Wednesday, June 19, 2013
New Book on Pragmatism and Phenomenology
I [Ed Hackett] have just been made aware of a book published by John Quay over at Routledge that merges pragmatism and phenomenological accounts of experience in education. This might be an enjoyable read and potential book review for somebody. Check it out.
Here’s the link to the Routledge page.
A Co-Citation Network for Philosophy
Kieran Healy has done some great work creating a connectivity graph showing citation networks for four of the top analytic journals over twenty years. I hope that this kind of work continues. The folk at NewApps are discussing this if you'd like to traipse over.
WE DID IT! 4000+ Visitors!
We have blown away the 4000 unique visits per month barrier!
Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to visit our new multi-author blog The Horizon and the Fringe. I put more of my political content over there, and we're recruiting colleagues for Spanish-language content and whatever the ladies wish to post, because let's face it gentlemen, this blog could use a little more gender balance. I'm just not queeny enough to solo it.
Building Bridges Conference: Regarding Desire
*Regarding Desire*
*16th Annual "Building Bridges" Graduate Student Philosophy Conference*
*Southern Illinois University Carbondale*
*October 18 -19, 2013*
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Willett
Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, Atlanta , Georgia.
Deadline for submissions: September 7th, 2013
This fifteenth annual Building Bridges conference will be held at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale October 18th and 19th, 2013.
This year’s topic is the concept of “Desire” ̶̶ its nature, its work, and its meaning. How do we navigate and negotiate our desire in spaces and discourses where objectivity is privileged? How does desire come into play with ideas of freedom and autonomy? Why has desire loomed so fearfully in some mythologies? What is the role of *Eros* in the development of community? The topic is to be construed broadly and we invite papers and presentations from all areas of philosophy, as well as philosophically interesting papers from other disciplines.
Submission Guidelines:
Papers should not exceed 3000 words and should be prepared for blind review. Please do not include any personal information in the paper. On a separate cover page include the following items:
The paper's title
The author's name
Institutional affiliation
E-mail address
Word count (3000 words maximum)
An abstract (150 words maximum)
E-mail a copy of your paper and your personal information, as attachments, in MS Word format (.doc), (.docx) or in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) to bnhenning@siu.edu. Please name the file of your paper with an abbreviated paper title and title the file of your contact information with your last name and first initial.
Abstracts without papers will be considered. Full papers are preferred.
Conference Statement:
The purpose of “Building Bridges” is to bring into dialogue diverse elements not commonly associated. We seek interdisciplinary as well as intra-disciplinary themes that address problems from multiple philosophical
standpoints, from different traditions, or in which two or more thinkers not customarily brought into conversation are compared. Our goal is to provide a pluralistic forum for constructive and critical communication across boundaries. For more information visit our website:
Why I Watch Movies
I cried through half of the new Man of Steel, the new Superman movie. Guess which half? The first half, because it displayed such meaningful suffering, such noble inwardness, that it reminds me why I ever watch film. To catch a glimpse of the ideal, of virtue, even bedecked with tropes for one moment it may flicker and spark the wick of hope.
The first book series I ever read on my own was The Chronicles of Narnia and then The Lord of the Rings around age 11. They have shaped more more profoundly than any other book has, especially The Lord of the Rings. It reminds me, when nothing else does, that there can be a sublime beauty in failure, in loss, and utter human finitude. Finitude without aspiration is ugly despair. But sometimes, when I step away from Tolkien and think about suffering in our world, and not the world of fantasy, I ask whether ennobling one's suffering is still holy. Is the beauty of the uplifted spirit any less when one, who is burdened by the situation, choses to suffer without realizing that moment of sublimity?Or is it just my way that romanticizes suffering and violence when naught else can be done?
Symposium on Schelling
'Freedom--the Beginning and End of All Philosophy'
A Symposium on the Philosophy of FWJ Schelling
Co-organized by the Department of Philosophy at Temple University and
the International Center for Philosophy at Bonn University
October 4-5, 2013, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Speakers:
Jennifer Dobe (Grinnell College, USA)
Michael Forster (University of Bonn, Germany)
Markus Gabriel (University of Bonn, Germany)
Marcela Garcia (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico)
Sebastian Gardner (University College London, UK)
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins, USA)
Dalia Nassar (University of Villanova, Philadelphia, USA, University of Sidney, Sidney Australia)
Lara Ostaric (Temple University, USA)
Richard Velkley (Tulane University, USA)
Eric Watkins (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Jason Wirth (Seattle University, USA)
For more information http://schelling2013.weebly.com/index.html
Contact: lostaric@temple.edu owenjware@temple.edu
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