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*6-9
Metaphysics
2006: Third World Conference
Idente
Foundation
Via
Aurelia 773
00165
Rome, Italy
Contact
email: RomeMetaphysics@gmail.com (David G. Murray)
This
Conference continues a series which has brought together large groups of
philosophers (200 in 2000 and 150 in 2003) from over twenty-five countries to
consider the creative reformulation of metaphysical thought in the twenty-first
century. This third event will accept submissions of papers dealing with the
relation between metaphysical conceptions and the following areas: Culture,
Epistemology, the Arts, Ethics, Mystical Experience and Comparative Religion,
Education, Empirical Science, Law, and Personhood.
There
will also be a special section devoted to Metaphysics and Criminology which
will examine the influence of worldviews on violent behavior.
Papers
should not exceed 3500 words, including notes. They may be written in English,
German, French, Spanish, or Italian. We request that oral presentations be made
in English, Spanish, or Italian. Abstracts should be submitted by March 15,
2006.
The Metaphysics 2006 website is
not yet available.
*10-14
The 9th Annual International
Seminar
"Democracy and Human
Rights in Multiethnic Societies"
Time: 10-14, July, 2006
Place: Konjic, B&H
Contact:
Dzemal Sokolovic
Director
Institute for Strengthening
Democracy in Bosnia
Dzemal.Sokolovic@rokkan.uib.no
www.rokkan.uib.no/bihdemocracy
*11-14
THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND CHANGE IN ORGANISATIONS
Monash University Centre,
Prato (Near Florence), Italy
http://www.ManagementConference.com
To be held on the Tuscan
town of Prato, the conference will include some of the world's leading thinkers
in the field of knowledge, culture and change management, as well as
numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. The conference venue
is the Monash University Centre in the Palazzo Vaj in central Prato, a
sixteenth century town just to the
north of Florence, and close to Florence International Airport.
I would particularly like to
invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Presenters may choose
to submit written papers for publication before or after the conference in the
fully refereed International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change
Management. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual
registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for
refereeing and possible publication in the journal, as well as access to the
electronic version of the conference proceedings.
Full details of the
conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the
conference website. The next round call for papers closes on 31 October 2005.
We do hope you will submit a paper and that you will be
able to join us in Prato in July 2006.
Prof. Robert Brooks
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
robert.brooks@managementconference.com
*16-22
12th
International Philosophy Colloquium “The Structure of Reflection -
Self-Consciousness and Critique”
Evian (Lake Geneva), France
The idea of reflection stands out especially among the
panorama of key concepts in the history of philosophy that seek to explain the
nature of the mind. According to the generic line of thought in which this idea
plays a central role, what it is to have a mind is essentially connected with
the fact that a minded creature can reflect upon its own attitudes and thereby
distance itself from itself as well as from the world. As such, reflection
marks the end of natural immediacy. Two seemingly disparate understandings - at
the very least - have developed, however, concerning reflection as the central
aspect of the mind, understandings that can be characterized with the key words
'self-consciousness' and 'critique'. If we want to understand reflection as
constitutive for self-consciousness, we aim to explain what it is to have
thoughts and intentions at all, i.e., what it is to be a self-determining being
in general. Those who wish to understand reflection as critique seek to make
intelligible what it means to claim that thoughts as such can always be
evaluated in terms of being right or wrong. In Kant's words, this understanding
of reflection turns on the issue of maturity (Mündigkeit). But how should we
understand precisely the structure of reflection, either as self-consciousness
and/or as critique? How do these two dimensions of reflection relate to one
another? Under what conditions is reflection as self-consciousness or as
critique possible and how does it come about in each case? We seek to garner
(post)structuralist, hermeneutical, and analytic positions in both their
differences and convergences with regard to the topic of reflection and to
bring them systematically into a fruitful dialogue.
The
International Philosophy Colloquia Evian address themselves to philosophers who
are interested in having multilingual discussions (in French, English, and
German) across and beyond the bounds of philosophical schools and traditions.
They are meant to be a place where the divide between continental and analytic
philosophy has been overcome.
