PhD Studentships Trinity College Dublin​

The department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin invites applications for a number of PhD studentships in Philosophy,

through the Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scheme,

to begin in September 2015.

Preference will be given to students whose proposed projects fall into one of the following areas of specialisation:

· Ancient Philosophy (especially Plato and Aristotle)

· Austrian and Polish Philosophy

· Epistemology

· Moral and Political Philosophy

· History of Analytic Philosophy

· History of Logic

· Kant (moral and theoretical philosophy)

· Medieval Philosophy

· Metaphysics and Ontology

· Phenomenology (in particular problems of intentionality, non-existence, the self and theories of perception an consciousness)

· Philosophical Logic

· Philosophy of Engineering

· Philosophy of Language

· Philosophy of Mathematics

· Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

· Philosophy of Religion

Details of the Irish Research Council scholarships are available here: http://research.ie/scheme/government-ireland-postgraduate-scholarship-scheme-2015-call-now-open

The Deadline is 4th February 2015.

For informal enquiries, please contact Professor Lilian Alweiss Email: alweissl

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CFP: Brave New World 2015

Brave New World 2015: Call for Papers

We invite submissions for Brave New World 2015, the nineteenth annual postgraduate conference organised by the Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT). The conference will take place on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th of June 2015 at the University of Manchester.

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers this year will be:

• Jeff McMahan (University of Oxford, Oxford): “Proportionality in Defense Against Inflictors of Many Small Harms”

• Serena Olsaretti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona): TBA

The Brave New World conference series is a leading international forum dedicated to the discussion of postgraduate research in political theory. Participants will have the chance to meet and talk about their work with eminent academics, including members of faculty from the University of Manchester as well as the guest speakers who will deliver plenary addresses.

Guest speakers in previous years have included: David Archard, Richard Arneson, Brian Barry, Simon Caney, G.A. Cohen, Roger Crisp, Cecile Fabre, Jerry Gaus, Bob Goodin, Peter Jones, Chandran Kukathas, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Susan Mendus, David Miller, Onora O’Neill, Michael Otsuka, Bhikhu Parekh, Carole Pateman, Anne Phillips, Thomas Pogge, Joseph Raz, Andrea Sangiovanni, Samuel Sheffler, Quentin Skinner, Hillel Steiner, Adam Swift, Philippe Van Parijs, Leif Wenar, Andrew Williams and Jonathan Wolff.

Submission guidelines:

The deadline for submissions is 30 April 2015. If you would like to present a paper, please send an abstract of approximately 400 words in MS Word format and prepared for blind review to brave.new.world. Please also state your name and institutional affiliation in the email. Papers focusing on any area of political theory or political philosophy are welcome.

Notices of acceptance will be sent by 8 May 2015.

We offer a number of bursaries for presenters to cover accommodation and travel expenses. These will be allocated according to need. If you wish to be considered for a bursary, please say so when submitting your abstract and state where you will be travelling from and any other sources of funding you have available to cover costs. For further details please contact us at brave.new.world.

PhD funding: BSPS Doctoral Scholarship

** BSPS DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP COMPETITION 2015

Upcoming CFP Deadline: 2015 Pitt-CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference

Call For Papers

17th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference
"Varieties of Rationality"
The graduate students of the University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University invite graduate students to submit papers to our 17th annual graduate philosophy conference, on "Varieties of Rationality" co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh, and the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University.

Conference setting: 20-21 March, 2015 at the Carnegie Mellon University.

Keynote speaker:
Cristina Bicchieri
Professor of Philosophy and Psychology
University of Pennsylvania

Faculty speaker:
Karl Schafer
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Pittsburgh

Submission deadline:
11 January, 2015 at 11:59 p.m.

Submission information:

Submissions of high quality in any area of philosophy will be considered. This year we encourage papers focused especially on the topic of Rationality. Rationality has a central place in areas as diverse as ethics, decision theory, philosophy of science, philosophy of action, epistemology, philosophy of mind and feminist philosophy. The idea has also been of paramount importance to a variety of figures throughout the history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Aquinas, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Habermas, Wittgenstein, and Kuhn, to name just a few. What is it to be rational? Is there a formal model for the behavior of rational agents? Is rationality an individual or a collective notion? This conference aims to explore the varieties of rationality at play within philosophy, their connections, and their differences.

– All submissions must be prepared for blind review. The paper must have no identifying information and must include at the top an abstract of no more than 250 words.
– Submitted papers must be no more than 4500 words in length.
– Submitted papers must be received as .doc, .docx or .pdf files no later than 11 January, 2015.

To submit papers, follow instructions at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pitthpscmu15.

Questions may be directed to PittCMUConference

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CFP: Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference

The 14th annual

Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and

Physics Graduate Conference

will take place on Thursday-Friday, June 4-5, 2015, at the

University of Western Ontario

in London, Ontario, Canada.

We are pleased to announce that

Elaine Landry (University of California-Davis)

will be giving the keynote address.

Call for Papers

Graduate students who have not yet defended their PhD thesis are invited to submit

papers on any topic in philosophy of logic, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of physics.

Papers in philosophy of physics will be considered for the 12th Annual Clifton Memorial

book prize. The contest will be adjudicated by philosophy of physics faculty members at Western.

Submission Guidelines

The maximum paper length is 5,000 words, including footnotes and appendices (but not

references). If the paper includes tables, figures, or equations, an appropriate number

of words should be subtracted from the limit. Papers are to be prepared for anonymous

review, and should be accompanied by an abstract (no longer than 300 words). Coauthored papers are not eligible for submission.

Deadline: Papers should be submitted via EasyChair by February 22nd, 2015. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lmp2015

Authors of accepted papers will be limited to 30-35 minutes for presentation, followed by

a 20-minute period of discussion. We will endeavour to make accommodations available

to all visiting graduate students. This year, the 2015 LMP Conference will precede the

annual Philosophy of Physics Conference, taking place June 6.

Additional information can be found on our website: http://logicmathphysics.ca

Please send questions to the LMP Conference Committee: uwolmp

We look forward to receiving your submission,

– The 2015 LMP Conference Committee

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