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CONF ANNOUNCEMENT: The Philosophical Association of the Philippines, Mid-year Conference 2009, Paranaque City, Philippines

The Philosophical Association of the Philippines, Inc. (PAP) is happy to announce its forthcoming midyear conference. This will be held on October 28, 2009 at Don Bosco Center of Studies/Seminaryo ng Don Bosco, Better Living Subdivision, Paranaque City.

The topic for this midyear conference is Philosophy of the Human Person.

For this one-day affair, the pre-registration fee is P1,500.00 and on site registration is P1,800.00. Undergrad student’s fee (including undergrad seminarians) is P800.00. The fee will cover two meals, (lunch and dinner) and two snacks, conference kits and certificate of attendance. The deadline for pre-registration is on October 10, 2009. Kindly make checks payable to the Philosophical Association of the Philippines, Inc., and send to the UST Graduate School or College of Accountancy, Espana, Manila.

Participants who want to either become a member of the PAP or renew their membership to the PAP will pay an additional P850.00. This includes the membership fee and two recent volumes of the Philosophia. The three volumes of the PAP Anthologies are still available at P400.00 each, but the three volumes can be bought at a discounted price of P1,000.00.

For more information, kindly send e-mail to jovejim24@yahoo.com. Or text at 09178304234. You may also join our yahoogroup: philophilippines@yahoogroups.com.

We hope to hear from you, and participate in yet another successful PAP Conference.

Visiting Fellowships, The Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

The Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science (TiLPS; http://www.uvt.nl/tilps) invites applications for three-months visiting fellowships in the academic year 2010/11 (1 September – 30 November or 1 February to 30 April) intended for advanced Ph.D. students or faculty. Candidates should work in one of the areas TiLPS covers and have a commitment to interdisciplinary and collaborative work.

To apply, send a hardcopy of your application package to Fellowships Committee, Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, P.O. Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands, or send an email to solliciterenGW@uvt.nl (ideally everything in one pdf file).

Candidates should include a letter of interest (indicating the period of the planned stay), a CV, and a project outline of no more than 1000 words. Junior candidates should additionally supply one letter of recommendation. TiLPS offers reimbursement of expenses, e.g. for housing and transportation, of up to 1000 Euro a month for senior candidates (i.e. candidates with a PhD) and 750 Euro a month for junior candidates (i.e. candidates without a PhD). Travel costs to and from Tilburg are also reimbursed. The deadline for applications is December 15, 2009. Decisions will be made by 1 February 2010.

NEW ISSUE: Dissensus, (September 2009)

We are pleased to announce the second issue of Dissensus, focused on “Figures du courage politique dans la philosophie moderne et contemporaine”, directed by G. Jeanmart and L. Blesin, with contributions of G. Jeanmart, E. Tassin, M.-A. Gavray, A. Stevens, J. Pieron, R. Alvarenga, R. Gely, L. Blesin, A. Loute and T. Menissier.

Dissensus is the University of Liege (Belgium) peer-reviewed electronic journal in political philosophy. Papers are welcome, in English or French and are to be sent to secretariat.dissensus@ulg.ac.be

Dissensus is available on http://popups.ulg.ac.be/dissensus/ and http://www.philopol.ulg.ac.be/dissensus.html.

CONF CFP: Knowledge: (Trans)Formation, 2010, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Institut Supérieur des Etudes Littéraires et Humaines, Tunisa

Call for Papers

“Knowledge: (Trans)Formation”

2nd Joint Conference

Ecole Normale Supérieure

English Department, Institut Supérieur des Etudes Littéraires et Humaines Tunis (Tunisia)

3-4 March 2010

The Ecole Normale Supérieure of Tunis & The English Department of the Institut Supérieur des Etudes Littéraires et Humaines of Tunis are pleased to announce their second joint conference on “Knowledge: (Trans)Formation”.

One of the defining features of our modern life is the unremitting accumulation of knowledge. Indeed, we live in an era governed by a race for knowledge and described by such catchphrases as “the age of knowledge” or “the knowledge society.” In earlier phases of the modern project of Enlightenment, the positive aspects of knowledge were emphasised. Rational knowledge was deemed essential to human liberation and accomplishment. Knowledge, however, has darker sides and may have dire consequences. Francis Bacon’s aphorism, “knowledge is power,” stated some four centuries earlier, operates at its best now. For knowledge, like any other type of power, can be transformed into a tool of coercion. In our age of impressive development of

cognition, it is significant to interrogate the role of knowledge and its effects on individuals, societies and humanity in its entirety. This conference, therefore, will focus on knowledge as a cultural form, liable to produce meanings and construct new socio-political practices as well as modes of resistance. It will attempt to engage a debate on the formation and transformation, uses and abuses, origins and consequences of different types of knowledge.

Participants are invited to bring their contribution to the following thematic areas:

- Knowledge and artistic production: how can art (literature, painting etc.) construct, manipulate and reorient our knowledge of the world?

