Philosophy@Western

Dean's Announcement: Lagerlund Next Chair

It is my pleasure to announce that Professor Henrik Lagerlund has accepted the post of Chair, Department of Philosophy. His appointment is effective July 1, 2011; he will serve a five-year term.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Henrik for taking on this important task. This is a significant contribution to the Department, and to the Faculty.

I look forward to working with Henrik, and invite you to join me in congratulating him on the appointment.

Best

Michael

 

Henrik Lagerlund

UWO Philosophy Undergraduate Conference

Greetings!

I hope that you might join us for this year's annual Philosophy Undergraduate Conference! This year we aimed for an emphasis on philosophy of science, though of course we were open to any quality submissions, and thus accepted a few outside those parameters.

This Friday, March 18, our key-note, Ruth Millikan, will be presenting a talk entitled The Tangle of Biological Purposes that is Us. The talk will be held in room 1145 in Stevenson Lawson at 3:30, and will be followed by a dinner at the Curry Garden, 374 Richmond Street, for six o'clock.

 Tea and light refreshments will be available in the common room half an hour before the key note address, so come and join us for a quick word with Dr. Millikan before her talk!

Saturday, March 19 will feature our student speakers. Much like the key note event, the student talks will be held in room 1145.

 A light breakfast will be served at 9:30, followed by three talks, and a lunch at 12:30. There will be a further two talks, and finally a dinner at Gambrinus for five o'clock to close off the conference. Gambrinus is the new name of Chancey Smith's, located at 130 King (part of the Covent Garden Market).

Student paper titles include, in the order of delivery, Unbalanced Places - Darwin's Economy of Nature and Historicity, Baby Name Trends as an Example of Clark's Cross, Philosophy, Hegemony, and Climate Science, Feminism and Rational Choice Theory, and, finally, A Survey of Descartes' Eucharistic Theology.

We hope that you are able to join us!

Feel free to email us here at [email protected] for more information regarding specifics!

Kyle Sarrasin

Director of the School of Thought

Undergraduate Philosophy Society

University of Western Ontario

CSWIP Request for Submissions

CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR WOMEN IN PHILOSOPHY 

CONFERENCE 2011, University of Victoria: 
Friday (pm) October 14 - Sunday (am) October 16 
http://www.cswip.ca

THEME: Global Justice, the Environment, and the Economy 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Laura Westra, Professor Emerita (Philosophy),
University of Windsor 

The Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy invites papers from all areas
of philosophy related to the theme of the conference. There are many
possible topics, the following being just a small sample:
• Conceptions of nature and the environment in the history of philosophy.
• The ethics and politics of food.
• Property and freedom.
• Aesthetics and the environment.
• Global justice and the role of international law.
• Controversial science: debating environmental research.
• Social, cultural, ethical, and political constructions of nature and the
environment.
• Capitalism and distributive justice.
• Shared contexts, shared worlds: families, communities, environments.
• Moral standing / moral consideration beyond humanity?
• Egalitarianism: local, national, global.
• Philosophical implications of biotechnology.
• Gender justice and climate change.
• Environmental science and the role of values.

SUBMISSIONS:
Standard submissions:
Submissions of long abstracts (1000 words) are invited (for eventual
presentation-papers not exceeding 3000 words). Please email the abstract as
both a double-spaced Word.doc and also as a RTF attachment, prepared for
anonymous review. Please note: this requires that you remove all
identifying-author tags from your document content and file properties.
Please include your full contact information in the email only (not with the
abstract). Submission deadline: midnight Eastern time, Friday April 1, 2011.
Submissions from graduate students wishing to be considered for the CSWIP
Graduate Award:
This newly instigated award gives special recognition to an outstanding
paper to be read by a graduate student at the CSWIP annual conference. The
Award will be announced at the conference. To be eligible the student must
be registered in a graduate degree programme and not yet have been awarded a
PhD by the time of the CSWIP submission deadline for the conference.
Submission deadline: Both the long abstract of 1,000 words and the completed
paper (not exceeding 3,000 words) must be prepared for anonymous review
(which requires that you remove all identifying-author tags from your
document content and file properties). Both the long abstract and the
completed paper must be submitted simultaneously by midnight Eastern time,
Friday April 1, 2011. Email the abstract and the paper as two separate
attachments. Please email as both a double-spaced Word and also as a RTF
attachment. Please include your full contact information in the email only
(not in the paper or with the abstract) and indicate in the email that you
wish to be considered for the CSWIP Graduate Award.

 
Please do not reply to this email to send submissions. All submissions to be
sent electronically to the review coordinator:
Dr. Kathryn Norlock,
Department of Philosophy, Trent University,
Peterborough, Ontario
at: [email protected]
 
Call for nominations for the CSWIP Award Committee: CSWIPAwardCommNom.pdf

 


 

Hobbes Workshop at Western

Hobbes on Law,  May 20-21, 2011 (all day Friday and half the Saturday).

The participants will be:

Arash Abizadeh (McGill, Political Science)
David Dyzenhaus (Toronto, Law and Philosophy)
Claire Finkelstein (Pennsylvania, Law and Philosophy)
Evan Fox-Decent (McGill, Law)
Michael Green (Ponoma, Philosophy)
Kinch Hoekstra (Berkeley, Political Science and Law)
Dennis Klimchuk (UWO, Philosophy and Law)
Margaret Martin (UWO, Law)
Alice Ristroph (Seton Hall, Law)
Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University, Philosophy)
Lars Vinx (Bilknet, Philosophy)
Arthur Yates (UWO, Philosophy)

Topics to be covered will include Hobbes on... toleration, punishment, the authority of law, and equity.  

I’d like to ask that you let me know relatively soon if you think you’d like to attend, Dennis Klimchuk, [email protected]

Rotman Talk this Friday

The Rotman Institute of Philosophy 2010-2011 Speaker Series presents:

The Difference Between Ice Cream and Nazis: The Evolutionary Function of Moral Projection
Kyle Stanford (University of California Irvine)

March 4, 2011
3:30pm-5:00pm EST
University of Western Ontario, The Chu International Centre, Student Services Building (WSS) 2130

This lecture will be streamed live online at http://www.rotman.uwo.ca/, where you can also find full details.

Note that last month's talk by Colin Howson will be available soon on YouTube.

I hope you can join us for this talk,

Rob