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?

Winter Seminar

My winter honours/grad seminar is currently listed as TBA. Well, I can finally end the suspense. The topic is Contemporary European Philosophy: From Hegel to Habermas. We'll look at a number of continental figures, including Freud, Marx, Adorno, Foucault and Habermas. We're going to do some big thinking about life and death and human society but also get down in the weeds and analyse arguments. It's going to be fun. Anyone who wants more information or needs permission to enroll, contact me.

Question, Question

1. Are John and Adam still the president and vice president of the Philosophy Club?

2. Is there any timetable for the upcoming term's Philosophical Fridays?

I'd like to present, of course, so I need to know who to be asking...

Thanks.

WCPA Call for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS
2008 Western Canadian Philosophical Association Conference

October 24-26th 2008
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Keynote Speaker: Stephen Darwall, Yale University (who was here http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sdarwall/ and now is here http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/7272.htm)

Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome.

Electronic submissions only, .pdf is preferred. Please include in your submission the paper(maximum 4000 words), a short abstract (maximum 150 words), and your name, e-mail, and academic affiliation (if any).

We also welcome, and indeed encourage, proposals for panels and author-meets-critics sessions. All such proposals should include a theme and abstracts of proposed papers (abstracts for panel papers should be 750-1000 words). Please also include the email addresses and affiliations of potential participants. All participants must be committed to attending if the proposal is accepted.

We will present a student essay prize for the best student paper presented at the meeting. If you are eligible for the prize, please mention this with your submission.

Please send submissions to wcpa08@ualberta.ca by JULY 15, 2008.

We will also be soliciting commentators, so we welcome self-nominations at the same address.

http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~wcpa08