author’s
name, affiliation, title, and email address. Papers, including
footnotes, should have no other identifying markers.
• Footnotes should follow Chicago Manual of Style. Examples are on our
website under Notes for Contributors.
• Please use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly
quoting a source that has followed British style.
For further concerns, please visit Stance on the web at http://stance.iweb.bsu.edu/or
contact us at ballstatestance@gmail.com

DEADLINE: Friday, December 16, 2011

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Liverpool

2011-11-28T12:16:00.002-05:00

Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, University of Liverpool

10^th – 11^th March 2012

Keynote Speakers

Richard Gaskin (University of Liverpool), Philosophy and Pain

Stella Sandford (Kingston University), John Locke – Continental Philosopher?

Call for Papers

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CFP: Undergraduate Essays (Interlocutor)

2011-11-18T11:07:00.002-05:00

The Interlocutor: Sewanee Philosophical Review is pleased to announce
its most recent volume and its first call for high quality
undergraduate essays for its upcoming volume.

Please send this announcement to students who might have an interest
in this opportunity.

Our call for essays and instructions for submissions can be viewed at
http://www.sewanee.edu/philosophy/interlocutor/submit.html

The most recent volume is available at
http://www.sewanee.edu/philosophy/interlocutor/journal.html

If you or your students have questions, please feel free to contact
interloc@sewanee.edu

Fourth Annual Student Colloquium - New Mexico West Texas Philosophical Society

2011-11-16T11:59:00.002-05:00

575-522-4300

1-866-383-0443

www.nmwt.org

nmwt.student.colloquium@gmail.com

treasurer.nmwt@gmail.com

Wolrml@aol.com

Call for Undergraduate Papers

2011-11-10T11:13:00.000-05:00

CALL FOR PAPERS
Stance seeks original philosophical papers authored by current undergraduates.

Submission Guidelines:
Stance welcomes papers concerning any philosophical topic. Current undergraduates may submit a paper between 1500 and 3500 words in length (footnotes may extend the word limit 500 words at most). Stance asks that each undergraduate only submit one paper for the journal per year. Papers should avoid unnecessary technicality and strive to be accessible to the widest possible audience without sacrificing clarity or rigor. They are evaluated on the following criteria: depth of inquiry, quality of research, creativity, lucidity, struggle, significance, and, most importantly, originality.

Submission Procedures:
• Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word (.doc or docx.) format and sent as an attachment to ballstatestance@gmail.com
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including quotations, excerpts, and footnotes)
• The right margin should not be justified
• To facilitate our anonymous review process, submissions are to be prepared for anonymous review. Include a cover page with the author’s name, affiliation, title, and email address. Papers, including footnotes, should have no other identifying markers.
• Footnotes should follow Chicago Manual of Style. Examples are on our website under Notes for Contributors.
• Please use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly quoting a source that has followed British style.

For further concerns, please visit Stance on the web at http://stance.iweb.bsu.edu/ or contact us at ballstatestance@gmail.com

DEADLINE: Friday, December 16, 2011

CFP - Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2011-11-08T10:56:00.000-05:00

james.snyder@marist.edu

CFP - 10th annual Georgia State student philosophy symposium

2011-11-08T10:54:00.000-05:00

nmartin11@student.gsu.edu

kkooy@gsu.edu

www.gsu.edu/ethics

aicohen@gsu.edu

CfP: Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2011-11-02T12:32:00.000-04:00

boersema@pacificu.edu

http://commons.pacificu.edu/rescogitans

http://www.pacificu.edu/as/philosophy/conference/index.cfm

boersema@pacificu.edu

(503 352 2150

CFP: Dowling College's Second Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2011-08-28T10:59:00.000-04:00

CFP: Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Dowling College
(Oakdale, Long Island, New York, March 30, 2012)
In order to increase student awareness of and interest in philosophy,
and to encourage contributions to the scholarly community, Dowling
College Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies invites
students to submit papers relating to any philosophical topic or
period. Authors of accepted papers will be given the opportunity to
present their work at Dowling College’s second undergraduate
philosophy conference.

Deadline for Submissions: January 10, 2012

Submission Guidelines:
1. Although papers must relate to a philosophical topic or period,
that does not mean that other areas, such as psychology, sociology,
neurology, biology, etc., are excluded. As long as the paper engages
with its topic in a philosophical manner you are more than welcome to
submit the paper. Presenters should plan on having 15-20 minutes to
present their work (approx. 10-12 pages long). Time limits will be
strictly enforced.
2. Attach a copy of your submission in .doc or .docx format to an
email, and send it to dowlingphilconference@gmail.com. Within the
email, please include your name, email address, and college/university
that you are affiliated with.
3. Please do not include your name on your paper, so that it may be
reviewed “blind” by a committee of conference organizers.
4. Authors whose papers are accepted will be notified by Feb 10, 2011.
5. When you submit your paper, please indicate whether you would be
interested acting as a discussant for another speaker's paper.

Please remember that you do not have to be a philosophy major to
submit a paper! All currently enrolled undergraduates are welcome to
submit their work.

The Rudolph Campus of Dowling College is located in Oakdale, NY. This
is 50 miles from NYC, and 25 minutes walk from the Oakdale LIRR train
station.

For more information contact Adam Kohler at
dowlingphilconference@gmail.com

MBB Workshop on Attention at Harvard

2011-03-16T12:22:00.000-04:00

http://mbb.harvard.edu/undergrad/workshop2011.php

watzl@fas.harvard.edu

Hemlock Papers: Call for Papers -- Undergraduate Philosophy Journal

2011-03-09T11:48:00.002-05:00

The Hemlock Papers

An Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

Published by the University of Idaho

The Hemlock Papers is now seeking submissions for the Spring 2011 issue.

The Hemlock Papers is published by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Idaho. This journal publishes philosophical work by any undergraduate student.

We are seeking well-written papers on philosophical topics. Submissions should be between three and five thousand words.Essays must be original, previously unpublished, and submitted while the author is an undergraduate.

Editors may require revisions from authors of accepted submissions.

Email submissions to hemlock@uidaho.edu by April 25th, 2011.

Submissions should include a title page with title of submission, author name, institution, email address, and postal address. For blind review, the rest of the document should only include the title and text. Email submissions in .docx, .doc, .rtf, .wpd, or .pdf formats. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to the editors directly at the above email address.

Authors will be notified regarding submissions by the end of May 2011. Authors of accepted submissions will receive a gratis copy of the Spring 2011 edition of The Hemlock Papers.

The Hemlock PapersDepartment of Philosophy
P. O. Box 443016
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844-3016

CFP: 2nd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Rochester Institute of Technology

2011-03-09T11:47:00.000-05:00

2nd Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Rochester Institute of Technology

Paper Submissions Due: April 15th, 2011

Papers can be on any philosophical topic with a reading time of
approximately 20 minutes.

Conference to be held on May 6th, 2011

Keynote Speaker:

Professor Ugo Perone, Università del Piemonte Orientale,

Vercelli, Italy

Submissions prepared for blind review should be sent to the following address:

Dr. Lawrence Torcello

Department of Philosophy
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Drive

Rochester, NY 14623-5604

Email submissions and queries to: Lawrence.Torcello@rit.edu

CONF: Engaging Philosophy - Philosophy in the World. March 25-26 (Massachusetts)

2011-03-03T10:40:00.000-05:00

The Department of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College is pleased to announce Engaging Philosophy, a conference on bringing philosophy into engagement with everyday issues. The conference kicks off Friday, March 25, with a live taping of Philosophy Talk, featuring Louise Antony on atheism, and has sessions all day Saturday. The full program is online at http://www.EngagingPhilosophy.org .
Engaging Philosophy
March 25-26, 2011
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA
Speakers:
* Linda Alcoff, CUNY Graduate Center
* Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts ï¿½ Amherst
* Lawrence Blum, Unversity of Massachusetts ï¿½ Boston
* Sally Haslanger, MIT
* Mecke Nagel, SUNY Cortland
* John Perry, University of California, Riverside
* Ken Taylor, Stanford University
* John Wallace, University of Minnesota
A student session will feature projects by current or recent undergraduates that bring philosophy into community settings or into engagement with everyday concerns.
Registration: The conference is free and all are welcome. Please register on the conference website to help us plan.

First Annual Classic City Undergraduate Philosophy Conference CALL FOR PAPERS

2011-02-10T10:53:00.002-05:00

ugaphilosophyclub@gmail.com

undergraduate student essay competition

2011-02-10T10:44:00.002-05:00

The Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies (PRS) is pleased to announce its 2011 student essay competition, 'What is a university education for?'
In the light of recent proposed changes to UK government funding of undergraduate degrees in general, and in particular the removal of much central funding for undergraduate teaching in the humanities, this question has never been more relevant to our disciplines.

The Subject Centre for PRS annual undergraduate student essay competition, sponsored by Continuum books, is now open. We invite you to discuss the above question with recourse to your philosophical, theological or religious studies background. Entries are welcomed of not more than 2,000 words, which address the above question, and justify the response, with originality and style.

The winner will receive a cash prize of £250, £100 worth of books from the Continuum list, and an invitation to the Higher Education Academy Annual Conference. The winning entry will also be considered for publication in our journal, Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies<http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/publications/discourse.html>. There will also be a runner-up prize of £150.
Closing date: 12 noon, Monday May 9th 2011.
For more details, including eligibility and marking criteria, please visit our website: prs.heacademy.ac.uk/studentcomp<http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/studentcomp>

undergraduate summer institute

2011-02-10T10:37:00.000-05:00

FEAST (Feminist Ethics & Social Theory) sponsors a summer institute for undergraduates from groups underrepresented in philosophy. It's an exciting program, aimed both at making the field more welcome for those typically marginalized in it and, importantly, thereby changing philosophy. If you teach undergraduates, please urge eligible students to apply.

PIKSI '11 FEAST/APA
Philosophy in an Inclusive Key

A Summer Institute for Undergraduates

ROCK ETHICS INSTITUTE, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
July 25-August 1, 2011

Philosophy: Experience, Reflection, Transformation

Ladelle McWhorter, Director
Professor of Philosophy, Richmond College

Guest Faculty: Jose Medina and Mary Beth Mader

Along with works in feminist, critical race, disability, and queer theory, students will read historical and contemporary philosophical texts that explore recurring human concerns and investigate the ways in which experience informs philosophical reflection. In addition, writing assignments, visiting lecturers, and mentoring will help students learn that their own perspectives matter to philosophy.

Participants will be named Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholars and will receive support from the Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholars Fund.

Undergraduate women or men from underrepresented groups including racial, ethnic and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities are urged to apply. All students will receive a stipend, free transportation, and lodging.

APPLICATIONS DUE: April 15, 2011

For more details see http://rockethics.psu.edu/piksi

Co-Sponsors: APA - FEAST - Penn State's Rock Ethics Institute, College of The Liberal Arts, and Department of Philosophy, Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholars Fund;  2010 Institutional Co-Sponsors: Department of Philosophy, Binghamton; Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University; Department of Philosophy Stony Brook University

CFP Undergraduate Conference Davis and Elkins College

2011-02-09T16:03:00.000-05:00

Call for Paper

Undergraduate Conference
April 9, 2011
Venue: Davis and Elkins College, WV

-The sixth bi-annual undergraduate conference is scheduled for Saturday March November April 9, 2011, at Davis and Elkins College. Papers in any area are welcome. Papers must not exceed a length of 3000 words. We are looking for papers that have already been submitted for a class and that have done well. Instructors are requested to encourage their students to submit papers for this event. There will be an award of $150 for the best paper selected. There will be also two prizes for $50. Papers selected for prize will be announced on the Davis and Elkins college website one week after the conference.
The advisory board members are:
Helen Benigni, Shawn Stover, Nadeem Khan(Davis and Elkins College)
Mark Wood (Virginia Commonwealth University)
JoAnne Myers (Marist College)
Allen Michael, Teresa Allen (East Tennessee State University),
On the first page of your paper, include the following nine items:
1) word count-3000 words maximum
2) the author’s name
3) academic status
4) institutional affiliation
5) mailing address
6) email address
7) telephone number
8) the paper’s title
9) an abstract-100 words count
Submissions which do not include all nine items will not be considered. No more than one submission by the same author will be considered.
Email a copy of your paper to chakrabartic@davisandelkins.edu by November 1, 2010
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED

Philosophy Club this week (Friday, 11 February)

2011-02-07T10:54:00.000-05:00

Greetings -

The RIT Philosophy Club will meet this coming Friday, 11 February, from 3:00 to 5:00 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Jathan Sadowski will lead discussion this time, on the mind as a computational device. Jathan writes the following:

"The mind is often talked about in terms of computation. Is this analogy a proper one? Does it really describe how the brain works? Is cognition essentially a system of algorithms that takes place inside the 'wetware' of our brain? Or is this characterization of our cognition a mistaken thesis? Could our minds be doing something that goes beyond algorithmic computation? These are questions that I would like to put forward for exploration."

