NEW BOOKS: Latest OA titles from re.press

re.press is an Australian publishing company that publishes quality philosophy books in both print and open access formats.  Click here to read the vision of the press.

You can download the following new titles for free:

Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity

Edited by Andrew Benjamin and Charles Rice

The Italian Difference: Between Nihilism and Biopolitics

Edited by Lorenzo Chiesa and Alberto Toscano

Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics

By Graham Harman

The Charmed Circle of Ideology: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe, Butler and Zizek

By Geoff Boucher

To support the novel vision of re.press, please request your university library to purchase the print versions of the books.  This can be done through their website (http://www.re-press.org/content/view/12/27/).  Many thanks!

Book Series: The Seminars of Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press

Derrida, Jacques. The Beast and the Sovereign. Vol. 1. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.

When he died in 2004, Jacques Derrida left behind a vast legacy of unpublished material, much of it in the form of written lectures. With The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1, the University of Chicago Press inaugurates an ambitious series, edited by Geoffrey Bennington and Peggy Kamuf, translating these important works into English.

The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume 1 launches the series with Derrida’s exploration of the persistent association of bestiality or animality with sovereignty. In this seminar from 2001–2002, Derrida continues his deconstruction of the traditional determinations of the human. The beast and the sovereign are connected, he contends, because neither animals nor kings are subject to the law—the sovereign stands above it, while the beast falls outside the law from below. He then traces this association through an astonishing array of texts, including La Fontaine’s fable “The Wolf and the Lamb,” Hobbes’s biblical sea monster in Leviathan, D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Snake,” Machiavelli’s Prince with its elaborate comparison of princes and foxes, a historical account of Louis XIV attending an elephant autopsy, and Rousseau’s evocation of werewolves in The Social Contract. Deleuze, Lacan, and Agamben also come into critical play as Derrida focuses in on questions of force, right, justice, and philosophical interpretations of the limits between man and animal.

Further information may be found here: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=308682.

Book CFP: Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism

Call for Papers

Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism

In an article published in Hypatia almost two decades ago, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, asked, “Where are all the Pragmatist Feminists?” Seigfried found it curious that feminists had not integrated the intellectual tradition of the United States into their thinking as well as why American pragmatists had failed to engage feminism in a more meaningful manner despite the obvious points of contact between the two branches of thought. Her question remains valid today. Feminist pragmatist scholarship remains a marginalized, albeit robust, area of study. What has occurred in the intervening two decades is the important feminist work of recovery. In particular, through the publication of a number of books and articles, the writing of Jane Addams has been rediscovered as a classical American site of pragmatist philosophy. Although engaging Addams has been intellectually fruitful, if feminist and pragmatism is to be a viable intellectual endeavor, its connection to contemporary thought, policy, and action will have to more explicitly emerge. One way to frame the relationship between feminism and pragmatism is in their common commitments such as the importance of context and experience, the relationship of politics and values and the production of knowledge and metaphysics, and the need for diversity and thus dialogue among differently situated groups. Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism offers the next step in this intellectual journey as site for engaging the intersection of these two dynamic fields of thought.

Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism is an interdisciplinary collection of original chapters that explores the present implications of feminism and pragmatism for theory, policy, and action. Chapters in this volume can take a variety of forms including the drawing of contemporary inference from the work of classical American feminist pragmatist thinkers such as Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Emily Greene Balch, Mary Whiton Calkins, Mary Parker Follett, and Ida B. Wells. Other chapters may simply wish to work with the ideas of feminist pragmatism and apply them to current work being done in ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, or social philosophy. Case studies or policy analysis may also frame chapters for this volume. Because the anthology is intended for an interdisciplinary audience, we ask that authors address their contributions to an intellectual but not specialized audience. Topics may include (but are not limited to):

Ethical theory

Epistemology

Social & Political Philosophy

Intersectionality

Utopian Thinking

Philosophy of religion

Social policy

Education theory/practice

The multicultural subject

Transnational feminism

Cosmopolitanism

Globalization

Feminist theory

Business Ethics

Sexualities Studies

Philosophy of science

Community organizing

Peace Studies

The editors of Contemporary Feminist Pragmatism are:

Maurice Hamington, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Philosophy and Director of the Institute for Women’s Studies and Services at Metropolitan State College of Denver

Celia Bardwell-Jones, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, Towson University.

