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Body and Mind
Fordham University Philosophy Department Graduate Conference
April 24^th and 25^th, 2015
Fordham University, Rose Hill Campus

Keynote Speaker: Howard Robinson
University Professor in Philosophy, Central European University

Call for Papers:

The number of studies in the cognitive sciences that reveal the profound degree to which the body influences the mind has continued to grow.  However, the grip of Cartesian dualism on philosophy has been slow to loosen.  While very few philosophers retain a theory of separate substances of mind and body, the popular computational and connectionist theories of mind of the last few decades continued to leave the body out of the picture.

Recently, a number of so-called “embodied” and “enactive” approaches to cognition have sought to reorient the field.  Sometimes, these have been advanced as radical programs that seek to completely overthrow orthodoxy in philosophy of mind.  These debates seem to be only increasing in pace.  This year’s Fordham University Graduate Philosophy Conference seeks to investigate the impact of the body on the mind through a variety of approaches.

-Early embodied approaches drew inspiration from and explored the work of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre and others in the phenomenological tradition.  We welcome papers that explore this historical connection as well as those that consider the continuing importance of phenomenology to analyzing consciousness.

-We welcome papers that address competing accounts of the emotions, the nature of concepts, how memory works, the modularity of the mind, mental representation and other traditional problems in cognitive science from classical or standard and embodied perspectives.

-We welcome papers that explore embodied and classical accounts of the problem of other minds and issues of intersubjectivity.

-Ultimately, we welcome any paper that seeks to elucidate the important ways the mind is affected by the body while also welcoming papers reflectively critical of these new approaches.

We invite the submission of papers no longer than 3,000 words prepared for a 20-25 minute presentation. Papers should be submitted as .pdf  or .doc files and formatted for blind review. Please include as a separate document a cover letter including your name, paper title, institution and contact information.

Submissions should be sent to fordhambodymindconf@gmail.com by Friday, March 6^th, 2015.

The Twelfth NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

New York University, November 6-7, 2015
Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Room 914

Registration is free but required by Tuesday, November 3, and is available here.

The New York University Department of Philosophy will host the twelfth in its series of conferences on issues in the history of modern philosophy on November 6 and 7, 2015. Each conference in the series examines the development of a central philosophical problem from early modern philosophy to the present, exploring the evolution of formulations of the problem and of approaches to resolving it. By examining the work of philosophers of the past both in historical context and in relation to contemporary philosophical thinking, the conferences allow philosophy’s past and present to illuminate one another.

Area hotels

• Washington Square Hotel
• Soho Grand
• The Jane
• Holiday Inn Soho
• The Standard East Village

Conference co-directors

Béatrice Longuenesse, John Richardson, Don Garrett, and Anja Jauernig.

Sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Philosophy.

Donald Ainslie
University of Toronto

Stefanie Grüne
University of Potsdam

Susan James
Birkbeck, University of London

Jonathan Lear
University of Chicago

Michael G. F. Martin
University College London

Ulrich Schlösser
University of Tübingen

CALL FOR PAPERS

7th Annual New York City Workshop
in Early Modern Philosophy
Fordham University
Lincoln Center Campus
12th Floor Lounge
May 13-14, 2017

Keynote Speakers:

François Duchesneau (Université de Montréal)
Christia Mercer (Columbia)
Anja Jauernig (NYU)

The workshop aims to foster exchange and collaboration among scholars, students, and anyone with an interest in Early Modern Philosophy. We welcome presentations of papers on any topic in early modern philosophy (roughly covering the period 1600-1800).

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words to newyorkcityearlymodern@gmail.com no later than January 15, 2017.

Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus is located on the western side of Manhattan at 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, about two blocks from Columbus Circle at the southwest corner of Central Park. More details about the program, accommodation options, and other practical matters will be made available On This Website.

Conference Organizers:
Ohad Nachtomy, Bar-Ilan (ohadnachtomy@mac.com)
Reed Winegar, Fordham (bwinegar@fordham.edu)

Margaret Atherton
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

William Bristow
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Michael Friedman
Stanford University

James Kreines
Claremont McKenna College

Samantha Matherne
University of California, Santa Cruz

Kris McDaniel
Syracuse University

Ian Proops
University of Texas, Austin

Sam Rickless
University of California, San Diego

Dorothy Rogers
Montclair State University

Eric Watkins
University of California, San Diego

Organisers:

Don Garrett
New York University

Anja Jauernig
New York University

Béatrice Longuenesse
New York University

John Richardson
New York University

Fourteenth Annual NYU Conference on Issues in Modern Philosophy

17th/18th Century Philosophy
19th Century Philosophy
20th Century Philosophy

November 9, 2018 – November 10, 2018
Department of Philosophy, New York University

60 Washington Square South
New York 10012
United States

https://philevents.org/event/show/38258