British Postgraduate Philosophy Association

2nd Call for Papers
The Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference 2009
The University of St. Andrews, Scotland
November 7th – 8th, 2009

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ernest Lepore (Rutgers)
Prof. Susanna Siegel (Harvard)

For the third Arché/CSMN graduate conference hosted by Arché at the University of St. Andrews, we invite high-quality papers in the areas of Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action/Rationality and Moral Philosophy.

Deadline for submissions: September 1st, 2009

Posted on behalf of Dr. Nick Jones....

Two Graduate Teaching Scholarships
Department of Philosophy
Closing date: 17th July 2009

The Department of Philosophy is growing rapidly at all levels. As part of this development the department wishes to expand its team of Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) by offering two scholarships to support PhD students in their studies, and provide career development opportunities for those planning an academic career.

I surely can't be the first person to think that the free will/determinism debate is rife with scope ambiguity. Consider the natural language claim that: if the world was in state S1 in 1900, and the laws of nature imply that if the world was in state S1 in 1900, then John will do act A at midnight, 1st January 2010, then John must do act A at midnight, 1st January 2010.

Critical Legal Conference 2009

Venue: University of Leicester, UK
Dates: 11–13 September 2009
Home Page: http://www.le.ac.uk/la/clc2009/index.html
Stream Page: http://www.le.ac.uk/law/clc2009/Streams/StreamsRevolutionsinNaturalLaw.html

In the 1971 debate between Foucault and Chomsky (see video links
below), we can witness what are now familiar opposing positions: 1)
Chomsky's classical view of (human) nature as a fundamental essence
that should be allowed to realize itself and 2) Foucault's radical
disavowal of (human) nature as a construction of systemic

Call for Papers
The Arché/CSMN Graduate Conference 2009
The University of St. Andrews, Scotland
November 7th – 8th, 2009

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Ernest Lepore (Rutgers)
Prof. Susanna Siegel (Harvard)

For the third Arché/CSMN graduate conference hosted by Arché at the University of St. Andrews, we invite high-quality papers in the areas of Philosophy of Language, Philosophical Methodology, Philosophy of Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Action/Rationality and Moral Philosophy.

Deadline for submissions: September 1st, 2009

Introduction

In the wave of response to the Critical Philosophy, it was Hegel who produced the most ambitious and interesting take on Kant’s theoretical philosophy. Indeed, such was the grand nature of his project that naturally “as a thinker who suffered more than most from superficial criticism, Hegel was right to think that others would find it easier to attack him than to take trouble to understand him fully.”