Call for Papers: 2016 UK Kant Society Annual Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2016 UK KANT SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Kant, Normativity, and Naturalism

5-6 September 2016

University of Southampton

How should we understand normativity and its relation to the natural world? Is it true that the scientific representation of nature ultimately has no room for normative phenomena? How, if at all, can such phenomena be ‘naturalized’? Do they need to be? The dominant terms in which these problems continue to be framed owe an enormous debt to Kant. This conference aims to explore the problem of normativity and naturalism in Kant’s own work, to probe Kant’s legacy in shaping current approaches to the problem, and to envision afresh the contribution his thought may yet make. The conference welcomes papers on all themes related to Kant’s philosophy, and in particular hopes to foster debate on the above.

Keynote Speakers:

Hannah Ginsborg (University of California, Berkeley)

Marcus Willaschek (Goethe-Universität)

Kenneth Westphal (University of Boğaziçi)

Call for Papers:

Papers are invited from academics and postgraduate students on any aspect of Kant’s philosophy, though submissions dealing specifically with the conference theme are encouraged.

If you are interested in giving a presentation, please complete this kant.conference.southampton

Submission deadline: 1st of June.

We aim to announce which papers have been accepted by 21st of June.

Contact information:

For further information, please email the UKKS Local Conference Convenors, Sasha Mudd (A.R.Mudd) and Lucas Thorpe (lthorpe) or the UKKS Conference Convenor, Alberto Vanzo (alberto.vanzo).

Institutional conference page: southampton.ac.uk/philosophy/news/events/2016/09/05-kant.page

Sponsorship:

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the British Academy Newton-Celebi Trust. This conference is organised in association with the British Academy funded project "Agency and Autonomy: Kant and the Normative Foundations of Republican Self-Government".

‘Virtue Theory and the Medio-Passive Agent’ – End of Year Conference 17-18 June 2016

We are delighted to invite you to our upcoming end of year conference, entitled ‘Virtue Theory and the Medio-Passive Agent’, which will be held in the Wolfson Conference Room, at Senate House in London, on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th June 2016.

This conference is the third of a series of events organised in the context of an AHRC-funded project, ‘The Ethics of Powerlessness: The Theological Virtues Today’ (Principal Investigator: Prof. Béatrice Han-Pile; Co-Investigator: Dr Dan Watts). The project started in July 2015 and will run for three years. Its aim is to investigate the nature of human experiences of powerlessness and to clarify the ethical challenges that arise from them, especially in contexts of palliative and end-of-life care.

This event shall gather together philosophers, working at the intersection of virtue theory and the philosophy of action, to discuss whether and how the idea of medio-passive virtues can be made theoretically coherent and practically applicable. The adjective ‘medio-passive’ is a reference to the Greek middle voice. In ancient Greek, one of the main uses of the middle voice – the so-called ‘ eventive’ use – was to indicate that the action is not under the full control of the agent but part of a more general process which befalls the agent. As noted by J. Gonda, a man taking a spouse would use the active voice, ‘γαμέω’, followed by an accusative, to say ‘I marry [you]’; but a woman in the same situation would use the middle voice, ‘γαμέομαι’, followed by a dative, to indicate that her taking a husband is also her being given away to him through marriage. In the same spirit, medio-passive virtues would be virtues the exercise of which requires both activity and passivity from the part of the agent. So conceived, the idea of medio-passive virtues promises to help overcome a problematic dichotomy in our ethical thinking: between agents, as those who do things, and patients, as those to whom things are done.

I attach a poster for the conference, and would be grateful if you could circulate both the poster and this email to your staff and graduate students. Attendance to the conference is free, but places are strictly limited and therefore registration is required. For more information and to register please visit our website.

Sarah Grant

Administrator

The Ethics of Powerlessness

School of Philosophy and Art History

University of Essex

powerlessness

01206 872717

EoP Conference Poster.pdf

Ralph Miliband Programme – summer term events programme

LSE	Ralph Miliband Programme Progress and its Discontents	Summer 2016
Wednesday 4th May, 6:30-8 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building LSE The New Politics of State, Class and Trade Union Power Speaker: Frances O’Grady With organised labour under attack and a new economy making working life tougher, are there opportunities for unions to reclaim ground? Frances O’Grady is General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
Tuesday 17th May, 6:30-8 pm, LSE campus, venue TBC to ticket holders Rebuilding the Politics of Hope Speaker: Jeremy Corbyn MP Trust and belief in politicians is low, while the crash has broken the idea that each generation will be better off. How can we rebuild hope? Jeremy Corbyn MP is Leader of the Labour Party. This event will be ticketed.
Monday 6th June, 6:30-8 pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE Europe and the Left Speakers: Tariq Ali and Lisa Nandy MP The referendum sometimes seems like a debate between two types of conservatism. What are the leftwing arguments for and against British membership of the EU? Tariq Aliis a writer, filmmaker and an editor of New Left Review. Lisa Nandy MPis Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
All events are free and open to all. Unless stated otherwise seats are allocated on a first come first served basis. If you have any queries please contact m.goodfellow

Summer Term Library Training

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Call for abstracts 7th International Students’ Conference Contemporary Themes in Philoso phy Junior

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to inform you that For the 7th year in a row the Association of Philosophy Students “Furija” is organising the International Students’ Conference for students of philosophy and other social sciences entitled Contemporary Themes in Philosophy Junior. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Croatia.

Would you be so kind to inform students in your departement. In the attachement there is the call for papers.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Dorijan Žunić

president of he Association of Philosophy Students “Furija”

Call for abstracts Junior 2016.pdf