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Month: March 2017
London Museum-University Partnerships Initiative: Match event 21 March 2017
The Museum-University Partnerships Initiative (MUPI) project is funded by Arts Council England and developed in partnership between the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement, Paddy McNulty Associates, and Share Academy. Its purpose is to maximise the potential for museums and universities to work together and one strand of activity involves hosting nine regional ‘match’ events across England. Each MUPI Match involves museum staff, volunteers, and academics working together to find mutually beneficial ideas that they would like to develop together. Participants can then bid for up to £1000 ‘thinking funding’ – to enable them to do desk research; have conversations; test ideas; and work together to plan their potential project. This thinking funding provides a critical part of the process, helping people to work out if and how to work together and refine their ideas. Teams will then be supported to develop their partnership, and find effective ways to fund their project in the future.
The London region MUPI match event will take place from 10am-4.30pm on Tuesday 21 March at the Museum of Docklands. For further information and to apply for a place, please visit: https://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/events/london-region-mupi-match-event-museum-docklands-london
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London Spinoza Circle: Friday 10 March 2017 – Julie Klein on Language, Reason,and Intellect in Spinoza
At the the next meeting of the London Spinoza Circle we are pleased to have Julie Klein (Villanova University) who will present a paper on "Language, Reason,and Intellect in Spinoza" on Friday 10th March, 2 – 4pm (Note change from usual time).
Dreyfus Room, via 26 Russell Square, Birkbeck College, London WC1B 5DT. The Dreyfus Room is on the top floor of the adjacent building.
In this paper, I review Spinoza’s critique of language to show that he thinks words are inadequate for, and may even render us unable to pursue, scientia intuitiva. Coming to terms with Spinoza’s division between language and intellection brings us face to face with a position that separates him from many recent thinkers: he does not take the linguistic turn. Spinoza’s critique of language also raises a difficult question for us as readers: If words are inapt for intellectual knowing, what is the point of a text like the Ethics? The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus offers us three models of texts: Scripture, Euclid’s Elements, and “the true original text of Scripture,” which Spinoza identifies with the human mind. I argue that the text of the Ethics is not Spinoza’s “philosophy” but rather points us toward it. As linguistic and as rational, the Ethics offers cognitive training to strengthen the mind’s power of inference, but it does not present knowledge of the third kind. This, I argue, is the sense of Spinoza’s claim in Ethics 5p28 that a striving or desire for the third kind of knowing can arise from the second kind of knowing and not the first. In the final section of the paper, I explore the differences between the second and third kinds of knowing and focus on the break between the former and the latter. I argue, ultimately, that the third kind of knowing is distinguished by its immediacy, which radically exceeds both the first and second kinds of knowing.
John Heyderman
London Spinoza Circle
https://londonspinozacircle.wordpress.com/
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Philosophy and religion event
Philosophy Without Borders: Religion and Philosophy in the African, Chinese, Greek, Indian, and Islamic Traditions.
In Association with ‘The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps’ Project www.historyofphilosophy.net
King’s College London, Strand Campus
13:30-18:00 Wed 15th March
Room S-2.08
This one-day conference at King’s College London brings together a number of acclaimed scholars to discuss the relationship between religion and philosophy in a variety of traditions across the globe. How is philosophical thought influenced by religious views and practice in different cultures and civilizations? How did the relationship between the two develop throughout ages in different parts of the world? How do philosophical and theological arguments differ or relate?
13:30 Prof. Bill Brewer and Prof. Raphael Woolf (KCL)
Welcome
13:45 Dr. Katherine Swancutt (KCL)
China – Making Religion and Philosophy at the Ethnic Borderlands of China
14:30 Dr. Jessica Frazier (Oxford/Kent)
India – Title TBC
15:15 Dr. Shaul Tor (KCL)
Greece – Natural theology? Early Greek philosophy and religion
16:00-16:30 Refreshment Break
16:30 Dr. Alena Rettova (SOAS)
Africa – Between the Past and the Future: Cross-Sections of Religion and Philosophy in Africa
17:15 Prof. Peter Adamson (KCL/LMUM)
Islam – Was Islamic Theology a Kind of Philosophy?
18:00 Close
This event is open to all with no pre-registration required. Please note, however, that due to capacity limitation in the lecture theatre admission will be granted on a first-come, first-served basis.
For full details please see:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/eventrecords/2016/Philosophy-Without-Borders.aspx
https://www.facebook.com/events/161064887739143/?active_tab=about
Call for Papers: 33rd Conference on the History and Philosophy of Science – Metaphysics and the Laws of Nature
Call for Papers
Metaphysics and the Laws of Nature
October 13-15, 2017
University of Colorado in Boulder
Keynote Speakers
David Albert, Alyssa Ney, & Michael Tooley
We are now accepting submissions for the 33rd Conference on the History & Philosophy of Science!
We invite submissions on any historical or contemporary topic, from either a scientific or philosophical perspective, regarding the laws of nature. Aiming for both depth and breadth, we welcome cutting-edge work at any level of specificity or generality.
Faculty interested in presenting are invited to submit an abstract of 500-1000 words. Graduate students are invited to submit full papers of 3000-4000 words. All submissions should be prepared for blind review, and should be suitable for 30-40min sessions. Submissions are due June 1, 2017 and should be sent as an email attachment in pdf format to heather.demarest. Acceptances will be announced by July 15, 2017. For additional information, please check the conference website: heather.demarest.
Graduate stipend: Graduate students are encouraged to submit a paper; those whose papers are accepted will receive a modest stipend of $100 to help offset travel expenses.
The Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science at University of Colorado at Boulder is co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado College of Arts and Sciences, and the Foster Endowment.
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Final CFP: VIII Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy
As is now customary, the Political Theory Group at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) will hold its yearly Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy. This eighth edition will take place on June 8-9 2017. Deadline for abstract submissions is April 10.
The Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy have established a reputation in the past editions for providing scholars with an excellent opportunity to present both advanced and exploratory work to a welcoming audience. Graduate students, junior researchers and senior scholars are welcome to submit their work.
We would be very grateful if you could announce our second call for papers (hereby attached) and distribute it.
This year’s keynotes will be Prof. Alison Jaggar (U. Colorado Boulder/U. Birmingham) with the talk Other worlds are possible—but which are gender just? and Prof. Gustaf Arrhenius (Stockholm University/Institute for Futures Studies) with the talk The Democratic Boundary Problem.
You can find further information abut this year’s event at http://meetingsethicspoliticalphil.weebly.com/.
Please, do not hesitate to contact us for any further inquiry.
With kind regards,
The Organising Committee
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