CFP Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference

The 16th annual

Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Physics Graduate Conference

will take place on Thursday-Friday, June 9-10, 2016, at the

University of Western Ontario

in London, Ontario, Canada.

We are pleased to announce that

James Ladyman (University of Bristol)

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 13th 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). Co-authored papers are not eligible for submission.

Deadline: Papers should be submitted via EasyChair by February 22nd, 2016. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lmp2016

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. Also, two travel bursaries for underrepresented groups will be offered this year.

The 2016 LMP Conference will be immediately followed by the 20th annual Philosophy of Physics Conference.

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

Please send any questions to the LMP Conference Committee: uwolmp

We look forward to receiving your submission,

– The 2016 LMP Conference Committee

2016 LMP Call For Papers.pdf

2nd CfP: Context dependence in language, action and cognition

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

The 1st Context, Cognition and Communication Conference
June 15-18, 2016, Warsaw

The theme of the first CCC conference is: “Context dependence in language, action and cognition”. We invite papers related to this topic, falling in the areas of philosophy of language, philosophy of action, philosophy of mind, epistemology, natural language semantics, pragmatics, cognitive science, theoretical linguistics, semiotics, formal philosophy and philosophical logic.

The topics may include, but are not limited to:

– aspects of the contextualism-minimalism and contextualism-relativism debates,

– issues of formal representations of context and conversational dynamics,

– topics in the logic and semantics of indexicals and demonstratives,

– analysis of the concept of background knowledge,

– the problem of the roles of context in pragmatic inferences,

– motivations for classical and non-classical approaches to mental and linguistic contents,

– the impact of contexts on propositional attitude attributions,

– the nature of context effects in cognition and language processing.

The following scholars have accepted our invitation to address the conference as plenary speakers:

Genoveva Marti (ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona)

Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

John Perry (Stanford University and University of California, Riverside)

Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham)

The conference will take place on June 15-18, 2016, and will be hosted by the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw. We invite submissions for 45-minute talks. A one-page abstract of maximum 500 words should be sent by email (to: ccc) by the 1st of February, 2016. The abstract, in the pdf format, should be prepared for a blind peer review.

After the conference, the authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of the conference papers to a special monograph or journal issue (details to be announced in the upcoming months).

More information can be found at the conference website:

http://ccc-conference.org/

The conference is organized jointly by:
Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw and Centre for Philosophical Research

The organising committee:

Tadeusz Ciecierski (Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw & Centre for Philosophical Research)
Paweł Grabarczyk (Institute of Philosophy, University of Łódź & Centre for Philosophical Research)

Call for submissions – LSE Human Rights Blog upcoming series on Race

Dear all

LSE Human Rights Blog is planning a series on Race, and is looking for a wide variety of submissions.

Best wishes

Sara

Sara Ulfsparre

Centre Manager (Acting) and MSc Human Rights Administrator

Centre for the Study of Human Rights

London School of Economics

Houghton Street

London WC2A 2AE

http://www.lse.ac.uk/humanrights

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WBM Lecture

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Nominations now open for the 2016 prize Online version | Mobile version Dear Subscriber, Nominations are now open for the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture 2016. The winner will present a lecture relevant to the social function, philosophy or history of science and will receive a medal and personal award. Previous winners include Melvyn Bragg and Roger Highfield. Nominate a candidate for this prize The deadline for nominations is 1 February 2016. For full details please visit our website. See the full list of awards for which we are seeking nominations. Stay in touch: Email newsletters | Blogs | Podcasts | RSS | Twitter | Facebook The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG Registered Charity No 207043 Amend your details | Unsubscribe from emails

Call For Papers – Kanthropology: Kant’s Anthropology and its Legacy

Kanthropology ============= Kant’s Anthropology and its Legacy CRMEP Graduate Conference 2016 19-20th May 2016 Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University, London, UK. Keynote Speakers

Alternative forms of financing discussion forum

The LSE SU Ethical Finance Society is pleased to announce this term’s discussion, “Alternative forms of financing: effects on systemic stability and regulation in the capital markets”, at 6pm-8pm on Wednesday 9th December in TW1.2.01. This is a small size, highly interactive event and three academics from the LSE Systemic Risk Centre will be joining us for a discussion and debate on the topic. Our confirmed academics are as follows:

• Kevin James, Chief Economist’s Department, Policy, Risk, and Research Division at the Financial Conduct Authority
• Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematics and Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London<http://imperial.ac.uk/>, Director of the CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/quantitativefinance/>and co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Financial Analytics and Computing<http://www.financialcomputing.org/>
• Morgane Fouché, Research Assistant at the LSE Systemic Risk Centre with a special focus on Global Liquidity and Debt Sustainability

Examples of the alternative forms of financing that will be discussed include P2P lending, credit unions, crowdfunding and further, FinTech. These platforms are experiencing rapid growth. Our discussion revolves around the potential impacts of such growth on systemic stability.