Call for papers: Brockport Philosophy Conference

2011-02-06T17:07:00.000-05:00

Brockport Philosophy Conference - Call for papers (submissions due by March 4th)

The College at Brockport is pleased to announce the call for papers for its annual philosophy conference supported by the Brockport Philosophy Department and The Mind’s Eye: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of the College at Brockport. Our vision for this conference is to incorporate diverse philosophical interests, as well as engage attendees in areas that they might not have the opportunity to study formally at their respective institutions. Undergraduates should consider submitting semester papers. Graduate students should consider submitting semester papers or position papers that exemplify current research and inquiry. The conference committee encourages submissions from all philosophical spectrums (e.g., analytic, continental, literary, political) focused on or incorporating, for example, ethics, logic, philology, religion, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, etc. The conference format will be concurrent sessions of individual papers, panels, and media presentations. Guidelines for submission can be found in the attached “Call For Papers.” Conference details and updates will be available on the website: www.brockportphilosophy.com

Keynote Speaker: Bill Ayers

Bill Ayers was a center of controversy in the 2008 presidential race manufactured by the Clinton campaign and accelerated by Sarah Palin (he was the so-called terrorist that Barack Obama was fraternizing with) because of his relationship with the future president and his history as a founding member of the Weather Underground, a group that actively protested the Vietnam War and government attacks on the Black Freedom Movement by building a revolutionary organization that among its many campaigns and activities became best known for bombing government facilities in the 1960s and 1970s. Bill Ayers is now a Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired). As an educational theorist and activist, he has published numerous books and articles, and lectured extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political activity. He will be discussing “Where Do We Go From Here? Barbarism or Community.”

Encouraged Key Themes

Analytic Philosophy - Continental Philosophy - Literary Theory - Political Philosophy - Religion - Logic - Ethics - Moral Philosophy – Aesthetics – Marxism – Feminism – Philosophy of Science – Philosophy of Mind – Pragmatism – Eastern Philosophy – African Philosophy

MA by Research (Hertfordshire) in Philosophy of Information or Information Ethics

2011-02-05T11:25:00.003-05:00

MA in Philosophy by Research, University of Hertfordshire, UK (http://www.herts.ac.uk/).

If you are interested in studying the philosophy of information or information ethics at a graduate level, please consider applying for a one-year Master of Arts by Research in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

To express your interest and for further information on the research project, please contact:

Mrs. Penny Driscoll, BA (Hons), MA

PA to Prof Luciano Floridi

Philosophy Department

University of Hertfordshire

p.j.driscoll2@herts.ac.uk

Philosophy Club this week (Friday, 4 February)

2011-02-01T11:59:00.000-05:00

The RIT Philosophy Club will meet this coming Friday, 4 February, from 3:00 to 5:00 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Professor Tim Engström will lead discussion this time, on relativism as salvation of religion. Tim offers the attached abstract for your perusal.

Abstract: For RIT Student Philosophy Club, February 4, 2011

Relativism is the best thing that ever happened to Religion: Dumping Epistemology for
Poetics, Foundational Truth for Literary Invention

There is nothing wrong with crazy metaphors, with inspirational provocations to re-imagine states of affairs that could be much better than the ones we’re in. The religious imagination sometimes does this, and sometimes forgets this is what it did—Nietzsche’s diagnosis. It sometimes turns against its own capacities for invention by hunting for origins, for already accomplished ‘Truths’ that will put our inventions securely on the side of eternity, as if they were ‘there’ before we invented them. Thank goodness we relativists know better. There are good reasons to prefer some inventions over others, and to work tirelessly to realize their promise—yes, epistemology does have a role to play, passim Dr. Capps—but the ‘truth’ of such inventions is not one of them.

In effect, we’ll consider the ironists efforts to appreciate religious achievements as a species of compelling literature and communal commitment, and consider foundational claims to truth as the best way to stifle the ongoing need for such achievements. We’ll do our best to cajole the fundamentalist out of his bad habit of smuggling in the ‘need’ for an already achieved, already possessed certainty: the best way to short-circuit the kinds of redescriptions and reinventions of old vocabularies we’re most in need of. We’ll pursue a further, historicist, and equally relativist argument: that it is democratic politics that rescued religious discourse from ‘truth’ and from intolerance and violence, and that rescued the religious imagination from the imposition of its own previous achievements.

As you’ve no doubt detected, you can anticipate:
- a few Deweyan gestures toward the pragmatic and democratic as guides to evaluating the nature and value of religious language;
- a few Rortyean gestures of strategic casualness and irony as a sentiment that embraces our
finitude and the inventive ways in which we hope, despite our finitude;
- a few hermeneutic gestures toward appreciating what it is to enter a religious dialogue that is a dialogue only if one is willing to put at risk the assumptions one has when entering it;
- a few Foucaudian gestures of suspicion that religion, if treated as a species of truth-telling,
will inevitably wander down the dubious path of power, and spend more time constraining than liberating the subjects it has created;
- a few Habermasian gestures to help nudge the poetically imagined back into the material realm of lives lived and actions taken and injustices addressed: poetics can be systematic;
- a few Singerian gestures to suggest that the common ground among the philosophical, the
poetic, and the religious is how to expand the 'we' that gets to participate fully in and benefit from such conversations: not all of the beneficiaries will be persons;
- a few psalmic and Pauline gestures toward genre theory (and identity theory): writing letters to loved ones is preferable to writing dogma; reinventing oneself is a possibility.

This abstract asks your forgiveness for failing to live up to the subject it’s imagining…

Engström

Funding opportunity for MA student interested in the ethics of climate change - U of Montana, Missoula.

2011-01-25T10:50:00.000-05:00

*Graduate Assistantship available for MA Student with interests in the
ethics of geoengineering*

The masters program in the philosophy department at the University of
Montana in Missoula is currently seeking an exceptional student with
interests in climate change and environmental ethics to assist with a grant
on the Ethics of Solar Radiation Management. This 2-year National Science
Foundation project seeks to clarify the main ethical issues associated with
solar radiation management in order to assist scientists, policy makers, and
the general public in their deliberations over whether to proceed with
development of the technology. Amongst other activities, the grant involves
producing an on-line resource center on the ethics of solar radiation
management, a journal special issue, social science research with vulnerable
populations, and several additional products. (See project website at:
http://www.umt.edu/ethics/EthicsGeoengineering/default.aspx)

The student recruited into this position will enter the philosophy
department’s masters degree in environmental ethics. The student’s main
assignment will be to assist with generating materials for the on-line
resource center and with producing the anthology. The second year of the
student’s degree will involve normal philosophy department duties. These
duties normally involve being a teaching assistant for a large ethics and/or
environmental ethics course.

The successful student will receive the standard philosophy graduate student
stipend and a tuition waiver for *two years* .

To apply, please follow all the application guidelines on the philosophy
department and UM graduate school webpages. Send applications to the
attention of Christopher Preston and be sure to make it clear in your cover
letter that you are applying for the Ethics of Solar Radiation Management
position.

The deadline for materials to arrive is February 10th, 2011. For questions,
please contact Christopher Preston (Christopher.preston@umontana.edu)

CFP: EPHEMERIS UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL

2010-12-18T14:10:00.002-05:00

CFP: EPHEMERIS THE UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Ephemeris is an student-run undergraduate journal of philosophy that
is dedicated to publishing exceptional undergraduate writing grounded
in the distinct value and interest of the philosophical endeavor.

Contributions: Contributions are solicited in all areas of the
philosophical discipline. Contributions should take the form of essay,
article, or short note. Review articles are welcome. Please include a
short abstract describing the thesis of the paper and main
conclusions. Generally the length should be no greater than 25 pages.

Format: All work must be submitted as electronic copy in standard Word
(doc or docx), OpenOffice or RTF format. Do not submit PDF. Please use
footnotes, not endnotes. Suitable stylistic guides are the MLA
standard or the Chicago Manual. Simultaneous submission is acceptable
on the conditions of notification at the time of submission and
immediate notification if the paper is accepted elsewhere.

Be sure to include your name, postal and email address, and the
university or college in which you are enrolled as an undergraduate.

Email: Please send your work and any correspondence to
. You should receive a confirmation of receipt
in a matter of days.

Date: The next issue of Ephemeris will be the 2011 edition.

Submission deadline is February 15, 2011.

We have a limited number of copies of our 2010 issue available on
request.

For more information about Ephemeris, please visit our website at
<http://punzel.org/Ephemeris>.

We look forward to hearing from you or your students; and please pass
the word along.

Editors, Ephemeris
c/o Dept of Philosophy
Union College
Schenectady, NY 12308 USA

Final CFP: North Carolina Philosophical Society

2010-12-12T12:52:00.002-05:00

Greetings,

The North Carolina Philosophical Society announces its call for papers
for its upcoming meeting on February 25 & 26, 2011 at Appalachian State
University.

The keynote speaker will be Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman
Professor in Practical Ethics at Duke University.

Papers in any area of philosophy designed for a presentation time of
about 20-30 minutes are welcome. Further details including submission
instructions can be found at the NCPS website at:
http://www.northcarolinaphilosophicalsociety.org/

Undergraduate submissions are again strongly encouraged, and there will
be a $175 prize for the best paper submitted by an untenured faculty
member, a $125 prize for the best graduate student paper, and a $100
prize for the best undergraduate paper.

Dowling College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2010-12-09T19:46:00.000-05:00

Oakdale, Long Island, New York, April 8th, 2011

In order to increase student awareness of and interest in philosophy, and to encourage contributions to the scholarly community, Dowling College Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies invites students to submit papers relating to any philosophical topic or period. Authors of accepted papers will be given the opportunity to present their work at Dowling College’s first undergraduate philosophy conference.

Deadline for Submissions: January 15th, 2011

Submission Guidelines:

1. Although papers must relate to a philosophical topic or period, that does not mean that other areas, such as psychology, sociology, neurology, biology, etc., are excluded. As long as the paper engages with its topic in a philosophical manner you are more than welcome to submit the paper. Presenters should plan on having 15 minutes to present their work (approx. 8-10 pages long). Time limits will be strictly enforced.
2. Attach a copy of your submission in .doc or .docx format to an email, and send it to Adam Kohler at agkohler@gmail.com and Christian Perring at perringc@dowling.edu. Within the email, please include your name, email address, and college/university that you are affiliated with.
3. Please do not include your name on your paper, so that it may be reviewed “blind” by a committee of conference organizers.
4. Authors whose papers are accepted will be notified by Feb 15, 2011.
5. When you submit your paper, please indicate whether you would be interested acting as a discussant for another speaker's paper.

Please remember that you do not have to be a philosophy major to submit a paper! All currently enrolled undergraduates are welcome to submit their work.

The Rudolph Campus of Dowling College is located in Oakdale, NY. This is 50 miles from NYC, and 25 minutes walk from the Oakdale LIRR train station.

For more information contact Adam Kohler at agkohler@gmail.com

Undergraduate Summer Institute

2010-12-03T12:50:00.002-05:00

PIKSI ‘11 FEAST/APA

Philosophy in an Inclusive Key

A Summer Institute for Undergraduates

ROCK ETHICS INSTITUTE, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY

July 25-August 1, 2011

Philosophy: Experience, Reflection, Transformation

Ladelle McWhorter, Director

Professor of Philosophy, Richmond College

Guest Faculty: Jose Medina and Mary Beth Mader

Along with works in feminist, critical race, disability, and queer theory,
students will read historical and contemporary philosophical texts that
explore recurring human concerns and investigate the ways in which
experience informs philosophical reflection. In addition, writing
assignments, visiting lecturers, and mentoring will help students learn that
their own perspectives matter to philosophy.

Participants will be named Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholars and will
receive support from the Iris Marion Young Diversity Scholars Fund

Undergraduate women or men from underrepresented groups including racial,
ethnic and sexual minorities, and people with disabilities are urged to
apply. All students will receive a stipend, free transportation, and
lodging.

APPLICATIONS DUE: April 15, 2011

For more details see http://rockethics.psu.edu/piksi

Co-Sponsors: APA - FEAST - Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute, College of
The Liberal Arts, and Department of Philosophy, Iris Marion Young Diversity
Scholars Fund; 2010 Institutional Co-Sponsors: Department of Philosophy,
Binghamton; Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University; Department of
Philosophy Stony Brook University

CFP: Fourth Annual Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Colloquium

2010-12-03T12:49:00.002-05:00

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE PAPERS

The Philosophy Department and the Philosophy Club at East Tennessee
State University present

4th Annual
Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Colloquium
East Tennessee State University

Date: March 18 – 19, 2011

Keynote speaker: Dr. Stephen Stich, Professor of Philosophy and
Cognitive Science, Rutgers University

Papers are now being accepted for both undergraduate and graduate
presentations. All papers will be evaluated by blind review process.
At the conference, the Keynote speaker will choose the best
presentation from the undergraduate and graduate categories, awarding
a $50 prize for each. A limited number of hotel accommodations may be
available at a discounted price.

Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome. Papers should be
approximately 10 pages, or 20 minutes presentation time. The papers
should not contain any identifying information.

Abstracts should be one paragraph, approximately 150 words, double
spaced, and should be attached to the paper. The abstracts should not
contain any identifying information.

Cover Sheets should be on a separate sheet, and should contain the
author’s name, the title of the paper, institutional affiliation,
address, phone number, and e-mail address.

The deadline for papers submitted electronically is February 4th,
2011.
Papers submitted as hard copy must be postmarked by February 1st,
2011.
Notification of acceptance will occur by February 18th, 2011.

Please send submissions to, or request further information from:
E-mail: etsuphilosophyconf@gmail.com
Dr. David Harker
Dept. of Philosophy and Humanities
P.O. Box 70656
Johnson City, TN 37614

SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Call For Papers

2010-11-27T13:16:00.002-05:00

The 16th Annual SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference is hosted by the Philosophy Club, the Philosophy Department, and the College at Oneonta. The student-run conference attracts students from all over the United States, Canada, and beyond.

Spread the word to your faculty members, students, and any other interested philosophers.