Call for Papers:
We
invite proposals for papers for submission. The final deadline is February 15,
2006. Please send your proposal with a one-page abstract and a short CV to the
following e-mail address: evian@uni-hildesheim.de
A
detailed exposition of the topic and all relevant information concerning the
character and history of the colloquium as well as matters of accomodation and
costs can be found at our trilingual website: www.uni-hildesheim.de/eviancolloquium/
Organizers:
Georg W. Bertram
(Hildesheim), Stefan Blank (Berlin), Robin Celikates (Gießen), David Lauer
(Berlin)
In cooperation with Karen
Feldman (Berkeley), Jo-Jo Koo (Pittsburgh), Christophe Laudou (Madrid), Jérôme
Lèbre (Paris), Diane Perpich
(Vanderbilt), Chris Doude
van Troostwijk (Strasbourg / Amsterdam)
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Georg W. Bertram,
Institut für Philosophie, Universitaet
Hildesheim,
Marienburger Platz 2, D-31141 Hildesheim, Germany
*17-21
International Conference: CIVILIZATION AND
CULTURE: Culture as Burden and Opportunity
Bandung, Indonesia
Organized by
Faculty of
Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University, Bandung, Indonesia And
Asian Association of Catholic Philosophers (AACP)
The increasing global interdependence
today has brought with it global risks and global problems, since it is
characterized by anarchy of relations,
imbalance of wealth distributions, unpredictability of its unintended
consequences, divergent claims of rationality, as well as contradictory
certainties. In such an ambivalent “glocal” context, where the notion of
universal civilization is looked upon with suspicion, and particular cultures
are experienced as both opportunity and burden , it is high time to rethink the
interconnection between the concepts of civilization and culture.
Deadline : April
17, 2006 : abstract due (300-500
words)
June 17, 2006
: Full text of paper due
Registration : Registration Fee $ 150
Send abstracts and papers to
:
Dr. Bambang Sugiharto
Faculty of Philosophy, Parahyangan Catholic University
Bandung 40117, Indonesia
Electronic submissions :
ignatiussugiharto@yahoo.com
*18-21
Thirteenth Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation
(WoLLIC'2006).
Stanford, California
This is the thirteenth in a series of workshops intended to
foster interdisciplinary research in pure and applied logic.
The Program Committee includes: J. Avigad, J. van Benthem,
M. Davis, K. Devlin, E. Hirsch, G. Hjorth, D. Israel, V. Kreinovich, G. Mints,
I. Neeman, H. Ono, W. Pohlers, V.
Pratt, and T. Scanlon.
The members of the Organizing Committee are: A.G. de Oliveira, V. de Paiva,
M.\Pauly, and R. de Queiroz.
The deadline for submission of papers is March 1, 2006. For
further information, visit http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~wollic/wollic2006/.
*18-21
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES University of
the Aegean, Island of
Rhodes, Greece
http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com
The conference will examine
the nature of disciplinary and interdisciplinary practices across the social
sciences, as well as the relation of the social to the natural sciences,
applied sciences and the professions. The focus of papers will range from the
finely grained and empirical (research practices and results exemplifying one
or more disciplines), to wide-ranging multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary
practices, to perspectives on knowledge and method. One of the featured themes
of the 2006 conference will be interdisciplinary perspectives on gender.
I would particularly like to
invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Presenters may choose
to submit written papers for consideration before or after the conference in
the fully refereed International Journal of the Interdisciplinary Social
Sciences, to be launched in 2006. If you are unable to attend the conference in
person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a
paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal, and give you
access to the electronic version of the journal.
http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com
We look forward to receiving
your proposals and hope you will be able to join us in Rhodes in July 2006.
Contact:
Prof. Chrissi Vitsilakis
Dean, Faculty of Humanities
University
of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece
chrissi.vitsilakis@socialsciencesconference.com
*22-27
The Nature of Philosophy and Its
Relevance
The 13th Annual Meeting
Society
for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina
The Society invites submissions in which philosophical research engages the
issue of what we as philosophers are doing. Diverse philosophical
approaches and methodologies are welcome and the theme can be broadly
interpreted.
- Philosophy
as Practice
- Philosophy
as Transformative
- Philosophy
as Activism
- The
Role of Hope In and For Philosophical Activity
- Can
Different Conceptions of Philosophy Be Reconciled?
- What
Can Philosophers, qua Philosophers, Contribute to Communities?
- What
Can Philosophers, qua Philosophers, Contribute to Social Causes?
- What
Does It Mean to Do Philosophy Responsibly?
- Philosophy
as Destructive to Human Flourishing
- The
Relevance of Ancient, Medieval, or Modern Philosophy
- The
Relevance of Religion to Philosophy or vice versa
- The
Relevance of Literature to Philosophy or vice versa
- The
Relevance of History to Philosophy or vice versa
Standard submissions: 3,000 word maximum paper.
Alternative presentation formats and creative proposals will be given
consideration.
Submissions are due on February 1, 2006. Electronic submissions are
preferred.
