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Conferences and Symposia
Germany
DATE: 4-6 October 1995
ORGANIZATION: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide & the Holocaust
TITLE: Representations of the Holocaust: Philosophical Challenges
LOCATION: Bonn
CONTACT: Alan Rosenberg, Philosophy, Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367 (e-mail: awrqc@qcvaxa.acc.gqc.edu)
Israel
DATE: 25 December 1995-1 January 1996
DESCRIPTION: Fourth International Conference in Jerusalem
TITLE: Fifty Years after World War II: Christian-Jewish Relations and the Holocaust
LOCATION: Hebrew University, Jerusalem
DEADLINE: September 1, 1995
CONTACT: Bernard Klein, Kingsborough Community College, 2001 Oriental Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11235
Poland
DATE: 28 September-1 October 1995
DESCRIPTION: Conference
TITLE: Criticism and Defence of Rationality in Contemporary Philosophy
LOCATION: Warsaw
CONTACT: Josef Niznik, Institute of Philosophy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-330 Warzawa, Nowy Swiat 72, Poland (e-mail: niznik@plearn.bitnet)
Spain
DATE: 28 February-2 March 1996
ORGANIZATION: The Royal College of Psychiatrists Philosophy Group(UK) and The Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry (USA)
DESCRIPTION: The First International Conference on Philosophy and Mental Health
CONTACT: Ms. Jean Wales, The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 17 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8PG, United Kingdom (tel.: 71-235-2351; fax: 71-245-1231)
United Kingdom
DATE: 20-22 September 1996
ORGANIZATION: Royal Institute of Philosophy
TITLE: Thought and Language
LOCATION: University of Reading
CONTACT: John Preston, Philosophy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 2AA, England (e-mail: j.preston@reading.ac.uk)
United States
DATE: 21-23 September 1995
DESCRIPTION: Twentieth International Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle
LOCATION: Duquesne University
CONTACT: Fred Evans, Philosophy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282
DATE: 29-30 September 1995
DESCRIPTION: Conference
TITLE: Ethics, Medicine, and Health Care: An Appraisal of the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt
LOCATION: Youngstown State University
CONTACT: Brendan Minogue, Ethics Center, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555-1465 [End Page 181]
DATE: 5-7 October 1995
DESCRIPTION: 1995 Spindel Conference
TITLE: Explanation in the Human Sciences
CONTACT: David Henderson, Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152 (e-mail: henderson@suvx1.memphis.edu)
DATE: 12-14 October 1995
ORGANIZATION: Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
LOCATION: DePaul University
CONTACT: E. Marya Bower, Philosophy, Earlham College, Richmond, IN 47374 (e-mail: bowerma@earlham.edu)
DATE: 2-5 November 1995
ORGANIZATION: Society for Literature and Science
LOCATION: Los Angeles
CONTACT: Jay Labinger, Beckman Institute, mail code 139-74, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
DATE: 10-12 November 1995
ORGANIZATION: Southwestern Philosophical Society
LOCATION: Austin
CONTACT: Robert Feleppa, Philosophy, Wichita State University, Box 74, Wichita, KS 67260-0074 (e-mail: feleppa@twsuvn.uc. twsu.edu)
DATE: 27-30 December 1995
ORGANIZATION: American Philosophical Association—Eastern Division (APA)
DESCRIPTION: Annual Meeting
LOCATION: New York
CONTACT: William E. Mann, Philosophy, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405
DATE: 27-30 December 1995
ORGANIZATION: American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
DESCRIPTION: Regional Annual Meeting
TITLE: Integrity and Conscience
LOCATION: New York
CONTACT: Robert M. Adams, Philosophy, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
DATE: 27-30 December 1995
ORGANIZATION: Karl Jaspers Society of North America
DESCRIPTION: Regional Annual Meeting
LOCATION: New York
CONTACT: Raymond Langley, Philosophy, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY 10577
DATE: 27-30 December 1995
ORGANIZATION: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust
DESCRIPTION: Regional Annual Meeting
LOCATION: New York
CONTACT: Alan Rosenberg, Philosophy, Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367
DATE: 27-30 December 1995
ORGANIZATION: Society for the Study of Women Philosophers
DESCRIPTION: Regional Annual Meeting
TITLE: Little-Recognized Women Philosophers
LOCATION: New York
CONTACT: Therese B. Dykeman, 47 Woods End Rd., Fairfield, CT 06430
DATE: 27-30 December 1995
ORGANIZATION: Soren Kirkegaard Society
DESCRIPTION: Regional Annual Meeting
LOCATION: New York
CONTACT: Vanessa Rumble, Philosophy, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167
DATE: 8-10 March 1996
ORGANIZATION: Metaphysical Society of America
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
TITLE: Community
LOCATION: Fordham University, New York
CONTACT: Andrew Reck, Philosophy, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
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...