- Knowledge and postmodernism: does the world provide us with a foundational reality? Is it possible to authenticate any form of knowledge as ‘truth’?

- Knowledge and Feminist thought: how can a feminist informed critique destabilize the hierarchal organization of knowledge and the oppressive structures within which it is assembled and propagated?

- Knowledge and language: does language mediate knowledge? What is the role of discourse in the production, deployment and development of knowledge? Cross-cultural knowledge and interlanguage.

- Knowledge, education and digital technology: how is knowledge produced, disseminated and legitimized in the Academia? How does the electronic revolution affect prospects of human knowledge? How can e-learning and the Virtual Divide reshuffle traditional concepts of education? Can we speak now about efficient education with the chasm separating Digital Natives from Digital Immigrants?

- Knowledge and multimedia: what is the role of media, cinema and cyberspace in creating culturally-determined knowledge constructs?

- Knowledge and Globalization: what are the consequences of the growing worldwide economic, political and cultural interdependence? How to cope with the uneven distribution of knowledge?

- Knowledge, history and representation: how do issues of identity, community, time and ideology infiltrate knowledge systems?

- Indigenous or “subaltern” knowledge (memory, heritage, folklore, myths, proverbs, dances etc): how can the revival of indigenous knowledge be a form of resistance?

Submission Instructions: Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Abstracts should have about 250 words.

Contact Information: Please fill in the registration form below and send it to Hager Ben Driss, e-mail: hagerbendriss@yahoo.com

1- Title of paper

2- Section (thematic area)

3- Name

4- Affiliation

5- E-mail address

6- Abstract

Schedule: Deadline for submitting abstracts: December 12th, 2009. Acceptance of proposals will be notified no later than January 9th, 2010.

Contact:

Hager Ben Driss

Institut Supérieur des Etudes Littéraires et Humaines

Email: hagerbendriss@yahoo.com

CONF CFP: Music and Philosophy, 2010, King’s College London, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS

Music and Philosophy: A Royal Musical Association Study Day in association with the British Society of Aesthetics

Saturday 20th February 2010

Department of Music, King’s College London

Keynote speakers:

Prof Mark Evan Bonds (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Prof Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Prof Julian Dodd (University of Manchester)

This study day will offer a chance for musicologists and philosophers to share and discuss work in the hope of fostering a dialogue between the two disciplines. Proposals of up to 500 words are invited for individual papers (20 minutes) and collaborative papers (up to 30 minutes). Collaboration between persons from different disciplines would be especially welcomed. Topics of interest might include (but are not limited to):

- interactions between music and philosophy (including historical connections)

- ontology and music

- music, meaning, and language

- perception and expression

- performance, authenticity, and interpretation

Please send proposals by e-mail to Tomas McAuley (tomas.mcauley@kcl.ac.uk) or Dr Víctor Durà-Vilà (victor.dura_vila@kcl.ac.uk). Postgraduate students are particularly encouraged to submit. The deadline for proposals is Friday 4th December 2009.

CONF CFP: Integrating Development and Climate Change Ethics, 2010, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Call for Papers

“Integrating Development and Climate Change Ethics”

Interdisciplinary Conference

Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University

State College, PA (USA)

15-16 April 2010

The Rock Ethics Institute at the Pennsylvania State University is organizing a conference to be held at Penn State on April 15–16, 2010, on “Integrating Development and Climate Change Ethics.” The Rock Ethics Institute has issued a call for papers inviting those interested in presenting a paper at this conference to submit an abstract (max. 800 words) and a two page CV by October 30, 2009.

Because climate change can adversely affect the ability of human development prospects, and climate change policies should take into account human development needs, there is a need to integrate climate change and human development ethics. There is also a significant opportunity for climate change and human development ethicists to learn from each other about the ethical issues that should be understood if climate change and human development ethics were to be integrated. This conference will explore the linkages between climate change ethics and human development ethics. Because these issues are deeply interdisciplinary, organizers of the conference also welcome papers on relevant scientific, economic, and legal issues that should be considered in any ethical analysis of linkages between climate change and development concerns.