All papers accepted for presentation will be considered
for publication in the journal.
Questions and submissions (prepared for blind review)
should be sent to either of the program committee co-chairs:
*23-26
BRISMES Annual Conference
Faith, Politics and Society
University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, United Kingdom
The 2006 BRISMES Annual
Conference will be held in Birmingham from Sunday 23 to Wednesday 26 July 2006.
Residential accommodation will
be available in Shackleton Hall at the University of Birmingham.
The main theme of the
conference will be: Faith, Politics and Society
Papers relating to aspects
of this theme are especially welcome, though papers on themes relating to the
Middle East from the rise of Islam,
including particular
geographical areas, history and thought and are also invited. Contributions
from postgraduate students are particularly
encouraged. The conference
will include book exhibitions, and fringe
cultural events.
Proposals for papers, either
individually or (preferably) as part of a pre-organised panel, should be
submitted by 1 February 2006 to Dr David
Thomas, Department of
Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, Elmfield House, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6LG
(d.r.thomas.1@bham.ac.uk).
Please include the paper
title, an abstract (maximum 300 words, including three to six suitable
references for suggested reading), and brief
biographical details,
including academic affiliation and contact e-mail address (maximum 150 words).
Watch the website for registration forms soon: http://www.theology.bham.ac.uk/news/events.htm
the ISSEI 10th
International Conference
University of
Malta
Workshop
Title: The Enduring Legacy of the Enlightenment Narrative: Positive and
Negative Appraisals
The
overall theme of the ISSEI conference is “The European Mind: Narrative and
Identity.” The conference organizers understand the theme in terms of the
problem of the proliferation of narratives that levels and undermines all the
narratives and discards a unifying narrative. This presents a problem for
what the organizers call the European mind, which I understand as a sense of
identity formed by a narrative that allows the people to work toward a common
goal.
For the purpose of this workshop, I
believe we should understand European in an expansive sense, which includes all
people influenced by a specific narrative that influenced the Western
world. This narrative harkens back to the time when a European mind was
beginning to form in the period known as the Enlightenment. The
Enlightenment narrative informed and continues to inform, for better or worse,
a sense of who we “Europeans” are.
In keeping with the theme of the
conference, I am conducting a workshop that examines the legacy of the
Enlightenment narrative. On the one hand, I am looking for papers dealing
with the formation of the Enlightenment narrative, which includes both European
and American thinkers of the 17th-19th century, such as Diderot, Rousseau,
Voltaire, Locke, Condorcet, Kant and others. On the other hand, I am
looking for positive and negative appraisals of the Enlightenment narrative,
which includes the appraisals offered in German Idealism, Marxism, Neo-Marxism,
Pragmatism, Rawlsian Liberalism, Utilitarianism, Phenomenology, Post-Modernism
and other philosophical approaches not explicitly mentioned here.
The purpose of the workshop is to
gather together a diverse group of thinkers to discuss their appraisals in a
collegial atmosphere and an idyllic setting.
Abstracts of 150-200 words
are due by March 31, 2006. Individual presentations at the workshop
are limited to 30 minutes, which must also include time for discussion. A
selection of referred papers are eligible to be published in the
Proceedings. The papers are limited to 3000 words.
Contact Person:
Richard Findler
Philosophy Department
Slippery Rock University
Slippery Rock, PA 16057
richard.findler@sru.edu
*24-29
The 10th ISSEI conference to
be held in cooperation with the University of Malta,
SOCRATES: REASON OR UNREASON
AS THE FOUNDATION OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY?
For more details about the
conference and the workshop, please go to: http://issei2006.haifa.ac.il/WardAnn.htm.
Please forward your proposal
of your paper to Dr. Ann Ward" Ann.Ward@uregina.ca
by April 15, 2006.
*27-30
International
Interdisciplinary Conference “Consciousness,
Self-Consciousness and Cultural Identity”
The Society for Indian
Philosophy & Religion
Calcutta, India
The theme can be addressed critically, reflectively and
creatively by the philosophical, religious and scientific traditions of the
World's
great civilizations. The
program will include plenary addresses, volunteered papers, invited papers and
panel discussions. Registered participants who are members of professional
associations or societies are encouraged to submit proposals for holding
meetings in the conference on behalf of their associations or societies. The
organizers are committed to upholding the highest academic standards with
emphasis on the exchange of ideas and dialogues among thinkers drawn from a
wide range of the world's cultural traditions and movements.
