CFP: Leeds Medieval Congress 2009

Leeds Medieval Congress 2009, 13 – 16 July

Call for Papers: “Logic and Heresy in the Middle Ages”

In 2009, to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the launch of the Albigensian Crusade, the International Medieval Congress has the special thematic focus Heresy and Orthodoxy.

The IMC solicits proposals for both individual papers and for groups of papers forming thematic sessions. We are planning to submit a proposal for the inclusion in the Congress of a session on logic and heresy in the Middle Ages. For this, abstracts/paper proposals are now being solicited. Some questions which we hope to address in this session include, but are not limited to:

• What role did the church and question of orthodoxy have on the development of logic in the Middle Ages?
• How did prohibitions restrict the dissemination of logical texts and developments?
• Are there heresies which are specifically logical, rather than just more broadly philosophical?
• What references do logicians make to orthodoxy and to heresy in their arguments?

1 page abstracts for papers on any of these topics should be submitted to Sara L. Uckelman at S.L.Uckelman@uva.nl by 1 September 2008. We also encourage historical submissions discussing condemnations of certain logicians, logical texts, or logical theories, and any other topic which touches on aspects of logic and heresy.

Authors will be notified whether their paper has been selected for inclusion in the session proposal by 15 September 2008. Note that papers will only be selected for inclusion in the session proposal; the final decision of the inclusion of the session rests with the Congress organizers and will be announced sometime in early November 2008.

Online CfP at: http://www.illc.uva.nl/medlogic/leeds2009cfp.html

For more information about the Leeds Medieval

Congress, see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/index.html

CFP: Special Issue of Informal Logic

Call for Papers

Informal Logic: “Reasoning for Change”

We invite submissions for a special issue of the journal Informal Logic that will address the relationship of reasoning and argumentation to political change and progress.

Informal Logic (www.informallogic.ca) is a peer-reviewed open access online journal. It addresses topics related to reasoning and argumentation in theory and practice. It is multi-disciplinary, welcoming theoretical and empirical research from any pertinent field.

This issue of Informal Logic will focus on “Reasoning for Change.”  Whether we seek to redress existing social inequities such as sexism and racism or halt the decay of our natural environments, the operations of reason can aid the achievement of social and political progress. In turn, political engagement can affect how people reason, and be involved with theories about reasoning and argumentation.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

• What forms of reasoning are most effective in bringing about change in social, political, or environmental circumstances?
• What forms of reasoning encourage or discourage activism and political engagement?
• Which types of reasoning entrench existing views and which encourage change?
• How may activism affect a person’s or a community’s reasoning and argumentation?
• Do specific models of argumentation help or hinder understandings across differences (social, cultural, political, or religious differences, for example)?
• What are the liberatory potentials of monological as opposed to dialogical models of reasoning and argumentation?
• What are the political implications of the distinction between formal and informal logic?

The editors for this special issue are Catherine Hundleby, Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada (hundleby@uwindsor.ca), and Phyllis Rooney, Department of Philosophy, Oakland University, Michigan, USA (rooney@oakland.edu). We accept submissions for review only on condition that that the material is not under review for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be anonymously reviewed by the editors and additional readers. Papers should be submitted to Lauri Daitchman at daitchm@uwindsor.ca no later than Monday, February 10, 2009.

Submissions should be in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format. Prepare manuscripts for anonymous reviewing with no identifying references in the paper, and include an abstract of no more than 100 words at the beginning of the paper. A separate title page must include the author’s name(s), e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, and title of the paper. Submissions must comply with the Informal Logic author guidelines available at: http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/public/journals/6/Article%20Template.doc or at www.informallogic.ca and follow the links.

Dr. Catherine Hundleby
Associate Professor and Graduate Director
Department of Philosophy
Cross-appointed to Women’s Studies Program
University of Windsor

Phone: 519.253.3000 x3947
Office: Chrysler Hall North 2185
E-mail: hundleby@uwindsor.ca
Fax: 519.971.3610

Mailing address:
Department of Philosophy
University of Windsor
401 Sunset Avenue
Windsor, Ontario
Canada N9B 3P4

Fellowships and Book Series at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland

University of St. Andrews
Centre For Ethics, Philosophy And Public Affairs

I. Visiting Research Fellowships 2009-10

Applications are invited for visiting research fellowships for the academic session 2009-10. The fellowship provides residential accommodation in St Andrews, an office in the University, and access to the usual facilities. Further details are available at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ceppa/research.html.

