Segnalo l'uscita del fascicolo 3/2005 di Bioetica. Rivista interdisciplinare

Promossa dalla Consulta di Bioetica ed edita dalla Guerini & Associati,
Bioetica. Rivista interdisciplinare è diretta da Maurizio Mori e Demetrio Neri.

Il fascicolo 3/2005 è dedicato alla discussione dei risultati del recente
referendum sulla legge sulla procreazione medicalmente assistita.
Interventi di: Richard Ashcroft, Nicola Attadio, Maurizio Balistreri, Giuseppe
Benagiano, Emilio Dolcini, Antonino Forabosco, Eugenio Lecaldano, Ada Masucci,
Simone Pollo, Alberto Revelli, Marina Salvi, Barbara Tessadori, Roberto Weber,
Carlo A. Viano.

La rivista può essere acquistata presso le librerie Feltrinelli e nelle maggiori
librerie, oppure on line all'indirizzo http://www.guerini.it/scheda.asp?id=1362

Per maggiori informazioni su Bioetica. Rivista interdisciplinare:
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CALL FOR PAPERS

Accountability, Responsibility, and Integrity in Development: The Ethical
Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond

Contributions are invited for the Seventh International Conference on Ethics
and International Development, organized by the International Development
Ethics Association with the Ethics and Public Management Programme, Faculty
of Arts, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.

Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, July 19-22, 2006

Plenary speakers will include:
         Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
         Thomas Pogge, Columbia University
         Edward Wamala, Makerere University
         One further speaker from Africa (to be announced)

Principal themes:
A. Development Ethics - Theory and Practice
B. Accountability: Good Governance, Empowerment, Exclusion
C. Responsibility and Globalization
D. Fostering Integrity and Accountability in Development and Governance
E. Peace and Conflict in the Developing World
F. The Teaching of Development Ethics and Ethics in Public Management -
Sharing
     Experience, Widening and Strengthening the Network

Discussion of gender issues in each theme is welcome.  For elaboration of
conference themes, choose "Conference Themes" at
www.development-ethics.org/default.asp?cid=5012&sid=5022.

Proposals should include an abstract of 500 words with the application form,
which is also accessible at
www.development-ethics.org/default.asp?cid=5012&sid=5022.

Early consideration:  Proposals received by December 15, 2005 will be
answered by January 31, 2006.

Deadline for receiving proposals: January 31, 2006.

Complete papers are due by March 15, 2006.  Papers should be written in
English, no longer than 6000 words plus references, formatted (for inclusion
in the conference CD-rom) with 1.5 line spacing, fully justified, pagination
at the bottom center, and with end notes instead of footnotes.

Proposals from within Africa should be sent to the Conference Coordinator,
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Makerere University, P.O. Box
7062, Kampala, Uganda or by email to brukooko@....

Funding for travel and per diem is available for up to 15 paper presenters
from African countries outside Uganda.

Proposals from outside Africa should be sent by email to
Jay_Drydyk@...

Dal Comunicato Stampa MIUR:

"Il Consiglio dei Ministri ha approvato oggi, su proposta del Ministro
Letizia Moratti, un decreto legge contenente importanti e urgenti
disposizioni in materia di università e ricerca.

"In particolare", ha spiegato il Ministro, "sono stanziati 32 milioni di
euro, finalizzati alla attivazione di assegni biennali di ricerca nelle
università, che consentiranno di immettere quasi 2000 giovani ricercatori in
programmi di ricerca nei settori strategici per il Paese. Questo
provvedimento si aggiunge alle altre iniziative finalizzate a una politica
universitaria a favore dei giovani. Ricordo tra le altre", ha aggiunto il
Ministro, "l'aumento dei dottorati e degli assegni di ricerca da 3.000 a
8.000, che ci ha consentito di arrivare ai livelli di Paesi quali la
Germania e la Francia; lo stanziamento di 20 milioni di euro per borse di
studio dei prestiti d'onore e la realizzazione di 16.000 nuove residenze
universitarie".

Il decreto prevede inoltre una seconda norma, secondo la quale è consentita
la partecipazione agli esami di Stato per l'iscrizione all'albo dei dottori
agronomi e forestali, dei laureati in "Scienze e tecnologie zootecniche e
delle produzioni animali", nonché la partecipazione agli esami di Stato dei
laureati in "Scienze e tecnologie alimentari" per l'esercizio della
professione di tecnologo alimentare."

CALL FOR PAPERS
                     Third International Workshop on
                  PHILOSOPHY AND INFORMATICS (WSPI 2006)

                   May 3-4, 2006, Saarbrücken (Germany)
                       http://wspi2006.workshop.hm

                 Paper submission deadline: 16 January 2006


  The Third International Workshop on Philosophy and Informatics is organized
by the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information  Science
(http://ifomis.org) and the Special Interest Group on
  Philosophy and Informatics of the German Informatics Society
(http://philosophyandinformatics.org).

  GOAL OF THE PHILOSOPHY AND INFORMATICS WORKSHOP SERIES
The workshops are designed to encourage interdisciplinary exchange on the
philosophical foundations of informatics. They seek to bring  together
researchers from philosophy and informatics and neighboring disciplines in
order to explore common points of interest and to develop an interface
between the disciplines and a common vocabulary.
The workshop also serves as the annual meeting platform of the members of
the Special Interest Group on Philosophy and Informatics. The 2006 Workshop
has a special focus on the area of bio- and biomedical
  informatics.

  INTENDED AUDIENCE
Philosophers and informaticians/computer scientists or representatives of
related disciplines with an interest in the crossdisciplinary exchange of
ideas.

  WORKSHOP LANGUAGE
The workshop will be held in English.

  TOPICS
  WSPI 2006 focuses on bioinformatics, but contributions on philosophy
  and informatics in general are also invited. The main topics are:

    * Philosophical ontology in informatics, with special focus on
bioinformatics
      - Ontology, terminology, and taxonomy
      - The ontology of the Electronic Health Record
    * Philosophy and artificial intelligence
      - Knowledge in software
      - Reliability
      - Cognitions in software agents
    * Philosophical aspects of context in informatics and bioinformatics
    * The domain problem
      - Questions of isolation and transfer
      - Adaptation to logics
    * Philosophical contributions to knowledge representation in informatics
and bioinformatics
    * Epistemology in informatics and bioinformatics
    * Philosophical reflections on methods of evaluation in informatics and
bioinformatics

  SUBMISSIONS
  Workshop submission will be electronic, in pdf format only. A submission
system will be available at the workshop website in due time. Submitted
papers must not exceed 12 pages and should conform to
  Springer LNCS style (see below). Papers must be written in English.

  At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop
and present the contribution in order to be published in the workshop
proceedings.

  Formatting:
  Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX and the Springer llncs
  class files available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
  While the pages in the final camera-ready form of a paper must be
  unnumbered (this is the default in llncs style), numbered pages are
  preferred for reviewing. Page numbering can be turned on using the
  LaTeX command \pagestyle{plain}.

  Do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs for further questions:
  mailto:wspi2006@....

  Workshop proceedings:
  All accepted papers will be published as a technical report (with ISSN)
  as well as  electronically at http://CEUR-WS.org (for past workshops,
  see http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-130/, http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-112/).

  Review process:
  All submissions will be subject to review by the WSPI Program
  Committee. The workshop chairs and the organizing committee have final
  authority over the review process and all decisions relating to
  acceptance of papers. Review criteria include originality of ideas,
  technical soundness, significance of results, and quality of
  presentation. The intention is to have three reviews per submission.
  Notification of acceptance or rejection of submitted papers will be
  mailed to the corresponding authors.

  IMPORTANT DATES
     Submission deadline: 16 January 2006
     Notification of acceptance: 20 February 2006
     Camera-ready copy: 20 March 2006
     Workshop: 3-4 May, 2006

  WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
  The workshop schedule will be announced at the workshop website.

  WORKSHOP CHAIRS
     Prof. Ingvar Johansson,
     ingvar dot johansson (at) ifomis dot uni-saarland dot de
     IFOMIS, Saarland University, 66041 Saarbrücken, Germany

     Dipl.-Ing. Bertin Klein,
     bertin dot klein(at) dfki dot uni-kl dot de,
     DFKI GmbH, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany

     Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer,
     trb (at) dfki dot uni-kl dot de,
     University of Kaiserslautern / DFKI GmbH,
     Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 57, 67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany


  ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
     Prof. Gregor Büchel, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany
     PD Dr. Ruth Hagengruber, University of Paderborn, Germany
     Prof. Barry Smith, IFOMIS, Saarbrücken, Germany

  PROGRAM COMMITTEE
     Stephan Baumann, Competence Center Computational Culture, DFKI
     Paul Buitelaar, Competence Center Semantic Web, DFKI, Germany
     Werner Ceusters, European Centre for Ontological Research, Germany
     Luciano Floridi, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK
     Pierre Grenon, IFOMIS, Saarland University, Germany
     Nicola Guarino, Lab. for Applied Ontology, Trento, Italy
     Pascal Hitzler, AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
     Norbert Jastroch, MET Communications GmbH, Bad Homburg, Germany
     Klaus Kornwachs, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology, Cottbus, Germany
     Carsten Lutz, University of Dresden, Germany
     Jürgen Müller, Univ. of Cooperative Education, Mannheim, Germany
     Steve Probert, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom
     Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
     Christophe Roche, University of Savoie, France
     Francis Rousseaux, IRCAM, Paris, France
     Stefan Schulz, SCE, Carleton University, Canada
     Marcus Spies, University of Munich, Germany
     Boris Wyssusek, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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  ...         8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning        ...
  ...        September 4-7, 2006 in Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey       ...
  ...                     http://2006.eccbr.org                      ...
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                Dr. Thomas Roth-Berghofer - Senior Researcher
                         Technical Director NEPOMUK
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     TU Kaiserslautern        Bld. 57, Room 384               DFKI GmbH
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  mailto:trb (at) dfki.uni-kl.de        http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~roth/





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*** FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT ***

University of Kentucky
Third Annual Prize Essay Competition in
European Philosophy from Kant to the Present


TOPIC:  Is Constitutional Democracy Indissociable from the Nation-state or
Nation-state Formation?



