Call for Papers -- Yale - U. Conn Graduate Students Conference

Call for Papers:

YALE–UCONN GRADUATE STUDENT PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

Date: April 3-4, 2009 at Yale University

Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Schaffer, ANU (http://rsss.anu.edu.au/~schaffer/)

Featured Faculty Speaker: Tamar Szabo Gendler, Yale University (http://www.yale.edu/philos/people/gendler_tamar.html)

Graduate students are invited to submit papers in any area of philosophy.
Papers should adhere to the following guidlines:

Limited to 3,000 words or less (30 minute presentation time)

Include a brief abstract

Prepared for blind review

Include a separate title page listing author name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email address. Format should be .doc or .pdf.

Papers should be submitted via email to: yaleuconn2009@gmail.com


THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS IS: JANUARY 1, 2009.

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

Speaker Schedule Update Update

September 19: Scott Forschler (ethics), Northland CTC
October 3: Chris Tillman (metaphysics), U of M
October 17: Esa Diaz-Leon (mind), U of M
November 7: Tom Hurka (ethics), U of T
November 21: Derek Brown (mind/metaphysics), U of B

Some other time in the fall: Carl

January 16: Jessica Wilson (metaphysics), U of T
First week of February: Paul Churchland (mind/phil science), UCSD
February 13: Esa Diaz-Leon (feminist philosophy), U of M
March 6: Joe Levine (mind), UMass
March 13: Jeremy Fantl (ethics/epistemology), U of Calgary
March 20: Rob Shaver (ethics), U of M
March 27: Dave Davies (philosophy of art), McGill

Some other times in the winter: Dimitrios, Neil.

Patricia Churchland will be delivering two talks in the first week of February as part of the Connor Lecture Series!

GNOSIS Call for Papers

Call for Papers:

Gnosis is a graduate-student-run journal out of Concordia University's philosophy department. We accept submissions from both graduate and undergraduate students, and publish at least twice per year. Our next deadline for submissions is *September 30th*, 2008.

GNOSIS is interested in publishing articles across the whole range of philosophical topics and positions.

Gnosis is also accepting book reviews (2000 word maximum) for books published within the last year.

Our website address is: http://alcor.concordia.ca/~gnosis/Gnosis/
Papers can be submitted online to: gnosis@alcor.concordia.ca

*Guidelines*
- Submissions may be in either English or French.
- There is no set word limit, but those submissions under 7000 words are favoured.
- Please keep footnotes to a minimum. Page references should be included parenthetically in the flowing text.
- Please submit your text in a 1.5 line spacing using a uniform sized font (12 pts). Extended quotations should be indented and single spaced.
- Please save your document as either an .rtf file or a Microsoft Word Document.
- *Incomplete submissions will not be considered.*
- *Submissions will not be returned.*

If you are submitting by mail:

- *Please include on a covering page only*, your full name, address, email address, title of your paper, plus word count and # of pages. In addition, please indicate which institution you are affiliated with and your current level of studies (UG, MA, PhD).
- Please include *both* a digital version of your document (MS Word or .rtf) saved on a PC-compatible diskette (the diskette must be identified with your coordinates); *and* a hard copy of your paper.

If you are submitting by e-mail:

- *Please include:* your full name, address, email address, title of your paper, plus word count and # of pages.
- Your article must be e-mailed as either an .rtf file attachment, or a Microsoft's Word Document attachment.
- Please send all submissions to gnosis@alcor.concordia.ca, with "Gnosis Submission" in the subject line **

All submissions received after this deadline will be considered for the subsequent issue.
All manuscripts and correspondence must be sent to:
*GNOSIS*
Concordia University, Phil. Dept.
1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd.
WestMontreal (Quebec)
Canada
H3G 1M8

We are sorry, Gnosis cannot be responsible for documents lost in transit.

Department Council Student Committees

Hey all.

Laurie has asked me to organize the student component of the department council. There are five committees requiring student representation: Appeals, Vetting, Enrollment, Visiting Speakers, Undergrad Courses/Program Changes.

The final committee requires two student representatives, for a total of six. Three of these need to be graduate students, and three undergrad. The president and vice president of the philosophy club fill two of these. Anyone who served on a committee last year is more than welcome to continue, since no student committee met last year.

There's a short meeting this Friday at 2:30, in the University College PDR. If you'd like to participate, could you please respond to this post.

Thanks a lot.

Speaker Schedule for 2008-09

Below is an updated speaker schedule:

September 19: Scott Forschler (ethics), Northland CTC
October 3: Chris Tillman (metaphysics), U of M
October 17: Esa Diaz-Leon (mind), U of M
November 7: Tom Hurka (ethics), U of T
November 21: Derek Brown (mind/metaphysics), U of B

Some other time in the fall: Carl

January 16: Jessica Wilson (metaphysics), U of T
February 13: Esa Diaz-Leon (feminist philosophy), U of M
March 6: Joe Levine (mind), UMass
March 13: Jeremy Fantl (ethics/epistemology), U of Calgary
March 27: Dave Davies (philosophy of art), McGill

Some other times in the winter: Dimitrios, Rob, Neil.

I don't know who's in charge of philosophy club these days so I thought I'd just post this here. I hereby encourage whoever is in charge of philosophy club, provided there is such a person, to schedule student talks for unclaimed Fridays. Please let me know what the philosophy club decides to do re: talks.

First Philosophical Friday Talk

Scott Forschler was kind enough to make his paper, "Morality as a System of Conditional Norms", available before the talk. If you'd like a copy, please email me.

First Philosophy Friday of the Term!

We will have a speaker this Friday: Dr. Scott Forschler from Northland Community and Technical College will give a talk entitled "Morality as a System of Conditional Norms". It's Friday Sept 19 in 237 UC at 2:30. A reception will follow, then dinner. We have a limited number of slots for student meals. If you're interested in going to dinner with Scott for free, please email me.

WCPA

Who's going to the WCPA?