Fellows are also expected to participate in activities of the moral philosophy group. Where relevant applicants may propose to work on projects that they would wish to have considered for inclusion in the Centre’s publication series (see below). Applications, including a c.v., a statement of research intentions, and an indication of the period during which the fellowship would be held, should be submitted no later than 1 December 2008 to:

Human Resources,
University of St Andrews,
College Gate,
St Andrews,
Fife, KY16 9AL
Scotland. UK.

II. St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs

The series will include monographs, collections of essays and occasional anthologies of source material representing study in those areas of philosophy most relevant to topics of public importance, with the aim of advancing the contribution of philosophy in the discussion of these topics. For further information on the series see http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ceppa/stastudies.html.

–
Professor John Haldane, FRSE,
Professor of Philosophy, and
Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Department of Moral Philosophy,
University of St Andrews,
Fife KY16 9AL
Tel: (0)1334-462488
Fax: (0)1334-462407
Email: jjh1@st-and.ac.uk

Centre web page: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ceppa/
Personal web page: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~jjh1/

The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532

Moving Philosophers: Gandhi, Freire, and Said

Mahatma Gandhi:

Paulo Freire:

Edward Said:

Ranhilio Aquino on Philosophy in the Philippines and the Task of Philosophers

The eclipse of philosophy in the university curriculum

In a few weeks, that which many students dread will happen-the opening of the new school year. Despite spiraling costs of tertiary education, many will flock to our universities and colleges with differing degrees of enthusiasm and aptitude and, so the common thinking goes, after four years or so, they will be qualified for employment. Courses used to be simple and the choices few. They are now as many and as diverse as the imaginativeness of curriculum planners.  Click here to read the full essay.

What philosophers do

COMIUCAP is the acronym for “Conference Mondiale des Institutions Universitaires Catholiques de Philosophie”-The World Conference of Catholic University Institutions of Philosophy. It is meeting in Manila on Sept. 11 to 13. It is certainly a global event for philosophers, philosophy professors, students and dabblers. Not much is heard about it because, in the Philippines, those who bother about philosophy in more than a casual manner may very well qualify to be on the “endangered list.”  Click here to read the full essay.

CFP: Special Issue of International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 3:2 (Fall 2010)

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS (IJFAB) Vol. 3, no. 2, Fall, 2010

From the Margins to the Center: Feminist Disability Studies and/in Feminist Bioethics

Guest Editor: Shelley Tremain

In recent years, work done in mainstream bioethics has been challenged by the emerging field of disability studies.

A growing number of disability theorists and activists point out that the views about disability and disabled people that mainstream bioethicists have articulated on matters such as prenatal testing, stem cell research, and physician-assisted suicide incorporate significant misunderstandings about them and amount to an institutionalized form of their oppression.

While some feminist bioethicists have paid greater attention to the perspectives and arguments of disabled people than other bioethicists, these perspectives and arguments are rarely made central. Feminist disability theory remains marginalized even within feminist bioethics.

This issue of IJFAB will go some distance to move feminist disability studies from the margins to the center of feminist bioethics by highlighting the contributions to and interventions in bioethics that feminist disability studies is uniquely situated to make.

• The guest editor seeks contributions to the issue on any topic related to feminist disability studies and bioethics, including (but not limited to):

• Critiques of bioethics by feminist disability theorists from within feminist bioethics

• The relevance of feminist disability studies in developing countries

• What’s still missing from feminist arguments in the debates about stem cell research and other forms of biotechnology

• The importance of perspectives of disabled embodiment in feminist bioethics

• How the critiques of bioethics advanced in disability studies are gendered

• The integration of political analyses of disability into feminist bioethics

• The critique of notions of normalcy embedded in (feminist) bioethics

• The reevaluation of feminist approaches to care from a feminist disability studies perspective

Articles should be 3,000 – 8,000 words in length. Shorter pieces written for the Commentaries section of the issue should be 2,000-3,000 words in length.

All submissions should be double-spaced, prepared for anonymous review (no identifying references in the body of the text or bibliography), accompanied by an abstract of 150 words, and prepared in accordance with the journal’s style guidelines which are posted on the IJFAB website (www.ijfab.org).

Contact information: email address, street address, and affiliation (if applicable) should appear on a separate page which also includes a statement verifying that the work has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Submissions should be sent as email attachments in Microsoft Word or rtf to Shelley Tremain at s.tremain@yahoo.ca

The deadline for submissions is April 30, 2009. The guest editor strongly encourages authors to contact her before completing their submissions.

CFP: Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy

CALL FOR PAPERS

Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy
University College Dublin, Ireland
www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives
perspectives@ucd.ie

Perspectives: International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy is a peer-reviewed annual publication, featuring articles, book reviews and interviews encompassing a broad range of current issues in philosophy and its related disciplines. Perspectives reflects the broad range of interests amongst the UCD postgraduate philosophy community, publishing work from within both the analytic and continental traditions.