Please review the submission guidelines and encourage the Undergraduate students to submit a paper!
The Call for Papers can be found here: http://organizations.oneonta.edu/philosc/cfp11.html

The Conference Website can be found here: http://organizations.oneonta.edu/philosc/conf.html

CFP: KCL Undergraduate Philosophy Society Conference

2010-11-27T13:00:00.002-05:00

Calling all philosophy undergraduates,

I am writing on behalf of the King's College London Philosophy Society, as we plan to organise our first Undergraduate Philosophy Conference this year. We are currently seeking undergraduate papers to be read at the conference. We would be very grateful if you would circulate this email around your University’s Philosophy Department.

The papers can be of any length and from any area of philosophy, though it should be borne in mind that presentation time should be in the region of 20 to 30 minutes, and ideally hopefully no longer than that. As a rough guideline, submissions should aim for somewhere in the region of 2,500 to 5,000 words. The deadline for submissions is 11th January 2011 though we will be flexible with small editings of papers afterwards. For questions and submissions please email us at kclphil...@gmail.com...@gmail.com>. Please include your full name and university affiliation in your email. We would be vey greatful if every submission will contain a short abstract of no more than 250 words.

The conference is to be held over 2nd and 3rd April (provisionally at least). This means that anyone offering a submission should be available on these dates to present their paper, and hold a question and answers session based on it. We are aiming to provide the tickets for the conference for free this year, but in order to be able to do so, overnight accommodation will most likely be on a fellow student's floor/sofa, unless you choose to make alternative arrangements. We will send out further emails with how to register for it, after we have a full schedule of papers.

This should be a great opportunity to create a greater philosophical community at undergraduate level, and we are very much looking forward to receiving papers.

Thank you very much,

Vlad Cadar
President
KCL PhilSoc
http://www.kclphilsoc.org/index.html

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.
Prolonged discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.
Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

CFP 2011 Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2010-11-16T15:12:00.002-05:00

Call for Papers: Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
April 15-16
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY

The Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Marist College
will host the first Mid-Hudson Valley Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference on April 15-16, 2011. Undergraduates are encouraged to
submit papers on any topic in philosophy. The keynote address will be
given by Robert Kraut (Ohio State University).

Submissions: Please send papers of no more than 3,000 words by
February 1, 2011. We prefer that papers be sent electronically by
attachment in PDF or MS Word format to: James Snyder
(james.snyder@marist.edu).

The program will be announced in early March.

CONF: North Shore Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2010-11-16T15:11:00.000-05:00

North Shore Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
Theme: Philosophy and Science

The Third Annual North Shore Undergraduate Philosophy Conference will be
held at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 2nd,
2011. Dr. Alisa Bokulich, Director of the Center for the History and
Philosophy of Science at Boston University will be the keynote speaker. Her
paper is entitled: Is Pluto a Planet? Folk Concepts and Natural Kinds in
Astronomy. The theme for this year¹s conference is Philosophy and Science.
Papers from all areas concerning the relation of philosophy and science are
welcome; including: philosophy and technology, bioethics, science and
method, religion and science, science and laws of nature, metaphysics and
science, realism and anti-realism, gender and science, the implications of
neuroscience for ethical theory, etc.

Submissions will be accepted from undergraduate students only. Full papers,
not exceeding 3000 words and accompanied by a 150 word abstract, must be
received by February 1, 2011. All submissions must be prepared for blind
review and thus must contain no identifying information.

Submit papers either electronically to mark.gedney@gordon.edu
mark.gedney@gordon.edu

http://faculty.gordon.edu/hu/pl/NShoreUndergradconf.cfm

mark.gedney@gordon.edu

CFP: Grad & Undergrad Conference "Freedom, Free Will & Belief" WCUPA

2010-11-12T17:48:00.002-05:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA’S
6th ANNUAL STUDENT PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
“Freedom, Free Will & Belief”

To be held
Saturday, February 26, 2011
9:00 am to 4:30 pm

Keynote Speaker
To Be Announced

Submissions in all areas of philosophy from graduate and undergraduate
students are welcome. This year we encourage papers focused
especially on the topics of Freedom, Free Will, and Belief. Paper
submissions should not exceed 25 minutes for presentation
(approximately 2,500 words).

Please send submissions, formatted for blind review, with a cover page
indicating your name, institution, and paper title to
hm730611@wcupa.edu or hg728810@wcupa.edu. All paper submissions
should be in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format.

DEADLINE: January 15, 2011

Meeting Today

2010-11-12T12:17:00.002-05:00

The Philosophy Club will meet today (Friday, 12 November), from 3:00 to 5:00 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Ben Sima will lead discussion on synthetic biology.

Grad. School and Philosophy Applications 2011

2010-11-11T13:55:00.001-05:00

Some interesting information on applications and MA degrees in general -
http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/ma-students-and-phd-applications.html#comments

CUR - Registry of Undergraduate Researchers

2010-11-10T19:10:00.002-05:00

Dear Students:
The Council on Undergraduate Research hosts a Registry of Undergraduate Researchers. The purpose of this registry is to facilitate matchmaking between undergraduates who have research experience and a desire to pursue an advanced degree, with graduate schools seeking high quality students who are well prepared for research. The Registry is open to students and graduate schools in the fields of Anthropology/Archaeology, Arts/Humanities, Biology/Biochemistry, Business, Chemistry/Biochemistry, Economics, Education, Engineering, English and Linguistics, Environmental Studies, Geosciences, Health Professions, History, Journalism and Communications, Mathematics/Computer Science, Physics/ Astronomy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work and Sociology.

Any undergraduate may go to www.cur.org/ugreg/ to fill out a simple curriculum vitae form. There is no charge to the student and records will be made available to bona fide Graduate Schools that contract with CUR for this service. Organizations or companies seeking the students’ information for other marketing purposes will not be granted access. Graduate School representatives may contact students to invite applications or visits to the campus and laboratory, or to share information about their research programs and financial support opportunities.
Graduate schools may provide a link to their websites, and may provide a short description of opportunities, such as research fields and fellowships. It will also be possible for institutions to place an ad on the database website if the content is related to the mission of CUR and the Undergraduate Registry.
For graduate schools that wish to review the student information, there is an access fee of $1,500 for the entire database, or $300 for one specific discipline. Again, there is no cost to you as a student to create a profile.
We hope that students who are currently in their junior year will register now, but anyone with undergraduate research experience may register at any time. You will be able to update your listing as appropriate, to include any summer research experience or information about Senior Theses and test scores. We also welcome submissions by students who are engaged in Masters' Degree programs now but who plan on going on to a PhD program. Just fill out the information on the form including the date you intend to enter a PhD program and your date of completion of your undergraduate degree. Upload a link to your CV that contains complete information about your MS/MA degree activity (school, subject, thesis topic (if applicable), and advisor).
CUR believes that this service will be a great benefit for both students and graduate schools by narrowing the search for the right match. So if you are interested in graduate school, please take a moment to register now. Be sure to include a statement of your research interests, as this will be important for making the match.
Please feel free to contact me, should you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Robin Howard
Senior Director, Membership Services
Council on Undergraduate Research
734 15th St NW
Suite 550
(202) 783-4810x203
(202) 783-4811 fax
robin@cur.org

CFP: Undergrad Phi Conference on Long Island

2010-11-08T19:44:00.002-05:00

Molloy College Undergraduate Student Conference

Call for Papers

Date: April 16, 2011
Location: Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York 11571

Topic: Open

We invite submissions from undergraduate college students for the first annual Molloy College Undergraduate Conference. We welcome papers on any philosophical topic, from any and all philosophical traditions. Molloy College fosters and supports diverse philosophical exchange in a constructive environment.

Submission Process:
(1) 300 word abstract of paper due Jan. 16, 2011
(2) Final version of papers accepted for the conference due March 16, 2011

Question and Submissions should be sent to: philosophy@molloy.edu

Conference Co-Chairs:
Felipe Alcantara, President of Molloy College Philosophy Club
Dr. Howard Ponzer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Dr. Elisa Ruhl Rapaport, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

The 4th Annual Undergraduate Ethics Symposium

2010-11-04T13:05:00.000-04:00

CALL FOR ESSAYS AND CREATIVE PROJECTS
The 4th Annual Undergraduate Ethics Symposium
DePauw University -- April 7-9, 2011

Invitation
DePauw University invites you to take part in the Undergraduate Ethics
Symposium at the Prindle Institute for Ethics, a center for interdisciplinary
reflection on ethical issues. This symposium is an opportunity to engage in
dialogue with leading scholars and professionals about today’s ethical
concerns.
Although students may write about any ethical issue, this year we
especially encourage submissions focusing on personal morality, as well as
environmental ethics, bio-medical ethics, media ethics, feminist ethics, and
diversity. Students may submit an argumentative, interpretive or analytic
essay or a creative piece. Accepted students’ work will be the primary focus
of the symposium workshops.

Highlights
• Participating students attend seminars with distinguished visiting scholars
or professionals.
• Students’ travel (up to $400), lodging, and meals while at DePauw will be
covered by the Institute
• Accepted work will be published.

Submissions
• Deadline : February 1, 2011
• Submit to Linda Clute at prindleinstitute@depauw.edu
• All submissions should be electronic; texts should be MS Word, not pdf.
• Place name and collegiate affiliation on separate page.
• Guidelines:
▪
Argumentative, analytic and interpretive essays should be
submitted in Chicago style with a 3,500 word limit.
▪
Fiction should also be submitted in Chicago style with a 3,500
word limit; poets should submit 5-10 poems, not more than 10 pages total.
▪
Playwrights and screenwriters should submit a single work, up to
10 pages in length.
▪
Film makers and documentarians should submit a single work,
up to 10 minutes long.
▪
Photographers should submit approximately 10 photographs or
a video accompanied by a short description.

Notification: March 1, 2011

Speakers and Workshop Leaders
Robert G. Bottoms, President of Seabury Seminary in Evanston, Illinois,
and President Emeritus of DePauw University
June Cross, Columbia University Professor, Award-winning Television and
Documentary Producer, and Author of the Memoir, Secret Daughter: A
Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
A. Rafik Mohamed, Sociology Professor at Clayton State University, Author
of Dorm Room Dealers: Drugs and the Privileges of Race and Class
Alison Bailey, Philosophy Professor and Acting Director of Women’s
Studies, Illinois State University, Editor of The Feminist Philosophy Reader

For additional information about the 2011 DePauw Undergraduate Ethics
Symposium, or the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics, please visit http://
prindleinstitute.depauw.edu or call 765.658.4075.

Second CFP: North Carolina Philosophical Society

2010-11-01T23:37:00.000-04:00

The North Carolina Philosophical Society announces its call for papers for its upcoming meeting on February 25 & 26, 2011 at Appalachian State University.

The keynote speaker will be Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Chauncey Stillman Professor in Practical Ethics at Duke University.

Papers in any area of philosophy designed for a presentation time of about 20-30 minutes are welcome. Further details including submission instructions can be found at the NCPS website at: http://www.northcarolinaphilosophicalsociety.org/

Undergraduate submissions are again strongly encouraged, and there will be a $175 prize for the best paper submitted by an untenured faculty member, a $125 prize for the best graduate student paper, and a $100 prize for the best undergraduate paper.

ETIN CFP on the ethics of Requirements Engineering

2010-11-01T23:32:00.000-04:00

Call for Papers for a Special Issue with Ethics and Information Technology on “Requirements Engineering”

In making choices in the design of information systems, designers "necessarily impart social and moral values". Once a system has been put into use, it affects its stakeholders by supporting or hindering their values to various degrees. Examples of stakeholders’ values that are hindered or supported by technology are privacy, autonomy, openness, identity, human welfare, ownership and property, freedom from bias, and trust. This ultimately affects the acceptability of information systems. On the other hand, systems affect the way people act and interact and have ultimately an effect on values and social norms.

In as far as design methodologies explicitly take values into account in the design process, it is in the form of soft constraints or similar constructs that are identified in the requirements engineering phase of software development. However, in representing values as informal soft constraints, designers run the risk of leaving the impact values have on the design implicit. Therefore, values should be made explicit in order to have an identifiable and justifiable effect on the design, and they should play an important role in the early requirements phase

The purpose of this special issue on Requirements Engineering is to address explicitly how values can be/should be dealt with during the requirements engineering phase of system development.

Submitted papers are requested to explore issues concerning the following research questions:

1) Value elicitation: to what extent are existing methods for requirement elicitation and/or knowledge elicitation useful for value elicitation? Proposals for techniques and methods dedicated to value elicitation are welcome too.

2) How to deal with conflicts between the values of stakeholders? What if the system developers have conflicting values with those of the stakeholders? How to support multi-actor analysis to align conflicting values of multiple stakeholders? How to support negotiations about conflicting values to facilitate this alignment process between stakeholders?

3) How should we model, document, report on design decisions and their relations (benefits/harms) with stakeholder values?

4) How to integrate value-sensitive design of information systems in existing requirements engineering methods, or even to develop new methods for this.

5) Given the inherent difference in abstraction, how can the relations between values and design decisions be explicitly represented and reasoned with?

The editors at Ethics and Information Technology are seeking articles for a special issue in this area. Submissions will be double-blind refereed for relevance to the theme as well as academic rigor and originality. High quality articles not deemed to be sufficiently relevant to the special issue may be considered for publication in a subsequent non-themed issue.

Closing date for submissions: March 10, 2011

To submit your paper, please use the online submission system, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin

There will be a workshop on this topic hosted at Delft University of Technology when the special issue comes out.

Please contact the special guest editor(s) for more information,

Catholijn Jonker

C.M.Jonker@tudelft.nl

Virginia Dignum

M.V.Dignum@tudelft.nl

Yao-Hua Tan

Y.Tan@tudelft.nl

Frances Brazier

F.M.Brazier@tudelft.nl

Or the managing editor,

Noëmi Manders-Huits

N.L.J.L.Manders-Huits@tudelft.nl

Ethics and Information Technology (ETIN) is the major journal in the field of moral and political reflection on Information Technology. Its aim is to advance the dialogue between moral philosophy and the field of information technology in a broad sense, and to foster and promote reflection and analysis concerning the ethical, social and political questions associated with the adoption, use, and development of IT.

