Academia.edu - the popular networking site for academics - has had a makeover. The main change is the addition of a function which allows one to search departments and view the members of particular universities in a 'tree'
The Aristotelian Society is delighted to announce that the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1896-2002 are now available on JSTOR.
2nd Call for Papers
Third International Applied Ethics Conference in Sapporo
21-23 November 2008
Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy (CAEP)
Hokkaido University
We are delighted to announce the Third International Applied Ethics Conference on 21-23 November 2008 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan. We invite the submission of papers on the following topics:
Meta-Normative Ethics
Bio/Medical Ethics
Engineering Ethics
Ethics of Science and Technology
Information Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Business Ethics
International/Global Ethics
Confirmed keynote speakers include:
Ruth Chadwick (Cardiff University, UK)
Lee Shui Chuen (National Central University, Taiwan)
Andrew Light (University of Washington, USA)
Michael Seigel (Nanzan University, Japan)
Those participants who wish to present a paper are asked to submit a 300-500 word abstract by 6th September, and a full paper by 31st October to CAEP. All accepted papers are considered for publication in the printed and electronic formats.
Conference Chair: Takahiko Nitta (Director, CAEP)
Program Chair: Shunzo Majima (Deputy Director, CAEP)
Call for Papers
Societies Without Borders
Human Rights & the Social Sciences
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Societies Without Borders is an official tri-annual journal of Sociologists Without Borders, published by Brill. What the world's peoples have in common - not withstanding the borders that divide them - is the aspiration to achieve human rights - the rights to food, housing, health care, education, decent work, free speech, to speak one's conscience, as well as the right to a fair trial, to a safe environment, and the right to peace. What the world's people are beginning to discover is that this aspiration is not only a common one, but it can only be pursued collectively in disregard of the borders that divide people. People may live in societies, derive their identities from their societies, but the pursuit of human rights is pursued and coordinated across borders. The journal, Societies without Borders, aims for high caliber scholarly analysis and also encourages submissions that address pioneering thought in human rights, globalism, and collective goods.
Authors are cordially invited to submit articles to the journal editors Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada, and books for review to the Associate Editor Keri Iyall Smith.
Call for papers from International Theory...
International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law and
Philosophy
International Theory (IT) promotes theoretical scholarship about the positive, legal, and normative aspects of world politics respectively. IT is open to theory of absolutely all varieties and from all disciplines, provided it addresses problems of politics, broadly defined and pertains to the international. IT welcomes scholarship that uses evidence from the real world to advance theoretical arguments. However, IT is intended as a forum where scholars can develop theoretical arguments in depth without an expectation of extensive empirical analysis. IT’s over-arching goal is to promote communication and engagement across theoretical and disciplinary traditions. IT puts a premium on contributors’ ability to reach as broad an audience as possible, both in the questions they engage and in their accessibility to other approaches. This might be done by addressing problems that can only be understood by combining multiple disciplinary discourses, like institutional design, or practical ethics; or by addressing phenomena that have broad ramifications, like civilizing processes in world politics, or the evolution of environmental norms. IT is also open to work that remains within one scholarly tradition, although in that case authors must make clear the horizon of their arguments in relation to other theoretical approaches.
International Theory invites authors to submit original theoretically oriented articles on the positive, legal, and/or normative aspects of world politics. Because IT is multidisciplinary with a broad intended audience, contributions must be as accessible as possible to readers from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical traditions. Papers that are primarily empirical or policy oriented are not a good fit.
The moral philosophy department at St Andrews are hosting a reading group focusing on John Broome's book Weighing Lives. For those who live near enough there will be physical discussion sessions, but for everyone else there will also be an online discussion forum. The reading group will conclude with a symposium to be held at St Andrews in October. Further details can be found here.
From Public Reason...
Human Rights in Theory and Practice
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and in recognition of the UDHR’s 60th anniversary, the Institute for Law and Philosophy will host a one-day conference featuring panels on a range of philosophical and legal aspects of human rights. Committed participants include Charles Beitz (Princeton), Allen Buchanan (Duke), Roger Clark (Rutgers-Camden), James Nickel (Arizona State), Thomas Pogge (Yale), and Joseph Raz (Columbia/Oxford), with ther additions still to come. Details to follow.
Registration is required, and there is a registration fee of $25 ($10 for students). To rgister, please e-mail and send a check, payable to Rutgers University, to: John Oberdiek, Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, 217 North 5th Street, Camden, NJ 08102.
I'm sure that the BPPA won't mind me sharing the news that next year's British Postgraduate Philosophy Conference will be hosted by King's College, London. I'm disappointed that Sheffield has missed out on the opportunity to host the conference, but wish to congratulate King's on their success - I'm sure it will be a great event.
