International News and Notes

Conferences and Symposia

Argentina

date: 22–24 September 2014
event: Fifth International Colloquium on the Philosophy of Technology
organization: International Colloquia on the Philosophy of Technology
location: Universidad Abierta Interamericana, Buenos Aires
contact: http://www.coloquiofdt.blogspot.com

Austria

date: 1–5 September 2014
event: Conference
theme: Ontological Issues in the Life Sciences
organization: The European Advanced School for the Philosophy of Life Sciences
location: KLI Institute, Klosternenburg
contact: http://easpls.kli.ac.at

Belgium

date: 18–20 September 2014
event: Conference
theme: Paul Ricoeur: Thinker of the Margins?
organization: VU-University Amsterdam
location: University of Antwerp
contact: geoffrey.dierckxsens@uantwerpen.be
date: 18–20 September 2014
event: Conference
theme: Rethinking the Human
organization: International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture
location: University of Leuven
contact: http://isrlc.org/?page_id=108
date: 2–3 October 2014
event: Conference
theme: Secondary Qualities: The Transition from Quality to Quantity
organization: Philosophy & Moral Sciences Department, Ghent University
location: University of Ghent
contact: http://users.ugent.be/~mgiurgea/conferences/secondaryqualities/page2.html

Canada

date: 16 September – 25 November 2014
event: Fall 2014 Speaker Series
theme: Current Research in Metaphysics
location: Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Edmonton
contact: http://www.philosophy.ualberta.ca/Events%20and%20Activities.aspx
date: 9–10 October 2014
event: Conference
theme: Vulnerability in Context
location: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
contact: Christine.straehle@uottawa.ca

Czech Republic

date: 17–19 September 2014
event: Prague International Colloquium
theme: Nature of Rules and Normativity
location: Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague
contact: http://logika.flu.cas.cz/colloquium

Germany

date: 25–27 August 2014
event: Conference
theme: Concept Types and Frames in Language, Cognition, and Science (CTF’14)
location: University of Dusseldorf
contact: http://www.sfb991.uni-duesseldorf.de/ctf-2014/
date: 3–4 October 2014
event: Conference
theme: Debunking Arguments in Moral Philosophy
location: Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen
contact: peter.koenigs@uni-tuebingen.de
date: 6–8 October 2014
event: Conference
theme: Mental Diseases in Ancient Medicine
location: Humboldt-University, Berlin
contact: http://www.classicsmedicine.org/news/workshop-mental-diseases-2014

Greece

date: 25–29 September 2014
event: 6th Conference of the Beyond Humanism Conference Series
theme: Posthuman Politics
location: Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Mytilinioi
contact: http://chmlab.ct.aegean.gr/post_conf_2014/

Hungary

date: 27–30 August 2014
event: 28th European Conference on Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care
organization: Department of Behavioural Sciences, University of Debrecan; European Society for Philosophy of Medicine and Healthcare (ESPMH)
location: University of Debrecen
contact: http://www.espmh.org/

Italy

date: 16–19 September 2014
event: 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
location: Noto
organization: European Society for Philosophy and Psychology
contact: conference@eurospp.org
date: 25–27 September 2014
event: Conference
theme: Seeing Beyond in Facing Death. Spirituality from Sick Body to Salvation
location: University of Padua
organization: University of Padua
contact: http://www.endlife.it/

Lithuania

date: 9–12 October 2014
event: Conference
theme: The Moral Domain: Conceptual Issues in Moral Psychology
location: Vilnius Experimental Philosophy Lab, Vilnius University
contact: http://moral-domain.xphi.lt

The Netherlands

date: 25–28 August 2014
event: Conference
theme: Summer School “Dilemmas and Dirty Hands: Ethical and Political Perspectives”
location: University of Amsterdam
organization: Dutch Research School of Philosophy
contact: http://www.ozsw.nl/summer-school-2014-dilemmas-and-dirty-hands-ethics-politics/

Norway

date: 29 August 2014
event: Conference
theme: The Social Mind: Origins of Collective Reasoning
location: Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo
date: 29 August 2014
event: Conference
theme: Causation in Science: Powers, Mechanism, Singularism
location: Center for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo
organization: Research Council of Norway
contact: http://www.umb.no/causci/article/causation-in-science-powers-mechanism-singularism

Russia

date: 28–30 August 2014
event: Conference
theme: Unity of Consciousness: Phenomenological and Cognitive Aspects
location: St. Petersburg University
contact: http://philosophy.spbu.ru/unicon2014/

Sweden

date: 10–11 October...