Philosophy Club this week (Friday, 5 November)

2010-11-01T22:34:00.002-04:00

The Philosophy Club will meet this coming Friday, 5 November, from 3:00 to 5:00 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Professor Jesús Aguilar will speak on Latin-American philosophy. Jesús writes:

"On the face of it, the possibility of a distinctive Latin-American philosophy seems to be almost too obvious for anyone to have any serious doubts about its existence. After all, we recognize the existence of many other philosophies whose accompanying adjectives point to regions of the world that are thought to capture distinctive types of philosophy. Unfortunately, the situation is far more complicated. Like several other metaphilosophical proposals based on what can be called 'externalist' approaches that try to justify the existence of a distinctive type of philosophy by appealing to things that lie outside the content and practice of philosophy, the externalist justification for the existence of Latin-American philosophy faces serious challenges. In this presentation I try to deal with these challenges and explore an alternative 'internalist' way to account for the possibility of a distinctive Latin-American philosophy based on the notion of philosophical style."

Call For Submissions: Sophia, University of Victoria's Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy

2010-11-01T13:35:00.002-04:00

Call For Submissions

The University of Victoria’s Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy,
Sophia Vol. XIV

Exceptional undergraduate works are now being accepted for the 14th
Edition of Sophia, on all philosophical topics. The due date for
submissions for this issue is January 30th, 2011. This issue will
feature an interview with Dr. Anjan Chakravartty and Dr. Alvin
Plantinga.

For more information, please e-mail uvicsophia@gmail.com.

uvicsophia@gmail.com
Department of Philosophy
UVIC Philosophy Department
University of Victoria
Phone: (250) 721-7512 P.O.
BOX 3045
Fax: (250) 721- 7511
Victoria, B.C V8W 3P4

Melbourne Philosophy Summer School 2011

2010-10-30T17:06:00.002-04:00

Please forward the information below to interested students and colleagues.

The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is pleased to announce the curriculum for the 2011 Summer School.
Note that two of the courses will be taught in the evening over five weeks.

MSCP PHILOSOPHY SUMMER SCHOOL 2011
www.mscp.org.au
31 January - 1 March, 2011
Law Building, Pelham st.
The University of Melbourne

Evening School Over Five Weeks (Jan 31 - March 1)
Aesthetics: A Philosophical Introduction Mondays 6-8pm
Introduction to Jacques Lacan Tuesdays 6-8pm

Week 1: 31 Jan - Feb 4
Phenomenology meets the Neurosciences 11am-1pm
Deleuze and Cinema 2-5pm

Week 2: Feb 7-11
Brandom's Linguistic Rationalism 11am-1pm
Jacob Klein: Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra 2-4pm

Week 3: Feb 14-18
European Philosophy and The Law (Part 1) 11am-1pm
The Philosophy of Alain Badiou (Part 1) 2-4pm

Week 4: Feb 21-25
European Philosophy and The Law (Part 2) 11am-1pm
The Philosophy of Alain Badiou (Part 2) 2-4pm

For further details and recommended readings go to www.mscp.org.au
For any enquiries: admin@mscp.org.au
The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy is an independent teaching and research group housed in the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne. The MSCP teaches philosophy courses at its annual summer and winter schools. Please see the website for details and join our mailing list to be notified of upcoming MSCP events and philosophical activity in the community.

Regards,
James Garrett,
publicity@mscp.org.au

PG Philosophy Programmes at Warwick

2010-10-29T20:41:00.000-04:00

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick invites
applications for its 1-year MA, 2-year MPhil, and PhD programmes.

Applicants may be entitled to apply for various maintenance & tuition grants
(from the AHRC and the University). The deadline for application for entry
in autumn 2011 is 31 JANUARY 2011. If you receive an offer from us, you will
be automatically considered for any award for which you are eligible.

Further information about our graduate programmes and about how to apply can
be found at:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/depts/philosophy/

If you would like to discuss your application, please email

pgphilsec@warwick.ac.uk

and you will be put in touch with an appropriate member of the academic
faculty.
--
Dr Guy Longworth
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Warwick
Coventry
CV4 7AL
UK

Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal

2010-10-26T12:50:00.000-04:00

Stance: An International Undergraduate Philosophy Journal
HTTP://STANCE.IWEB.BSU.EDU/

CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: Friday, December 17, 2010

Stance is unique as it is produced and edited solely by
undergraduates. By using external reviewers we provide feedback on
every submission and often require substantive changes prior to
publication. Stance mirrors the process of review and publication of
professional philosophy journals.

Submission Guidelines:
Stance welcomes papers concerning any philosophical topic. Current
undergraduates may submit a paper between 1500 and 3500 words in
length (footnotes may extend the word limit 500 words at most). Stance
asks that each undergraduate only submit one paper for the journal per
year. Unnecessary technicality should be avoided. Strive to reach the
widest possible audience without sacrificing clarity or rigor. Papers
are evaluated on the following criteria: depth of inquiry, quality of
research, creativity, lucidity, and most importantly, originality.

Submission Procedures:
• Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format and
sent as an attachment to stance@bsu.edu.
• Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including quotations, excerpts,
and footnotes).
• The right margin should not be justified.
• To facilitate our anonymous review process, submissions are to be
prepared for blind review. Include a cover page with the author’s
name, affiliation, title, and email address.
• Papers, including footnotes, should have no other identifying
markers.
• Footnotes should follow Chicago Manual of Style. Examples are on our
website under Notes for Contributors.
• Please use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly
quoting a source that has followed British style.

FOR FURTHER CONCERNS, PLEASE VISIT STANCE ON THE WEB AT HTTP://STANCE.IWEB.BSU.EDU/

CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS
Deadline: Friday, December 17, 2010

Stance seeks reviews of monographs, anthologies, and secondary sources
in any area of Philosophy. Reviews may be 750-1000 words. Books
reviewed must be currently in print and not part of public domain.
Stance prefers reviews of books used in a class the reviewer is
currently taking or has recently completed.

Submission Guidelines:
-Review authors must currently be undergraduates
-Reviews should be (i) double-spaced (including quotations, excerpts,
and footnotes), (ii) in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format, and
(iii) sent as an attachment to stance@bsu.edu
-To facilitate our anonymous review process, submissions are to be
prepared for blind review. Include a cover page with the author's
name, affiliation, title, and email address. Papers, including
footnotes, should have no other identifying markers.
-Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and follow Chicago Manual of
Style. For more on proper footnoting see “Footnote Style” at
http://stance.iweb.bsu.edu/notesforcontributors.html.
-Please use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly
quoting a source that has followed British style.

Recommended Format:
People read book reviews to discover if they want to read a particular
book. As such, a good book review provides a quick overview of the
main ideas in the text. Also helpful is an account of how the book
fits into or engages an on going philosophical debate. While not
required, a compare and contrast approach can be useful to demonstrate
both the main ideas and unique positioning of a book.

An overview for a book review is good when it is broad and concise,
including all and only the main points of the text. A good book review
evaluates the text and deploys an argument regarding how successful
the book is in achieving its goals. This may, but need not, involve
substantive disagreement with the argumentation found in the text.
Many reviews will be best when they (i) begin with any important
background information (e.g. author biography), (ii) provide a summary
of the contents of the book, and (iii) end with the reviewer’s
evaluation.

The voice in book reviews must be obvious; readers should easily
differentiate between the ideas of the book’s author from those of the
reviewer. Book reviews for Stance should be accessible to the widest
audience possible without sacrificing clarity or rigor. Avoid
unnecessary technical or elevated language.

FOR FURTHER CONCERNS, PLEASE VISIT STANCE ON THE WEB AT HTTP://STANCE.IWEB.BSU.EDU/

MSc Scholarship

2010-10-26T12:28:00.002-04:00

Lakatos MSc Scholarship

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the LSE is delighted to announce that the Lakatos Scholarship for a student in the MSc in Philosophy of Science will, in 2010/1, be worth:

£10,000.

The winner should have achieved - or be predicted to achieve - an outstanding undergraduate degree in either science or philosophy. All applicantions that have been received by the Department by February 15 will be automatically considered, so you only need to apply to the programme early to simultaneously also apply for the Scholarship. For more information about our MScs please visit:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/study/PostgraduateProgrammes.aspx

If you have further questions about the degree having read that website, you can contact the course coordinator Dr Miklos Redei at m.redei@lse.ac.uk and the course administrator Tom Chivers at t.r.chivers@lse.ac.uk.

To apply to the programme, please do so via:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/study/graduate/home.aspx

Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/planningAndCorporatePolicy/legalandComplianceTeam/legal/disclaimer.htm

PhD Scholarships at LSE

2010-10-25T17:40:00.002-04:00

Several full PhD scholarships are available for 2011 entry into the PhD Programme in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE:

1. LSE Philosophy Scholarship

The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics offers one full PhD Scholarship every year. The Scholarship covers tuition fees and living expenses of £13,000 each year for three years, with annual renewal subject to satisfactory academic performance. They are available both for Home UK/EU and Overseas students undertaking research in philosophy within the department. From the second year onwards, students will ordinarily teach up to three undergraduate classes (1h/week each for 20 weeks) as part of their funding. Scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and research potential.

2. LSE PhD Scholarships

The LSE offers a number of full scholarships for new PhD students. The scholarships cover fees and living expenses of £13,000 each year for three years. They are available for Home UK/EU and Overseas students undertaking research in any LSE discipline, with annual renewal subject to satisfactory academic performance at the School. Scholarships will be awarded on academic merit and research potential.

3. AHRC Block Grants

The Arts and Humanities research Council (AHRC) offers PhD funding via its Doctoral Awards Scheme. Doctoral awards provide support for up to three years of full-time study, or up to five years of part-time study. Under the AHRC's new Block Grant Scheme the LSE has two philosophy scholarships every year.

The AHRC has eligibility restrictions in place. The regulations state that to be eligible for a full award, the candidate must show that s/he has "a relevant connection with the UK, usually through residence". This is commonly taken to mean that candidates fall in one of the following categories: (a) they are UK citizens; (b) they are EU citizens who have spent the last three years in the UK either in full time education, full time work, or part time study/work; (c) they are non-EU citizens who have spent the last three years in the UK in full time employment (but not as students). If you do not fall within either of these groups but believe you have a relevant connection to the UK it is worth checking with the AHRC whether they would consider your application.

Students can be considered for all of these scholarships as soon as they have submitted their application for the MPhil/PhD programme. Those who wish to be considered should send an email to philosophy.phd@lse.ac.uk. The deadline for applications for the LSE Philosophy Scholarship, LSE PhD Scholarships, and the AHRC PhD scholarship is January 15.

For further information visit:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/ProspectiveStudents/Financial.aspx

Meeting Friday - Is there a Good Argument for Occasionalism?

2010-10-25T17:31:00.003-04:00

The Philosophy Club will meet this coming Friday, 29 October, from 3:00 to 5:00 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Professor Walter Ott, of the Department of Philosophy at Virginia Tech, will speak on “Is there a Good Argument for Occasionalism?” Professor Ott writes:

"Even considered in its own intellectual context, occasionalism—the doctrine that God is the only cause—seems pretty hard to take seriously. Malebranche takes himself, however, to have a number of persuasive arguments to back it up. Many scholars consider the “no necessary connection” argument his most important piece of artillery. Roughly, the argument runs in this way: a true cause is such that the mind perceives a necessary connection between it and its effect; only in the case of God and his effects do we find such a connection; therefore, the only true cause is God. I argue that contemporary readings of this argument rob it of even prima facie argumentative force. I go on to suggest a novel reading of this argument (and a few others). Properly understood, Malebranche’s arguments are powerful, if not ultimately persuasive. Finally, I reply to some recent criticisms of my interpretation."

SUNY UnderSiege website

2010-10-24T17:14:00.000-04:00

Attention Attention! Collective action is urgently needed in defense of public education and the SUNY system. We invite you to join us at SUNY Under Siege: http://www.SUNYUnderSiege.pbworks.com

On October 1, University at Albany President George Philip announced plans to cut 160 full-time positions and deactivate five academic programs in the Humanities: French, Russian, Italian. Theater and Classics. This ill-conceived decision comes in the wake of a devastating de-funding of the SUNY System by the New York State Legislature. Education budgets have been slashed more than any other public sector: $210 million has been cut from the SUNY budget this year, meaning SUNY's total operating budget has been reduced by 30% over the past three years. UAlbany itself has suffered a $33.5 million reduction over the past three years and faces a $12 million budget gap this year. And while these cuts are particularly severe, they are only the latest in a thirty-year decline in state funding for public education.

This situation demands both rigorous analysis and organized opposition. Please join us at http://www.SUNYUnderSiege.pbworks.com, a website produced by a coalition of faculty, students, staff, labor organizations and community groups at the University at Albany. SUNYUnderSiege collects information and analysis about the crisis at SUNY, suggestions about contacting administrators and legislators, links to media coverage, information about upcoming campus events, selected letters of protest, alumni statements, and more.

Help us to keep the pressure on! We need SUNY students, faculty, staff, and community members to continue turning out in force at University and State fora where these issues are being discussed. Equally important, our administrators and legislators need to hear from our colleagues and concerned observers across the country and world about the implications that such educational funding decisions will have on SUNY and on public education more broadly.