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1529959170662724/

Yours sincerely,

Jonathan Lehner,

Chairman of the LSESU Ethical Finance Society

Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

CALL FOR REGISTRATION

Ninth Annual Cambridge Graduate Conference on the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic

Conference dates: 16th-17th January 2016

Keynote speakers: Prof Richard Heck (Brown) and Prof Marcus Giaquinto (UCL)

Venue: St John’s College, Cambridge

In addition to the two keynote speakers there will be six talks from graduate students on a variety of topics in the Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic, broadly construed. The graduate papers will have respondents, and the talks will be followed by open discussion.

Registration is open to anyone and will close on Tuesday the 5th of January.

To register for the conference, please follow the link on the conference website:
http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/events/camb-grad-conf-2016

For any questions about the conference or registration, please contact the conference organisers Fredrik Nyseth and Luke Cash at cam.phil.grad.conf.

We would like to thank the Analysis Trust, the Aristotelian Society, the British Logic Colloquium, the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, the Mind Association, St John’s College Cambridge, and the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Cambridge for their generous support of the conference.

Alternative forms of financing discussion forum

The LSE SU Ethical Finance Society is pleased to announce this term’s discussion, “Alternative forms of financing: effects on systemic stability and regulation in the capital markets”, at 6pm-8pm on Wednesday 9th December in TW1.2.01. This is a small size, highly interactive event and three academics from the LSE Systemic Risk Centre will be joining us for a discussion and debate on the topic. Our confirmed academics are as follows:

• Kevin James, Chief Economist’s Department, Policy, Risk, and Research Division at the Financial Conduct Authority
• Rama Cont, Professor of Mathematics and Chair in Mathematical Finance at Imperial College London<http://imperial.ac.uk/>, Director of the CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance<http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/quantitativefinance/>and co-Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Financial Analytics and Computing<http://www.financialcomputing.org/>
• Morgane Fouché, Research Assistant at the LSE Systemic Risk Centre with a special focus on Global Liquidity and Debt Sustainability

Examples of the alternative forms of financing that will be discussed include P2P lending, credit unions, crowdfunding and further, FinTech. These platforms are experiencing rapid growth. Our discussion revolves around the potential impacts of such growth on systemic stability.

Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1529959170662724/

Yours sincerely,

Jonathan Lehner,

Chairman of the LSESU Ethical Finance Society

Christmas Holiday activities for LSE students

The carol concert will take place in the Shaw Library on Wednesday 9th December 2015, 5:30pm. All staff and students are welcome.

The Chaplain’s Christmas drinks party will take place at 9pm on Christmas Eve in Bankside House, and will be followed by reserved seating for Midnight Mass at St Paul’s Cathedral.

Thank you very much!

Becky

Rebecca Hardie
Faith Centre Coordinator

LSE Faith Centre
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7955 7234

lse.ac.uk/faithcentre
facebook.com/LSEFaithCentre
blogs.lse.ac.uk/faithcentre

ChristmasEvePoster_2015.pdf

CarolServicePoster2015.pdf

2016 Pitt-CMU Graduate Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS

18th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Philosophy Conference

"Rules"

The graduate students of the University of Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University invite graduate students to submit papers to our 18th annual graduate philosophy conference, on the topic of "Rules." The conference is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, the Department of History & 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 date: April 9-10, 2016 at the University of Pittsburgh

Keynote Speaker:

Edward Zalta

Senior Research Scholar

Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)

Faculty Speaker:

John Norton

Distinguished Professor of History & Philosophy of Science

University of Pittsburgh

Submission deadline: January 22, 2016

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 Rules. Rules play a central role in contexts as disparate as ethics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, game and decision theory, political philosophy, mathematical and philosophical logic, and the philosophy of language. The questions surrounding rules are just as wide ranging. What, if any, are the norms guiding ethical reasoning? What makes a good, appropriate, or fruitful rule of inference in logic? How do we analyze the rules of learning, especially in the case of induction? To what extent do linguistic practices codify rules and patterns of thought or vice versa? What are the norms of rationality and how do they relate to empirical data as well as broader epistemological concerns? This conference aims to explore rules in their many guises.

– All submissions must be prepared for blind review. The paper must have no identifying information and must include 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 by January 22, 2016.

– Accepted papers will be announced in mid-February 2016.

Paper submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pitthpscmu18.

Further information: http://www.hss.cmu.edu/philosophy/pitt-cmu-gradconference/

Questions: PittCMUConference2016

CFP.pdf