This question may be addressed historically, systematically, or through any
combination of these two approaches.  The winning essay will receive a prize
of $1000 and, upon recommendation of the selection committee, be published
in Inquiry.  The author of the winning essay will also be brought to the
University of Kentucky in the Fall of 2006 to present it.

The winner of the first two annual Prize Essay Competitions were Dr. Sami
Pihlström (University of Helsinki) and Dr. Robert Guay (Barnard College) for
their essays “Recent Reinterpretations of ‘The Transcendental’ Revisited”
(Inquiry 47, No. 3 [June 2004]) and “The ‘I’s Have It: Nietzsche on
Subjectivity” (forthcoming in Inquiry).

Essays will be judged by a process of blind review.  Submissions should be
appropriately formatted for such a process, with the author's name and other
identifying information appearing only on a separate cover sheet.  Essays
should be double spaced, in English, and no more than 8000 words in length.
Past and present faculty and students at  the University of Kentucky are
ineligible to compete.  Submissions should not have been previously
published or submitted for publication.

The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2006.  Essays should be submitted
in triplicate in typed (hard copy) form to Ms. Katie Barrett, Department of
Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506-0027 USA.  No
electronic submissions please.



**************************
Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0027
Phone: 859-257-1861
Fax:     859-257-3286




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Causality and Motivation

1st workshop of the interest area "Causality and Motivation"

Mitteleuropa Foundation, Bolzano (Italy), April 20-21, 2006

The "Causality and Motivation" research group is one of the three
interest areas of SophiaEuropa, a project of <a
href="http://www.metanexus.net/metanexus_online/index.asp">Metanexus
Institute</a> in conjunction with leading universities in Europe, made
possible by the support of the <a href="http://www.templeton.org/">John
Templeton Foundation</a> (USA).

This workshop is the first in a row and will have a mainly explorative
purpose. Further events, explicitly focused on specific aspects of
Causality and Motivation will follow.

If you are interested in attending the workshop and/or contributing your
own ideas, please send an email (with a two-page abstract in attachment
if you intend to give a presentation) to <a
href="mailto:roberto.poli@...">Roberto Poli</a> before March
15.


Rationale

The belief is widely held that the physical world is causally-driven.
The world is one because a tangled web of causally-driven processes
keeps it together. The actual world is the way it is, because it is the
causally-driven outcome of its previous states. However, both the
psychological and the social worlds cannot be articulated in causal
terms only. Hereby, "motivation" is used as the most general term
referring to whatever keeps (synchronically) together and provides
(diachronic) reasons explaining the behavior of psychological and social
systems.

Biology does not fit easily with either picture. Organisms are part and
parcel of nature but they cannot be reduced to a complex web of physical
causes, causes that can merely explain the "mechanical" side of such
organisms. No serious scholars deny that organisms contain and are based
on many mechanisms. However, it cannot be argued that organisms are
nothing else than (collections of) mechanisms. Something more is needed.
At the same time, motivation does not work for organisms. Again,
something else is needed.

This section of the project will address basic category issues. The aim
is to sketch at least some fragment of the conceptual framework needed
for understanding the various types of realities populating the world
and their interrelations.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
. Levels of reality (the material, the psychological and the
social realms); their interconnections and their internal organization
(the connection between physics and chemistry within the material
stratum is different from the connection between art and politics within
the social stratum);
. Emergence, supervenience, complexity;
. Forms of causality (the classical billiard-ball form of
causality is understood as only one of many different types of
causation; network and field-like types should be considered, together
with upward ("emergence") and downward (from higher to lower levels)
types, and who know how many other types as well);
. Types of motivation (taking decisions, building projects,
planning, etc.);
. The concepts of person and agent;
. Biological, psychological and social forms of anticipation
("future-driven" behavior as opposed to "past-driven" behavior).


Selected list of talks

Roberto Poli (Trento). Systemic Preliminaries to Causality and
Motivation

After distinguishing four main ontological types of systems (material,
biological, psychological and social) I shall submit them to a
finer-grained classification organized along different dimensions
(open-closed, computable-non-computable; reactive-adaptive;
deterministic-non-deterministic; etc). The main outcome of this exercise
will be the distinction among three main families of systems: simple,
complex, and hyper-complex. The concept of hyper-complex systems will
then be spelt out in some details and the thesis will be defended that
biological, psychological and social systems are all hyper-complex
systems.


Johanna Seibt (Aarhus). Levels of Reality and Forms of Interactivity

The main purpose of the talk is to show that different levels of reality
can be distinguished in terms of forms of interaction between the
components of that level. I introduce a basic relationship of generative
composition defined on processes. I rehearse common arguments for a
non-reductive approach in the philosophy of mind and the ontology of
social structures and show that these arguments crucially draw on
characteristic forms of interaction between the entities at that
'level'. I then show how one might define these various characteristic
forms of interaction (causation, functional dependency, circular and
reciprocal dependencies, weakly and strongly entangled agency) as
species of process composition.


Jean-Michel Roy (Lyon). Motivation and the Exclusion Problem

The exclusion problem is the thesis that functionalism deprives
psychological properties of any non redundant causal efficacy. I want to
analyse the possible roots the exclusion problem might have in the
conception of psychological causality in which it is framed.
Accordingly, the general question I want to address is whether the
concept of motivation, which has frequently been opposed to the concept
of causality, could offer a viable way out of the difficulty. This
question, in turn, raises four main problems: (1) How should the notion
of motivation be exactly understood, and how does it differ from
mainstream conceptions of causality, while retaining a necessary causal
or efficacious component? (2) Is it theoretically and empirically
relevant for a theory of cognition? (3) Can it be itself naturalized,
and how? (4) Does it eliminate the source of the exclusion problem?


Liliana Albertazzi (Trento). Causation: A Subjective Integration on Data
Driven Information

Laboratory research shows that the structural characteristics of certain
dynamic events involving the perception of causation constitute the
origin of conceptual categories expressed linguistically by causatives
of the type 'launching', 'entraining', 'avoiding', etc.  My intention is
to show that the perception of causation is based on specific
spatio-temporal structures, to which one can connect the
conceptualizations relative to the differences in meaning among the
terms expressing mechanical causation, or among the terms expressing
movements which manifest intentional sentiments.


Zbigniew Kotulski (Warsaw), Human and Software Agent Analogies. How IT
Attempts to Solve this Problem?

Every human being is an individual, distinguishable item, something
which is a whole; sometimes she wants to be anonymous, sometimes she
wants to be explicitly seen and presents herself to other beings. She
lives somewhere and moves around in the environment. She may both keep
secrets and present certain information to her audience. Human beings
have will, collect information and make decisions. They reacts to other
human beings. These reactions can be typical or individual, cooperative
or adversative. Finally, human beings may react to their partners'
feelings. I shall enquiry whether and to what extend software agents
could behave in the same way.


Angela Ales Bello (Lateran University, Rome). Causality and Motivation
according to Edmund Husserl and Edith Stein

My contribution will be dedicated to the comparative analysis of
Husserl's Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and Edith Stein's
Beitraege regarding the meaning of the two notions, in order to discuss
their interpretation in contraposition with a positivist point of view.


Antonio Russo (Trieste). The man and his "naturale Neigung" according to
Franz Brentano.

The main purpose of my talk is to investigate the impact of Blaise
Pascal on Franz Brentano. I shall consider in particular Brentano's Die
Bleibende Deutung der Lehre Jesu (1916) and some of his unpublished
writings on Modernism. I shall further analyse the differences between
Brentano, Schell and Blondel on this topic.


Antonio Clericuzio (Cassino). Mechanism and Vitalism in 17th-Century
Science

In my paper I will take into account two rival conceptions of matter and
life that were formulated in the 17th century, namely, the mechanical
and the iatrochemical. Mechanical philosophers explained human body in
terms of matter and motion. By contrast, iatrochemists described human
body as a chemical laboratory, the main physiological operations were
deemed as chemical reactions, that were conceived as qualitative
changes, produced by forces, vital principles (the so called archaei),
spirits and ferments. According to the chemical philosophers, matter is
active, or it is activated by some spiritual agent. In the last part of
my paper I will take into account Isaac Newton's physiological views,
which were based on aether and short range forces, marking a departure
from the orthodox mechanical philosophy.

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This workshop is the first in a row and will have a mainly explorative
purpose. Further events, explicitly focused on specific aspects of
Causality and Motivation will follow.

If you are interested in attending the workshop and/or contributing your
own ideas, please send an email (with a two-page abstract in attachment
if you intend to give a presentation) to <a
href="mailto:roberto.poli@...">Roberto Poli</a> before March
15.

****************************************************
Dr Roberto Poli, PhD
Editor-in-chief of Axiomathes, Springer. Submissions:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/axio/
Editor of Categories: http://www.polimetrica.com/categories/index.html
Papers and other information: http://www.mitteleuropafoundation.it
preferred e-mail: roberto.poli@...

