CONTENTS

Makkreel, Rudolf A. & Press, Gerald A.
“Craig Walton 1934-2007″

Articles

Foley, Richard.
“Plato’s Undividable Line: Contradiction and Method in Republic VI”

Kim, Hye-Kyung.
“Metaphysics H 6 and the Problem of Unity”

De Groot, Jean.
“Dunamis and the Science of Mechanics: Aristotle on Animal Motion”

Rodríguez Pereyra, Gonzalo.
“Descartes’s Substance Dualism and His Independence Conception of Substance”

Reid, Jasper William, 1972-
“The Spatial Presence of Spirits among the Cartesians”

Bardout, Jean-Christophe.
“Berkeley et les métaphysiques de son temps”

Stone, Alison, 1972-
“Being, Knowledge, and Nature in Novalis”

Here is the link to the conference, with the CFP.

Thanks to Jeff Byrnes

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SWIPUK conference hosted by the Centre for Research into Embodied Subjectivity, Philosophy, and the Centre for Gender Studies, University of Hull , May 22-23 2008

This conference aims to explore the role the body plays in constituting aspects of our individual and social identity. The claim that biology fixes identity has been hotly contested in recent decades, but its apparent abandonment has led to intense theoretical debate over the role of the body in constituting both individual subjectivity and categories of social identity. We will be focusing particularly on gendered, cultural and racial identity, disability and identity, and identities reached by degrees of bodily modification. In each case attention will be paid to the role of social others in constituting the meaning and recognition bestowed on bodily physiognomies. The common assumption that such categories of identity are required for social participation, political agency and constructions of subjectivity, will be subjected to critical scrutiny.

Papers are welcome on any aspect of embodiment and/or identity, ( including; ‘raced’ identities, ‘cultured’ bodies, diasporic and transcultural identity, hybridity, disability and the body,
trans-sexuality, bodily integrity, body dysmorphia, identity and recognition, materiality and the body, imaginary bodies).

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Professor Linda Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and
Women’s Studies , Syracuse University http://www.alcoff.com/

Dr. Lois McNay , Somerville College ,Oxford
http://www.some.ox.ac.uk/admissions/fellows/mcnayl/

Dr Jakie Leach Scully Newcastle University
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/peals/people/profile/jackie.scully

Dr. Margrit Shildrick, Queens University , Belfast
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofSociologySocialPolicySocialWork/Staff/AcademicStaff/MargritShildrick/

Dr.Simone Giordano Manchester University
http://www.law.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/staff/simona_giordano/default.htm

Abstracts should be sent to Stella Gonzalez Arnal s.gonzalez-arnal@hull.ac.uk by 18 February 2008. Contributors will be informed if their abstracts are accepted by 3 March 2008

If you wish to discuss possible proposals or other aspects of the conference you can also contact other members of the organizing committee:
Gill Jagger G.Jagger@hull.ac.uk; Minae Inahara M.Inahara@hull.ac.uk;
Kathleen Lennon K.Lennon@hull.ac.uk; Sue Walsh s.j.walsh@2005.hull.ac.uk

The University of Utah has many Tanner lectures available on pdf.

Of possible interest: Appiah, Benhabib, Cavell, Foucault, Fraser, Geertz, Habermas, Honneth, Lear, Nussbaum, Rorty, and many more.

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Ours does not promise to go down in literary history as a great age of religious poetry. Yet if contemporary poetry is not often religious, it is still intensely, covertly metaphysical. Human nature, it seems, compels us to keep asking about the first things, even if we no longer accept the same answers that our ancestors did, or even the same kind of answers. The more widely you read, in fact, the clearer it becomes that our poetry has a distinctive metaphysics, a set of principles or intuitions held in common by poets as different as Seamus Heaney, Charles Simic, and Billy Collins. This metaphysical sensibility, I think, is what will give our period a retrospective unity, when readers of the future come to survey what looks to us like chaos. And the best document of that sensibility—the single piece of writing that does the most to explain what our poetry believes, and the ways it expresses that belief—is an essay by Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art.”

Today, Heidegger’s name is most often heard in debates about his collaboration with the Nazis. Though he lived from 1889 to 1976, his life and work must be judged by his behavior during the early thirties, when the Nazi Party came to power with a promise to renew the German spirit. Because this was also Heidegger’s goal—in a different, but not unrelated sense—he was happy to add his intellectual prestige to the Nazi cause, serving as rector of his university under the new government. He was soon disillusioned with Hitler, but he never fully came to grips with his catastrophic moral and intellectual failure. It was left to writers in our own time, like Richard Wolin and Charles Bambach, to show the full implications of Heidegger’s Nazism for his immensely influential work.

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DERRIDA’s LEGACIES
A conference hosted by the Forum for European Philosophy

Saturday 1 March, 10:00 am - 6:15 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, LSE
Admission FREE

For full and updated information visit:www.philosophy-forum.org

Organisers: Danielle Sands, Nemonie Craven and Shahidha Bari

Marking the release of the new collection, “Derrida’s Legacies: Philosophy and Literature”, this conference will present the work of a new generation of Derrida scholars. Bringing together recent thinking across disciplines, it will explore what it means to be thinking with, through, and alongside Derrida’s work today - addressing the questions of Derrida’s legacies and possible futures for his work. The event will explore Derrida’s influence, current trends and debates in Derrida scholarship, and will focus on particular texts. Following the Forum for European Philosophy’s development of innovative presentational formats, the conference will provide an opportunity for young researchers (graduate students and recently PhDs) to present their work beyond the confines of a traditional academic ‘paper’ and to lend their ideas to a more open-ended and informal discussion. An architect will also introduce their work, as a ‘provocation’ to Derrida’s legacies of thought.

For further information please contact:
Juliana Cardinale
j.cardinale@lse.ac.uk
+ 44 (0)20 7955 7539

WEBSITE:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy/events/conferences/Default.htm

Philosophical criticisms of the psychoanalytic concept of sexuality. 

Leuven, Institute of Philosophy

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