International News and Notes

Conferences and Symposia

Greece

DATE: 4-10 August 2002
EVENT: Medicine and Philosophy in Ancient Greece and Today
LOCATION: Olympia
CONTACT: Christos Evangeliou, Philosophy & Religious Studies, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252; cevangeliou@towson.edu

South Africa

DATE: 24-27 September 2002
ORGANIZATION:The International Network for the Philosophy of Psychiatry
EVENT: International Symposium for the Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry
THEME: The Psychiatrist, The Patient, The Community
LOCATION: Cape Town
CONTACT: Daphne Parmenter or Sonja Du Plessis; +27 11 958 0580 (tel)' +27 11 958 0572 (fax); londocor@iafrica.com

Taiwan

DATE: 12-14 December 2002
ORGANIZATION:Council for Research in Values & Philosophy
EVENT: Conference
THEME: Christian Philosophy & Human Dignity
LOCATION: Taipei
CONTACT: Paschal Ting, Philosophy, FuJen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan; isp@mails.fju.edu.tw; www.crvp.org

Turkey

DATE: 8-10 August 2003
ORGANIZATION:Council for Research in Values & Philosophy
EVENT: conference
THEME: Philosophical Challenges and Prospects of the Dialogue of Cultural Traditions
LOCATION: Istanbul
CONTACT: George F. McLean, Council for Research in Values & Philosophy, Cardinal Station, PO Box 261, Washington, DC 20064; mclean@cua.edu; www.crvp.org

DATE: 10-17 August 2003
EVENT:XXIst World Congress of Philosophy
LOCATION: Istanbul
THEME: Philosophy Facing World Problems
CONTACT: Congress Secretariat, 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Ahmet Rasim Sok. 8/2, Cankaya, 06550 Ankhara, Turkey; toc@tfk.org.tr; www.tfk.org.tr

United Kingdom

DATE: 31 October-1 November, 2002
ORGANIZATION:The Royal College of Psychiatrists
EVENT: conference
THEME: Dementia: Mind, Meaning and the Person
LOCATION: The International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
CONTACT: Dr. Julian C. Hughes; jchughes@doctors.org.uk; www.ncl.ac.uk/psychiatry/meetings/mmp2002

U.S.A.

DATE: 19-21 September 2002
ORGANIZATION:Merleau Ponty Circle
EVENT: meeting
THEME: Ecology
LOCATION: St. Louis, Missouri
CONTACT: William S. Harnrick, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026-1433; whamric@siue.edu; www.siue.edu/MPC

DATE: 10-12 October 2002
ORGANIZATION:Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
EVENT: meeting
LOCATION: Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois
CONTACT: James Risser, Philosophy, Seattle University, 900 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122; spep@seattleu.edu; www.spep.org

DATE: 10-12 October 2002
ORGANIZATION:Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
EVENT: meeting
THEME: The Application of Phenomenological Methodology to Specific Investigations within the Human Sciences
LOCATION: Loyola University of Chicago, Illinois
CONTACT: Philip Lewin, 865 Shalar Ct., Eugene, OR 97405; pmlewin@yahoo.com

DATE: 7-10 November 2002
ORGANIZATION:Radical Philosophy Association
DESCRIPTION: Meeting
THEME: Activism, Ideology, and Radical Philosophy
LOCATION: Brown University
CONTACT: Lisa Heldke, Philosophy, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN 56082; heldke@gac.edu

DATE: 27-30 December 2002
ORGANIZATION:American Philosophical Association - Eastern Division
EVENT: meeting
LOCATION: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Janet Sample, American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716; www.apa.udel.edu

DATE: 27-30 December 2002
ORGANIZATION:Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love
EVENT: meeting
LOCATION: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
CONTACT: Carol Caraway, Philosophy & Religious Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705-1087; caraway@grove.iup.edu

DATE: 26-30 March 2003
ORGANIZATION:American Philosophical Association - Pacific Division
EVENT: meeting
LOCATION: San Francisco, California
CONTACT: American Philosophical Association, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716; www.udel.edu/apa

DATE: 25-26 April 2003
ORGANIZATION:American Philosophical Association - Central Division
EVENT: meeting
LOCATION: Cleveland, Ohio
CONTACT: Robin Smith, Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843; rsnutg@tamu.edu; www.udel.edu/apa

DATE: 17-18 May 2003
ORGANIZATION:Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry
EVENT: meeting
LOCATION: San Francisco, California
CONTACT: Linda Muncy, Dept. of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390-9070;
214-648-4960 (tel); 214-648-4967 (fax); linda.muncy@utsouthwestern.edu; www3.utsouthwestern.edu/aapp

National and Local Groups

Australia

ORGANIZATION:Interest Group for Philosophy and Psychiatry
CONTACT: Dr. Jeanette Martin and Dr. Stephanie Winfield, Australia/New Zealand College of Psychiatrists, 2/97 Edgecliffe Road, Bondi Junction - NSW 2002

Denmark

ORGANIZATION:Danish Group for Philosophy, Medicine and Mental Health
CONTACT: Dr. Soren Holm, Department of Medical Philosophy and Clinical Theory, University of...