The European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT) invites you to the Fourteenth European Conference on Science and Theology (24-29 April 2012). Submission deadline for abstracts is 1 November 2011.
See conference website:
Symposium: Feminist Theory and the Philosophical Tradition (2 Dec, Helsinki)
Feminist Theory and the Philosophical Tradition, 2nd December 2011, Helsinki.
This symposium will explore the connections and the tensions between contemporary feminist theory and the tradition of philosophy. Contemporary feminist thinkers have appropriated the tradition of philosophy in imaginative ways, but these allegiances also divide feminist thinkers: they sometimes appropriate very different or even opposing philosophical ideas about the subject, gender and power, for example.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Stella Sandford.
This symposium is free and open to all. If you would like to attend the conference dinner (at your own expense), please send an email to Tuija Modinos (tuija.modinos@helsinki.fi) by November 15, 2011.
Organizer: Research team Politics of Philosophy and Gender (PPhiG), Centre of Excellence Political Thought and Conceptual Change, University of Helsinki.
Further information: Coordinator Tuija Modinos.
CFP: Archeologies of the Future: tracing memories / imagining spaces (2012, Tallinn)
ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE: tracing memories / imagining spaces, The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, 36th annual conference.
Dates: 28 May – 3 June 2012. Hosted by Tallinn University and the Estonian Literary Museum. Location: Tallinn University (Estonia).
Deadline for submissions: 15 NOVEMBER 2011.
Keynote speakers: Jacques Rancière (philosopher), Erkki-Sven Tüür (composer) and others to be announced.
Go to www.iapl.info for details on submission of paper or panel proposal. Questions? contact: execdir@iapl.info.
Hugh J. Silverman is IAPL Executive Director and Program Coordinator.
NB! The Estonian Academy of Sciences participates in a scholarly exchange with most European Academic institutions. Ask your institution whether you are eligible for a travel grant through the exchange program (to cover travel, lodging and daily allowance). Contact local conference coordinator Dr. Epp Annus (eppannus@hotmail.com) for an invitation letter.
Conference: Bodies in Crisis, Nov 2-4, Iceland
Bodies in Crisis, The Nordic Network Gender, Body, Health in collaboration with RIKK – Center for Women’s and Gender Research and EDDA – Center of Excellence at the University of Iceland.
2-4 November, 2011 – University of Iceland, Reykjavik –
The body has become a veritable hot spot in contemporary theorizing that forcefully disrupts given disciplinary identities and fields of investigation. Bodies make themselves present at the very core of a range of different phenomena, such as emotions, desires, identity, and agency. Resisting rigid dichotomies and categories, the materiality of bodies sticks to our thinking in not always comfortable ways, and their singularities question the very possibility of retaining stability in generalizing notions and frameworks of thinking. The field of feminist thinking on the body and materiality has a long history. We might even say that the body has always figured in one way or another into the field of feminist theory and that contemporary understandings of the body have been directly or indirectly shaped by this field. From discussions of motherhood, pregnancy and abortion, of pleasure and sex, of eating disorders and the incorporation of disciplinary regimes to theoretical discussions of embodiment and individuation of bodies, feminist thinkers have played a key role in forming different ideas and understandings of the body in numerous areas.
With the conference Bodies in Crisis we turn attention to a range of different ways in which bodies are brought to presence in times of crisis and bring times and states of crisis to presence, are lived in crisis and are produced and normalized as being in crisis. The conference highlights topics such as bodily integrity, representations and discourses of bodies in crisis, violence and trauma, body weight, organ donation, stigmatization of bodies in crisis, self-injury, sexual health perspectives, reproductive technologies.
For registration information and updates of possible changes in the program please see www.genna.gender.uu.se/bodiesincrisis. For more information, please contact the network coordinator Lisa Folkmarson Käll at body@gender.uu.se.
Conference program can be found by clicking HERE.