Cari amici e colleghi,

in occasione del “Primo incontro nazionale dei docenti e degli
studiosi di filosofia della mente”, tenutosi a Cesano Maderno il 27-28
ottobre 2005 presso la Facoltà di Filosofia dell'Università Vita-
Salute San Raffaele (Milano), è stata costituita un’associazione
informale di cui si invitano a far parte tutti gli studiosi che, da
diverse prospettive, si occupano di filosofia della mente. Tale
associazione è stata denominata provvisoriamente Coordinamento
nazionale di filosofia della mente e delle scienze cognitive e si è
strutturata nominando un direttivo rappresentativo di diversi campi di
interesse e aree geografiche, così costituito:

Sandro Nannini (Coordinatore), Roberto Cordeschi, Michele di
Francesco, Simone Gozzano, Mario de Caro, Alfredo Paternoster,
Francesco Ferretti, Elisabetta Gola (vice-coordinatore).

Obiettivo dell’associazione è favorire la circolazione d’informazioni
e la promozione di scambi culturali sia tra studiosi singoli sia con
altre associazioni che si occupano di tematiche connesse alla
filosofia della mente e delle scienze cognitive tramite iniziative
come seminari, convegni, forum telematici e mailing list,
eventualmente pubblicazioni elettroniche o cartacee ecc.
A questo scopo si è deciso di organizzare almeno un incontro l’anno.
Inoltre si è proposto di far circolare, tramite la mailing list e il
(futuro) sito web dell’associazione, informazioni sulle iniziative
attivate nelle diverse facoltà e atenei concernenti, direttamente o
indirettamente, la filosofia della mente, nella sua accezione più
lata, ed il dialogo tra filosofia e scienze cognitive, anche queste
intese nella pluralità delle loro definizioni. Sarebbe particolarmente
interessante rendere disponibili sul sito le attività di ricerca in
corso, in particolare il lavoro di dottorandi e assegnisti, dei quali
si auspica la collaborazione per l’organizzazione della struttura e
dei contenuti della relativa area del sito.

Con questo messaggio si invitano pertanto tutti coloro che siano
interessati alla costituzione di tale coordinamento a far pervenire
informazioni sulle attività che in ciascuna facoltà sono rivolte allo
studio e alla didattica relativi alla filosofia della mente e delle
scienze cognitive e a dare diffusione della nascita di
quest’iniziativa a colleghi potenzialmente interessati.

Chi non fosse ancora iscritto a questa mailing list può farlo inviando
un messaggio a Elisabetta Gola (elisabetta.gola@...) e
chiedendo di essere inserito nella mailing list del Coordinamento
nazionale di Filosofia della mente e delle scienze cognitive.

Un cordiale saluto
Sandro Nannini
Università di Siena, Dipartimento di filosofia e scienze sociali
nanninis@...

*** Final Announcement ***

  University of Kentucky
  Third Annual Prize Essay Competition in
  European Philosophy from Kant to the Present


  TOPIC:  Is Constitutional Democracy Indissociable from the
Nation-state or Nation-state Formation?


  This question may be addressed historically, systematically, or
through any combination of these two approaches.  The winning essay
will receive a prize of $1000 and, upon recommendation of the
selection committee, be published in Inquiry.  The author of the
winning essay will also be brought to the University of Kentucky in
the Fall of 2006 to present it.

  The winner of the first two annual Prize Essay Competitions were Dr.
Sami Pihlström (University of Helsinki) and Dr. Robert Guay (Barnard
College) for their essays "Recent Reinterpretations of 'The
Transcendental' Revisited"  (Inquiry 47, No. 3 [June 2004]) and "The
'I's Have It: Nietzsche on Subjectivity" (forthcoming in Inquiry).

  Essays will be judged by a process of blind review.  Submissions
should be appropriately formatted for such a process, with the
author's name and other identifying information appearing only on a
separate cover sheet.  Essays should be double spaced, in English, and
no more than 8000 words in length.  Past and present faculty and
students at  the University of Kentucky are ineligible to compete.
Submissions should not have been previously published or submitted for
publication.

  The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2006.  Essays should be
submitted in triplicate in typed (hard copy) form to Ms. Katie
Barrett, Department of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, Lexington,
KY 40506-0027 USA.  No electronic submissions please.



  **************************
  Professor and Chair
  Department of Philosophy
  University of Kentucky
  Lexington, KY 40506-0027
  Phone: 859-257-1861
  Fax:     859-257-3286

Cari amici,
Egr./Gentili Proff.

in occasione dell'Anno Internazionale della Fisica WYP 2005,

L'AIF sezione di Latina in collaborazione con

L.S. "G.B. Grassi", Lt - I.P.S.A.A. "San Benedetto", Lt - L.S.-ITIS "G.
Marconi" - I.T.G. "A. Sani", Lt - L.S. "E. Majorana", Lt

Vi invita

al II° Convegno-dibattito:
UN EXCURSUS SULLA STORIA E SULLA STORIOGRAFIA DELL'EVOLUZIONE DELLE IDEE
SCIENTIFICHE, II^ PARTE

Martedì 06 Dicembre 2005 14.45-19.00
LS "G. B. Grassi", Latina
Tema dell'incontro: "La fisica e la matematica nei primi anni del XX sec."

Presiede
Prof. Anna Lucia SENERCHIA, D.S. LS "G.B. Grassi", Lt

Apertura dei lavori e Saluto
- Proff. DD. SS. BELLARDINI, DI BATTISTA, GIANCOTTI, MASCI,
DD. SS, Latina
- Prof. Raffaele PISANO, "Un progetto interscolastico a Latina: un anno di
lavoro", AIF Sezione di Latina

Relatori

- Prof. Ferdinando CASOLARO
"Quale geometria per lo spazio fisico?
Supervisore SICSI, Università di Napoli "Federico II";
Università del Sannio

- Prof. Domenica DI SORBO
"Problemi critici della scuola e dell'Università"
Ispettrice MIUR, ROMA

- Prof. Raffaele PISANO
“Il ruolo dei principi nella fisica-matematica di H.J.Poincarè. Riflessioni
epistemologiche"
Università di Roma “La Sapienza”; LS "G. Marconi", Latina

- Comunicazioni studenti:
L.S. "G.B. Grassi", Lt
L.S. "G. Marconi"
I.T.G. "A. Sani", Lt
L.S. "E. Majorana", Lt

19.00
Chiusura dei lavori

Buon lavoro,

PS: chiedo anticipatamente scusa per e-mail ripetute



Raffaele Pisano
Ph.D. st., University of Rome "La Sapienza"
raffaele.pisano@...
School Teaching: Physics, ITIS-LS "G. Marconi", (Lt);

Chief, "AIF sezione di Latina"
Homepage: http://www.historyofscience.it

"Il pensiero non rispetta le frontiere nazionali.Tuttavia le idee
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                         CALL FOR PAPERS

     8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning ECCBR 2006

                    Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey
                       4-7 September 2006

                     http://2006.eccbr.org/

          Paper Submission Deadline: 13 February 2006

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ECCBR 2006 is the 8th European Conference on Case-Based Reasoning
following a series of successful European conferences/workshops.
This four-day conference will be held in the conference center of
the Lykiaworld Resort hotel in Ölüdeniz/Fethiye, Turkey.

The ECCBR Industry Day starts the program, followed on the second
day by workshops devoted to specific areas of interest to the CBR
community. The remaining two days feature invited talks,
presentations and posters on both theoretical and applied research
in CBR. Announcements concerning these events will be posted at
the website.

Submission Topics
-----------------
The ECCBR 2006 Program Committee invites submissions of original
research and application papers on all aspects of Case-Based
Reasoning. We especially encourage submissions on new areas. Example
submission areas include, but are not limited to:

* Case and knowledge representation, acquisition, modeling,
   visualization, maintenance and management for CBR
* CBR system design issues (e.g., indexing, retrieval, similarity
   assessment, and adaptation)
* System architectures and integration of CBR with other methods
* Collaborative agent architectures involving CBR
* Learning and knowledge acquisition for CBR knowledge containers
* Analogical reasoning, cognitive models, and creative reasoning
   approaches based on CBR
* Formal, empirical, and psychological evaluations of CBR models
   and systems
* Methodologies for developing and maintaining CBR applications
* Lazy- (case/instance/memory-based) learning methods
* Case-based approaches to planning, scheduling, design and robot
   navigation
* Applications of CBR (e.g., in customer support, education,
   electronic commerce, pattern recognition, image processing, legal
   reasoning, manufacturing and medicine)
* Human Computer Interaction: Adaptive interfaces, user modeling,
   customization and personalization using CBR
* CBR-related areas (e.g., corporate memories, decision support,
   information retrieval, knowledge discovery, data mining, knowledge
   and experience management, software reuse and engineering redesign)
* Computer models of case-based argumentation
* Intelligent tutoring systems teaching or employing CBR
* Explanations and CBR
* Context and CBR
* Peer-to-Peer Networks and CBR
* CBR in the Semantic Web

Papers may be accepted for presentation as talks, or as posters.

Proceedings
-----------
All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings
published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence series (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/index.html).

Important Dates
---------------
February 13, 2006 Paper Submission Deadline
March 30, 2006 Acceptance notification
April 25, 2006 Camera-ready copy due

Conference Chairs
-----------------
Mehmet H. Göker, PwC (mehmet.goker at us.pwc.com)
Thomas R. Roth-Berghofer, DFKI (trb at dfki.uni-kl.de)

Local Chair
-----------
H. Altay Güvenir, Bilkent University
(guvenir at cs.bilkent.edu.tr)

Workshop Chair
--------------
Mirjam Minor, University of Trier
(minor at uni-trier.de)

Industry Day Chair
-------------------
Bill Cheetham, General Electric (cheetham at crd.ge.com)

Review Criteria
---------------
Submissions must be identified as either *research* or *application*
papers and will be reviewed using criteria appropriate to their
category. Review criteria for research papers will include scientific
significance, originality, technical quality, and clarity. Review
criteria for application papers will include practical or economic
significance, potential to lead to more powerful technology, technical
quality, and clarity.

