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Conferences and Symposia
Finland
DATE: 9-12 August 1995
ORGANIZATION: Turku Technology Center, University of Turku
DESCRIPTION: First Turku Congress on Genetic Ethics
TITLE: "Doing the Decent Thing with Genes"
LOCATION: Turku
Abstracts Due: "Early" submission recommended
CONTACT: Genetic Ethics—Secretariat, University of Turku, Congress Office, FIN-20500, Turku, Finland (tel.: +358-21-6336342; fax: +358-21-6336220; e-mail: cescon@utu.fi)
Italy
DATE: 16-21 June 1995
ORGANIZATION: International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
TITLE: "Challenges to Law at the End of the Twentieth Century"
LOCATION: Bologna
CONTACT: Enrico Pattaro, IVR World Congress, CIR-FID-U. of Bologna, Via Zamboni 27/29, I-40126 Bologna BO, Italy (e-mail: ivr95@cirfid.unibo.it)
DATE: 19-25 August 1995
ORGANIZATION: International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
TITLE: Conference
LOCATION: Florence
CONTACT: LMPS, Centro Servizi Segreteria, Via A. Lapini, 1-50136 Firenze, Italy
Netherlands
DATE: 16-20 July 1995
ORGANIZATION: American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, and University of Amsterdam
DESCRIPTION: Fourth International Conference—Amsterdam '95
TITLE: "Health Law and Ethics in a Global Community"
LOCATION: Amsterdam
CONTACT: Amsterdam '95 Abstract Committee, American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 765 Commonwealth Avenue, Suite 1634, Boston MA 02215, USA, (tel.: 01-617-262-4990; fax: 01-617-437-7596)
United States
DATE: 25-29 July 1995
ORGANIZATION: Hume Society
TITLE: "Reason and Sympathy"
LOCATION: University of Utah
CONTACT: Saul Traiger, Philosophy, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 {, USA}
Venezuela
DATE: 15-22 July 1995
ORGANIZATION: World Phenomenology Institute
DESCRIPTION: Second World Phenomenology Conference
TITLE: "Phenomenology of Life and of the Human Creative Condition: Nova et Vetera"
LOCATION: Caracas
CONTACT: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, World Phenomenology Institute, 348 Payson Road, Belmont, MA 02178, USA [End Page 275]
Networks and Local Groups
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
ORGANIZATION: Local Chapters (United States)
DESCRIPTION: Cleveland, Ohio
CONTACT: Michael Alan Schwartz, Department of Psychiatry, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106
DESCRIPTION: Dallas, Texas
CONTACT: John Z. Sadler, Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75235-9070
DESCRIPTION: New Haven, Connecticut
CONTACT: James Phillips, 88 Noble Avenue, Milford, CT 06460
DESCRIPTION: Seattle, Washington
CONTACT: Mark D. Sullivan, Department of Psychiatry, RP-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
DESCRIPTION: Washington, DC
CONTACT: Brad Lewis, 2112 F Street, N.W., No. 201, Washington, DC 20009
Network for Psychiatric Ethics
DESCRIPTION: International Association of Bioethics (IAB)
CONTACT: Professor George Agich, Department of Medical Humanities, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 19230, Springfield, IL 62794-9230, USA; Professor Nalaka Mendis, University Psychological Medicine Unit, General Hospital, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka; or Dr. K.W.M. Fulford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7JX, United Kingdom
Network for Teachers of Psychiatric Ethics
DESCRIPTION: Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Group
CONTACT: Dr. Tony Hope or Dr. K.W.M. Fulford, Oxford Practice Skills Project, Medical School Offices, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom
Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Group: Mental Disorder, Delusions, and Belief
CONTACT: Dr. K.W.M. Fulford, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX, United Kingdom; Dr. Sebastian Gardner, Department of Philosophy, Birkbeck College, 14 Grover Street, London WC1, United Kingdom; or Dr. Alec Buchanan and Dr. Phillipa Garety, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychology, DeCrespigny Park, London SE5, United Kingdom
We welcome brief items on upcoming conferences, symposia, and meetings of interest groups. Submission deadline is three months prior to the targeted issue date. Acceptance is at the editors' discretion. [End Page 276]
