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The Alabama Philosophical Society's fall meeting runs October 2-3, 2009, in Orange Beach, AL.  While a full schedule is here, three talks of particular interest to readers of this blog are the following:

[Editor's note: I deleted the previously posted times and days because of revisions to the schedule.  See above link for most recent schedule.]

Chase Wrenn (U. of Alabama), "Truth is Not Instrumentally Valuable" (abstract)

Marcus Rossberg (U Conn), "Inferentialism and Conservativeness" (abstract)

Adam Podlaskowski (Fairmont State U.), "Semantic Pluralism and Semantic Functionalism" (abstract)

I hope to see you there!

Truth seekers and language lovers, the Midsouth Philosophy Conference, to be held at the Univ. of Memphis 17-18 April 2009, is approaching and now that the penultimate schedule is out I want to highlight a few talks of interest listed in chronological order.  (Apologies to those not mentioned.  But this is a blog devoted, first and foremost, to truth and semantics.  If, however, I missed something relevant to those areas then don't hesitate to let me know.  My criterion for inclusion is title of paper.  So mistakes can be made.)

FRIDAY, SESSION 3, 5:00-5:50

3B: Hassman, Benjamin <benjamin-hassman@uiowa.edu> University of Iowa
Battling Paradox: Recapturing Reference for (Some) Sorites-Susceptible Predicates
Commentator: Choi, Andrew <choi.402@osu.edu> The Ohio State University

3G: Floyd, Kamper <kamper.floyd@usm.edu> University of Southern Mississippi
Rorty and the Value of Truth
Commentator: Karofsky, Amy <phiadk@hofstra.edu> Hofstra University

SATURDAY, SESSION 4, 9:00-9:50

4I: Karofsky, Amy <phiadk@hofstra.edu> Hofstra University
Against Contingent Truth
Commentator: Shaeffer, Howard Benjamin <hbs1@humboldt.edu> Humboldt State University

SATURDAY, SESSION 6, 11:00-11:50

6B: Martínez-Manrique, Fernando <fmmanriq@ugr.es> University of Granada
On the Distinction between Semantic and Conceptual Representation
Commentator: Butler, Jesse <jbutler@uca.edu> University of Central Arkansas

6I: Asay, Jamin <asay@email.unc.edu> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
How to Express Ontological Commitment in the Vernacular
Commentator: Gibson, Joel <joel_gibson11@hotmail.com> University of Maryland

Back to the ole' blog, at last.  I'm headed to the APA Central tomorrow!  I plan on adding a few posts about whatever interesting talks I see.  Items I have highlighted include (but are not limited to) the Society for the Metaphysics of Science's Session (GIII-10) on Thursday from 7:30 to 10:30pm (roughly on functionalism); The Hume Society's meeting (GII-9) on Thursday from 5:15 to 7:15pm; the Symposium on Sententialism and Higher Order Attitude Attribution (III-D) on Friday from 9-10am; Author Meets Critic session w Robert Stainton from 9-noon on Saturday; a colloguium on Decision Theory (IV-F) involving T. Horgan (U. Arizona) on Saturday from 9-10am; my colleague Ted Poston's paper "Know How to be Gettiered" (IV-G) on Saturday from 11-noon; and the Epistemology II session from 3:30-5:30pm where I'll be chairing the paper by Jay Newhard (V-F).  So I hope you stay with me.

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 Question:  How did I miss #55?  In any case, #55 is here.

"Expanding the Notions of Community and Solidarity"

Deadline Dec. 15, 2007

Download CFP

 

The graduate students of the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University are pleased to announce that the CFP is now open for our 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference, with featured faculty speaker Stephen Esquith and keynote lecture by Alice Domurat Dreger. The conference will be held February 15-16, 2008 in East Lansing, Michigan.

The deadline for submissions is November 12, 2007.

 

The MSU Graduate Conference has traditionally focused on ares of Social Political Philosophy and Bioethics, but strong submissions from all areas are welcomed.

 

Please circulate the attached CFP to your graduate students. For additional information about the conference, please visit:

http://www.msu.edu/unit/phl/gradconference/index.html

 

Regards,

Eric Berling

Matthew St. Lawrence

Conference Co-Chairs

contact:  philconf@MSU.EDU

The 30^th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

March 29-30, 2008 

Keynote lecture “THE NEW ME: What Knowing Your Own Genes Will Mean.”  

Ian Hacking

University Professor Emeritus

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

University of Toronto

Deadline: Jan 18, 2008

MIDSOUTH PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

and Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

The University of Memphis

February 22-23, 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS

The thirty-second annual Midsouth Philosophy Conference is scheduled for Friday afternoon and Saturday, February 22-23, at The University of Memphis. Papers in any area are welcome.

Submission are due by January 7, 2008

The KPA's 47th Fall Meeting will be Nov. 3 at Bellarmine U. with the Univ. of Kentucky's own Joan Callahan presenting the keynote address.  Submissions must be postmarked by October 12.  More information is in the official CFP (pdf). 

SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY

 

Pacific Division‹Fall Meeting

  

California State University, Sacramento

 

October 13-14, 2007

Local Host: Christina M. Bellon

Deadline for submission: Sept. 10, 2007

 

Submissions on any topic are welcome.  For this fall¹s meeting, P-SWIP is especially interested in works in progress and author meets critics sessions.  Authors with completed manuscripts are invited to submit abstracts. Paper submissions should be prepared for a presentation time of 20 minutes.