Submissions from all fields are invited. For inquiries please contact Celia Bardwell-Jones at cbardwelljones@towson.edu<mailto:cbardwelljones@towson.edu> or Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu<mailto:mhamingt@mscd.edu> .

The editors request that 300-word abstracts be sent electronically by October 1, 2009 to Maurice Hamington at mhamingt@mscd.edu<mailto:mhamingt@mscd.edu>

Abstracts will be evaluated for and comments/suggestions will be offered to those accepted for the volume. Completed chapters will be due by July 1, 2010.

BOOK CFP: Ethics: A University Reader, Progressive Frontiers Press

The Progressive Frontiers Press, the Publishing House of the Philosophical Frontiers Journal, is preparing a number of books for publication. We are currently inviting authors to contribute to our book ‘Ethics: A University Reader’ (Working Title). We have already secured authors for many of the chapters, but are still seeking suitably qualified individuals to write the following:

The History of Ethical Thought
Utilitarian Ethics
Ethics of Care
Rights
Contractualism

If you are interested in writing any of the above, then please contact me at contact@frontierspublications.com with a copy of your academic CV and a statement of interest.

Further details are available below.

Ethics: A University Reader (Working Title). Information and Guidelines.

Focus

The book is intended to serve as a core university reader, which will discuss key issues in ethics. Chapters will be non-biased discussions of various themes, which will introduce the reader to the key concepts, theories and thinkers that are specific to the theme of the chapter in question.

The chapters should be written for an audience that has some philosophical knowledge, but which is not extensive. Therefore, approximate what you think a second year undergraduate student would be able to understand and engage with.

Each chapter should “stand-alone” in the sense that it will be possible to read the chapter in isolation from the rest of the book.

Word Count

Chapters should be between 7500 and 9000 words in length (excluding references/bibliography).

Therefore, chapters should be concise and clearly structured.

Deadlines

The provisional deadline for proposals for an assigned chapter’s content is the 1st of May, with the completed draft of to be submitted by the end of August. This will ensure that the book can be brought to market by the end of the year.

Commitment

If you agree to write a chapter then it is essential that you meet the deadlines in question.

Copyright

The book will have an international copyright license. However, authors may reproduce their chapters, or portions thereof, elsewhere with the proviso that this book is referenced as the first version of the publication.

Distribution

The book will be distributed internationally. It will be made available through online retailers and in selected bookstores.

Proceeds

The first £6,000 generated from sales will be used to fund the Philosophical Frontiers Conference, which will take place in 2012. All subsequent post-production earnings will be evenly split between the contributors.

Queries

If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at contact@frontierspublications.com

Other Contributors

Once the full list of contributors is finalised, this will be circulated to all contributors.

BOOK CFP: Responsible Investment in Time of Turmoil

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite contributions in the form of papers for an edited book volume

RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT IN TIMES OF TURMOIL

to be published by Springer (Issues in Business Ethics Series)

Editors: Wim Vandekerckhove (Ghent University), Jos Leys (Catholic University of Leuven), Kristian Alm (BI Norwegian School of Management), Bert Scholtens (University of Groningen), Silvana Signori (University of Bergamo), Henry Schäfer (University of Stuttgart).

Just before the current economic and financial turmoil, the Responsible Investment (RI)phenomenon was said to be entering the mainstream of financial intermediation. From a fairly marginal practice promoted or campaigned for by NGOs and religious groups and at odds with financial practice and orthodoxy it grew into well formulated policy adopted by a wide range of investors. Academic literature on RI has also boomed on the assumption that mainstreaming is taking place.

However, little thinking has been carried out on questions specifically arising from this alleged “mainstreaming”. This book, addressed to those with a scholarly or practitioner’s interest in RI, starts filling this neglected dimension.

