June 2007 Archives

Dates: November 9-10, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Paul Horwich, NYU

Featured Faculty Speaker: Austen Clark, UConn

The departments of philosophy at Yale University and the University of
Connecticut invite submissions from graduate students in any area of
philosophy. Papers should be limited to 3,000 words and must be
suitable for blind review. There should be no identifying information
in the body of the paper. Please include a separate cover sheet with
the following information:

a) paper title
b) brief abstract
c) author's name
d) institution
e) mailing address
f) telephone number
g) email address
h) indicate whether you are interested in being a commentator

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: August 15, 2007

Please email submissions to Doug Owings at yaleuconnphilconference@gmail.com

For more information see the conference website at
http://www.yale.edu/philgradconf/

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I saw the following statement online yesterday:

(E) The evolution of spiritual truth is the process of being human.

It was a slogan for Newlifeparadigm.com.  My task, dear readers, is to interpret this sentence WITHOUT visiting the website. 

My take is...

8 to 10 October 2007
Milan, Italy

The SILFS Conference is the official meeting of
Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of
Sciences.Invited speakers: J.Butterfield, D.
Gabbay, C. Rovelli, P. Griffiths, G. Rizzolatti,
M. Egidi.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 15 July
2007.

Enquiries: corrado.sinigaglia@unimi.it
Web address:
http://www.filosofia.unimi.it/silfs/

Sponsored by: Italian Society for Logic and
Philosophy of Sciences

By PATRICIA COHEN
Richard Rorty, whose inventive work on philosophy, politics, literary theory and more made him one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers, died Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 75.
The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Mary Varney Rorty.
Raised in a home where "The Case for Leon Trotsky" was viewed with the same reverence as the Bible might be elsewhere, Mr. Rorty pondered the nature of reality as well as its everyday struggles. "At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice," he wrote in an autobiographical sketch.
Russell A. Berman, the chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University, who worked with Mr. Rorty for more than a decade, said, "He rescued philosophy from its analytic constraints" and returned it "to core concerns of how we as a people, a country and humanity live in a political community."

A second call for papers has been issued for the Graduate Student Philosophy Conference "Reason, Intuition, Objects: the Epistemology and Ontology of Logic" that will take place on October 13, 2007 at the University at Buffalo with Stewart Shapiro of Ohio State as Keynote.

The deadline for submission is Friday, August 3, 2007.  Go here for more information. 

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