News and Notes

Conferences and Symposia

Canada

Date: 7–10 May 1998
Organization: American Association for the History of Medicine
Description: 1998 Annual Meeting
Location: Toronto
Contact: John Harley Warner, Section of the History of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, L132 SHM, P.O. Box 208015, New Haven, CT 06520, USA

Date: 30–31 May 1998
Organization: Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
Description: Tenth Annual Meeting
Theme: Gender Perspectives in and on Psychiatric Theory and Practice
Abstracts Due: December 1, 1997
Location: Toronto
Contact: Linda Muncy, Psychiatry, University of Texas—Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75235-9070, USA (tel: 214-648-3393; fax: 214-648-7980; e-mail: lmuncy@mednet.swmed.edu)

Scotland

Date: 20–25 July 1998
Organization: 25th Hume Society Conference
Description: Conference
Location: University of Stirling
Contact: Saul Traiger, Philosophy, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041-3314, USA

USA

Date: 5–7 March 1998
Organization: Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Location: Marquette University, Minneapolis, Wisconsin
Theme: Science, Technology, and Democracy: Why Experience Matters
Contact: Kenneth W. Stikkers, Philosophy, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122 (e-mail: kstikkers@seattle.edu)

Date: 25–28 March 1998
Organization: American Philosophical Association—Pacific Division (APA)
Description: Meeting
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: Anita Silvers, Philosophy, San Francisco, CA 94132

Date: 25–28 March 1998
Organization: North American Kant Society
Description: Meeting
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: Jane Kneller, Philosophy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523

Date: 25–28 March 1998
Organization: Society for Philosophy & Public Affairs
Description: Meeting
Theme: Prostitution: The Issue of Discrimination
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: Sibyl Schwarzenbach, Philosophy, Baruch College, CUNY, 17 Lexington Ave., New York, NY 10010

Date: 25–28 March 1998
Organization: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide and the Holocaust
Description: Meeting
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: Alan Rosenberg, Philosophy, Queens College, CUNY, 65-30 Kissena Blvd., Flushing, NY 11367

Date: 25–28 March 1998
Organization: Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love
Description: Meeting
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: Carol Caraway, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705-1087 (e-mail: caraway@grove.iup.edu)

Date: 25–28 March 1998
Organization: Society for the Study of Process Philosophy
Description: Meeting
Theme: Nicholas Rescher’s Process Philosophy
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: Daniel Dombrowski, Philosophy, Seattle University, Seattle, WA 98122

Date: 25–28 March 1998
Organization: Society for the Study of Women Philosophers
Description: Meeting
Theme: Why Are There No Great Women Philosophers?
Location: Los Angeles, California
Contact: Jane Duran, Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3090 (e-mail: jduran@education.ucsb.edu)

Date: 2–4 April 1998
Organization: Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Description: Meeting
Theme: By Body Bound
Location: University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama
Contact: David Stewart, Art, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899 (e-mail: stewartd@email.uah.edu)

Date: 9–11 April 1998
Organization: Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Description: Meeting
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Contact: Valerie Gray Hardcastle, Philosophy, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0126 (e-mail: valerie@vt.edu)

Date: 16–18 April 1998
Organization: 26th Conference on Value Inquiry
Description: Meeting
Theme: Practical and Theoretical Foundations of Value
Location: University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama
Contact: Michael Patton, University of Montevallo, Station 6240, Montevallo, AL 35115 (e-mail: mfpatton@mindspring.com)

Date: 17 April 1998
Organization: Symposium on Social and Political Philosophy
Description: Meeting
Location: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Contact: John T. Sanders, Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14526 (e-mail: jtsgsh@rit.edu)

Date: 17–19 April 1998
Organization: New Mexico and West Texas Philosophical Society
Description: Meeting
Location: El Paso, Texas
Contact: H. G. Alexander, 603 Girard, N.E., Albuquerque, NM 87106

Date: 25–27 April 1998
Organization: International Society for African Philosophy
Description: Meeting
Location: Towson State University, Towson, Maryland
Contact: Leke Adeofe, Philosophy, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33199 (e-mail: adeofe@servms.fiu.edu)

Date: 6–9 May 1998
Organization: American Philosophical Association—Central Division (APA)
Location: Chicago
Contact: Robin Smith, Philosophy, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843 (e-mail: rsmith@tamu.edu)

Date: 6–9 May 1998
Organization: Society for the Philosophic Study of Genocide...