Hesperus is Bosphorus CALL FOR APPLICATIONSMethods in Normative Political Theory/Philosophy16-26 June 2014Summer School at Keele University (UK), sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research. Faculty:* George Sher (Rice)* Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna)* David Owen (Southampton)* Monica Mookherjee (Keele)* Glen Newey (Brussels)* John Horton (Keele)* Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford)* Andrew Dobson (Keele)* Geoffrey Cupit (Waikato)* Sorin Baiasu (Vienna/Keele) The School gives 20 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working in the field of moral and political theory/philosophy a unique opportunity to exchange research and teaching ideas with colleagues from other universities and research institutes. This will be the fifth ECPR Summer School organised at Keele and the first organised by the ECPR Kantian Political Thought Standing Group. Funding:The Summer School was awarded by the ECPR two travel and accommodation grants (up to €165 each).
Philosophy Pages Taste Project | NYIP | NYU The concept of taste in aesthetics had its origins in ideas about gustatory taste, and much was made of this analogy in the eighteenth century. Recent research on taste opens up the possibility of a re-examination of the relations between the gustatory and aesthetic concepts. Questions about the nature of taste perception, the role that knowledge plays in our appreciation of tastes, whether we can separate the descriptive and evaluative aspects of taste judgments, the contribution language makes to identification of flavors, the cultural aspects of taste, and the nature of expertise, all raise interesting and important parallels with the exercise of taste in other domains. The time is right to explore a range of connected issues spanning the domains of sensory science, psychology, connoisseurship, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and aesthetics. The Project on the Nature of Taste is a multi-institutional project.
Royal Institute Philosophy The Project on Science and Religion | NYIP | NYU Chaired by Professor Thomas Nagel The subject is the relation between science and religion. The project's initial focus was on epistemological questions. Later in the study, we take up legal, political, and ethical issues as well. These issues are at present salient because of the highly politicized controversy over intelligent design, but our interest is broader. We want to explore: The boundaries between science and other forms of belief The epistemological status of religion The role of probabilistic reasoning in biology and cosmology (e.g. with respect to the origin of life), and how it is affected by nonempirical background assumptions The ways in which different forms of religious belief are and are not in competition with scientific claims The relation between religious views about the scope and limits of scientific explanation and secular alternatives to naturalistic reductionism in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
Philosophy Now | a magazine of ideas The Project on Foundations of Epistemology | NYIP | NYU Chaired by Paul Boghossian, Paul Horwich, and Crispin Wright This project will focus on belief, inference, rationality, truth, probability, knowledge, and doubt. It aims to address problems that are both central yet understudied, and to promote work that addresses those concepts from unfamiliar angles. Amongst the questions with which we will be concerned are: What are the differences between (i) believing something, (ii) relying upon it for practical purposes, and (iii) supposing its truth for the sake of argument? The project is expected to run for three or four years. In addition to Professor Boghossian, Professor Horwich and Professor Wright, the faculty who have served as members of the project are: The graduate students who have served as members of the project are:
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Peter Unger, Faculty of Philosophy | NYU Peter Unger, Professor of Philosophy, has written extensively in epistemology, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. He has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism (Oxford, 1975 and 2002); Philosophical Relativity (Blackwell and Minnesota, 1984; Oxford 2002); Identity, Consciousness and Value (Oxford, 1990); Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Oxford, 1996); and All the Power in the World (Oxford, 1996). Twenty-two of his previously published papers are contained in a two-volume collection comprising his Philosophical Papers, Volume 1 (Oxford, 2006) and his Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 (Oxford, 2006). Currently, his research interests are mainly in metaphilosophy and metaphysics, while his current teaching interests are mainly in metaphysics, ethics and metaphilosophy. EMPTY IDEAS — Book Abstract and Sample of Back Cover Copy Online Papers Courses
Paul Boghossian, Faculty of Philosophy | NYU PAUL BOGHOSSIAN (Ph.D., Princeton, 1987), is Silver Professor of Philosophy and the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. He also serves as Director of NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. He was Chair of Philosophy from 1994-2004. His research interests are primarily in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, although he has written on a wide range of topics, including: color, rule-following, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, relativism, the aesthetics of music and the concept of genocide. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Magdalen College (Oxford), the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and the Australian National University (Canberra). He has also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at Princeton. Books Selected Articles "The Maze of Moral Relativism". Courses Undergraduate Graduate
Ned Block, Department of Philosophy NED BLOCK (Ph.D., Harvard), Silver Professor of Philosophy, Psychology and Neural Science, came to NYU in 1996 from MIT where he was Chair of the Philosophy Program. He works in philosophy of perception and foundations of neuroscience and cognitive science and is currently writing a book on the perception/cognition border, A Joint in Nature between Cognition and Perception. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society, has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, a Sloan Foundation Fellow, a faculty member at two National Endowment for the HumanitiesSummer Institutes and two Summer Seminars, the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Science Foundation; and a recipient of the Robert A. Named Lectures: 2003 Petrus Hispanus Lectures, University of Lisbon 2006 Francis W. On-line videos
The Philosophy Pages T he Philosophy Pages is an online library of philosophy and theology texts, including selected writings of philosophers from anicent times to the contemporary period, including Plato, Aristotle, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Pythagoras, amongst many others. The site has been active since 2006 and is currently undergoing redesign work. If you would like to contribute to the site or have any questions, email philosophy@davemckay.co.uk . Facebook Page - Visit the Philosophy page on Facebook ! Anaximander - Surviving Fragments. Aristotle - Collected Works. Bertrand Russell - Selected Writings. Chinese Classics - The Four Books, Five Classics and the Classics of Military Science. David Hume - Complete Writings, including posthumous works. Diogenes of Sinope - Biography from Diogenes Laërtius’ “Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers”. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Complete Works in twelve volumes. Epicurus - Surviving Fragments, Letters and Documents. Heraclitus - Surviving Fragments.
johnstonia home page johnstonia This is the home page of Ian Johnston, a retired instructor (now a Research Associate) at Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina College), Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. It is designed to provide curricular material for various courses in literature and Liberal Studies. This site is under continual construction (last revised January 2014). If you have trouble with a particular link on the following page type johnstoi and the name of the work or the lecture you are interested in into a search engine (e.g., johnstoi antigone). Image above courtesy of Google Images. [Vancouver Island University]—[Capitan Mail] This site is dedicated to the memory of my son Geoffrey, 1974-1997 Generations of men are like the leaves. Book ReviewsCurricular Material for Classics 101E-Text CatalogueGeneral Study Materials (Handbooks)Introductory Lecture SeriesMiscellaneous Essays (by Ian Johnston) Studies in Shakespeare ARISTOPHANESBirdsCloudsFrogsKnightsLysistrataPeace HOMERIliadOdyssey