Perspectives also welcomes submissions addressing philosophical problems from related disciplines. Perspectives publishes the highest standard of postgraduate scholarship.

We invite submissions for the second issue of Perspectives to be published in Autumn 2009. We are looking for papers that offer a unique perspective on any philosophical topic. We also seek book reviews on recently published work.

CRITERIA FOR ESSAYS: Submissions should be 5,000-7,000 words. Works should be typed and double-spaced. Format requirements: MLA style (footnotes should be placed at the end of paper). Submit the work on CD and two (2) paper copies to the address below. Your paper should include a brief abstract (120 words or less) and up to five (5) keywords. Also include a brief biography for the contributors page, should your paper be accepted. Make sure to include all relevant contact information, including a permanent e-mail address. Email submissions will not be
accepted!

CRITERIA FOR BOOK REVIEWS: Submissions should be 2,000-2,500 words and about a recently published book. Works should be typed and double-spaced. Submit the work on CD and two (2) paper copies to the address below. Also include a brief biography for the contributors page, should your review be accepted. Make sure to include all relevant contact information, including a permanent e-mail address. Email submissions will not be accepted!

Please see the website for more detailed submission criteria for articles and reviews: http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/papers.html

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 10 January, 2009

Please send submissions to:

Perspectives Journal,
School of Philosophy
Newman Building,
UCD, Belfied
Dublin 4
Ireland

If you have any questions please send an email to the editors: perspectives@ucd.ie

Moving Philosophers: Kristeva, Cixous, and Butler

Julia Kristeva:

Helene Cixous:

Judith Butler:

Events at Utrecht University and Research Assistantships at the University of Geneva

Utrecht University Events:

• 15 September: Lecture Etienne Balibar: European Citizenship: Democracy or Nothing

• 16-18 September: Master classes E. Balibar: Migrations, Citizenship and the Limits of Territoriality

• 30 September: Lecture Yves Mény: Balancing Populism and Constitutionalism: Europe and the Democratic Challenge

• 14 October: first session in a series of seminars on The Philosophy of Deleuze, Culture and the New Materialism

University of Geneva Research Assistantships:

• Ethics and Health Law

COMIUCAP Pre-Conference Seminar: “Jean-Luc Marion. A Philosophical and Theological Introduction”

Eduardo José E. Calasanz (Ateneo de Manila Department of Philosophy), Antonio de Castro, SJ (Loyola School of Theology), and Charity Durano (Ateneo de Manila Department of Theology) will be presenting a pre-conference seminar to introduce participants to the philosophy of distinguished French philosopher Jean-Luc Marion, who will be giving the inaugural lecture at the forthcoming COMIUCAP World Congress. Everyone is invited to attend.

WHEN: 30 August 2008 Saturday, 8:00 AM to 12:00 NN and 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
WHERE: Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City (exact venue to be announced later)
FEE: P300 per head (including materials, excluding lunch)

PROGRAM:

8:00 – 8:15 AM: Registration
8:15 – 8:30 AM: Introduction to the conference
8:30 – 9:00 AM: Bibliographical Survey of Jean-Luc Marion’s Work
9:00 – 12:00 NN: Lecture by Mr. Eduardo Calasanz
12:00 – 2:00 PM: Lunch Break
2:00 – 5:00 PM: Lectures by Fr. Antonio de Castro, SJ and Ms. Charity Durano

This pre-conference anticipates Jean-Luc Marion’s inaugural lecture “How to Distinguish Philosophy and Theology?” and will be accomplished from a philosophical and theological perspective.

The first session will consist of a bibliographical introduction and an exegetical tour. The first part will be a survey which situates Jean-Luc Marion’s work as historian of philosophy within the broader context of continental philosophy and as an original thinker pushing the boundaries of a thought in constant dialogue with religious phenomena. The second part will be a guided reading of three articles answering these three questions: What methodological principles does Jean-Luc Marion adhere to and innovate? What metaphysical theory underlies his work? How does he engage the philosophy of religion?

The second session will have two parts as well. The first part will be a bibliographical survey of the literature of the theological reception of Jean-Luc Marion. The second part will explore the possibility of a dialogue between his philosophy and theology by asking the question: How can the notion of the saturated phenomenon help us understand the doctrine of revelation?

To facilitate the preparation of seminar materials, kindly confirm your attendance by sending email to:

Mr. John Carlo “JC” Uy
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
School of Humanities, Loyola Schools
Ateneo de Manila University
Email: juy@ateneo.edu
Tel. 4266001 local 5360