Submission Procedure
--------------------
Authors must submit a full paper plus a title page by the submission
date. The title page must include: name(s) of the author(s); address,
phone number, fax number and email of the contact person; title and
abstract of the paper; a set of keywords; a statement whether the
submission is to be reviewed as a research paper or an application
paper.

The title page, the abstract and the text of the paper must be
submitted electronically through the ECCBR web site. You will find
details there in due time.


Submission Format
-----------------
Papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format
required for the final camera ready copy, with a maximum of 15 pages.
Authors instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are
available on the web: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.
All authors of accepted papers must transfer their copyrights to
Springer.

Multiple Submission Policy
--------------------------
Papers submitted to other conferences or journals must state this fact
on the title page. If a paper will appear in another conference or
journal, it must be withdrawn from ECCBR2006 before March 30, 2006.
This restriction does not apply to papers appearing in proceedings of
specialized workshops.

Author Registration Policy
--------------------------
In order for a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the
authors must register for the conference by the deadline for
camera-ready copy (April 25, 2006).

Program Committee Members
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* Agnar Aamodt, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
* David W. Aha, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
* Esma Aimeur, University of Montreal, Canada
* Vincent Aleven, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
* Ethem Alpaydin, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
* Klaus-Dieter Althoff, University of Hildesheim, Germany
* Josep Lluís Arcos, IIIACSIC, Spain
* Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Brigitte Bartsch-Spoerl, BSR Consulting, Germany
* Ralph Bergmann, University of Trier, Germany
* Isabelle Bichindaritz, University of Washington, USA
* Enrico Blanzieri, University of Trento, Italy
* L. Karl Branting, LiveWire Logic, Inc
* Derek Bridge, University College Cork, Ireland
* Stefanie Bruninghaus, University of Pittsburgh, USA
* Robin Burke, DePaul University, USA
* Hans-Dieter Burkhard, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
* Bill Cheetham, General Electric Co. NY, USA
* Susan Craw, Robert Gordon University, Scotland
* Michael Cox, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
* Pádraig Cunningham, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
* Belén Díaz-Agudo, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Kurt D. Fenstermacher, University of Arizona, USA
* Peter Funk, Malardalens University, Sweden
* Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* Andrew Golding, Lycos Inc, USA
* Pedro A. Gonzalez Calero, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
* Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Uni. do Vale do Itajai, Brazil
* Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, Canada
* David Leake, Indiana University, USA
* Ramon Lopez de Mantaras, IIIACSIC, Spain
* Michel Manago, Kaidara, France
* Cynthia R. Marling, Ohio University, USA
* Lorraine McGinty, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Bruce McLaren, CMU, USA
* David McSherry, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
* Erica Melis, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany
* Mirjam Minor, University of Trier, Germany
* Stefania Montani, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
* Hector Munoz-Avila, Lehigh University, USA
* Bart Netten, Delft University, The Netherlands
* David Patterson University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
* Petra Perner, Institute of Computer Vision and Applied CS, Germany
* Enric Plaza, IIIACSIC, Spain
* Luigi Portinale, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
* Alun Preece, University of Aberdeen, UK
* Lisa S. Purvis, Xerox Corporation, NY, USA
* Francesco Ricci, ITC-irst, Italy
* Michael M. Richter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
* Edwina Rissland, University of Massachusetts/Amherst, USA
* Rainer Schmidt, Universitat Rostock, Germany
* Barry Smyth, University College Dublin, Ireland
* Raja Sooriamurthi, Indiana University, USA
* Armin Stahl DFKI, Germany
* Jerzy Surma, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
* Henry Tirri, University of Helsinki, Finland
* Brigitte Trousse, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
* Ian Watson, AI-CBR, University of Auckland, New Zealand
* Rosina Weber, Drexel University, USA
* Stefan Wess, empolis, Germany
* David C. Wilson, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
* Nirmalie Wiratunga, Robert Gordon University, Scotland
* Qiang Yang, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 University of Texas, Austin Graduate Conference in Philosophy
April 14-15, 2006

Submission deadline: February 1, 2006

The theme this year is: Thoughts, Words, and Objects

Plenary Addresses:
Dean Zimmerman, Rutgers University, TBA
Jason Stanley, Rutgers University, "The Average American"

Faculty roundtable discussion titled "Abstract Objects" with:
Josh Dever, Rob Koons, and Mark Sainsbury, University of Texas, Austin

We welcome submissions from graduate students on any philosophical
subject, analytical or historical.  We are especially interested in
papers addressing or otherwise connected to issues regarding the
conference theme, viewed as covering most areas of metaphysics,
philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.  Possible topics
include but are not limited to:

Material constitution
Endurantism and perdurantism
Vagueness
Linguistic content
Mental content
Intentionality
Mereology
Semantics of proper names, mass nouns, etc.
Quine, Lewis, Chisholm, et al. on thoughts, words, and/or objects
Ancient, Medieval, and Modern theories of thoughts, words, and/or objects

Submission Guidelines:  All papers submitted by graduate students will
be considered. Papers should not exceed 3,000 words or roughly 30
minutes reading time. Submissions should include a brief abstract and
be prepared for blind review. Please include a detachable cover page
with the paper's title and the author's name, email address, mailing
address, telephone number, and school affiliation. Please omit any
self-identifying marks within the body of the paper. Papers may be
submitted via mail or email (email preferred; use .doc, .pdf, or .rtf
format). AUTHORS OF ACCEPTED PAPERS WILL BE AWARDED A MODEST STIPEND
TO HELP DEFRAY TRAVEL COSTS. Please send submissions to:


PGA Conference 2006
Attn: Tim Pickavance
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Philosophy
1 University Station C3500
Austin, TX 78712-0310

UTGraduateConference@...


For more information, contact Tim Pickavance at UTGraduateConference@...

Sponsored by: UT Department of Philosophy; The Texas Cowboys
Lectureship; and UT College of Liberal Arts

THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY

THE WRITINGS OF SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

St Hilda's College, Oxford, April 7 – 9, 2006


SPEAKERS

Slavoj Žižek (Birkbeck Institute of Humanities)
Lacan as Reader of Hegel

Tere Vadén (University of Tampere)
Zizek's Phenomenology

Jorge Sacido-Romero (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Zizek's Logic of Anamorphosis

Sebastian Carrasai (Indiana University)
Laclau, Negri, Hardt and Žižek: Three Theoretical Frameworks Applied to the
Argentine Crisis of December 2001.

Thomas Wall (National Taipei University of Technology)
Changing the Subject

Sarah Kay (University of Princeton)
Narrative and the Act

Robert Pfaller (University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz and the
Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
Interpassivity and Misdemeanors: the Analysis of Ideology and the Žižekian
toolbox

Alberto Toscano & Lorenzo Chiesa  (Goldsmiths College, University of London
& The Jan van Eyck Academie)
The Discourse of the Capitalist and the Discourse of the Democrat


Full details and registration forms can be found on the BSP web-site:

           http://phenomenology.marjon.ac.uk/conference.htm


N.B. There will be a special session immediately prior to the conference
organised around a discussion of selected texts relevant to the conference.
This is intended primarily for postgraduate students.

Incontro pubblico del SAPF Seminario Aperto di Pratiche Filosofiche sul
tema "Comunicazione e Prepotenza", evento inserito all'interno del Salone
dell'Editoria della Pace.

       L'incontro avrà luogo MARTEDI' 6 DICEMBRE presso il Teatro dei Frari.
http://www.liberaidea.org/content/view/4/9/

       Nell'incontro del 6 dicembre proporremo un'autopresentazione del Seminario
aperto di pratiche filosofiche. In un primo momento verranno innanzi tutto
illustrate (collegialmente) le regole della comunicazione biografico-solidale,
quindi i membri del seminario comunicheranno, servendosi prevalentemente di
letture e musiche, quello che per loro rappresenta l'esperienza del seminario e
indicheranno il tema e le pratiche che vorrebbero fossero messe al centro
dell'attività del seminario stesso. Seguirà un momento di meditazione guidata
(meditazione sul respiro), al cui termine, in un terzo e conclusivo momento,
affronteremo insieme a tutti coloro che saranno presenti il tema "Comunicazione
e prepotenza", mettendo al centro dell'attenzione un argomento sul quale
l'accordo tra i partecipanti sia tutt'altro che scontato.

       Per qualche notizia in più sul Seminario...

       www.liberaidea.org

       Teatro dei Frari
       Calle drio l'Archivio
       San Polo 2424/Q
       Venezia





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Cari amici,
Egr./Gentili Proff.

in occasione dell'Anno Internazionale della Fisica WYP 2005,

L'AIF sezione di Latina in collaborazione con

L.S. "G.B. Grassi", Lt - I.P.S.A.A. "San Benedetto", Lt - L.S.-ITIS
"G. Marconi" - I.T.G. "A. Sani", Lt - L.S. "E. Majorana", Lt

Vi invita

al II° Convegno-dibattito:
UN EXCURSUS SULLA STORIA E SULLA STORIOGRAFIA DELL'EVOLUZIONE DELLE
IDEE SCIENTIFICHE, II^ PARTE

Martedì 06 Dicembre 2005 14.45-19.00
LS "G. B. Grassi", Latina
Tema dell'incontro: "La fisica e la matematica nei primi anni del XX sec."