Possible topics include:
Self-Consciousness and
Personal Identity, Qualitative Aspects of Consciousness, Phenomenology of
Consciousness, Theories of Action and Agency, Time Consciousness and Memory,
Self-Consciousness and Language, Consciousness, Knowledge and Reality, Social
and Political Dimensions of Consciousness, Ethics, Alterity and the
Phenomenology of Obligation, Technology and Consciousness, Artificial
Intelligence, Consciousness of Self and Other; Imagination, Dreaming and
Altered States of Consciousness, Consciousness and Cognition,
Physicalist/Reductive vs. Non-Physical/Non-Reductive Accounts of Consciousness,
Atomistic and Holistic Aspects of Consciousness, Race, Gender and Ethnicity, Post-modern Selfhood, Relativism and Absolutism , Cultural
Relativism, Culture and Meaning, Singularity of Culture, Tradition and
Modernity, Culture: Descriptive and Normative Approach, Values, Customs
and Culture, Culture and
Hermeneutics, Text and Interpretation, Globalization of Culture, Sociology of
Knowledge, etc.
This list is illustrative
and not exhaustive.
The Program Board comprises: Elysabeth Agnew (USA), David
Blanks (Egypt),Victoria Harrison-Carter (U.K), George Berry (Australia), Elysabeth Koldzak (Poland),
Richard Libendorfer (USA), Craig Matarrese(USA), Devasish Mukherjee (India),
Nityananda Saha (India), Joel Wilcox(USA).
Registration: The advance registration fee for the
conference is $100 and on site registration fee is $140. Conference events are
currently expected to include a reception and an evening cultural program.
We welcome your participation and suggestion. The deadline
for submission of abstracts is May 25, 2005.
The advance registration fee of $100 (due by October 31, 2005) should be
paid by check drawn in favor of the Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion
mailed to the Secretary, Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion , 1210
Jamestowne Drive, Elon, North Carolina 27244, USA.
If you would like to contribute a paper to this event
please send an abstract of about 150 words to:
Dr. Chandana Chakrabarti
Society for Indian Philosophy & Religion
E-Mail: chakraba@elon.edu
Phone: (336) 524-9349
*27-Aug. 2
ASL European Summer Meeting (Logic Colloquium '06)
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
The Program Committee includes: B. Cooper, S.
Friedman, H. Geuvers, D. Macpherson, G. Mints, A. Pillay, M. Rathjen, R.
Schindler, H. Schwichtenberg (Chair), R. Shore, W. Sieg, G. Sundholm, and J.
Väänänen.
The Local Organizing Committee includes: H. Geuvers
(Chair), N. Messink, B. Spitters, and F. Wiedijk.
Abstracts---hard copy or email---should be received
before the deadline of April 17, 2006 at the official meeting address:
Logic Colloquium 2006, ICIS Faculty of Science,
Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands;
email: lc2006@cs.ru.nl.
*30-Aug. 4
XVIIth International
Symposium of the OLYMPIC CENTER FOR PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
“ARTS AND SCIENCES IN THE
GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITION”
Pyrgos and
Ancient Olympia, Elia, Greece
1.
Epistemology: The emergence of
conceptions of scientific knowledge, the systematization/axiomatization of
science, the autonomy of the sciences, the nature of knowledge in technai, the
techne-science distinction, the epistemological import of the distinction
between theoretical and productive knowledge, etc.
2.
Metaphysics: The metaphysical
presuppositions of science, the metaphysical presuppositions of technai, etc.
3.
Ethics: The end(s) of science,
the ends of technai, the ends of activities that straddle science and techne
(e.g., medicine), technai and ethical excellences, ethical concerns and
implications of some technai (e.g., medicine), etc.
4.
Political
theory/practice: Science and tecnhe as models for
understanding the nature of ruling and the ruler, implications and limitations
of such models, etc.
In addition, this year a number of roundtable discussions will be
a part of the program, including the following ones:
On the Arts: (a) The art of Poetry
(tragic, comic, and lyric); (b) The Arts and Educational Theory; (c) The Social
significance of the Arts.
Professor
John P. Anton will be the commentator-at-large for the roundtable discussions
on the Arts.
On Ethics and Bioethics.
Professor Myrto Dragona-Monachou will be the commentator-at-large
for the roundtable discussions on Ethics and Bioethics.
Those interested in organizing a
roundtable discussion on any of the above or related topics should contact the
President of the Olympic Center, Professor Leonidas Bargeliotis.
