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/

NEW ISSUE: The Agonist, 2:2 (2009)

Vol II, Issue 2 of The Agonist, the journal of the Nietzsche Circle, is now available online.

Download the entire issue as a single pdf here.  Download individual pdfs or read online in html here.

ESSAY Zarathustra and the Children of Abraham by James Luchte

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT Nietzsche Conferencia Internacional: “El de venir de la vida/The becoming of life.”

INTERVIEW Babette Babich interviewed by Nicholas Birns

REVIEWS Maria João Mayer Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) on Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic  by Mary Ann Frese Witt;  Hugo Drochon (St. John’s College, Cambridge) on Aesthetic Transformations: Taking Nietzsche at His Word by Thomas Jovanovski;  David van Dusen (University of Wales) on Redeeming Nietzsche: On the Piety of Unbelief by Giles Fraser and Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith by Bruce Ellis Benson; Martine Prange (University of Amsterdam & Maastricht) on Nietzsche and the “English”: The Influence of British and American Thought on his Philosophy by Thomas H. Brobjer;  Katrina Mitcheson on On the Seventh Solitude: Endless Becoming and Eternal Return in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche by Rohit Sharma;   Véronique M. Fóti (Pennsylvania State University) on Pandora’s Senses: The Feminine Character in the Ancient Text by Vered Lev Kenaan.

NEW ISSUE: The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2:1 (2009)

The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is proud to announce the publication of its latest issue online at http://ejpe.org

EJPE is a peer-reviewed biannual academic journal publishing research which improves our understanding of the methodology, history and inter-disciplinary relations of economics. The journal is supported by the Erasmus Department of Philosophy  and the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) and is free to access.

Contents of this issue include:

Cambridge social ontology:

an interview with TONY LAWSON

Interdependent preferences and policy stances

in mainstream economics

by FRANÇOIS CLAVEAU

The history of transaction cost economics and its

recent developments

by ŁUKASZ HARDT

Tilting at imaginary windmills: a comment on Tyfield

by YANN GIRAUD AND E. ROY WEINTRAUB

Raging at imaginary Don-Quixotes:

reply to Giraud and Weintraub

by DAVID TYFIELD

The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than

having fun, but less than economics imperialism

by JACK J. VROMEN

BOOK REVIEWS

MARK BLAUG on N. Emrah Aydinonat’s “The invisible hand in economics”

NEVEN LEDDY on David D. Raphael’s “The impartial spectator”

SHAUN HARGREAVES HEAP on Bart Engelen’s “Rationality and institutions”

DOUGLAS MACKENZIE on Valeria Mosini’s [ed.] “Equilibrium in economics”

DANIEL VARGAS on Benjamin Balak’s “McCloskey’s rhetoric”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Contributions to future issues are invited in the form of academic articles and book reviews. See http://ejpe.org for details of the submission process and criteria.

We also welcome thesis summaries from recent PhD graduates in relevant fields.

JRNL CFP: Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, Exploring the Philosophical Assumptions of Assessment Culture in Education

Topic: The journal of Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis (formerly Analytic Teaching) seeks article submissions that explore the philosophical assumptions and pedagogical implications of the assessment culture that now permeates higher education.

Over the last decade ‘assessment’ has become a pivotal component of the culture of higher education.  Assessment has grown into its own research domain and become an independent institutional structure.  We have assessment experts on everything from the tenure process, to program assessment, and assessment of the entire university. What are the underlying epistemological assumptions of assessment as the new ‘meta-criterion’ of education? What consequences might this coronation of assessment have on our practice as educators and/or the nature of education?  We welcome papers that explore this ‘paradigm shift’ in higher education from a philosophical/critical standpoint.  Some possible topics for consideration include:

·         the historical genesis of assessment culture and its ties to the political domain

·         the limitations of assessment

·         assessment as the marketing tool of higher education

·         assessment as the new moral order

·         assessment as deforming educational practice

·         viability of assessment among different disciplines

·         post-modern/phenomenological/hermeneutical analyses of assessment culture

·         self-assessment as a form of self-consciousness

·         the community of inquiry as the paradigm of assessment

·         the tyranny of quantitative analysis and the ‘numbering-down’ of education

·         assessment and the question of pedagogical entitlement

·         philosophy for children and the assessment culture

Submission Details:   Submissions should follow the Chicago manual of style and also should format references as endnotes.  Articles should be approximately 5000-8000 words, e-mailed as a word document or RTF, and prepared for ‘blind-review’ (with author’s name and institutional affiliation appearing on a separate page). Direct submissions to: Dr. Jason J. Howard, Editor, Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, Viterbo University, jjhoward@viterbo.edu

Submission Deadline: The deadline for article submissions is Jan. 1, 2010. Accepted articles should appear in Vol. 30 of Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis late in the spring of 2010.

About the Journal: Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis (ATPP) is an on-line, peer-reviewed, academic journal published out of Viterbo University (La Crosse, WI) dedicated to exploring the deeper philosophical, political, social and ethical implications of education.  It can be accessed at http://www.viterbo.edu/atpp.

CONF CFP: The Hannah Arendt Circle Conference, 2010, DePaul University, United States

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Department of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, IL will be hosting the fourth independent conference for the Hannah Arendt Circle April 2010.

We invite individual submissions for papers on any aspect of Arendt’s work, including critiques and applications of her thinking.

Please send an abstract of the paper, by e-mail (750 word limit). Abstracts should be formatted for anonymous review and submitted to the program committee chair, Tama Weisman at tweisman@dom.edu on or before November 30th 2009.

Please indicate “Arendt Circle submission” in the subject heading, and include the abstract as a “.doc” attachment to your message. Program decisions will be announced by the beginning of January.

Program Committee:

Tama Weisman, Dominican University

Sarah MacMillan, Duquesne University

Peg Birmingham, DePaul University

Our first three independent meetings were outstanding, and we are looking forward to the same camaraderie and intense discussion of Arendt’s work at this year’s conference. Each speaker will have approximately 35 minutes for paper presentation and discussion combined —papers should be a maximum of 3000 words (15-20 minutes).

DePaul University is located in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Lodging has been reserved at the Willows Hotel.  The hotel is within walking distance or a short train ride to our meeting site at DePaul University.

Program and other information will be available no later than January 30, 2010 at:

www.thearendtcircle.com