Speakers include:

Donald A. Brown, Penn State

Stephen Gardiner, University of Washington

Des Gasper, Erasmus University

Mohan Munasinghe, University of Manchester

Maria Silvia Muylaert, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Thomas Pogge, Yale University

Jon Rosales, St. Lawrence University

Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, and Energy

Asunción Lera St. Clair, Bergen University

Petra Tschakert, Penn State

Nancy Tuana, Penn State

Farhana Yamin, Sussex University

Web: http://rockethics.psu.edu/climate/events/idcce/

CONF CFP: War and Self-Defence, 2010, UK

Conference: War and Self-Defence – Final Call for Papers

August 25th – 27th, 2010

University of Sheffield, UK

Keynote Speakers:

Frances Kamm (Harvard)

Jeff McMahan (Rutgers)

David Rodin (Oxford)

Noam Zohar (Bar Ilan)

*Submission deadline: Dec 1st 2009*

Recent years have seen a rapid growth of interest in just war theory. The current political climate has confronted us with important and difficult questions about, amongst other things, the moral status of combatants, the moral status of non-combatants, the possibility of wars waged by non-state actors, and the conditions under which one can be said to have a just cause for war. Many writers take the answers to these questions to be based, at least in part, on considerations about what individuals may do in self-defence, or other-defence. Others have denied the existence of any substantive relationship between the ethics of self-defence and the ethics of national-defence. This conference, hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Sheffield University, will bring together leading researchers in the field, and offer an opportunity for scholars to present recent research in this area. Submissions from those working in related fields, such as Law, Politics and International Relations, are also welcome.

There will be a number of parallel sessions held during the conference. Those wishing to present should submit a paper of no more than 3000 words (exc. notes), suitable for a 30 minute presentation, along with an abstract of 150 words, to H.Frowe@sheffield.ac.uk by the 1st of December 2009. Please note that papers that exceed the word limit will not be accepted. Papers should be prepared for blind review. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. Please note that authors of submitted papers are responsible for all their own expenses.

Suggested paper topics include:

- The relationship between war and self-defence

- The ethics of self-defence

- Wars of humanitarian intervention

- The moral status of combatants

- Killing non-combatants

- Just causes for war

- The idea of legitimate authority

- The moral status of terrorists

- The moral wrongness of terrorism

There are plans to put together an edited volume of a selection of the conference papers. Those authors who would like to have their paper considered for inclusion in this collection should mention this in their submission email. Authors of the selected papers will be notified shortly after the conference.

This conference is generously sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust, the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society.

Research Fellowships at the University of Notre Dame, 2010-2011, USA

University of Notre Dame

1) Templeton Research Fellowships in Early Modern Philosophy for 2010 – 2011

Center for Philosophy of Religion

The Templeton Research Fellows in Early Modern Philosophy, hosted by the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, will provide one-year awards to at least two applicants, open rank, for the purpose of undertaking cutting edge research on topics in early modern philosophy of religion. Fellows will be expected to spend the year in residence at the University of Notre Dame interacting with leading scholars in early modern and contemporary philosophy of religion.

Each successful applicant will receive a total fellowship award of $55,000 to $85,000. Stipend will depend on rank and circumstances of the applicant, and up to $15,000 of each award may be received as reimbursement for travel, re-location, or research-related expenses.

In addition, fellows will have joint access to up to $15,000 to convene a two-day workshop in the late spring of 2011 on the theme of the problem of evil in early modern philosophy and theology. (All administrative details will be handled by Center staff.) Additional money will be available to invite outside scholars of interest to the fellows for brief visits during their tenure. Fellowships begin in July 2010 and conclude in June 2011.

For further details, including information about appropriate topics of research, please visit http://www.evilandtheodicy.com and follow the “Early Modern Fellowships” link.

To apply, please submit the following materials electronically, if possible, to cprelig.1@nd.edu, or by mail to Michael Rea, Director, Center for Philosophy of Religion, 418 Malloy Hall, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556:

* A complete curriculum vitae

* Three letters of recommendation

* A project description of no more than 1200 words

* One published or unpublished paper

All application materials must be received by January 15, 2010 to assure full consideration. Questions may be addressed to Michael Rea at cprelig.1@nd.edu.

2) Center for Philosophy of Religion

The Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame announces up to five fellowships for the 2010 – 2011 academic year: the Alvin Plantinga Fellowship ($60,000), awarded to a distinguished senior scholar; up to two Research Fellowships ($40,000 – $50,000, depending on rank); the Frederick J. Crosson Fellowship ($45,000) reserved for foreign scholars and those outside the field of philosophy; and one Visiting Graduate Fellowship ($18,000) awarded to a graduate student in philosophy who is working on a dissertation in the philosophy of religion and who would profit from spending a year at the Center. All Fellows will receive up to $2,000 reimbursement for moving expenses, as well as up to $2,000 for research-related expenses. The Plantinga Fellow and the Research Fellows may have the option of teaching one course in philosophy per semester as well. Those who do teach receive up to an additional $7,500 annually.

Applicants should send the following materials to Michael Rea, Director, Center for Philosophy of Religion, 418 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556:

1. A complete curriculum vitae.

2. Three letters of recommendation.

3. A statement of no more than three pages (double-spaced) specifying the fellowship for which you are applying and describing the project on which you would like to work while at the Center.

4. One published or unpublished paper.

Application Deadline: February 1, 2010

You may apply for more than one fellowship for which you are eligible.

E-mail: jzurawsk@nd.edu

Website: http://www.nd.edu/~cprelig/