CFP: Avant journal on Dan Zahavi (deadline 30 October 2011)
Avant. Journal of Philosophical - Interdisciplinary Vanguard (which is bilingual (Polish and English) and runs on the open-source basis) is happy to announce it’s first call for papers. We encourage both postgraduate students and professionals for the submission of papers (letters) comments related to the works of Dan Zahavi, which will be a guest of our third issue. As in previous issues of Avant (found here: http://avant.edu.pl/en/ – for instance interview with Alva Noe in the second issue), one of the journals sections will be devoted to works and the interview with our guest. Thus, we welcome papers that draw on or refer to Professor Zahavi’s works.
We accept papers in English, Polish translation will be provided. Guidelines for the authors can be found here: http://avant.edu.pl/en/for-authors/.
Deadline is 30 October 2011. Papers should be submitted to Witold Wachowski to ww@avant.edu.pl.
We are also interested in other papers related to embodied, enactive and extended cognition. Feel free to contact Witold Wachowski or jrmatyja@avant.edu.pl, if you have any questions.
Colloquium: Levinas’ ethics and the demand of politics, Tampere
Levinas’ ethics and the demand of politics
Colloquium in honour of the 50th anniversary of Emmanuel Levinas’ magnum opus Totalité et infini. Languages: English and Finnish. Organised by the discipline of Philosophy of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Tampere.
28th of October, 2011, Venue PinniB 1097 (http://www.uta.fi/english/locations.html).
This year is the 50th anniversary of Emmanuel Levinas’ magnum opus Totalité et infini. Essai sur extériorité (Totality and infinity: Essay on exteriority). The book is one of the essential classics of the 20th century. In it, Levinas confronts philosophy with the terrifying experience of war, and against this background he draws the outline of the first phenomenological ethics, developped by means of an existential phenomenology.
Totalité et infini has been an extremely influential book, because it formulates most radically the idea that the measure of humanity is an infinite responsibility of the other human being. Although this main idea is generally held to be very impressive, the book has also risen several important debates concerning the task of philosophical ethics. Levinas’ way of grounding ethics on intimate experience has made feminist philosophers ask whether Levinas’ explicitely masculine point of view is a force or a weakness. Furthermore, Levinas’ demand of an infinite responsibility of the other has not been understood only as the foundation of personal ethics, but also as a question adressed to the 20th century political theories (like marxism and liberalism) that seem to be incompatible with such an ethics. On the other hand Levinas has also been said to underestimate politics (e.g. Jacques Derrida, Adieu à Emmanuel Levinas, Alain Badiou, L’éthique: essai sur la conscience du mal). This is why we ask: what is Levinas’ ethics? To what extent does Levinas’ ethics challenge politics, to what extent does it is on the contrary challenged by politics?
The Philosophical Quarterly
The first issue of The Philosophical Quarterly was published in October 1950. In the sixty years since, the PQ has established itself as one of the world’s leading general philosophy journals. We continue to publish across the full spectrum of academic philosophy, and welcome original research in all areas of philosophy and its history.
Our aim in compiling this virtual issue was not to select the ‘best’ articles published in the PQ, but rather to produce a representative sample of the last sixty years. Limiting ourselves to two articles for each decade, we sought to give readers a taste of the variety of topics discussed in the journal, and the range of philosophical approaches taken to those issues. As we find every week, when deciding which articles to publish today, the final choice was not easy. Many wonderful articles missed out. We could, of course, have included more. (The joy of a virtual issue is that there is no restriction on pages.) But we wanted the virtual issue to be as close as possible to a real issue. Our hope is that our selection will whet the readers’ appetites – encouraging them to search back through the PQ archive and discover hidden riches for themselves.
The virtual issue opens with the editor’s introduction from the first issue, and with a brief piece by Malcolm Knox.
To read the virtual issue for free, please visit THIS WEBSITE.
Articles Include:
Front Matter / Volume 1: Issue 1, 1950.
A Passage in Hegel’s ‘Philosophy of Right’ / T. M. Knox / Volume 1: Issue 1, 1950.
Feelings / Gilbert Ryle / Volume 1: Issue 3, 1951.
Direct Perception / Norman Malcolm / Volume 3: Issue 13, 1953.