Presiede
Prof. Anna Lucia SENERCHIA, D.S. LS "G.B. Grassi", Lt

Apertura dei lavori e Saluto
- Proff. DD. SS. BELLARDINI, DI BATTISTA, GIANCOTTI, MASCI,
DD. SS, Latina
- Prof. Raffaele PISANO, "Un progetto interscolastico a Latina: un
anno di lavoro", AIF Sezione di Latina

Relatori

- Prof. Ferdinando CASOLARO
"Quale geometria per lo spazio fisico?
Supervisore SICSI, Università di Napoli "Federico II";
Università del Sannio

- Prof. Domenica DI SORBO
"Problemi critici della scuola e dell'Università"
Ispettrice MIUR, ROMA

- Prof. Raffaele PISANO
"Il ruolo dei principi nella fisica-matematica di H.J.Poincarè.
Riflessioni epistemologiche"
Università di Roma "La Sapienza"; LS "G. Marconi", Latina

- Comunicazioni studenti:
L.S. "G.B. Grassi", Lt
L.S. "G. Marconi"
I.T.G. "A. Sani", Lt
L.S. "E. Majorana", Lt

19.00
Chiusura dei lavori

Cari amici e colleghi,



in occasione del "Primo incontro nazionale dei docenti e degli studiosi di
filosofia della mente", tenutosi a Cesano Maderno il 27-28 ottobre 2005
presso la Facolta' di Filosofia dell'Universita' Vita-Salute San Raffaele
(Milano), e' stata costituita un'associazione informale di cui si invitano a
far parte tutti gli studiosi che, da diverse prospettive, si occupano di
filosofia della mente. Tale associazione e' stata denominata
provvisoriamente Coordinamento nazionale di filosofia della mente e delle
scienze cognitive e si è strutturata nominando un direttivo rappresentativo
di diversi campi di interesse e aree geografiche, cosi' costituito:



Sandro Nannini (Coordinatore), Roberto Cordeschi, Michele di Francesco,
Simone Gozzano, Mario de Caro, Alfredo Paternoster, Francesco Ferretti,
Elisabetta Gola (vice-coordinatore).



Obiettivo dell'associazione e' favorire la circolazione d'informazioni e la
promozione di scambi culturali sia tra studiosi singoli sia con altre
associazioni che si occupano di tematiche connesse alla filosofia della
mente e delle scienze cognitive tramite iniziative come seminari, convegni,
forum telematici e mailing list, eventualmente pubblicazioni elettroniche o
cartacee ecc.

A questo scopo si e' deciso di organizzare almeno un incontro l'anno.
Inoltre si è proposto di far circolare, tramite la mailing list e il
(futuro) sito web dell'associazione, informazioni sulle iniziative attivate
nelle diverse facolta' e atenei concernenti, direttamente o indirettamente,
la filosofia della mente, nella sua accezione piu' lata, ed il dialogo tra
filosofia e scienze cognitive, anche queste intese nella pluralita' delle
loro definizioni. Sarebbe particolarmente interessante rendere disponibili
sul sito le attivita' di ricerca in corso, in particolare il lavoro di
dottorandi e assegnisti, dei quali si auspica la collaborazione per
l'organizzazione della struttura e dei contenuti della relativa area del
sito.



Con questo messaggio si invitano pertanto tutti coloro che siano interessati
alla costituzione di tale coordinamento a far pervenire informazioni sulle
attivita' che in ciascuna facolta' sono rivolte allo studio e alla didattica
relativi alla filosofia della mente e delle scienze cognitive e a dare
diffusione della nascita di quest'iniziativa a colleghi potenzialmente
interessati.



Chi non fosse ancora iscritto a questa mailing list puo' farlo inviando un
messaggio a Elisabetta Gola (elisabetta.gola@...) e chiedendo
di essere inserito nella mailing list del Coordinamento nazionale di
Filosofia della mente e delle scienze cognitive.



Un cordiale saluto

Sandro Nannini

Universita' di Siena, Dipartimento di filosofia e scienze sociali

nanninis@...

Gent.mi amici dello SWIF,

vi segnalo che il 9 e 10 dicembre prossimi si terrà
a Napoli un Convegno internazionale di studi su
José Ortega y Gasset in occasione del 50° anniversario
della morte.
Il programma del Convegno è consultabile al seguente
indirizzo:

www.filosofia.unina.it/conferenze.html

Un cordiale saluto.

Armando Mascolo

E' con grande piacere che presento tre nuovi membri della redazione dello
SWIF, ai quali do il benvenuto a nome di tutto lo SWIF.


Marcello Di Bello
Co-responsabile editoriale di FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy
(http://www.swif.it/foldop).
Marcello ha conseguito la laurea triennale in Filosofia nel 2004 con una
tesi dal titolo 'Argomenti Trascendentali e scetticismo in P.F. Strawson'
(Relatore, Sergio Galvan). Attualmente frequenta il Master (Msc) in Logica,
presso la Universiteit van Amsterdam, Institute for Logic, Language and
Computation. Per SWIF, ha fatto parte della redazione del servizio
recensioni e di FOLDOP.


Federica Russo
Responsabile editoriale di 2R - La Rivista di Recensioni filosofiche dello
SWIF (in preparazione).
Federica ha recentemente completato il dottorato di ricerca presso
l'Université Catholique de Louvain con una tesi sulla modellizzazione
causale nelle scienze sociali. E' stata visting scholar alla London School
of Economics e attualmente collabora con l'Evidence Project all'University
College London. E' gia’ membro della redazione dello SWIF come
co-responsabile editoriale di FOLDOP.


Andrea Sauchelli
Curatore del servizio "CxC - Calls for Comments"
(http://www.swif.it/biblioteca/cxc).
Andrea si e' laureato in Filosofia presso l'Università di Pisa con una tesi
su "Realismo e Modalità: la Nozione di Mondo Possibile tra Logica e
Metafisica" (relatore Mauro Mariani, correlatore Enrico Moriconi). E'
attualmente perfezionando (dottorando) presso la Scuola Normale Superiore di
Pisa (tutore Massimo Mugnai).


Sempre a nome dello SWIF, desidero inoltre ringraziare Elvio Nozza (CxC) e
Andrea Rossetti (servizio recensioni) e per l'ottimo lavoro svolto e per la
qualità della loro collaborazione.

Do a tutti il mio rinnovato benvenuto, con l'augurio di buon lavoro e di una
proficua collaborazione con la redazione SWIF.

Un saluto cordiale,

Luciano Floridi
___________________________________________________

Luciano Floridi
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Universita' degli Studi di Bari
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Wolfson College, OX2 6UD, Oxford, UK
http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/
http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/bari
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/

First Symposium on
Philosophy, History, and Methodology of
E.R.R.O.R*
*Experimental Reasoning, Reliability, Objectivity & Rationality:
Induction, Statistics, & Modeling

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
June 1-5, 2006

We learn from our mistakes. But are we learning enough?  Contributions to
this conference, whether philosophical, historical, statistical, and/or
methodological will all in some way reflect an aspect of "learning from
error," conceiving "error" very broadly, (e.g., mistakes of inference,
flawed methods, statistical errors, misspecified models, anomalous results,
erroneous verdicts, deceptions in nature, biases and fallacies). What kinds
of errors seem to matter most in improving method, advancing reliability,
avoiding threats (natural and man-made). How do/can we make progress in
building a "repertoire of errors" and techniques to circumvent, or
capitalize upon them?

Special Invited Speakers (thus far): Peter Achinstein (Johns Hopkins), Alan
Chalmers (Adelaide), Sir David Cox (Oxford), Clark Glymour (Carnegie
Mellon),  Henry Kyburg (Rochester), Larry Laudan (UNAM), Alan Musgrave
(Otago), John Worrall (LSE).

Executive Committee: A. Chalmers, D.R. Cox, C. Glymour, A. Spanos
Program/Planning/Publicity  Committee: C. Glymour, D. Mayo, C. Pinnick, D.
Rudge, K. Staley

We would like to invite suggestions for workshops** and contributed papers
in the form of  Poster sessions directly presenting a mixture of a brief
paper, tables, graphs, pictures, and other formats.
**One will be "Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge---10 Years On"

Directions for submissions are posted at www.error06.econ.vt.edu
Inquiries: error@... or jemille6@...
The Program Committee will begin reviewing submissions: November 30; final
date to receive submissions: January 6, 2006.  All accepted contributors
will have accommodation and partial travel expenses covered.


----------------------
Dr James Ladyman
Reader
Department of Philosophy
University of Bristol
9 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
0117 928 7609
James.Ladyman@...

A quanto pare non è un pesce d'aprile:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thomas Forster <T.Forster@...>
Date: Dec 5, 2005 9:58 AM
Subject: Re: [PL] invitation

Is this a spoof?  I do hope not.  I find the idea that Kant had a wasted
youth absolutely delicious.