We continue to develop SUNYUnderSiege.pbworks.comand ask for your comments, analysis, and materials. Please visit us regularly for updates about the struggle at SUNY, and please forward this link widely.

In solidarity,

SUNYUnderSiege
fight4publiceducation@gmail.com

IAPS Student Essay Award

2010-10-24T13:17:00.002-04:00

R. SCOTT KRETCHMAR STUDENT ESSAY AWARD
The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport announces the ³R.
Scott Kretchmar Student Essay Award² in conjunction with its 39th annual
conference. The award honors the contribution of Professor Kretchmar to the
profession, in particular his devotion and dedication to the many students
he has inspired to study philosophy of sport. A three-member IAPS panel will
grant the award to an essay of outstanding quality addressing any
philosophical issue arising in sport or a related area (games, play, dance,
embodiment, or other movement-related activities). The student whose essay
is chosen shall present the paper at the Annual Meeting of IAPS, September
8-11 in Rochester, NY.

ELIGIBILITY
1. Any student enrolled in an undergraduate, masters, or doctoral program
at conference time.
2. To submit the essay students must be IAPS
members (membership fee w/o journal is $10 US).

AWARD
1. $ 250 US cash prize
2. Conference Registration

REQUIREMENTS
1. Candidates are to submit, by June 15, 2011, a formal essay that addresses
philosophical issues related to sport. A separate abstract for the paper is
due on April 1, 2011 (see call for papers ).
2. Guidelines:
> . References
> do not count toward word limit.
> 5. The student must be the sole author of the paper.
3. The writer shall attend the convention and present the paper.
4. Please, submit paper electronically as a Word document, and blind-review
ready. If e-mail is not available, please send a hard copy to the address
below.

The committee will provide suitable feedback to all students who submit
essays.

CFP: International Association for the Philosophy of Sport

2010-10-24T13:10:00.002-04:00

2011 IAPS Conference - Call for Papers
www.iaps.net

The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport invites the
submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 39th annual
2011 IAPS meeting. The conference will be held September 8-11, 2011 in
Rochester, New York (USA).

Abstracts are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport, including
metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, and ethics, and from any theoretical
approach, including analytic philosophy and critical theory. While IAPS
recognizes, values, and encourages interdisciplinary approaches and
methodologies, acceptance is contingent on the philosophical content of the
project. Emerging scholars are encouraged to submit works in progress.

A Program Committee of three IAPS peers will review abstracts. Contributors
will be notified about the status of their abstracts by May 16, 2011

Proposals for round table and panel discussions, including a tentative list
of participants, are also welcome and should follow the same format as paper
abstracts.

R. SCOTT KRETCHMAR STUDENT ESSAY AWARD

IAPS is proud to announce the ³R. Scott Kretchmar Student Essay Award.²
Interested undergraduate and graduate students should submit a full paper by
June 15, 2011 (in addition to an abstract, see below). A separate
announcement is posted at the IAS website .

GUIDELINES
Abstracts should be 300-500 words long, in English, and must be received by
April 1, 2011. Please, follow the following instructions (incomplete
proposals will be returned). Provide:

1. Name, E-mail, current position, and employer
2. Title of Program
3. Key Words (three to five)
4. Primary Content Area/s (choose no more than 2)

> h. Comparative
> 3. Aesthetics f. Comparative
> i. Other (explain)

1. Indicate special Audio-Visual requirements (computer & projector will be
provided)

The preferred mode of submission is by e-mail.

Please send the abstract blind-review ready as an attachment, preferably in
Word, to the Conference Chair at: jilunda@linfield.edu

Contributors who lack access to e-mail may send a hard copy instead to the
following address:

Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza
IAPS Conference Chair
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Linfield College
900 SE Baker St., Unit 580
McMinnville, OR 97128 (USA)

Please distribute to interested parties.

CONF: Boston College Workshop on Heidegger and Politics

2010-10-07T13:20:00.000-04:00

Greetings everyone,

This is a final reminder that you are all welcome to join us at Boston
College this Friday and Saturday (October 8th-9th) for our 4th Annual
"Workshop on Contemporary Philosophy." This year's topic is "Heidegger and
Politics," and will feature a keynote address from Francoise Dastur and a
roundtable discussion with William Richardson. The event is free of charge
and open to the public.

Official program information is as follows:

*Friday October 8th - McGuinn 121:*

4:30pm: Francoise Dastur (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)

*Five Questions concerning Heidegger's political engagement
*
*Saturday October 9th** - Higgins Hall 310*

10:30 -11.30: Peter Gordon (Harvard University)

*"We are Not Wholly at Home in the Interpreted World": Reflections
on Heidegger and the Unpublished Seminars of 1933-35*

11.30-12.30: Gregory Fried (Suffolk University)

* Between Earth and Sky: Heidegger, Politics, and Us
*
12:30-1.30: Lunch

1:30-2.30: Jeff Bloechl (Boston College)

*On Captivity and Transcendence: Some Notes on Levinas's Early
Opposition to Heidegger*

2.30-3:30: Jim Bernauer (Boston College)

*Hallucinating Heidegger*

Serena Parekh (University of Connecticut)

*Reconciliation or Abandonment: How Should Arendt have Responded to
Heidegger?*

3.30-4:00: Coffee Break

4 - 5:30: Roundtable: Peter Gordon, Gregory Fried, Francoise Dastur and
William Richardson
Moderator: Richard Kearney

Please contact me with any questions at taylorjy@bc.edu

Applying to Grad School

2010-10-05T12:09:00.003-04:00

Some good advice about applying to graduate programs in Philosophy :
http://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2010/10/applying-to-graduate-school-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FFHhv+%28The+Splintered+Mind%29

Symposium on John Rawls's A Theory of Justice: Forty Years On (Oct 23, 2010)

2010-10-05T12:03:00.001-04:00

A symposium addressing the legacy of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice.

Principal Speakers:

Samuel Freeman (UPenn)

Erin Kelly (Tufts)

Thomas Pogge (Yale)

with comments and responses by a panel of business and community
leaders including:

Hon. Helen E. Hoens (New Jersey Supreme Court)

Steven Ravitz (President, Shop-Rite Corporation)

Douglas Forrester (Former Republican Candidate for Governor of New
Jersey)

Roberto Hernandez (Founder, El Centro de Recursos Para Familias)

Dr. Stephen Kolesk (Chief Operating Officer, Virtua Health Systems)

The College of New Jersey
Mayo Concert Hall
Music Building
October 23, 2010
1:00 - 5:30 pm

Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by: The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium,
Department of Philosophy and Religion, School of Culture and Society,
Alan Dawley Center for Study of Social Justice.

www.tcnj.edu/~philos/

For more information contact: Morton Winston (mwinston@tcnj.edu)

CONF: The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural Knowledge

2010-10-05T12:02:00.001-04:00

*CALL FOR PAPERS
**“The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural Knowledge”
**HAPSAT 7th Annual Conference*

“The body” as both a material object and metaphor, provides a rich source of
inspiration for both philosophical and historical studies of the production
and transmission of knowledge. Lawrence and Shapin’s influential anthology,
*Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge *(1998)
broke new ground in this area with discussions of bodies as tools for
philosophical inquiry, what it means for knowledge to be “embodied” in
physical artifacts, and how bodily self-presentation can generate
disembodied knowledge. The body also presents an arena for interplay of
ideas about proper management of health and diseases and the application of
scientific and medical expertise. Seventeenth century physicians, for
instance, recommended a mixture of medicine and dietetics for consumptive
patients; proper dietary regimes were often based on theoretical ideas about
nourishment and health. Moreover, the body and our ideas of the body have
been a political battleground: within the “culture of dissection” and public
executions; as displays of ecclesiastical value and status; as
technologically manipulable aspects of the self; as and as subjects of
experimental philosophy.

On *Friday March 18, 2011, *HAPSAT , the
Graduate Student Society at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Science and Technology at the University of Toronto, will host its seventh
annual conference, *The Regimen of Bodily Health: Nourishment and Natural
Knowledge.*

* *

This year’s distinguished keynote is *Steven Shapin *(Dept. Of History of
Science, Harvard University)*: “The Long History of Dietetics: Thinking
about Food, Expertise, and the Self.” *The keynote is jointly hosted by
HAPSAT and the IHPST Colloquium
Series
.

We invite graduate students and recent graduates working in fields such as
HPS, STS, history, sociology, philosophy, public health, anthropology,
gender studies, and law, to submit paper and panel proposals that critically
engage with this theme. For papers please email abstracts of up to 250 words
to *HAPSAT@gmail.com *by *December 1, 2010*. For panels, please email a
document with a 250 word abstract describing the panel as a whole in
addition to individual abstracts for each paper (also 250 words). Each
presenter will be given 20 minutes.

We welcome papers addressing, but not limited to, the following questions:

- What is the relationship between embodied lives and disembodied
knowledge?
- How have health regimes influenced historical or philosophical ideas
about the body?
- Do philosophical ideas about the nature of the self, identity, and
human agency affect society’s treatment of bodies?
- To what extent have technologies of the body influenced science in
practice (e.g. technologies of blood transfusion)?
- How are food, bodies, and personal and institutional authority related
within the modern medical establishment?
- What is the relationship between personal appearance and epistemic
authority?
- How have ideas about the degenerate body (e.g. monsters, deformity,
disease) been shaped by cultural or social beliefs?
- How do different modes of food production and consumption affect the
political relationships between bodies?
- What sorts of new political relationships, and political philosophies,
are likely to arise if technological advancement makes the transhumanist
dream a reality?

We hope to be able to offer billeting and small travel subsides for graduate
students travelling to Toronto for the conference.

For more information, visit the conference
website(to be updated shortly).
The
pdf poster is also
available.

Rotman Lectures, Oct 21, 22: Philip Kitcher on Science in a Democratic Society

2010-10-05T11:55:00.000-04:00

Join us for the 2nd Annual Rotman Institute Lectures in Philosophy and
Science

Science in a Democratic Society
Two lectures by
Philip Kitcher (Columbia University)
live-streamed online from the University of Western Ontario (UWO)

Authority, Responsibility, and Democracy
October 21, 2010
5 pm Official Opening of the Rotman Institute
5:30 - 7 pm Lecture
UWO, Conron Hall, 224 University College
or online at www.rotman.uwo.ca

Alienation and its Dangers
October 22, 2010
3:30-5 pm
UWO, 117 North Campus Building
or online at www.rotman.uwo.ca

CFP: North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy

2010-09-24T11:54:00.000-04:00

Friday and Saturday, March 25-26, 2011
Saint Francis University
Loretto, Pennsylvania 15940

We cordially invite undergraduates to submit proposals for the fifth
annual North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and
Philosophy. Submissions are encouraged from students majoring in all
academic fields.

Although any paper related to religion and philosophy will be
considered, priority will be given to those addressing this year’s
theme, “Race in America.” As philosopher Cornel West asserted, “A
fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a
sense of history and open, honest dialogue.” Accordingly, this year’s
conference will forthrightly address philosophical and religious
questions of race and how these questions relate to politics, culture,
society, and history. To begin our conversation, this year’s keynote
speaker will be George Yancy, Associate Professor of Philosophy at
Duquesne University and author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The
Continuing Significance of Race.

Paper proposals (roughly 250 words) should give a concise description
of the presentation. The deadline for proposals is February 18, 2011.
Please include your full name, paper title, institution, e-mail, phone
number, and the name and contact information of your major professor.
Presenters must submit their full paper by March 11, 2011 to be
considered for conference prizes. Proposals and final papers should be
sent via e-mail attachment to Dr. Arthur Remillard at
aremillard@francis.edu.

The keynote address will be given on Friday evening, with a student-
led discussion to follow. All student presentations will be given on
Saturday from approximately 9:00am-5:00pm. This conference is open to
the public and free for presenters and non-presenters alike. For more
information, directions, contacts, scheduling, etc., please visit our
website: www.francis.edu/NAUCRP.htm; or join our Facebook group, “St.
Francis University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.”

This conference is organized by St. Francis University and Westminster
College, with support from SFU’s School of Arts and Letters,
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and the Institute for
Ethics.

CFP: Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Dowling College (Oakdale, Long Island, New York, April 8th, 2011)

2010-09-23T12:21:00.000-04:00

In order to increase student awareness of and interest in philosophy,
and to encourage contributions to the scholarly community, Dowling
College Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies invites
students to submit papers relating to any philosophical topic or
period. Authors of accepted papers will be given the opportunity to
present their work at Dowling College’s first undergraduate philosophy
conference.
Deadline for Submissions: January 15th, 2011

Submission Guidelines:

1. Although papers must relate to a philosophical topic or period,
that does not mean that other areas, such as psychology, sociology,
neurology, biology, etc., are excluded. As long as the paper engages
with its topic in a philosophical manner you are more than welcome to
submit the paper. Presenters should plan on having 15 minutes to
present their work (approx. 8-10 pages long). Time limits will be
strictly enforced.

2. Attach a copy of your submission in .doc or .docx format to an
email, and send it to Adam Kohler at agkohler@gmail.com and Christian
Perring at perringc@dowling.edu. Within the email, please include
your name, email address, and college/university that you are
affiliated with.

3. Please do not include your name on your paper, so that it may be
reviewed “blind” by a committee of conference organizers.

4. Authors whose papers are accepted will be notified by Feb 15, 2011.

5. When you submit your paper, please indicate whether you would be
interested acting as a discussant for another speaker's paper.

Please remember that you do not have to be a philosophy major to
submit a paper! All currently enrolled undergraduates are welcome to
submit their work.

The Rudolph Campus of Dowling College is located in Oakdale, NY. This
is 50 miles from NYC, and 25 minutes walk from the Oakdale LIRR train
station.

