Announcements

Announcements Conference on Platonism and Early Modern Science. May 13-15, 1994, Vanderbilt University will host a working conference which will attempt to exhibit the indebtedness of early modern science to the Platonist/Neoplatonist/Greek Mathematical tradition. Paper readers and respondents are as follows. Friday, May 13, 1994, i p.m.: Robert Turnbull, responses by Patricia Curd and Steyen Strange; 7 p.m.: Ian Mueller, response by Henry Mendell. Saturday, May 14, 1994, 8:3o a.m.: Peter King, response by Calvin Normore; 1 p.m.: Peter K. Machamer, response by Roger Ariew; 4 p.m.: Emily Grosholz, response by Daniel Garber. Sunday, May 15, 1994, 9:3~ a.m.: Breakfast and final discussion . Interested persons are invited to attend. Detailed information concerning local arrangements will be available in January, 1994. Prof. John Lachs is in charge of local arrangements and will see to it that detailed information is sent to inquirers no later than January. International Berkeley Essay Prize Competition. Professor and the late Mrs. Colin Turbayne established an International Berkeley Essay Prize competition in conjunction with the Philosophy Department at the University of Rochester. The next deadline for submitting papers is November 1, 1994. Submissions on any aspect of Berkeley's philosophy are welcome. Essays should be new and unpublished and should be written in English and not exceed 5,ooo words in length. All references to Berkeley should be to Luce/Jessop, and the MLA or similar standard for notes should be followed. Submissions will be judged by members of a review board selected by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Rochester. The winner will be announced March 1, 1995 and will receive a prize of $2,ooo. Submissions should be sent to: Professor Richard Feldman, Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-oo78. Conference on German Studies. The German Studies Association will hold its eighteenth annual conference in Dallas, TX, September ~9-October ~, 1994. The program committee invites proposals on any aspect of German Studies, including history, Germanistik, political science, sociology, philosophy, pedagogy , and the arts. Proposals for entire sessions and for interdisciplinary presentations are encouraged. The deadline for proposals is ~5 February 1994; early submissions are welcome. For application material and informa- [1591 160 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 32: I JANUARY ~994 t.ion, contact: Prof. Diethelm Prowe, Department of History, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 5505? (tel. 5o7-663-4216; FAX 507-663-4204; Internet: DPROWE @Carleton.edu.). NEH Summer Institute on Tech~wlogy. A five-week National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for college and university teachers of philosophy , applied ethics, and interdisciplinary philosophy and technology studies on "Rethinking Technology: Philosophical Reflection on Technology since World War II" will be conducted June 5 to July 9, 1994, by the Philosophy Department and the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Pennsylvania State University. Directed by Carl Mitcham and Leonard Waks, faculty include Albert Borgnnann, Fred Dretske, Paul T. Durbin, Robert Ginsburg, Don lhde, Deborah G. Johnson, Joseph Kockelmans, Robert Proctor, Warren Reich, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, and Langdon Winner. Applications are available from NEH Summer Institute, STS Program, Willard 133, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802. Application deadline is March 1, 1994; notification April j, 1994. Symposium on F. H. Bradley. A Subsidiary Symposium on Bradley's philosophy will be held during the Joint Session of the Mind Association and Aristotelian Society, which will take place at the Westpark Conference Centre in the University of Dundee, July 8-1 l, 1994. In order to attend the Joint Session it is necessary to be a member either of the Mind Association or of the Aristotelian Society. Papers for presentation at the Symposium should be sent to Guy Stock, Department of Philosophy, University of Dundee, Dundee DDt 4HN, Scotland. Papers on any aspect of Bradley's philosophy will be considered but they should be critical and relate to general philosophical issues rather than be of merely historical interest. Fellowships. UCLA Center for 17th" and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. AhmansordGetty Fellowships in 1994-95: For participation in the Center/Clark's yearlong interdisciplinary study on the theme "Life Studies: Autobiography, Biography, and Portrait in...