On

Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Elo Pekka wrote:

> The 12th International Immanuel Kant Billiards Tournament Helsinki Thursday 15
December 2005
>
> We invitate you to participate in the 12th International Kant Billiards
Tournament. The game is 9-ball billiards. Easy-to-learn rules will be given
before the tournament.
>
> The event takes place at CORONA BAR (addr. Eerikinkatu 11) in the heart of
Helsinki from 7.30 PM.
>
> On the UNESCO international philosophy events in Finland are organized by the
AIIPh Baltic Sea Net, the Finnish UNESCO ASPnet, The Finnish Association for
Teachers of Philosophy and Philosophy of Life and Societas Philosophica Fennica.
The Kant billiards tournament is one of these events. During the occasion the
names of the Finnish training team for next year's philosophy olympiad will be
made public.
>
> As we all know, the most significant philosohper from Baltic Sea area,
Immanuel Kant spent active social life in Königsberg. He was an enthusiastic
player of billiards and a great gourmand: he had two pictures hanging on his
workroom wall, Kant making mustard just next to the picture of J-J. Rousseau.
The first prize of the billard tournament is a can of Immanuel Kant's authentic
mustard (an original spicy königsbergian delicacy found again 1992).
> ---
> Report:
> UNESCO international philosophy day 2005 in Finland
>
> UNESCO Philosophy Day's Baltic Sea essay event
> On the UNESCO international philosophy day 17th November philosophical cafés
and round tables were once again organized all around the world. The AIIPh
Baltic Sea Net, the Finnish UNESCO ASPnet, The Finnish Association for Teachers
of Philosophy and Philosophy of Life and Societas Philosophica Fennica organized
for the fourth time a UNESCO philosophy day's essay event for pupils and
students in the countries around the Baltic Sea. Some 70 essays were sent to the
essay event, and many of them were philosophically of high quality.
> Despite plentiful and very successful international participation in previous
years, this year's Finnish jury were disappointed to find only three
participants from abroad (all of whom happened to be Polish) finally managed to
send essays, none of whom were found to qualify among the top six, reducing the
event to a national level. It was determined that efforts to promote next year's
event need to be increased lest the event entirely lose its international
flavour.
> Like before, a national essay event for pupils in primary and lower secondary
schools was arranged alongside the international event.
>
> The award committee selected six essay writers to be awarded in the upper
secondary school category:
>
> Elsi Autio (Ressun lukio, Helsinki). Elsi's courageous essay took on the
challenge of questioning the justification of power. Proceeding from the
problems of monarchy to those of anarchy, she finally ended up with an idea of
democracy construed as the least of many evils. "People of the modern world may
not always like the people ruling their countries, but after the couple of pages
filled with very simplified theories of the use of power that you've just read,
you and I may have to end up on a theory of democracy being the best option of
these methods. Although even in a democratic nation there are no guarantees of
the political elements not being corrupt."
>
> Sami Sinokki (Tikkurilan lukio, Vantaa). Sami's painstaking argument ended up
with a cautiously affirmative answer to the question 'Can the killing of a human
being be justified?': "A fundamental part of ethics is human interaction. It
takes human life to have a certain intrinsic value and therefore assumes that
unjustly harming this value is wrong. In preventing harm to human life, we are
therefore acting ethically, and in certain situations this might require the
eradication of harmful elements. In these cases the value of one human life
overrides the value of another human life."
>
> Carmen Kautto  (Suomalainen Yhteiskoulu, Helsinki). Carmen's essay, written
exceptionally in French, dealt with the relationship between a person's sense of
justice and the written law. "But inside of this artificial justice, there is
always a personal justice. The latter is without concepts or words. It is this
personal justice of which romantics speak as they tell us to follow our heart.
(Mais à l'intérieur de cette justice artificielle, il y a toujours une justice
personnelle. Celle-ci est sans notions et sans mots, et c'est de celle-ci que
parlent les romantiques qui nous ordonnent à suivre notre cœur.) "
>
> The top three essay writers were invited to a prize-giving ceremony in Café
Engel in Helsinki, where also a philosophical café discussion took place in the
evening, commemorating Jean-Paul Sartre's 100th anniversary in 2005.
>
> The following three writers were also awarded:
> •     Onerva Alanen, Tampereen yhteiskoulun lukio
> •     Saila Kakko, Kajaanin lukio
> •     Krista Jokinen, Tampereen normaalikoulun lukio
> In the category for primary and lower secondary schools, the following pupils
were awarded:
>
> •     Meri Lappalainen, Käpylän yläaste. Meri ventured to question why
philosophy should be reserved for adults only. "Why couldn't the 'science of
thought' be taught even in primary schools? Miksei 'ajattelun tiedettä' voisi
opettaa ala-asteellakin?)"
>
> •     Tiia Koistinen, Karkkilan yhteiskoulu.
>
> •     Eveliina Hanski, Roihuvuoren ala-aste.
> The winners of the category of primary and lower secondary schools were
awarded with Matthew Lipman's philosophical text books. The prize included text
books for the whole class of the winner, and a teacher's guide. Prizes in the
upper secondary schools category consisted of philosophical and world heritage
–related literature.
> The best essays can be read in the following internet addresses:
http://www.unescokoulu.fi and http://www.feto.fi.
>
> Ask a Philosopher!
>
> On the international UNESCO Philosophy Day the public had a chance to ask a
philosophical question that has been puzzling them to a group of the most
prominent philosophers in Finland. People were asked to send philosophical
essays by e-mail or by phone to the National Board of Education, where they were
redirected to an appropriate philosopher.
>
> The questions and the answers given to them will be published in the internet
in the home pages of The Finnish Association for Teachers of Philosophy and
Philosophy of Life in the address http://www.feto.fi. The answers will also be
sent back to the enquirers as soon as the answers have been written.
>
> The philosophers who answer the questions are Jussi Kotkavirta (The University
of Jyväskylä), Ilkka Niiniluoto (The University of Helsinki, department of
philosophy, Rector of the University of Helsinki), Sami Pihlström (The
University of Helsinki, department of philosophy), Toivo Salonen (The University
of Lapland), Arto Siitonen (The University of Helsinki, department of social
philosophy), Tuukka Tomperi (The University of Tampere)
>
> The Ask a Philosopher! event was organised this year for the fourth time.
Around 100 questions are sent to the event every year, "What is the meaning of
life?" being the obvious all-time favourite.

> Pekka Elo
> National Board of Education
> PO Box 380, FIN 00531 Helsinki
> tel. +358 9 7747 7215
> fax. +358 9 7747 7823

   URL: www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~tf   Tel: +44-1223-337981
   (U Cambridge); +44-20-7882-3659 (QMW); +32-2-650-5853 (ULB)

We apologize for multiple copies of this CFP. Please distribute widely.

Second Call for Papers

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COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY
IV European Meeting
E-CAP 2006@NTNU Norway
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dragvoll Campus, Trondheim, Norway, June 22-24, 2006

<http://www.eu-cap.org/>

Conference Co-Chairs:
Charles Ess (Drury University / NTNU): <cmess@...>
May Thorseth (NTNU): <may.thorseth@...>

E-CAP 2006 is generously supported by the Programme for Applied
Ethics and the Globalization Programme, NTNU.

(E-CAP is the European conference on Computing and Philosophy, the
European affiliate of the International Association for Computers and
Philosophy
(IACAP): see <www.iacap.org> for further information.)

=====================================================================

IMPORTANT DATES
January 27, 2006                Submission of extended abstracts
March 1, 2006                   Notification of acceptance
May 5, 2006                     Early registration deadline
June 22-24, 2006                Conference

GENERAL INFORMATION
From Thursday 22 to Saturday 24 June 2006 the Fourth International
European Conference on COMPUTING AND PHILOSOPHY will be held on the Dragvoll

Campus of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim,
Norway.

PROGRAM
Continuing the foci of the E-CAP conferences (beginning in Glasgow,
2002), ECAP'06 will deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that
has
emerged over the past several decades, and continues to expand and
develop as a result of the multiple interactions between philosophy and
computing.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
     Dr. Lucas Introna, Centre for the Study of Technology & Organisation
       Lancaster University, UK
       <http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/119/>

     Dr. Raymond Turner, Department of Computer Science
          University of Essex, UK
          <http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/turnr/>

     Dr. Vincent Hendricks, Department of Philosophy and Science Studies
          Roskilde University, Denmark
          <http://akira.ruc.dk/~vincent/>

RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS
We invite papers that address all topics related to computing and
philosophy, including cross- and interdisciplinary work that explores
the computational turn in new ways.
Hence, the following is intended to be suggestive, but not exclusive:

- Philosophy of Computer Science (see
<http://pcs.essex.ac.uk/ecap06/cfp.html>)
- Ontology (Distributed Processing, Emergent Properties, Formal
   Ontology, Network Structures, etc)
- Computational Linguistics
- Global Information Infrastructures
- Philosophy of Information and Information Technology (Including:
   Information as structure; Semantic information)
- Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Problem of Consciousness and
   Cognition
- Computer-based Learning and Teaching Strategies and Resources & The
   Impact of Distance Learning on the Teaching of Philosophy and Computing
- IT and Gender Research, Feminist Technoscience Studies
- Information and Computing Ethics
- Biological Information, Artificial Life, Biocomputation
- New Models of Logic Software
- "Intersections" - e.g., work at the crossroads of logic, epistemology,
   philosophy of science and ICT/Computing, such as Philosophy of AI
- Ethical and Political Dimensions of ICTs in Globalization


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors should submit an electronic version of an extended abstract
(total word count approximately 1000 words). The file should also contain a
300
word abstract that will be used for the conference web site/booklet.
Final papers must not exceed a total word count of 3500 words and an
abstract of not more than 500 words. The submissions should be made
electronically,
either as PDF, rtf ,or Word format.

To submit papers visit <http://www.eu-cap.org/submit>
The extended abstract submission deadline is Friday 27th January 2006.

For information about paper submission and the program that is not
available on the conference web site (<http://www.eu-cap.org/>), please
contact
the Conference Co-Chairs.

