News and Notes
- News and Notes
Conferences and Symposia
Germany
Date: 7–9 October 1996
Organization: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust
Theme: Contemporary Portrayals of Auschwitz and Genocide: Philosophical Challenges
Location: Bonn
Contact: Alan Rosenberg, Philosophy, Queen’s College, Flushing, NY 11367, U.S.A.
United Kingdom
Date: 20–22 September 1996
Organization: Royal Institute of Philosophy
Theme: 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)
U. S. A
Date: 8–10 August 1996
Description: Eleventh Annual Conference on Computing and Philosophy
Location: Carnegie Mellon University
Contact: Robert Cavalier, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(e-mail: rc2z@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 9–15 August 1966
Organization: Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Description: Meeting
Location: Estes Park, Colorado
Contact: Sally Scholz, Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085 (e-mail: scholz@cis.vill.edu)
Date: 15–18 August 1996
Organization: North American Society for Social Philosophy
Location: St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin
Contact: Cheryl Hughes, Philosophy, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN 47933-0352
(e-mail: hughesc@wabash.edu)
Date: 23–25 August 1996
Organization: CEREC Center of Southeast Florida
Description: Clinical Ethics Seminar
Theme: Ethical Issues in the Care of Incompetent Patients
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Contact: Dr. Jos V.M. Welie, CEREC Center of Southeast Florida, P.O. Box 292932, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33329 (Tel/Fax: 305-424-9304;
(e-mail: jwelie@bcfreenet.seflin.lib.fl.us)
Date: 19–20 September 1996
Organization: Merleau-Ponty Circle
Theme: Merleau-Ponty, Perception, and the History of Philosophy
Location: University of Memphis
Contact: Leonard Lawlor, Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
(e-mail: lrlawlor@nsuvx1.memphis.edu)
Date: 26–28 September 1996
EVENT: 1996 Spindel Conference
Theme: Rethinking Sex and Gender
Location: University of Memphis
Contact: Tina Chanter, Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152
(e-mail: techanter@msuvx1.memst.edu)
Date: 10–12 October 1996
Organization: Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Description: Meeting
Location: Georgetown University
Contact: Debra Bergoffen, Philosophy and Religious Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 (e-mail: dbergoff@gmu.edu)
Date: 1–2 November 1996
Description: End-of-Life Care in Managed Health Care Systems: State of the Art in Ethics and Quality of Care
Location: Minneapolis
Contact: Steven Miles, Center for Biomedical Ethics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 5541-3074 (e-mail: lhoekstr@maroon.tc.umn.edu)
Date: 14–17 November 1996
Organization: Radical Philosophy Association
Description: 2nd National/International Conference
Theme: Globalization from Below
Location: Purdue University
Contact: Radical Philosophy Association, 65 Tory Fort Lane, Worcester, MA 01602
Date: 27–30 December 1996
Organization: American Philosophical Association—Eastern Division (APA)
Description: Meeting
Location: Atlanta
Contact: American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
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: New York, New York
Contact: Donald Mender, P.O. Box 1875, Grand Central Station, New York, NY 10163
Description: Seattle, Washington
Contact: Mark D. Sullivan, Department of Psychiatry, RP-10, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
Society for Philosophy and the Science of Psyche, Berlin, Germany
Contact: Christian Kupke, Leibnir Str. 86, D-10625, Berlin; Dr. Martin Heinze, Department for Social Psychiatry, Platanenalle 19, D-14050, Berlin
Network for Bioethics
Description: Centre D’Etudes Sur La Reconnaissance De La Personne Humaine-C.E.R.P.H. (Centre for Human Personhood Recognition Studies)
Contact: Dr. P. Goube de Laforest, C.E.R.P.H., BP 577, 86021 Poitiers, France (tel: (33) 49 46 17 30; fax: (33) 49 44 38 36)
Description: Inter-Seminary Institute at the City of Hope National Medical Center and Beckman Research Institute: The Inter-Seminary Institute at the City of Hope offers training in caring for seriously ill people for clergy, including psychosocial, ethical...