Conference announcement courtesy of the Brooks Blog...
Rescuing Justice and Equality: Celebrating the Career of G.A. Cohen
On January 23-24 2009, with the generous support of Philosophy and Public Affairs, the Centre for the Study of Social Justice will be hosting a conference to celebrate the career of G.A. Cohen, who is retiring after 23 years as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory.
Over the two days there will be eight papers covering various themes raised by Professor Cohen’s contribution to the field, each given, and commented on, by a colleague, friend, and/or former student.
The full list of confirmed speakers is:
• Professor Richard Arneson (UC San Diego)
• Dr Paula Casal (University of Reading)
• Professor Joshua Cohen (Stanford University)
• Professor Gerald Dworkin (UC Davis)
• Professor David Estlund (Brown University)
• Professor Cecile Fabre (University of Edinburgh)
• Professor David Miller (University of Oxford)
• Professor Michael Otsuka (University College London)
• Professor Joseph Raz (University of Oxford)
• Professor John Roemer (Yale University)
• Professor Tim Scanlon (Harvard University)
• Professor Seana Shiffrin (UC Los Angeles)
• Professor Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester)
• Professor Wayne Sumner (University of Toronto)
• Professor Philippe Van Parijs (Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Professor Andrew Williams (University of Warwick)
There is no conference fee but places for the conference are limited. Please register your interest by emailing Kate Candy: kate.candy@politics.ox.ac.uk. Please state your name, title and affiliation in the email. Further information will be posted online at http://social-justice.politics.ox.ac.uk/events/Cohen/index.asp as soon as it is available.
The report from the first Future Ethics workshop is now online here. Future ethics is a workshop series on climate change, political action and the future of the human being held at The University of Manchester 2008-09. The report includes papers, film footage, feedback from group work, and notes from small discussion groups.
Welcome to the new edition of the Philosophers' Carnival. Interest was high this fortnight, with nearly 30 submissions, so unfortunately I couldn't include them all. Sorry to those who missed out, and I hope people enjoy the selections I've made.
Here we go...
Epistemology:
Possibly Philosophy sheds light on the Paradox of Rational Believability here, and replies to comments here and here.
Noah Greenstein focuses on the truth aspect of knowledge with A Note on Epistemology here, and his argument is well summarised in a comment here.
Also writing On Truth (and Correspondence) is Movement of Existence who shares his thoughts here.
Finally in epistemology, the well-titled This is the Name of This Blog Bashes Bonjour on Basicality here.
Logic and Language:
Aidan McGlynn at The Boundaries of Language weighs in on Grice and Doxastic Voluntarism here.
Think it Over comments on Quine's discussion of the Linguistic Theory of Logical Truth here.
And finally in logic and language, a fellow Sheffield alumni at Snow is White writes on McDowell's 'On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name' here.
Metaphysics:
The Real World writes on Relativity and the Present here.
Roman Altshuler at The Ends of Thought comments on Davidson on Pro-Attitudes here.
And Avery Archer at The Space of Reasons writes on Why-Questions and Minimal Causal Accounts here.
Ethics:
Previous Carnival host Thom Brooks writes at his eponymous Brooks Blog on public service privatisation in the case of prisons here.
The Uncredible Hallq (aka Chris Hallquist) provides an introductory lecture on Consequentialism and the problem of harming one to save many here.
Other:
And finally, in the 'other' category we have posts on ranging from Aesthetics to Physics...
Sportive Thoughts seeks to find a definition of 'good' for art here.
Soul Physics tells us How Special Relativity Thwarts Eternalism (and more) here.
The last selection is a musing from The Coriolis Effect on how creative philosophers can be, here.
That's it for this edition of the Philosophers' Carnival, the next edition will be hosted by Enigmania on July 28th. Follow this link to submit to the next edition.
The Oxford Political Thought Conference 2009 will take place at St Catherine's College, Oxford from 8th-10th January 2009.
The official website can be found here.
Confirmed speakers include:Thom Brooks (Newcastle) - Why save the planet?
Terrell Carver (Bristol) - The German Ideology did not take place
Clare Chambers (Cambridge) - Marriage
Jason Frank (Cornell) - Promiscuous citizenship
Bonnie Honig (Northwestern) - Antigone's anachronism? Mourning and membership in democratic Athens
Kimberly Hutchings (LSE) - What is orientation in thinking? The question of time and timeliness in international political theory
Duncan Kelly (Cambridge) - tbc
Jonathan Wolff (UCL) - Risk, disadvantage, and the evolution of health systems
The future of conferencing?
