Summer Seminar Lecture Series: Foundations of Moral Deliberation: Advanced Theories in Ethics, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines

You are all invited to the second summer seminar for this year entitled, “Foundations of Moral Deliberation: Advanced Theories in Ethics.” In this seminar, our faculty will reflect on ethical theories and issues in a way that is meant to both introduce participants to the complexities of moral deliberation and challenge them to rethink traditional ethical frameworks.

This three week course if completed can be counted as three graduate units or participants can be awarded certificates. We also invite people to walk in and listen to particular lectures that might interest them. Fees are Php 200 per lecture and Php 1,800 for the whole seminar.

Thank you and see you there!

Click here to download the program poster.

* Many thanks to Ms. Rowena Azada-Palacios and Dr. Agustin Martin G. Rodriguez of Ateneo de Manila University

CONF CFP: Humanities and Technology Annual Conference, September 2009, University of Virginia, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Humanities and Technology Annual Conference

September 24-26, 2009

University of Virginia

Special Topic:

Technology, Democracy, and Citizenship

Democracy and democratic citizenship shape and are shaped by technology. Taking the broad approach, this conference invites papers and session proposals bringing insight to the important albeit complicated and intricate relationships among technology, democracy, and citizenship.

Besides scholars in Science and Technology Studies and the Humanities and Social Sciences, we hope to attract practitioners and researchers in engineering, science, public policy, architecture, government, and international development to engage in a series of wide-ranging conversations focused on three broad intersections of technology and democracy:

IDEALS–For example, how can technology be managed so that it promotes democratic ideals? How can technology undermine democratic ideals? Exactly what do we mean by “democracy” and “democratic citizenship”?

PROCESSES–This category includes socio-technical systems directly involved in democratic processes, such as voting machines and blogs, as well as broader questions of education, public discourse, deliberation, and decision-making.

DECISIONS–Perhaps the broadest category of all, this includes the full range of specific areas in which democracies must establish policy and make decisions–energy, the environment, national defense, transportation, homeland security, health care, regulation of business and entrepreneurship, genetic engineering, funding of research, and more.

To propose a paper, send an abstract of no more than 250 words. To propose a session, include a session title and rationale as well as an abstract for each paper. Include the affiliation and relevant contact details for all authors. Please direct electronic submissions and questions to Andreas.Michel@rose-hulman.edu, or write to Andreas Michel, HTA 2009 Program Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 5500 Wabash Ave, Terre Haute, IN, 47803. We will begin reviewing proposals as soon as they are received.

Proposals are due no later than June 15, 2009

JRNL CFP: Public Reason, June Issue 2009

The second issue of the journal Public Reason is due to appear in June 2009. The issue will be a miscellaneous one. Therefore, we welcome papers concerning any topic on political and moral philosophy. All papers are to be submitted by e-mail as attachment, at brancoveanu@publicreason.ro by 15 May 2009. For more information about submission procedure please go to http://www.publicreason.ro/submission-info

Public Reason is an open access journal of political and moral philosophy, but it is also available in print (ISSN 2065-7285; EISSN 2065-8958).

Public Reason publishes articles, book reviews, as well as discussion notes from all the fields of political philosophy and ethics, including political theory, applied ethics, and legal philosophy. The Journal encourages the debate around rationality in politics and ethics in the larger context of the discussion concerning rationality as a philosophical problem.

Public Reason is committed to a pluralistic approach, promoting interdisciplinary and original perspectives as long as the ideal of critical arguing and clarity is respected. The journal is intended for the international philosophical community, as well as for a broader public interested in political and moral philosophy. It aims to promote philosophical exchanges with a special emphasis on issues in, and discussions on the Eastern European space.

Public Reason publishes three issues per year in February, June, and November. At least one issue per year is devoted to a particular theme.

Contents – Public Reason, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 2009:

Hillel Steiner: Left Libertarianism and the Ownership of Natural Resources

Reidar Maliks: Acting Through Others: Kant and the Exercise View of Representation

Timothy Waligore: Cosmopolitan Right, Indigenous Peoples, and the Risks of Cultural Interaction

Annabelle Lever: Is Compulsory Voting Justified?

Margaret Meek Lange: Exploring the Theme of Reflective Stability: John Rawls\u2019 Hegelian Reading of David Hume

Endre Begby & J. Peter Burgess: Human Security and Liberal Peace

András Miklós: Nationalist Criticisms of Cosmopolitan Justice

Sirine Shebaya: Global and Local Sovereignties

CONF CFP: 7th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, September 2009, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

24th and 25th September 2009

On the 24th and 25th of September 2009, the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Centre at the Institute for Advanced Study of Pavia (Italy), under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, will host the seventh edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. This two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity to present papers, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere, and exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to students’ presentations, there will also be two plenary sessions. Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Peter Jones, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Jonathan Wolff, Michele Nicoletti, Philippe Van Parijs, Sebastiano Maffettone, Giovanni Giorgini, Andrew Williams, David Miller and Alessandro Ferrara. This year’s keynote speakers will be:

Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University), speaking on “Unpolitical Democracy”

Michael Otsuka( University College of London ), speaking on “Risking Life and Limb”

Graduate students interested in giving papers should send their contributions (max 2500/3000 words – inEnglish) accompanied by a short abstract (max 300 words – in English), by Sunday 24th May 2009. Papers may focus on any area within political philosophy, and presentations should take no longer than twenty minutes to allow at least another twenty minutes of discussion. Please note that the 24th of May is also the deadline for registration for anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper.

Conference registration is free of charge. Paper givers will be offered accommodation in local university colleges. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually. Anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper can write to check availability. Details about meal arrangements and conference programme to follow.

Please address all correspondence (including paper submissions and additional inquiries) to the conference email address: graduate.conference@iuss.unipv.it

Updated information will shortly be available on the conference website:

www.iusspavia.it/hdcp

CONF CFP: Australasian Association of Philosophy, July 2009, Melbourne, Australia

Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference 2009

AAP2009 Melbourne 5 – 10 July 2009

The deadline for registration for this year’s AAP Annual Conference is fast approaching. Don’t miss out on the fun of Melbourne in midwinter and the plenary speakers who include include Simon Blackburn, Ned Block, Kit Fine, Rae Langton, Jeff Malpas and Peter Menzies.

To be sure that your title and abstract are accepted, you must register on-line by 20 May. Thereafter a late-registration fee will apply. If you have not registered by the 20th May deadline, there is no guarantee that your paper will be included in the conference timetable.

For more information, please go to http://www.aap-conferences.org.au/

To go straight to registration, please go to http://www.aap-conferences.org.au/registration-form/