British Postgraduate Philosophy Association

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.

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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

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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.”

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Critical Legal Conference 2009
University of Leicester, UK - September 11-13
Call for papers to the stream
‘Genealogy of Human Rights from a Third-World Perspective’

What can be said from the standing point of the Third World about the modern history of human rights?

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