Announcements about upcoming philosophy events, such as conferences, workshops, and so on. Events must have a website and must have multiple speakers to be included.EpistemeLinks, Inc.http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxen-USSun, 06 Apr 2008 11:19:03 -0400 http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxInternational Interdisciplinary Summer School "Reductionism and Emergence"
http://www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de/unseld-lecture/summer-school/
Location: FORUM SCIENTIARUM, University of Tuebingen
Country: Germany
Start Date: 5/5/2009 End Date: 5/9/2009
Description: Twenty graduate students from all over the world will have the opportunity to discuss questions on the topic of reductionism and emergence with distinguished researchers of various subjects. The first two days are chaired by Professor Michael Heidelberger, Philosophy, and Professor Nils Schopohl, Physics. These sessions will focus on readings assigned to the students in advance. The third day is reserved for a colloquium at which Robert Laughlin will debate with colleagues from physics and philosophy. Following the colloquium, the participants of the summer school will take an excursion. The fourth and fifth day will be directed by Robert B. Laughlin who will introduce his works on the topic of emergence and discuss these with the participants.

]]>Reductionism and EmergenceSun, 06 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxPhilMiLCog 2008
http://philmilcog.googlepages.com/home
Location: University of Western Ontario
State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada
Start Date: 5/24/2008 End Date: 5/25/2008
Description: Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Cognitive Science. See webpage for CFP. Submission deadline: April 4th, 2008

]]>PhilMiLCogSun, 16 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxThe Atlas Society's 19th Annual Summer Seminar
http://www.atlasevents.org/2008_summer_seminar.html
Organization: The Atlas Society
Location: Portland State University
State/Province: Oregon Country: USA
Start Date: 6/28/2008 End Date: 7/5/2008
Description: The Summer Seminar is the annual showcase event of The Objectivist Center, TAS's research and training division, and features introductory and advanced courses on Objectivism; lectures on philosophy, art, politics, history, and other topics; and workshops that teach participants how to put Objectivist principles into practice in their own lives.

]]>Atlas Society's Summer SeminarSun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxEidos metaphysics conference
http://www.philosophie.ch/eidos/events2008/eidosmc.shtml
Location: University of Geneva
Country: Switzerland
Start Date: 7/15/2008 End Date: 7/18/2008
Description: This major metaphysics conference will be broken down into four main themed sections over four days, covering a wide range of topics within the area: Object and Property, Time and Change, Modality and Essence, Meta-metaphysics.

]]>Eidos metaphysics conferenceSun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxKazimierz Naturalism Workshop '08
http://www.obf.edu.pl/en/Naturalizm-w-Kazimierzu/Kazimierz-Naturalism-Workshop-08.html
Organization: UMCS, PAN, & CPR
Location: Kazimierz Dolny
Country: Poland
Start Date: 9/6/2008 End Date: 9/10/2008
Description: Naturalism is currently the most vibrantly developing approach to philosophy, with naturalised methodologies being applied across all the philosophical disciplines. While discussions over the appropriateness of naturalist assumptions are ongoing, many philosophers are simply forging ahead with a range of interdisciplinary projects that show how philosophy and various sciences such as biology, psychology and cognitive science can work hand in hand. The workshop aims to further the development of naturalism through focussed, friendly discussion in the relaxed atmosphere of a picturesque historical town.

]]>KNEW '08Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxWhat is Second Nature? - Reason, History, Institutions
http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/eviancolloquium/
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
Location: Evian
Country: France
Start Date: 7/13/2008 End Date: 7/19/2008
Description: Human beings have always understood themselves as beings that are not (merely) natural in certain respects. It is in this theoretical context (among other things) that the invocation of the idea of "second nature" becomes interesting as a possible alternative to that of culture. For what distinguishes the idea of second nature is its insistence that the irreducibly expressive and self-constituting activities of human beings should be understood as broadly natural phenomena, not solely cultural ones. The wide variety of determinations of the concept of second nature brought forward in the course of Western thought from Aristotle through Hume and Hegel to Bourdieu and McDowell (to mention only a very small selection of thinkers), can be arguably captured in terms of the three concepts of reason, history, and institutions. But different philosophical traditions and systematic options intersect in multiple ways in the course of reflecting on the idea of second nature. The 14th International Philosophy Colloquium Evian invites philosophers to consider and discuss these intersections in an intensive and collective way, transgressing the narrow confines of particular schools and traditions in philosophy. The passive mastery of French, German, and English (the three languages of discussion of the colloquium) is an indispensable prerequisite for its participants.

]]>What Is Second Nature?Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainEven.aspxGranada Workshop on Language and Emotion
http://www.ugr.es/~fmmanriq/language&emotion.html
Location: University of Granada
Country: Spain
Start Date: 9/22/2008 End Date: 9/23/2008
Description: The workshop aims at providing a forum to discuss philosophical and theoretical developments on the relation between language and emotion. Language is relevant for the study of emotion in several aspects. One of them is the possible influence of the linguistic expression of emotional states on those states themselves. Is language a mere expressive device of independently formed states, or is it constitutive of at least some emotion-types? Related to this point is the issue that many emotions seem to demand an intentional object –in many cases a propositional object articulated as a judgment. There is considerable debate whether conceptual judgments are a necessary component of certain emotions. If one holds the view that emotions themselves must be understood as propositional attitudes and, at the same time, thinks that propositional attitudes bear a strong relation to public language sentences, then language will reveal much about the nature of emotion. Alternatively, one may conceive of each major emotion as an affect program –perhaps a sort independent module. But even if one rejects the propositionalist view, language can return to center stage in trying to understand the relation between such affective processing and the rest of the cognitive life, particularly when questions about intermodular integration are addressed. Does language play, as some suggest, a relevant integrative role, and if so, does it shape emotions themselves? On the other hand, to the extent that figurative language is said to be involved in the conceptualization of emotion, its metaphoric expressions will disclose much of its structure. Must the theories of emotion abide by our ordinary language intuitions? What consequences would it have for the theses of the universality/diversity of emotions? Relations between language and emotion thus provide a fascinating meeting point for questions pertaining to the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, cognitive science, or linguistics.

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