The political philosophy group blog, Public Reason, invites submissions for a semester-long online symposium of papers in political philosophy during Fall 2008. Each week a paper will be podcasted on the website by the author and receive comments in response. Symposium submissions will be subject to a process of blind review by a committee of members of the website. The aim of the symposium is to utilise the tools of the internet to create a peer-reviewed conference experience accessible to every academic in the world, both as a presenter and as a participant. Participation in professional conferences is an important part of any academic’s research activities, but logistical difficulties and expenses can make conference travel very difficult. This is especially the case for academics who wish to collaborate with others at an international level. The function of the symposium is to create an online conference in a format designed to elicit as much feedback from fellow academics as possible whilst creating no significant financial or logistical difficulties for participants
whatsoever. Those selected will be able to present their papers to an unlimited number of colleagues without having to leave their offices. The papers will be presented on a weekly basis to allow a reasonable time period for comments. The papers will be podcasted to make them as accessible as possible to a wide audience.Selected participants will be expected to do the following:
1. Complete a full draft of the paper by 5 September 2008.
2. Download and use a podcasting application to create an mp3 recording of the paper. (One such application is Audacity, which can be downloaded and used without charge.)
3. Use an ftp application to transfer the mp3 file to the website.
4. Join the site as a member and publish a post on the website for their assigned day containing both the mp3 podcast and a pdf file of the full draft of the paper.
Although most academics may be unfamiliar with podcasting and blogging software such as Audacity and WordPress, they are in fact remarkably user-friendly. As such, no-one should be inhibited from submitting a proposal because of any inexperience
with the technology. We will also be able to provide some assistance to those who may encounter difficulties in learning how to podcast.Public Reason is a group blog that has a membership of over one hundred political philosophers and theorists in more than a dozen countries around the world. Any bona fide professional political philosopher or theorist who has completed a doctorate is invited to join the site as a full member. In addition students of political philosophy may join the site as participants. The website welcomes posts from members containing any manner of discussing or engaging in political philosophy. These include conference announcements, calls for papers, working papers, and reading groups, in addition to the podcast symposium. No member is expected to post regularly.
Papers in all areas of political philosophy or political theory are welcome. Although papers should be in English, Public Reason welcomes submissions from academics based in non-Anglophone countries. Submissions from graduate students are also welcome. There is no strict word limit on the length of the final papers, but they should ideally be presentable within roughly an hour. Participants are also free to include powerpoint presentations, or similar media, in their posts.
Please submit a pdf file of an abstract of your paper of no more than 300 words, excluding references, to admin@publicreason.net by 31 July 2008. Please submit only one proposal. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review. If you would be willing to comment on a paper, please indicate as such in your email and submit a pdf file of your curriculum vitae, including research interests and publications in political philosophy. Notifications of selections should be made by the end of August and the symposium should start at the end of September. As the symposium is experimental, we may make changes to the format prior to the Fall. Please direct any queries to Simon May (Philosophy, Virginia Tech) at admin@publicreason.net.
For any German-speaking Rawls scholars...
From June 23rd to 28th you are invited to a course for advanced students and postgaduates on Rawls' Political Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin with Michael Rosen, Professor of Government, Harvard University. Course syllabus and detailed descritption are to be found here. For further questions and registration please write toherzogan@cms.hu-berlin.de. Registration deadline is June 10th.
Oxford are hosting a one-day conference on the work of Henry Shue, details below...
'Ethics and International Affairs: Rights, Climate Change and War - Themes from the Work of Professor Henry Shue'
1 July 2008
The Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford, is hosting a one day conference to celebrate the work of Professor Henry Shue.
The conference will be held in Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Manor Road, Oxford.
9.30-10.00 Welcome
10.00-11.15 Charles Beitz (Princeton) 'Henry Shue on Basic Rights' (provisional title)
11.15- 11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.45 John Tasioulas (Oxford) 'Deontic Pluralism and Cultural Dialogue: two Themes in Shue's Theory of Rights'
12.45-13.45 lunch
13.45-15.00 Simon Caney (Oxford) 'Human Rights, Responsibilities and Henry Shue's Analysis of Climate Change'
15.00-15.30 coffee
15.30-16.45 David Rodin (Oxford) 'Henry Shue's Ethics of War'
16.50-18.05 Tony Coady (Melbourne) 'Shue on War'
18.05 Closing Remarks and Reception
*Please note*: Attendance is free but places are limited and attendees must register. To register please visit http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/
*Further information: *http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/contact.asp?m=staff&ref=340
The programme for the Second Biennial Conference of the International Global Ethics Association - 'Questioning Cosmopolitanism', being held at the University of Melbourne, Australia, later this month, has been released. Obviously it's a long way for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, but if anyone is going to be in that part of the world it would be very much worth a detour. Keynote speakers include Andrew Linklater, Tom Campbell, Carol Gould, Jiwei Ci, Nigel Dower, and Christien van den Anker. Further details and the full draft programme can be found here.
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