For more information contact Adam Kohler at agkohler@gmail.com

fifth bi-annual undergraduate conference

2010-09-07T12:17:00.001-04:00

Undergraduate Conference

November -13,2010

Abstract Due- 100 words by email: October 2nd,,2010

The fifth bi-annual undergraduate conference is scheduled for Saturday Nov. 13th - November 12-13,2010 , at Davis and Elkins College. Papers in any area are welcome. Papers must not exceed a length of 3000 words. We are looking for papers that have already been submitted for a class and that have done well. Instructors are requested to encourage their students to submit papers for this event. There will be an award of $150 for the best paper selected. There will be also two prizes for $50. Papers selected for prize will be announced on the Davis and Elkins college website one week after the conference.

The advisory board members are:

Helen Benigni, Ruth Tunick, Shawn Stover, Nadeem Khan(Davis and Elkins College)

Mark Wood (Virginia Commonwealth University)

JoAnne Myers (Marist College)

Allen Michael, Teresa Allen (East Tennessee University),

On the first page of your paper, include the following nine items:

1)word count-3000 words maximum

2) the author's name

3) academic status

4) institutional affiliation

5) mailing address

6) email address

7) telephone number

8) the paper's title

9) an abstract-100 words count

Submissions which do not include all nine items will not be considered. No more than one submission by the same author will be considered

Email a copy of your paper to chakrabartic@davisandelkins.edu by November 1, 2010

Call for Paper

Dates: November 12-13, 2010

Abstract due by email: ,October 2nd,2010

Topic: Crossing Boundaries: Transforming Identities, Cultures and Human Relations in a Global Village

Place: Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia

Culture and Globalized World, Ethnic Identity and Transformation of White America, Human Identity and Self Transformation, Challenging Conventional Thinking about Religion, Post Modernity and New Age Religion, Terrorism and Fundamentalism, Transformation of Human Relations with the Globalization of Economy, Identity in the Information Age, Cultural and Racial Identity in a Globalized World, Racism and Class Prejudice, Plato on Class Relations,. Race, Class and Gender, Gender Bias and Discrimination in Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Power and Violence. Beyond Culture and Religion, Feminism and Politics of Peace, Popular Culture, Culture of the Workplace, Ethics of Equality: Kantian and Utilitarian Views, Debates on Equal Opportunity

Papers from the Conference will be published subject to editorial review(Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion).

Contact:
Chandana Chakrabarti,Ph.D.

Dean of International Programs
Director of the Center for Spirituality, Ethics and Global Awareness
Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia 26241,USA

Phone: 304-637-1293

E-mail: Chandanachak@gmail.com

Mailing Address: PO Box 743
Elkins, West Virginia 26241

USA

There will also be an undergraduate session during the conference. Please encourage your students to send abstracts by October 2nd,2010

Northern New England Philosophy Association CFP

2010-09-02T13:35:00.001-04:00

This is the final request for your help in reaching out to undergrads to
submit papers for our undergrad session at the NNEPA conference on October
15-16. Sometimes students need a reminder/nudge, and with two weeks to go
for the undergrad submission deadline (Sept 15), we hope you might give them
one more reminder. Presenting at NNEPA’s is a wonderful experience for
students, and the encouragement of their faculty can greatly facilitate
submissions.

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE PAPERS
In conjunction with its annual conference, the Northern New England
Philosophy Association will host sessions for undergraduates to share their work in a
collaborative environment. Accepted participants will present papers for twenty minutes, with time allowed for facilitated discussion.

The conference will be held on October 15 and 16, at St. Anselm College,
Manchester, NH. We encourage students to attend the conference even if they will not be
presenting.

Please submit completed papers of no more than 2500 words to paulm@unh.edu(Paul
McNamara) or dbanach@anselm.edu (David Banach ) by September 15, 2010.

For more information, see the conference site,

http://www.anselmphilosophy.com/NNEPA/

or on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/NNEPA-Northern-New-England-Philosophical-
Association/294298296702

CFP: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

2010-08-31T18:41:00.002-04:00

4. Undergraduate Formal Paper Competition Undergraduate students are
invited to submit papers on any topic in practical and professional
ethics. The Annual Meeting registration fee will be paid for those
students whose papers have been accepted.

The Submission Postmark Deadlines are:
Formal Papers, Panels, Pedagogical Demonstrations, Case Study
Presentation and Discussion Submission Deadline is: October 16, 2010
Lunch With an Author Submission Deadline is October 9, 2010
Undergraduate Paper Submission Deadline is October 30, 2010

Call For Papers: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics

Twentieth Anniversary Annual Meeting, March 3-6, 2011, Hilton
Cincinnati Netherland Plaza Hotel

The Association invites submissions for its Twentieth Annual Meeting.
Submissions are invited on ethical issues in all fields (e.g., public
administration, law, the environment, accounting, engineering,
computer science, research ethics, business, medicine, health care,
journalism, higher education) and on issues that cut across
professions. Special consideration will be given to topics that deal
with ethical issues which cut across at least two disciplines or
professions and are co-authored by persons from different disciplines.

Teaching demonstrations, discussion of moral education, and
presentations on ethics curriculum development are welcome. You do not
need to be a member of the Association to make a submission.
Submissions will be considered in the following categories: 1)
Individual Formal Papers; 2) Panels including Formal Papers; 3) Panels
for Round Table Discussions; 4) Pedagogical Demonstrations for
Teaching Ethics; 5) Case Study Presentation and Discussion; 6) Author
Meets the Critics; 7) Lunch with an Author. You may submit materials
in more than one category, but normally only one submission will be
accepted for the program for all except the Author Meets the Critics
and Lunch With an Author sessions.

Special Paper Competitions for the Twentieth Annual Meeting 1.
Competition for the Best Formal Paper by a Early Career Scholar -
$500 prize
The Association is pleased to announce a competition for the best
paper submitted for next year’s Annual Meeting by an Early Career
Scholar (An early career scholar is defined as one who has received a
Ph.D. within the last 8 years.) Up to three awards may be made in this
category.

2. Competition for Best Formal Paper by a Graduate Student - $500
prize The Association is pleased to announce a competition for the
best paper submitted by a graduate student for next year’s Annual
Meeting.
(The registration fee will be paid for all graduate students whose
individual paper has been reviewed and accepted for the Annual
Meeting.)
A select number of submissions in the above competitions will be
considered for publication in the International Journal of Applied
Ethics.

3. Competition for Best Formal Paper on Pre-college Ethics - $1,000
prize The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics is pleased
to announce that, with support of the Squire Family Foundation, we
will sponsor a competition at the next Annual Meeting to advance the
work of those interested in pre-college ethics.

Call for Papers for Arete, the Rutgers Undergraduate Journal

2010-05-24T19:44:00.000-04:00

The Rutgers University Undergraduate Philosophy Journal is seeking
papers for its 2011 issue. The deadline for submissions is

...September 15, 2010.

Inquiries and papers should be sent to:
rundergrad.philo.journal@gmail.com

Qualified applicants are current undergraduates and recent graduates
(who graduated up to two years ago) who will not be enrolled in a
graduate program by the time of publication. We accept papers in any
area of philosophy, on any topic.

Submission e-mails should contain two separate files: one file with
identifying and contact information (Name, University Affiliation,
Class Year, and daytime phone number), and a separate file for the
submission itself.

If you would like to see the current edition of our journal, please
visit http://eden.rutgers.edu/~journal/

Thank you,

The Editorial Board of Arete, the Rutgers Undergraduate Philosophy
Journal

RIT Conference Highlights Student Research in Philosophy

2010-05-03T10:01:00.000-04:00

by William Dube, April 29, 2010 —

Presentations touch on ethics, aesthetics and religion

The aesthetics of punk rock and St. Augustine’s theory of knowledge are just two of the topics that will be presented on at Rochester Institute of Technology’s first annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. The event, followed by an informal reception, will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 30 in the James E. Booth Building, room 1440 on campus.

Fred Evans, an expert in the philosophy of technology who currently serves as professor of philosophy and coordinator of the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research at Duquesne University, will present the keynote address, “Voices, Oracles and the Social Body.”

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, is being presented by the Department of Philosophy and the RIT Philosophy Club. Each session features a research presentation, commentary from fellow participants and a question and answer session. A full conference schedule is available at www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/Events.htm.

The conference is sponsored by RIT Student Government, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts and the Philosophy Learners and Thinkers Organization. For more information contact Lawrence Torcello at lgtghs@rit.edu or Max Herrera at mjh2455@rit.edu.

THE 2010 SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR DIVERSITY IN PHILOSOPHY

2010-04-26T09:45:00.001-04:00

http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=315&Itemid=372
THE 2010 SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR DIVERSITY IN PHILOSOPHY

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey August 1 - August 8, 2010

Rutgers University will sponsor the 2010 SUMMER INSTITUTE FOR DIVERSITY IN
PHILOSOPHY. This seven day program is designed to introduce undergraduate
students from diverse backgrounds to the various areas of specialization
within the discipline of philosophy, give students a better idea of what
graduate studies in philosophy is about, and explore various views about
what it means to be a professional philosopher. Up to fifteen students
will be given the opportunity to interact in formal and informal settings
with a group of talented graduate students and distinguished faculty members
from a number of universities. In the past, presenters have included
prominent faculty from University of Arizona, Boston College, Bowling Green,
Brown, Columbia, Cornell, CUNY, DePaul University, East Carolina University,
Fordham University, Georgia State University, Harvard, Howard,
Loyola-Marymount, MIT, Michigan State University, Northwestern University,
Notre Dame, NYU, Rutgers, San Diego State University, San Jose State
University, Spelman, Stanford University, St. Cloud University, SUNY at
Stony Brook, Syracuse, University of Central Florida, University of
Colorado, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, University of
Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Memphis, University of Minnesota,
UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Oregon, University of Washington-Seattle,
Vanderbilt, Vassar College and Yale.

Eligible students must demonstrate how their experiences and background
foster greater diversity in the discipline of philosophy and be full-time
students in a college or university in the United States (preference will be
given to sophomores and juniors, though others are eligible.) Interested
students must be in good academic standing and be interested in philosophy
as a career. The Institute will provide travel, room and board, and a $200
stipend. This year’s program will be held at the University Inn &
Conference Center in New Brunswick, NJ.

Applications must be completed and submitted to the 2010 Summer Institute
for Diversity in Philosophy and postmarked no later than May 4, 2010.

For more information, please contact:

Professor Howard McGary, 2010 Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy,
Philosophy Department, Rutgers University, 1 Seminary Place, New Brunswick,
New Jersey 08901-1107. Tel.: 732-932-9861; FAX: 732-932-8617; email:
hmcgary@rci.rutgers.edu or Ms. Mercedes Diaz (same address). Tel.:
732-932-9862; FAX: 732-932-8617; email: diaz@philosophy.rutgers.edu.

*Click here for an online
application*

* Click here to submit Letters of Recommendation

* Click here to submit Writing Sample *

2010 RIT First-Ever Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy

2010-04-23T12:53:00.006-04:00

PLATO (Philosophy Learners and Thinkers Organization) in coordination with the Department of Philosophy, RIT, are pleased to announce our first annual undergraduate philosophy conference.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Fred Evans, Duquesne University
presenting: The Clamor of Voices: Neda, Barack, and the Philosophy of Society.

Cost: The conference is free and open to the public. A lunch, with vegetarian options, will be provided for all participants.

Lodging and Transportation: Questions on lodging please email Max Herrera at mjh2455@rit.edu.

Email inquiries to Max Herrera: mjh2455@rit.edu

For more Information: http://learnersandthinkers.blogspot.com/
and http://www.rit.edu/cla/philosophy/index.html

NEW Schedule of Events:

9 - 10 AM Continental Breakfast (7A-1560)

10 - 10:15 Opening Remarks, Professor John Capps (RIT)

10:20 - 11 St. Augustine’s Theory of Knowledge and Vedic Philosophy as Described in Bhagavad Gita, Leigh Oates (Frostburg University) and Commentator: Erika Strickland Au (RIT)

11 - 11:40 Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and Punk Aesthetics, Alan Barton (Hartwick College) and Commentator: Alex Stubberfield (SUNY Brockport)

11:40 - 11:50 Coffee Break

11:50 - 12:30 Confronting the Crisis: A Philosophical Examination of the Benefits and Detriments of Education, Nora Burleigh (Nazareth College) and Commentator: Ashley Aberg (RIT)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Break (7A-1560)

1:30 - 2:10 Hearing the ‘Fat Lady’s’ Call: The Meaning of Vocation, Joshua Hine (Nazareth College) and Commentator: Dana Melchior (RIT)

2:10 - 2:50 Emotions … Remember Those? David Whitehead (Buffalo State College) and Commentator: Sam Owen (RIT)

2:50 - 3:30 Coffee Break

3:30 - Keynote Lecture: Voices, Oracles, and the Social Body
Professor Fred Evans (Duquesne University)

Reception to follow (7A-1440)

Club Meeting Friday, April 23, 2010

2010-04-22T10:29:00.002-04:00

The Philosophy Club will meet this coming Friday, 23 April, from 3:00 to 5:00 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Ross Snider will lead discussion on philosophy of art. More specifically, Ross suggests the following questions, but anticipates new questions arising during the meeting:

* What is art? What role does intentionality and creativity play in art? Consequently, what can be said about "found art?"
* Are there forms of human expression that cannot be art?
* What differentiates "good art" from "bad art?"
* Is artwork subjective i.e. artistic in one area, time or context but not another?
* Could a mechanical process, such as a modern day computer (setting the question of strong A.I. aside) create art?