REGISTRATION AND FEES
Registration will take place through the conference website,
<http://www.eu-cap.org/>
The registration fee includes the conference reception, conference
lunches and coffee and tea breaks, and one ticket to the conference banquet.

Discounted ("earlybird") registration fee (prior to May 5, 2006): 200
Euro ˆ
Discounted registration fee - PhD students: 100 ˆEuro

Regular registration fee (after May 5, 2006): 250 ˆEuro
Regular registration fee - PhD students: 150 ˆEuro

(Masters and undergraduate students may register for the conference
at no cost: a fee will be assessed, however, to cover the costs of the
lunches and catering.)

ACCOMMODATION
To book accommodation, please visit the conference web site,
<http://www.eu-cap.org/>/

VENUE
The dragvoll campus at NTNU offers excellent conference facilities as
well a beautiful physical setting as it overlooks Trondheim and the
Trondheim
fjord. The city of Trondheim (Norway's ancient capital and home to the
Nidaros Cathedral, the largest Gothic cathedral north of the Rhine) is
easily accessible by air and rail, and is itself more than worth the
visit.
(Beyond city-related information provided on the conference website,
start with <http://www.trondheim.com/>)

Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism: Representation in Art and Science

Two-day conference in London, 22-23 June 2006

Deadline for Submissions: 1 March 2006

Keynote speakers: Catherine Elgin (Harvard University) and James
Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago/University College
Cork, Ireland)

Organisers: Roman Frigg (LSE) and Matthew Hunter (Courtauld Institute
of Art/University of Chicago)

Programme committee: Peter Ainsworth (LSE), Roman Frigg (LSE), Matthew
Hunter (Courtauld Institute of Art/University of Chicago), Elisabeth
Schellekens (King's College London), Christine Stevenson (Courtauld
Institute of Art), and Sabine Wieber (Birkbeck College London)

Springer Publishers has shown interest, and by agreement with
individual authors, the conference organizers will be submitting
edited versions of selected papers for possible publication in
Springer's philosophy programme.

Representations play a critical role in both science and art.
Perceived as different in kind, artistic and scientific
representations have been studied as objects of distinct disciplinary
and intellectual traditions. However, recent work in both the
philosophy of science and studies of the visual arts suggests that
these apparently different representational traditions may be related
in challenging and provocative ways. "Beyond Mimesis and Nominalism,"
a conference co-sponsored by the Courtauld Institute of Art Research
Forum, the London School of Economics, and the Institute of Philosophy
of the University of London, seeks to open conversations between and
beyond these compartmentalized traditions of thinking about
representation.

According to dominant accounts, scientific representation is explained
by appeal to mimetic relationships such as similarity or formal
relations like isomorphism. As these views have been subjected to
increasing criticisms, recent approaches to scientific representation
have begun to draw upon analogies with artistic representation.
Significantly, parts of this emergent literature have turned to a
"nominalist" position, not unlike that advocated by Nelson Goodman in
his writings on representation in art.

But, a similar turn is already apparent within studies of visual art,
where scientific representations are increasingly integrated into the
analysis of art. Like their colleagues in the philosophy of science,
recent scholars in the visual arts have seen Goodman's work as an
important point of engagement. His pioneering work on the visual has
informed recent efforts to expand semantic taxonomies and to analyze
the increasing field of images that fall outside classification as
"art." As this work has received important contribution from scholars
concerned with scientific imaging, the project of rethinking
representation is one of growing general importance to art-historical
studies, whose interpretative scope has expanded dramatically outward
in recent decades.

In order to press this emergent interdisciplinary conversation,
scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit papers to this
two-day international conference. We particularly seek submissions
that explore the "how" of representation-papers that can enrich our
understanding of the techniques employed in scientific representation
and/or address their semantic structures or historical convergences
with artistic practices - and vice versa. Also especially encouraged
are papers that critique, historicize or defend the conference's
central terms of mimesis and nominalism, or offer approaches to
representations that navigate a middle course between them.

Please send extended abstracts of up to 1000 words to
ph-artandscience@... by 1 March 2006. Decisions will be made by
1 April.

The Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM) invites applications for a tenure-track faculty
position in analytic normative ethics and metaethics. The appointment is
expected to begin circa August 1, 2006. We will consider recent PhDs, with
a dissertation on theoretical ethics, preferably with publications in this
area, and teaching experience on ethics. Candidates are expected to do
research, teach at both the graduate and undergraduate levels two courses
per year. Knowledge of Spanish is not required, but basic knowledge of the
language is strongly recommended before taking the job. Salary may vary
according to qualifications and experience.
Applicants should send CV, a statement of interests and qualifications,
three letters of recommendation, and not more than three samples of
published or unpublished writings to: Secretaría Académica, Instituto de
Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad de la Investigación en Humanidades,
Zona Cultural, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Coyoacán, México, D.F., or by
e-mail to: s.acad@.... Deadline for postdate of
applications is March 1, 2006.

El Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas de la Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (UNAM) tiene la intención de contratar a un filósofo
que trabaje en el área de ética teórica (metaética y ética normativa) de
corte analítico. La fecha de inicio del trabajo es el 1 de agosto de 2006.
Consideraremos candidatos que hayan terminado recientemente su doctorado
en filosofía, con una tesis sobre temas de ética teórica y que de
preferencia tengan publicaciones en esta área, así como experiencia
docente en ética. Las obligaciones del puesto incluyen la investigación,
la enseñanza de uno o dos cursos por semestre a nivel licenciatura y/o
posgrado, asesoría de estudiantes en ambos niveles, participar en comités
académicos y en la vida académica del Instituto en general. El sueldo
puede variar dependiendo de las calificaciones y del desempeño del
candidato.
Los candidatos potenciales deben mandar una carta con su solicitud, una
copia de su curriculum, tres cartas de recomendación y no más de tres
ensayos que ejemplifiquen su trabajo, a la Secretaría Académica, Instituto
de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México,
Circuito Mario de la Cueva s/n, Ciudad de la Investigación en Humanidades,
Zona Cultural, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510, Coyoacán, México, D.F. Para
cualquier pregunta, favor de escribir a: s.acad@.... Fecha
límite para mandar solicitudes: 1 de marzo de 2006.

BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2006
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

THURSDAY 6 - FRIDAY 7 JULY 2006

Plenary sessions

The Extended Mind: Professor Andy Clark and Professor Rob Rupert
Philosophy of Mathematics: Professor Stuart Shapiro and Dr Fraser MacBride
The Sociology of Gravity Wave Detection: Professor Harry Collins and
Professor Allan Franklin

There will also be a contributed programme, for which there is a call for
papers. Further details of the programme, and details of how to register,
will soon be available via the Society's events page, or from the local
organiser.

CALL FOR PAPERS
Submissions are invited from professional philosophers as well as graduate
students. Papers may be on any topic within the philosophy of science and
should be suitable for presentation in 20 minutes, which will allow 10
minutes discussion. Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be received
at the address below no later than Friday February 10th 2006. Please send
submissions by email (in the body of a message, or as attachments in plain
text, rtf or Microsoft Word format). Abstracts will be refereed, and
successful contributors notified during March or April. As in previous
years, postgraduate students attending the conference will be entitled to
subsidised accommodation, and if they present a paper, to help with their
travel expenses within the UK.
BSPS 2006
Department of Philosophy
University of Bristol
9 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
email: James.Ladyman@...


----------------------
Dr James Ladyman
Reader
Department of Philosophy
University of Bristol
9 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
0117 928 7609
James.Ladyman@...

Please note that the deadline for applications for the positions previously
advertised in Philosophy at La Trobe University has been extended from 23
December 2005 to 13 January 2006.


Associate Lectureship/Lectureship/Senior Lectureship

Deadline: 13.01.2006

Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates in all areas of
Philosophy for two full-time, continuing positions (though it is likely that
one of the appointments will be offered to a specialist in ethics). The
appointments may be made at any of levels A, B or C in light of
qualifications and previous experience. Remuneration package of: Level A -
A$47,981 to A$65,114 per annum; Level B - A$68,543 to A$81,395 per annum;
Level C - A$83,963 to A$96,816 per annum, which includes 17% employer
superannuation. The Program in Philosophy at La Trobe has a distinguished
history and expects the new appointees to make distinguished contributions
not only to the Program but to the discipline as well. Information about the
Program can be found at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy or by
contacting the Coordinator of the Program, Robert Young (via email at
Robert.Young@... or phone on 61 3 9479 2424). There are six other
universities located in Melbourne, several of whom offer Philosophy, so
there is a significant concentration of members of the profession. The
University occupies a fine campus in Melbourne and offers an excellent work
environment. Applicants must obtain details of how to apply by visiting our
website http://www.latrobe.edu.au/hr/jobs.html, email jobs@...,
or telephone (03) 9479 1365, quoting position number 50016139. La Trobe
University is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Contact
E-Mail:         robert.young@...
Web:         www.latrobe.edu.au/hr/jobs.html



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I'm told there was a defective link to the La Trobe URL in the posting
earlier today about the Level A/B/C positions at La Trobe. A comma at the
end was causing the trouble.

The passage should have read -

Applicants must obtain details of how to apply by visiting our website
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/hr/jobs.html  or email jobs@...  or
telephone (03) 9479 1365, quoting position number 50016139.

Ross Phillips



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sede di IBM Italia a Segrate (Milano) nei giorni 8-9-10 marzo 2006."