Aristotle on the Good: A Formal Sketch / Bernard Williams / Volume 12: Issue 49, 1962.
Plato’s “Third Man” Argument (PARM. 132A1-B2): Text and Logic / Gregory Vlastos / Volume 19: Issue 77, 1969.
The ideas of Power and Substance in Locke’s Philosophy / Michael R. Ayres / Volume 25: Issue 98, 1975.
Common Knowledge / Jane Heal / Volume 28: Issue 111, 1978.
Epiphenomenal Qualia / Frank Jackson / Volume 32: Issue 127, 1982.
What does a concept script do? / Cora Diamond / Volume 34: Issue 136, 1984.
A Furry Tile About Mental Representation / Deborah Brown / Volume 36: Issue 185, 1996.
Finkish Dispositions / David Lewis / Volume 47: Issue 187, 1997.
How to Reid Moore / John Greco / Volume 52: Issue 209, 2002.
Kant’s second thoughts on race / Pauline Kleingeld / Volume 57: Issue 229, 2007.
Job: Chair in Theoretical Philosophy, Uppsala University
Uppsala University in Sweden welcomes applications for the Chair in Theoretical Philosophy (previously named “Chair in Logic and Metaphysics”). The position has existed since 1604 and has previously been held by, among numerous others, Stig Kanger and Krister Segerberg. The successful candidate does not need any prior proficiency in Swedish but is expected to to be able to teach and to take part in departmental meetings in Swedish within two years.
There is information on the web:
http://www.personalavd.uu.se/ledigaplatser/962Chair.html.
Conference: Phenomenology and the Transcendental, September 8-10, 2011
Please note this upcoming conference in Helsinki.
Phenomenology and the Transcendental, September 8-10, 2011, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Fabianinkatu 24, seminar room 136 (1st floor).
Conference website: http://www.helsinki.fi/erbm/conference2011/index.html.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Richard Cobb-Stevens (Boston College)
Prof. Steven Crowell (Rice University)
Prof. Dr. László Tengelyi (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Organized by the research project European Rationality in the Break from Modernity (Academy of Finland / Emil Aaltonen Foundation) in cooperation with the Philosophical Society of Finland.
The conference is free of charge and open to all, including students.
For more information, please contact Mirja Hartimo (mirja.hartimo@helsinki.fi) or Simo Pulkkinen (simo.pulkkinen@helsinki.fi).
Lecture: Prof. Alan Kirman’s guest lecture
Professor (em.) ALAN KIRMAN (Université d’Aix-Marseille) will give a lecture on
“The crisis in economic theory”
TIME AND PLACE:
Thursday, September 1st, 18:15 – 19:15.
Small Festival Hall (Pieni Juhlasali), University Main Building (Fabiankatu 33).
ABSTRACT:
In this presentation I will discuss modern macroeconomic and financial models in the light of the current crisis. Theory has been revealed to be inadequate in its explanation of the origins and the nature of the crisis, as Jean-Claude Trichet the Governor of the European Central bank and his colleagues at other central banks have indicated. Basic macroeconomic models, however sophisticated have continued to be based on the same foundations shown to be wanting in the 1970s and financial market models have continued to use the « efficient markets hypothesis » despite warnings by numerous mathematicians and economists since 1900 as to its unsound foundations. I will not dwell on the details of standard macroeconomic models but will suggest some ways forward. We need to construct models, which may not be able to predict the timing of the onset of a crisis but will encompass the possibility of one. The most promising candidates for such models are those, which view the economy as a complex adaptive system, may use some of the tools of statistical physics and do not necessarily use the standard equilibrium approach. Such models put the interactions between individuals in the centre of the picture, and reveal how major changes in the states of the economy can result, as in many models in physics and in biology, from relatively minor changes in key parameters. Crises are a characteristic of the endogenous dynamics of the system and not the result of some unspecified exogenous shocks.
The visiting lecture is a part of the IX conference of the International Network of Economic Methodology (INEM 2011), but OPEN FOR ALL.
For further enquiries, please contact paivi.a.seppala@helsinki.fi.
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