5th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at SIUE

2010-04-20T08:59:00.003-04:00

Call for Papers 5th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

Keynote Speaker:Professor Martin Schwab from the University of California Irvine will
be speaking on "Why Nietzsche is Useful and Dangerous for Us Today"

The Department of Philosophy and Phi Sigma Tau (Illinois Pi Chapter)
of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville are pleased to announce
that they will be hosting the 5th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy
Conference, October 15th-16th, 2010. All undergraduate students are
encouraged to submit papers on any topic of philosophical interest.

Submission Deadline: September 12th, 2010

Submission Guidelines:
• Papers should be 12-15 pages in length (20-25 minutes presentation
time).
• All personally identifying information should be removed from the
body of the paper.
• A cover sheet including your name and contact information should be
attached separately.
• Electronic submissions only; they should be emailed to:
blueck@siue.edu (Subject Line: “Undergraduate Conference Submission”)
• For compatibility reasons, please be sure to save the files
in .rtf or .doc

Please visit our website for further information and updates about our
conference:

http://www.siue.edu/artsandsciences/philosophy/upc

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dr. Bryan Lueck
at blueck@siue.edu.

CFP: Alabama Philosophical Society

2010-04-19T10:21:00.000-04:00

Call for Papers:
Alabama Philosophical Society (48th Annual Meeting)
24-25 September 2010
Keynote Speaker: John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis)

Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front
12 Via Luna Drive
Pensacola, FL 32561

Papers in any area of philosophy are welcome. Submissions should not
exceed 3,000 words, should include a 100 word abstract, and should be
prepared for blind review.

All submissions must be e-mailed by 16 August or postmarked by 13
August.

E-mail submissions preferred: DOC, RTF, or PDF format to
alabamaphilsoc@gmail.com.

Alternatively, mail your paper and abstract to: Dr. Adam Podlaskowski,
College of Liberal Arts, Fairmont State University, 1201 Locust
Avenue, Fairmont, WV 26554-2470.

Please watch http://alphilsoc.org/ for updates. For inquiries,
contact Adam Podlaskowski at apodlaskowski@fairmontstate.edu or
304-367-4935.

Hilton Pensacola Beach Gulf Front (866.916.2999 - Group Code APA) will
hold rooms until 24 August.

19th Women & Society Conference - 2010 - Poughkeepsie NY

2010-04-16T07:43:00.000-04:00

19th Women & Society Conference - 2010
October 22 & 23, 2010
Marist College, Poughkeepsie New York
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Proposals and abstracts are being solicited for the 2010 Women & Society Conference. This feminist conference is interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary, covering all aspects of women & gender being studied in the academy. The conference mentors and models feminist inquiry/scholarship for undergraduate students so joint faculty/student papers and excellent student papers are also considered, undergraduates may attend at no cost.

Dr. Michael Kimmel will be delivering the 19th keynote address on Friday evening, Oct.22. A noted feminist and sociologist, Dr. Kimmel has been studying masculinity. His books include: Guyland; the 2010 edition of Men’s Lives (co-written with Michael Messner); The Invisible Sex: Masculinity in Contemporary America; The History of Masculinity: Essays; The Gender of Desire: Essays on Masculinity and Sexuality; The Gendered Society; Manhood in America: A Cultural History;;The Politics of Manhood; Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the U.S., 1776-1990; Men Confront Pornography among many others (see www.michaelkimmel.com for a complete bibliography).

The 2010 Women in Society Conference would like to encourage the submission of any papers,
workshops, or panels on the topic of developing feminist men and why it is in the best interest of all to achieve equality. A special part of the conference will be dedicated to all presentations dealing with these topics.
Proposal Due Date July 17th

Please send your 250 word abstract with a brief bio. Papers, workshops, roundtables and panels are welcome, please include abstracts and bios for all participants, with one contact person. Please include all contact information--including home and e-mail addresses for summer correspondence to:

Women & Society Conference c/o JoAnne Myers
Fontaine 315 School of Liberal Arts
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Submit a Proposal Online

For more information e-mail: JA.MYERS@MARIST.EDU

Global Poverty & Life Worth Saving

2010-04-14T09:59:00.000-04:00

The Philosophy Club will meet this coming Friday, 16 April, from 3:00 to 5:00 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Max Herrera will lead discussion on help for the impoverished world. Max writes: "The case for donating to help the impoverished world has been tackled by many great thinkers. Peter Singer creates the case for why the third world should be given aid in his last few books, most recently being the Life You Can Save. The philosophical issues of global poverty are immense, but my hope is not to discuss the myriad of problems that come with agency, paternalism, and other philosophical baggage. I have but two questions to ask, should we be donating to the impoverished world? And if so, how would we help mitigate global poverty?"

COMMODIFICATION, TECHNOCULTURE, AND THE HUMAN: RETHINKING TECHNOLOGY

2010-04-09T12:23:00.003-04:00

This just sounded like a great time to me:

Third Workshop in Social and Political Thought at Michigan State University

with Andrew Feenberg, Donna Haraway, and Paul Thompson

October, 23/24, 2010

Saturday: 9am-6pm, Sunday: 9am-1pm

http://www.msu.edu/~lotz/workshop2010/index.htm

Description:

An important connection explored in the humanities concerns the degree to
which technological rationality changes our lives, whether in terms of our
behavior, our conceptions of who and what human animals and non-human
animals are, or the goals we set for ourselves. What are some of the new
ways of living brought on by these changes? Are such changes consistent with
the precepts of an inclusive democracy? Or have they unacceptably
commodified our social, political, and cultural relationships? Do we now
live in a world where what is understood as a meaningful life is in peril
because technology and commodification are all that remain? This workshop
in social and political thought will be dedicated to bringing important
contemporary scholarship to MSU to address these questions with keynote
addresses, commentaries, and other workshop activities. It demonstrates that
philosophy and the humanities are central in understanding the world we live
in.

Speakers

Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser); Philosophy of Technology, Social-Political
Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, author of Critical Theory of Technology
(1991), Questioning Technology (1999), Heidegger and Marcuse: The
Catastrophe and Redemption of History (2005)

Donna Haraway (University of California, Santa Cruz); Feminism, Science and
Technology Studies; Animal Studies, author of A Cyborg Manifesto: Science,
Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985),
Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
(1989), When Species Meet (2008)

Paul Thompson (Michigan State University), Social-Political Philosophy,
Ethics and Agriculture, Philosophy of Technology, Continental Philosophy,
Pragmatism, author of The Spirit of the Soil: Agriculture and Environmental
Ethics (1995), The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism (2000), and The Agrarian
Vision: Sustainability and Environmental Ethics (2010).

Tamra Frei (Michigan State University); Ethics, Kant, Modern Philosophy

Todd Hedrick (Michigan State University); Critical Theory, Habermas,
Philosophy of Law, Social and Political Philosophy, author of Rawls and
Habermas. Reason, Pluralism, and the Claims of Political Philosophy
(forthcoming)

Hilde Lindemann (Michigan State University), Feminism, Bioethics, Moral
Psychology; author of An Invitation to Feminist Ethics (2005), Damaged
Identities, Narrative Repair (2001)

Organization and RSVP

Prof. Christian Lotz

Prof. Kyle Whyte

Michigan State University

Dept. of Philosophy

503 South Kedzie Hall

East Lansing, MI 48824

517.355.4490 (Dept.)

The Irreconcilability of Science and Religion

2010-03-31T11:32:00.005-04:00

Scientist and Evolution Advocate Discusses Science and Religion April 1 at RIT P.Z. Myers presents The Irreconcilability of Science and Religion

P.Z. Myers, biologist, science blogger and prominent evolution advocate, will present his thoughts on evolution, creation science and the current science versus religion debate at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1, in Webb Auditorium at Rochester Institute of Technology.

The Irreconcilability of Science and Religion will include a discussion of the current controversy over evolution and intelligent design and Myers’ thoughts on the basic incompatibility of scientific theory and values-based religious belief. The event is sponsored by the RIT Skeptics and RIT Atheists student groups.

Myers currently serves as an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris and is the author of the science blog Pharyngula.com. Nature named Pharyngula one of the top blogs written by a scientist and Myers also won a 2005 Koufax Award for best expert blog.

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WHAT: The Irreconcilability of Science and Religion

WHO: P.Z. Myers, associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris

WHEN: 8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 1

WHERE: Webb Auditorium, RIT Campus

Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Space and Time

2010-03-24T10:41:00.002-04:00

The Department of Philosophy and The Philosophy Club
Rochester Institute of Technology

present

Steven Weinstein
Department of Philosophy
University of Waterloo

“What Part Don’t You Understand?
Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Space and Time”

Quantum mechanics has been called the most accurate physical theory in history, and is indeed essential to describing the structure of matter. Yet no one, arguably, understands what it really means. In this talk, I’ll sketch the problem and one of the proposed solutions, the “many worlds” interpretation. While seemingly radical, I’ll argue that this is in some sense a very conservative interpretation, one which does not require us to rethink our notions of space, time or matter. I will close with a suggestion of what some more radical ideas might look like, including a glimpse of recent work by Walter Craig and myself on multiple time dimensions.

Friday, 2 April 2010, 3:00 - 5:00
Student Alumni Union (building 04), room 2650
Rochester Institute of Technology

for further information contact
Professor Evelyn Brister
Phone: 585-475-4291
Email: elbgsl@rit.edu

Philosophy Club, Friday 26 March

2010-03-22T19:59:00.000-04:00

The next meeting of the Philosophy Club will be on Friday, 26 March, in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Professor Timothy Engström will lead discussion on the topic "The Undistributed Life is not Worth Living: Identity and Computation". Tim writes:

Hooray for overcoming the limitations of the flesh. Identity and agency are
no longer confined to the parameters of the skin-bag. Armed with
computational conceptions of mind, and with ever-improving digital
appliances for enhancing the mind¹s function and connectedness, a truly
better dawn must be near.

With digital technology, we can now see what lies beyond normal thresholds
of sight: into brains, now colored and statistically tidied with the fMRI,
and into breasts, whose soft tissue is made visually legible, hard and fast,
through the mammogram. Why, computation now allows us not only to capture
but also to construct properties of the ³real² that are otherwise not there
at all, or at least not available except insofar as they are converted into
data and the data are converted into something visible. A marvelous dawn to
be sure.

Informational medicine now permits us not only to penetrate the body--thank
goodness for Xrays--but to make it available for adjustment and prosthetic
enhancement beyond traditional conceptions of medical normalization. In
effect, the disease model is no longer holding the field alone, and
something more positive, more promissory and constructive, is operating.
And even better, there is a market for it.

In effect, medicine is increasingly dependent upon a series of informational
and translation assumptions regarding the functions and meanings of
embodiment and biology that are available only as a result of the production
of data, which are in turn made possible by algorithms and the devices that
deploy these algorithms. Identity has thus become increasingly understood as
a function of what computation can confirm or alter and enhance, and in
relation to appliances whose happy science is a function of a lucrative
informational and global economy‹powers that even Nietzsche and Marx could
not have imagined, poor fellows.

The Übermensch must have his appliances. Thankfully, the opportunity for
overcoming can be purchased; but one has to dance with the cost of more than
Nietzsche¹s pen. The nature of this deal might warrant further
conversation.

C-MLAG 4 - March 25th/27th 2010 – MLAG Annual International Colloquium

2010-03-22T08:27:00.000-04:00

C-MLAG 4 - March 25th/27th 2010 – MLAG Annual International
Colloquium

The Mind, Language and Action Group (MLAG), a research group within
the Philosophy Institute, is holding its annual colloquium, C-MLAG 4,
on the next 25th, 26th and 27th March at the Faculty of Arts of the
University of Porto.

Every year, the results of the ongoing projects of MLAG are presented
in this Colloquium. Members of the projects teams and foreign and
portuguese collaborators will be participating. All interested are
invited to attend.

Target Audience: Researchers, students and philosophy teachers (1st,
2nd and 3rd cycles); high-school philosophy teachers; others
interested in philosophy and cognitive science.

Attendance and Registration:
Entry and attendance at C-MLAG 4 is free of charge.
Colloquium Support Material - 10€ (general audience) / 5€ (students of
the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto)

Organizing Commitee: Sofia Miguens (University of Porto), João Alberto
Pinto (University of Porto), Manuela Teles (University of Porto)

Scientific Committee: Sofia Miguens (University of Porto), João
Alberto Pinto (University of Porto), Charles Travis (King’s College-
London), Concha Martinez (University of Santiago de Compostela)

For further information on MLAG, please see:
http://web2.letras.up.pt/ifilosofia/gfmc/mlag/?p=home
For further information on CMLAG-4, please see:
http://sigarra.up.pt/flup/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?P_NR=3226 "

Hiroshi Ishii “The Art of Tangible Bits”

2010-03-16T09:39:00.005-04:00

Caroline Werner Gannett Project's "Visionaries in Motion" Series

Hiroshi Ishii “The Art of Tangible Bits” March 29 (Webb Auditorium, 8 pm)

Muriel R. Cooper Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT; Co-director of the MIT Media Lab, Things That Think Consortium, and head of the Tangible Media Group

Dr. Ishii’s “Tangible Bits” project seeks to realize seamless interfaces between humans, digital information, and the physical environment by giving physical form to digital information--making “bits” directly manipulable and perceptible.

His new artistic vision of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) seeks to transform the way we see and interact with the world. Ishii’s visionary goal is to invent new design media for artistic expression, as well as for scientific analysis. The pioneering work of “Tangible Bits” Media Group takes advantage of the richness of human senses and skills in interaction with the physical world, and in computational reflection enabled by real-time sensing and digital feedback.
Ishii will explore examples of Tangible Bits projects developed and exhibited throughout the world in media arts, design, and science communities.