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___________________________________________________

Luciano Floridi
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Universita' degli Studi di Bari
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford
Wolfson College, OX2 6UD, Oxford, UK
http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/
http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/~floridi/bari
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/research/areas/ieg/

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (3 Posts) - Job ref 311003

School of Philosophy

Closing Date: 9-12-2005

Further details:

The School of Philosophy at the University of Leeds is seeking to make
three appointments to begin in Autumn 2006, two of the appointments
will be Lecturers and the third will be a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer,
dependant upon level of experience and achievement. The area of study
for all three posts is open, and the School welcomes applications from
candidates with strong research records in any area of philosophy. The
School has ongoing undergraduate teaching needs in Practical
Philosophy (especially ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy)
and History of Philosophy (especially modern). Applications from
candidates whose research records will enhance the School's research
profile and who can help fill its teaching needs will be particularly
welcome.

These roles will incorporate undergraduate and postgraduate teaching,
some thesis supervision, and usual non-teaching duties. Working in one
of the largest philosophy departments in the UK, you should have
strong records of research publication and evidence of continued
high-level research activity. You should be qualified to masters level
or equivalent, but PhD prior to application and full-time teaching
experience are strongly preferred.

These appointments are part of a phased programme over several years
to enhance the School's international research profile as well as its
students' experience, and to build on recent developments such as the
£2.5 million IDEAS CETL in interdisciplinary applied ethics. For
general information see http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/

Lecturer A/B (£24,352 - £36,959 p.a.) or Senior Lecturer (£38,685 -
£43,850 p.a.)
The University is introducing a new reward framework which will
facilitate the recruitment, retention and motivation of world class
staff. Under the new structure the minimum Lecturer A salary point
will be £27,194.

Informal enquiries to Dr Mark Nelson, tel 0113 343 4112, email
m.t.nelson@...

Application packs are also available via email
recruitment@... or tel 0113 343 5771.

Job ref 311003 Closing date 9 December 2005 Interviews are scheduled
for w/c 13 or 20 February 2006

Further Particulars

The School

The School of Philosophy is one of the largest philosophy departments
in the UK, with around 30 academic staff and a large intake of
students. It offers a thriving research environment, having received a
rating of 5 in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, and a maximum 24
for Teaching Quality in recent evaluations. The School includes a
Division of History & Philosophy of Science and its areas of
particular specialisation include HPS, Analytic Metaphysics,
Philosophy of Art, and Practical Philosophy. These appointments are
part of a phased programme over several years to enhance the School's
international research profile as well as its students' experience,
and to build on recent developments such as the £2.5 million IDEAS
CETL in interdisciplinary applied ethics.

Job Description

Teaching

You will be expected:

* To teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level
* To mark and assess coursework and examinations
* To adopt fresh teaching or assessment approaches
* To contribute to the planning and development of modules within the
relevant subject area
* To be fully involved in assessment and marking of work
* To act as an academic and personal tutor
* To contribute to the administration/organisation of the programme(s)
as a whole
* To contribute to the planning and development of the programmes in the School
* To take responsibility for external validation and moderation as appropriate
* To pursue innovative teaching methods and to respond imaginatively
to student skills, talents and interests, and to the broad development
of the discipline
* To keep abreast of developments in learning and teaching, and to
continue to develop personal skills in these areas

Research

You will be expected:

* To pursue a vigorous programme of research, both individual and,
where appropriate, collaborative, with a view to quality publication
and international recognition, thereby to enhance the school's
international research profile
* To attend and to offer papers at internal and external conferences
* To attract and supervise external research students (where appropriate)
* To attract external research funding
* To contribute to the research culture of the School, Faculty and University
* To take part in annual, school research outcome exercise, and in periodic RAE
* To keep abreast of scholarship in the subject and to undertake such
activities, as are necessary to update and refine knowledge and
understanding of the subject

Administration - Personal and School Development

You will be expected:

* To take administrative responsibilities as directed by the Head of
School or his/her nominee
* To contribute to the general administrative processes and day-to-day
running of the school as appropriate
* To attend staff meetings, serve on school committees and prepare
documentation as requested by the Head of School or his/her nominee
* To take initiatives in personal and school development, and to
attend such courses and events as may be appropriate
* To contribute to periodic Teaching Quality Assessment processes,
bidding opportunities and other procedures
* To take a full share in personal tutor duties
* To take initiatives in income generation
* To contribute to the development and realisation of the school's mission

The precise scope of the above duties will be agreed in consultation
with the Head of School or his/her nominee

Person Specification

Essential

* Qualified to masters level or equivalent
* A strong record of research publication
* Some previous experience of successful philosophy teaching in higher education
* Ability to teach a range of modules that will contribute to the
School's ability to cover its teaching needs
* Strong communication skills
* Ability to work cooperatively as part of a close-knit School

Desirable

* A PhD
* Some success in obtaining research support funding
* Successful research supervision
* Some administrative experience
* Ability to teach in areas of departmental need, including, but not
limited to, practical philosophy (including ethics, applied ethics,
political philosophy) and history of philosophy

Senior Lectureship candidates

Applicants for Senior Lecturer would normally be expected not only to
be experienced teachers but to have a significant publication record,
together with proven research experience, and to have demonstrated
administrative skill.

How to apply:

Applications should include the following:-

· A completed application form
· Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form . Please return the Form in a
separate envelope marked 'EOs Monitoring'.

You should also submit your two best writing samples (of no longer
than 25 pages each).

Completed applications along with CV and your two best writing samples
should be returned to Ms Elaine Johnson, School of Philosophy, The
University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, email e.johnson@..., quoting job
reference 311003 not later than 9 December 2005

If you are selected for interview you can expect to hear from the
University not later than 4 weeks after the closing date. If you are
not selected for interview the University will not contact you again.

A Criminal Records Disclosure is not required for this position.

Disabled Applicants

The post is located in the School of Philosophy, based in the Michael
Sadler Building. Disabled applicants wishing to review access to the
building are invited to contact the department direct. Additional
information may be sought from the Team Co-ordinator in Disability
Services, email disability@... or tel 0113 343 3927

Disabled applicants are not obliged to inform employers of their
disability but will still be covered by the Disability Discrimination
Act once their disability becomes known.

Data Protection

The information you provide in your application will be used to
consider your suitability for the post for which you have applied. If
your application is not successful the information will be disposed of
confidentially within 8 months. If your application is successful and
you are appointed, your information and future data will be processed
in accordance with the University's Data Protection Code of Practice.
A copy of this code can be obtained from either the University's Human
Resources Department or by visiting
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hr/policy/index.htm

Health and Safety Responsibilities

You are required to adhere and comply to the provisions of the Health
and Safety at Work Act, related Regulations and in accordance to the
University's Policy on Health and Safety which can be accessed via
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/safety/usp/uspindex.htm

In addition you are also required to cooperate with regard to the
implementation of Health and Safety arrangements and should not
interfere with or misuse anything provided in the interest of Health,
Safety and Welfare at Work.

For more information on the University and terms and conditions of
appointments please visit http://www.leeds.ac.uk



Forms etc available at



http://wwwnotes2.leeds.ac.uk/jobs/unijob.nsf/778c659fe6c55f8880256c01004b076c/f0\
72601e7c5adf9e802570b3005a486d?OpenDocument

Eighth Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory
11th February 2006


On Saturday 11th February 2006 from 10.00am to 6.30pm, the Department
of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick
will host its eighth annual conference for postgraduate students
working in political theory or political philosophy. Previous events
have been very successful, attracting a wide range of high quality
papers, and participants from many countries. Past participants have
reported that the conference provides a useful opportunity for
graduate students to gain experience and receive feedback on work in
progress. This year, we have responded to requests to hold the
conference somewhat earlier than was the case in previous years.
As well as postgraduate papers, there will be two Plenary Sessions:


"The Reluctant Pirate: Godwin, Justice and Property"
Chris Pierson, University of Nottingham

"Justice and Constructivism"
Andrew Williams, University of Reading


Postgraduates interested in giving papers should send abstracts
(400-500 words) by no later than 13th January 2006. Papers may deal
with any area within contemporary political theory, political
philosophy, or the history of political thought, but should take no
more than twenty minutes to present. It would be appreciated if those
who would like to attend the conference reserve a place no later than
30th January 2006. Attendance is free of charge.

All correspondence, or further inquiries, should be addressed to
Andrew Reeve
(<mailto:a.w.reeve@...>a.w.reeve@...) and or at:
PAIS, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL.

A new journal, Criminal Law and Philosophy, will be published next year by
Springer. It is to be edited by Claire Valier, Antony Duff, Doug Husak,
Ronnie Lippens and Matt Matravers. Its main focus is on the philosophy of
the criminal law. I can provide further details by e-mail.

If anyone is interested in being added to the list of potential book
reviewers for the journal, could they let me know (mdm3@...)?

Many thanks,
Matt Matravers

Gli scienziati e la pace. Einstein (1905) vs Hiroshima (1945)

16- dicembre 2005

Istituto Gramsci Toscano via G. P. Orsini, 44 Firenze




Ore 9.30


Einstein, la pace e l’atomica





coordina Gaspare Polizzi





Paolo Cotta Ramusino, Il peso dell’atomica da Hiroshima ad oggi


Giovanni Battimelli, Einstein e il progetto Manhattan


Ilenia Picardi, Einstein e la pace


Piergiorgio Odifreddi, Da Einstein al pugwash




Ore 15.00

L’impatto dell’atomica nel mondo bipolare



coordina Mario Caciagli



Stefania Maurizi, I misteri dell’atomica

Francesco Benvenuti, Stalin e la bomba

Gianluca Fiocco, L’impatto della bomba atomica sulla politica e la società
americana: storia e memoria

Furio Cerutti, Fra scienza e guerra: scelte tragiche



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