Today, one cannot ignore the difficulties of main stream financing. The financial spheres are trembling globally in one of the worst crises since the 1930?s. As a response to the crises, the intermediation of ?financial responsibility? will undoubtedly be the subject of new regulation and scrutinizing. This book looks into what these turbulences will imply for RI.

In view of these circumstances, we must ask ourselves whether the phenomenon was not an empty fad during the exuberant high of financial euphoria that came abruptly to an end with current financial crises. Are financial intermediaries that promote “sustainability” credible,  while it is obvious that some developments in financial intermediation -predictably, as some say-were unsustainable? Further, is the current turmoil an opportunity for enhancing RI because of the strength and superiority it has
developed or will it disappear due to a return to financial myopia?

This book is the first to question the future of RI in such a radical way.

The book will encompass 5 blocks of chapters:

1. Knowledge about RI
2. Lessons from RI
3. Ethics of RI
4. Politics and RI
5. Global Worries for RI

Further details about the invited content and submission guidelines are available on:
http://www.cevi-globalethics.ugent.be/index.php?id=14&type=content

Deadline for the submission of draft papers is July 15, 2009

Potential authors are advised to contact the lead editor, Wim Vandekerckhove, to discuss their paper ideas.
wim.vandekerckhove@gmail.com
(office tel): +32 9264 3951

New Open Access title from re.press: Reading Hegel: The Introductions

From re.press, Melbourne, Australia, free OA title:

Reading Hegel: The Introductions

edited and introduced by Aakash Singh and Rimina Mohapatra

Bringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel’s major Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to present readers with Hegel’s systematic thought through his Introductions alone. The Editors articulate to what extent, precisely, Hegel’s Introductions truly reflect his philosophic thought as a whole. Certainly each of Hegel’s Introductions can stand alone, capturing a facet of his overarching idea of truth. But compiled all together, they serve to lay out the intricate tapestry of Hegel’s thought, woven with a dialectic that progresses from one book to another, one philosophical moment to another.

Hegel’s reflections on philosophy, religion, aesthetics, history, and law—all included here—have profoundly influenced many subsequent thinkers, from post-Hegelian idealists or materialists like Karl Marx, to the existentialism of Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre; from the phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl to Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida and other post-moderns, to thinkers farther afield, like Japan’s famous Kyoto School or India’s Aurobindo. This book provides the opportunity to discern how the ideas of these later thinkers may have originally germinated in Hegel’s writings, as well as to penetrate Hegel’s worldview in his own words, his grand architecture of the journey of the Spirit.

To support the novel vision of re.press, please request your university library to purchase the print versions of the books.  This can be done through their website (http://www.re-press.org/content/view/12/27/).  Many thanks!

Downloadable texts by Early Modern philosophers

Here’s a link to Jonathan F. Bennett’s website where you can download pdfs of the works of some early Modern philosophers, e.g., Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Smith, Reid, Newton, Locke, Hume, Kant, and many more.

http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/

These texts are particularly helpful for those who are teaching Early Modern Philosophy or the History of Philosophy and for those students who are familiarizing themselves with the works of these philosophers.

Happy downloading and enjoy!

Book Reviews at Metapsychology Online

In the last 3 weeks, we have published the following reviews available at

http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_index.php?idx=news

Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder
by David Healy
Review by S. Nassir Ghaemi, MD, MA, MPH on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4504

Nietzsche’s Therapy: Self-Cultivation in the Middle Works
by Michael Ure
Review by Michael Bruce on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4503

Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics
by Richard Shusterman
Review by Joel Parthemore on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4502

Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine
by R. Barker Bausell
Review by Kevin M. Purday on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4501

Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
by Thomas C. Schelling
Review by Carlo Martini on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4500

The Evolution of the Private Language Argument
by Keld Stehr Nielsen
Review by Manuel Bremer, Ph.D. on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4499

Free Will and Luck
by Alfred R Mele
Review by David Wall, Ph.D. on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4498

Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy
by Steven French
Review by Richa Yadav, Ph.D. on Sep 30th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4497

Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly
Review by Lisa Bellantoni, Ph.D. on Sep 23rd 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4492

Human: The Science Behind What Makes Us Unique
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
Review by Renia Gasparatou, Ph.D. on Sep 23rd 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4491

The Thought that Counts: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
by Jared Douglas Kant
Review by James K. Luiselli, Ed.D., ABPP, BCBA on Sep 23rd 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4490

The Toxic Consumer: Living Healthy in a Hazardous World
by Karen Ashton & Elisabeth Salter Green
Review by Minna Forsell on Sep 23rd 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4489

Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius
by Silvan S. Schweber
Review by Bob Lane, MA on Sep 23rd 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4488

Formulation in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of Peoples Problems
by Lucy Johnstone and Rudi Dallos
Review by Marieke Geoghegan on Sep 23rd 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4487

Language in Context: Selected Essays
by Jason Stanley
Review by R.A. Goodrich, Ph.D. on Sep 23rd 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4486

Tales of Psychotherapy
by Jane Ryan (Editor)
Review by Tony O’Brien, RN, MPhil on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4480

If Only I Had Known: Avoiding Common Mistakes In Couples Therapy
by Gerald Weeks, Mark Odell, Susanne Methven
Review by Marieke Geoghegan on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4479

Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind
by Paula Kamen
Review by Nassir Ghaemi, M.D., M.A., M.P.H. on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4478

Structures of Agency: Essays
by Michael E. Bratman
Review by Isabel Gois, Ph.D. on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4477

Reprogenetics: Law, Policy, and Ethical Issues
by Lori P. Knowles and Gregory E. Kaebnik (Editors)
Review by Constance Perry, Ph.D. on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4476

Theories of Scientific Method: An Introduction
by Robert Nola and Howard Sankey
Review by Keith Harris, Ph.D. on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4475

Science and Nonbelief
by Taner Edis
Review by Bob Lane, MA on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4474

Science in the Marketplace: Nineteenth-Century Sites and Experiences
by Aileen Fife and Bernard Lightman (Editors)
Review by Robert P. McParland, Ph.D. on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4473

The Americanization of Social Science: Intellectuals and Public Responsibility in the Postwar United States
by David Haney
Review by Ralph Harrington, Ph.D. on Sep 16th 2008
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4471

Ethics reviews at

http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=135&cn=135

Philosophy reviews at

http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=394&cn=394

Psychology reviews at

http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=396&cn=396

We are especially in need of reviewers of academic and popular psychology books, and recent psychological fiction. Please email me if interested(cperring@yahoo.com). We have a blog where it is possible to comment on some of the reviews.

http://metapsychology-online.blogspot.com/

Thanks,
Christian Perring, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dowling College
Home page: http://alien.dowling.edu/~cperring/
Editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/
Office Phone: (631) 244-3349
Dept Philosophy, Dowling College, 150 Idle Hour Blvd, Oakdale, NY 11769, USA

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

Open Access Philosophy Books from re.press

re.press is an Australian publishing company that publishes quality philosophy books in both print and open access formats.  Click here to read the vision of the press.

You can download the following books for free:

The Radical Critique of Liberalism: In Memory of a Vision

by Toula Nicolacopoulos

The Mathematics of Novelty: Badiou’s Minimalist Metaphysics

by Sam Gillespie

The Concept of Model

by Alain Badiou (ed. and trans. by Zachary Fraser and Tzuchien Tho)

The Praxis of Alain Badiou

edited by Paul Ashton, A.J. Bartlett, and Justin Clemens

The Spirit of the Age: Hegel and the Fate of Thinking

edited by Paul Ashton, Toula Nicolacopoulos, and George Vassilacopoulos

To support the novel vision of re.press, please request your university library to purchase the print versions of the books.  This can be done through their website (http://www.re-press.org/content/view/12/27/).  Thanks and enjoy your new ebooks!