New Date RIT 2010 Philosophy Conference April 30

2010-03-15T09:21:00.008-04:00

30 April 2010 R.I.T.

New Date: Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Undergraduate Philosophy Conference April 30, 2010

Rochester Institute of Technology Call for Papers Undergraduate Philosophy Conference:

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Fred Evans, Duquesne University

Submission deadline: April 15, 2010 (postmark by April 10, 2010)

The Philosophy Learners and Thinkers Organization in coordination with the philosophy department at Rochester Institute of Technology are pleased to announce the institute’s inaugural undergraduate philosophy conference.

Submission Guidelines

Papers can be of any topic, but should take twenty to twenty-five minutes to present. All papers will be reviewed anonymously, so please leave any identifying marks off the actual paper. Instead send a separate page with the following six items:

1. Author’s Name

2. Institute Affiliation

3. Mailing Address

4. Email Address

5. Title of Paper

6. Short Abstract

Please mail your papers to:

Dr. Lawrence Torcello

Department of Philosophy
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604

Deadline: All papers should be postmarked no later than April 10, 2010

Cost: The conference is free and open to the public. A lunch, with vegetarian options, will be provided for all participants.

Lodging and Transportation: Questions on lodging please email Max Herrera at mjh2455@rit.edu.

6th Annual New England Undergraduate Conference

2010-03-02T20:17:00.002-05:00

Providence College shall host the 6th annual New England Undergraduate
Philosophy Conference on Saturday, April 17, 2010. The keynote
address shall be delivered by Professor Dominic Balestra of Fordham
University.

Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome. Undergraduate students
who are interested in presenting their work at the conference should
submit a 10-15 page paper for review to the conference committee. The
papers should be prepared for blind review and should be sent as Word
or rich text documents to phlclub@providence.edu. Anyone interested
in serving as a commentator at the conference should inform the
committee by e-mailing phlclub@providence .edu

The deadline for submissions in Monday, March 8, 2010.

Questions and inquiries about the conference should be directed to Dr.
Christopher Arroyo, Assistant Professor of Philosophy,
carroyo@providence.edu

Final Call for Papers: UNC Charlotte 2nd Annual Student Philosophy Conference

2010-03-02T20:13:00.000-05:00

The deadline is in one week. Please forward this CFP to any interested
and/or pertinent parties.

The Philosophy Club, the Phi Sigma Tau Chapter, and the Philosophy
Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are
pleased to announce our 2nd Annual Student Philosophy Conference,
March 27, 2010.

Papers are now being accepted for undergraduate and graduate
presentations. We welcome papers from all areas in philosophy, and
particularly encourage papers that reflect the department’s strengths
in ethics, aesthetics, social, political, and feminist philosophy.

Submissions should be no more than 4000 words (between 10 and 15 pages
in length), and submitters should be prepared for presentations
between 20 and 30 minutes in length. Papers should be submitted in a
Word format (.doc or .docx) with a document title the same as the
paper title, and should also be prepared for a blind review. Students
should include a cover sheet with their full name, the title of their
paper, their institutional affiliation, student status, mailing
address, e-mail address, and phone number.

Submissions should be sent to uncc2010@gmail.com with an accompanying
abstract of 100-200 words. The submission deadline is February 26,
2010.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out by March 5th. The
conference schedule will be finalized by March 12th.
Please send any additional questions about the conference or
submissions to Hannah Levinson at hrlevins@uncc.edu.

The University of Missouri - St. Louis MA in Philosophy

2010-03-02T20:11:00.001-05:00

The University of Missouri - St. Louis is still accepting applications
to its nationally ranked M.A. program in Philosophy for Fall 2010. A
limited number of assistantships are available to highly qualified
applicants.

For more information about the program: http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/GraduateDegreePrograms.html

For more information about the faculty: http://www.umsl.edu/~philo/Faculty/faculty.html

To apply: http://www.umsl.edu/divisions/graduate/prospective/howtoapply.html

More questions?: wiland@umsl.edu

Eric Wiland
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Philosophy
University of Missouri-St. Louis

CFP -- Brown University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference and Journal

2010-02-14T12:49:00.000-05:00

We are now accepting submissions for the Second Annual Brown
Undergraduate Philosophy Conference (May 1, 2010), and for inaugural
issue of Room 119: Brown’s Undergraduate Philosophy Journal.

The conference will include a keynote address by Professor David
Estlund entitled “Utopophobia”

Submissions for the conference should be approximately 10-15 pages in
length (double-spaced) and include a short abstract; submissions for
the journal may be of any length. Authors may submit the same paper to
both the conference and the journal, but no more than one paper to
each. Submissions should be prepared for blind review and sent to
phildug.brown@gmail.com

The deadline for submissions is March 22th
Authors will be notified of final decisions by April 9th
Cash prizes will be awarded for top papers at the conference.

Sponsored by the Brown University Philosophy Department Undergraduate
Group

UNC Charlotte 2nd Annual Student Philosophy Conference

2010-02-12T19:20:00.001-05:00

Hopefully this will serve as a reminder; the submission deadline is
two weeks away.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Philosophy Club, the Phi Sigma Tau Chapter, and the Philosophy
Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte are
pleased to announce our 2nd Annual Student Philosophy Conference,
March 27, 2010.
Papers are now being accepted for undergraduate and graduate
presentations. We welcome papers from all areas in philosophy, and
particularly encourage papers that reflect the department’s strengths
in ethics, aesthetics, social, political, and feminist philosophy.

Submissions should be no more than 4000 words (between 10 and 15 pages
in length), and submitters should be prepared for presentations
between 20 and 30 minutes in length. Papers should be submitted in a
Word format (.doc or .docx) with a document title the same as the
paper title, and should also be prepared for a blind review. Students
should include a cover sheet with their full name, the title of their
paper, their institutional affiliation, student status, mailing
address, e-mail address, and phone number.

Submissions should be sent to uncc2010@gmail.com with an accompanying
abstract of 100-200 words. The submission deadline is February 26,
2010.

Notification of acceptance will be sent out by March 5th. The
conference schedule will be finalized by March 12th.

Please send any additional questions about the conference or
submissions to Hannah Levinson at hrlevins@uncc.edu.

NORTH GEORGIA STUDENT PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

2010-02-09T20:41:00.000-05:00

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 7th ANNUAL
NORTH GEORGIA STUDENT PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
Persons, Places, and Experiences:
In-between Climate, Culture, & Being

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY (Atlanta)

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
APRIL 16th - APRIL 17th 2010

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Brian Schroeder
Rochester Institute of Technology

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS:
MARCH 22, 2010

Submission is open to all students enrolled for undergraduate and graduate
study at accredited institutions of higher education during the 2009-2010
Academic Year.

For complete submission guidelines, visit our website:
< http://philosophystudentassociation.blogspot.com/>.

Abstracts of 150 words or less will be accepted in lieu of complete papers
and must be received via email as an attachment no later than the above
date. All submissions must have a .doc or .rtf file extension in order to
be accepted. All papers are to comply with Chicago Manual of Style
formatting. No papers will be accepted without proper formatting.
Notifications will be made via email no later than March 31st 2010.
Earlier notifications will be made for papers submitted before the
deadline. In addition to your abstract, we must have a completed
conference cover sheet, which is available on our website.

If you have any questions, please email us: gspconference@gmail.com.
A Selected Proceedings of the Conference's best papers will published by
the North Georgia Philosophy Studies, a division of the Georgia Philosophy
Series, in association with the Philosophy Student Association at Kennesaw
State University.

Meeting Friday 12 February 2010

2010-02-08T18:29:00.002-05:00

Meeting this Friday-Phil Haasenritter will lead a discussion of philosophical questions raised by the phenonmenon of addiction, and proposes the following initial questions to get discussion going: Is addiction a disease? Is it incurable? Where does responsibility lie? Might addiction be a necessary part of human exist...ence which is not innately bad?

Join us for a lively discussion with food and drink to follow afterward at the Lovin Cup: Discussion from 3-5PM & dinner immediately following from 5-?PM

Club Meeting 29 January 2010

2010-01-28T07:30:00.001-05:00

The next Philosophy Club meeting will be this Friday, 29 January, from 3-5 in room 3214 of the College of Liberal Arts. Chris Boone will get discussion going on the topic of dreams. Chris writes:

I am interested in discussing how dreams, and especially lucid dreams (dreams in which you are aware you are dreaming), can be used as tool for exploring and understanding consciousness.Some interesting points to think on and perhaps topics of discussion.

Lucid dreaming blurs the line between unconscious and conscious states.

How is the notion of self formulated in dreams?

Do individually and culturally variable beliefs about dreaming only influence dream reports, or is the form of dreams themselves in certain respects also malleable?

Perspective and vantage-point in dreams and how that relates to our autobiographical memory.

Direct vs. Indirect Realism

Are dreams actual experiences?

Even something as simple as figuring out whether we actually perceive color in dreams highlights the fact that we don't understand the phenomenology of dreams nearly as well as we think we do.

CFA - Undergraduate Animal Ethics Conference

2010-01-28T07:24:00.000-05:00

Utah Valley University Animal Ethics Conference
March 29 - April 1, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Tom Regan

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE ABSTRACTS:

Abstracts are now being accepted for undergraduate presentations on the topic of human-animal ethics and the theological, moral, legal and social status of animals in contemporary society. Acceptable themes include (but are certainly not limited to) animal ethics, ethics of food, humans and animals and the environment, animal testing, animal exploitation, religion and animals, history of animal ethics, the moral status of animals, factory farming, commentaries, critiques, and so on.

Submitted abstracts should range between 150-250 words and will undergo a blind review process. Those selected will be asked to present a paper of approximately 7-8 pages (or 15 minutes) in length at the conference.

The conference will be held at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah (45 miles south of Salt Lake City) on March 31, 2010. Professor Tom Regan will present a keynote address on Thursday, April 1. The conference is sponsored by the Utah Valley University Center for the Study of Ethics, Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Center for Engaged Learning and Animal Allies Club. Conference events are part of the Utah Democracy Project. Visit http://uvuanimalethicsconference.blogspot.com/ for updated information on the conference including the schedule.

Please include a Cover Sheet with the following information: author's name, institutional affiliation, title of paper, address, phone number, and email address. Please do not include any of this information on the abstract itself.

The deadline for abstracts is March 15, 2010.
You will be notified of your acceptance by March 21, 2010.

Please submit all abstracts and/or questions to the following email:
animalethicsconference@uvu.edu

Prof Selinger to Edit Phil & Tech

2010-01-18T11:56:00.001-05:00

Evan Selinger, associate professor of philosophy, will serve as an editor of Philosophy and Technology, a new academic, peer-reviewed journal published by Springer.

Club Meeting 22 January 2010

2010-01-18T09:43:00.000-05:00

Our next Philosophy Club meeting will be this coming Friday, 22 January, from 3-5 in the College of Liberal Arts, Room 3214. Professor Evelyn Brister will lead discussion on environmental values and social values. Professor Brister writes:

"Solutions to environmental problems may themselves have a negative impact on marginalized people. For instance, when bioreserves are set aside, this is sometimes accomplished by displacing residents of the protected lands. If those residents are not provided with strong social support, they may become refugees. Surely, it is ethically and socially valuable to preserve biodiversity. However, the pursuit of environmental goals may lead to conflict with other ethical or social goals.

"Discussion questions:
1. What are the interesting philosophical questions related to these cases?
2. How do we decide conflicts between competing environmental and social values? Does one take priority over the other? Or is there another way of adjudicating between them?
3. Natural scientists are involved as advocates for preservation and social scientists as advocates for cultural preservation. Does this violate norms of scientific responsibility and objectivity? What are the prospects for interdisciplinary collaboration?"

SUNY Oneonta's 15th annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

2010-01-14T13:21:00.001-05:00

There is still time for students at your school to submit papers for SUNY Oneonta's 15th annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Preference will be given to papers received by January 22, but late submissions will be considered on a space-available basis for a week or so beyond that date. Conference dates are April 15-17, 2010.

All papers are subject to blind review. To help make the experience affordable for all undergraduates, the conference is free and open to the public. We even help arrange meals and housing for students whose papers are accepted.

We look forward to an inspiring and provocative keynote address by Andrew Light, Director of the Center for Global Ethics at George Mason University and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. For additional details, including submission guidelines and programs from past conferences, please consult our website (www.oneonta.edu/pc) or contact us at your convenience.

Douglas W. Shrader, Ph.D.
Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy
State University of New York at Oneonta
Oneonta, NY 13820-4015
Phone: (607) 432-2690 or 2456
Website: www.oneonta.edu/pc
Email: PhilosophyConference@Gmail.com
Keynote speaker: http://www.americanprogress.org/experts/LightAndrew.html

P.S. Last year's conference featured delightful presentations by 26 students from 22 institutions in 14 states. Papers were clear, insightful, and informed. Discussion was spirited and robust. 17 Awards, in 7 categories, were presented to 14 students from 10 universities in 7 different states:

DePaul University (IL)
Northwest Missouri State University (MO)
SUNY Fredonia (NY)
SUNY Oneonta (NY)
The New School (NY)
University of California at Santa Cruz (CA)
University of Hawaii (HI)
University of Illinois at Chicago (IL)
University of Mary Washington (VA)
University of Texas (TX)

We expect nothing less this year!! Another distinctive feature of our conference is professional publication of award-winning papers in volumes that are sure to be cherished for years to come. Follow the links on our website for additional details.