The 2005 and 2006 volumes of SKEPSIS will be dedicated to
Professors John P. Anton and Myrto Dragona-Monachou. Several colleagues will be contributing papers in honor of
Professors Anton and Dragona-Monachou that will be included in these volumes,
as well be those papers from the conference that focus on issues that relate to
the Arts in the Greek Philosophical Tradition and Ethics/Bioethics. If you wish to have your paper included in
the volume in honor of Professor Anton, please forward it to the Center no
later than the end of May 2006.
Papers should not exceed twelve double-spaced pages. Both the
abstract and the paper should be written on diskette (3.5 inch.) Mac (word 4. 0
and higher) or IBM saved in RTF.
DEADLINES
January 1, 2006: Abstract is due (300-500 words)
February 15, 2006: Notification of acceptance of Abstract and
invitation to submit complete paper.
April 15, 2006: Complete paper is due.
May 1, 2006: Notification of acceptance of paper.
REGISTRATION:
May 15, 2006: Early Registration Fee (150 Euros or
equivalent)
June 15, 2006: Late registration Fee accepted (170 Euros or
the equivalent)
Please
note that the registration fee of 150.00 (Euros or the equivalent) per
participant, which is non-refundable, covers the following:
·
Registration service and
equipment
·
Two or three evening
receptions with dinner and musical entertainment
·
Visits to archeological
sites of Ancient Olympia and of Epicurean Apollo
·
Attendance of a
theatrical performance
·
Bus transportation from
the hotel to the conference room
·
Travel to the receptions
TRANSPORTATION
The
cost of transportation from Athens to Pyrgos and return to Athens is 50
euros. For information on where to send
your Registration and Transportation Fee see below the Registration Form.
For
your stay in Athens, you should make your own reservations either at the HOTEL STANLEY (1, ODYSSEOS STREET-KARAISKAKI
SQUARE, GR 104 37 ATHENS/GREECE, phone: (30-210) 5241611-18, Fax: (30-210)
5244611, 5238450, Email: mailto: , website: http://agn.hol.gr/hotels/stanley),
from where the Conference bus will depart for Pyrgos on July 30, 2006, 8:00am,
or at any Hotel close to Omonoia Square at the center of Athens.
For
your stay in Pyrgos, make your own reservations at Hotel ODYSSEAS and
ask for the special rates that have been offered to those participating in the
conference. Information on contacting
the hotel ODYSSEAS is given below, after the ABSTRACT page.
A
detailed SECOND CIRCULAR will be
sent in due time to those colleagues who will have answered this invitation by
March 30, 2005.
For additional
information, please contact directly Prof. Leonidas C. Bargeliotes, 9,
Aristotelous St., 151 24 Amaroussion, Greece; Tel. and Fax in Athens: (30-210)
80.29.313; Tel. in Neochorion: (30-26250) 61388; Mobile Tel: (30-977) 947916;
E-mail: lbargel@cc.uoa.gr Or contact one of the OLYMPIC CENTER's representatives in the USA: Prof. Georgios Anagnostopoulos, University
of California, San Diego, Tel. (858) 534-3072, (858) 481-8501, E-mail: ganagnos@ucsd.edu , Prof. Christos Evangeliou, Towson University, Tel. (410)
704-2755, Fax: (410) 704-4398, E-mail:
cevangeliou@towson.edu
9 Aristotelous Street, 151 24 Amaroussion, Greece, Tel. & Fax:
(30-210) 8029313,
Mobile Tel: (30-977) 947916, Email: lbargel@cc.uoa.gr
*30-Aug. 5
Computability in Europe 2006 (CiE 2006): Logical Approaches
to Computational Barriers.
Swansea, Wales
This meeting is being organized within the network
“Computability in Europe'' (CiE).
The particular focus of the event is on aspects of logical
approaches to computational barriers.
There will be tutorials on Logical Approaches to the P vs.
NP problem (S. Buss) and, “Quantum Algorithms: Standard Tools and New Models''
(J.\ Kempe).
Invited speakers:
include: J. Bergstra, L. Cardelli, J.W. Dawson, J. Krajicek,
E.
Mayordomo Camara, I. Nemeti, H. Schwichtenberg, and A.
Weiermann.
Special sessions also are planned on Challenges in
Complexity, Computable Analysis, Foundations of Programming, Goedel Centenary:
His Legacy for Computing, Mathematical Models of Computers and Hypercomputers,
and Proofs and Computation. The Co-chairs of the Program Committee are A.
Beckmann and J. Tucker.
The Organizers are:
A. Beckmann (Chair), U. Berger, B. Cooper, P. Grant, O. Kullmann, B. Loewe, M.
Seisenberger, A. Setzer, and J. Tucker. For further information, visit
http://www.cs.swansea.ac.uk/cie06/.