Body and Mind
Fordham University Philosophy Department Graduate Conference
April 24th and 25th, 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 6th, 2015.
We invite junior career researchers and advanced graduate students to submit their work for consideration in our upcoming interdisciplinary conference. We are especially interested in papers that explore the relevance of psychological studies for epistemological questions and the prospects of successful inquiry. Submissions should be fewer than 3000 words in length and prepared for anonymous review. Submissions must be received by: 15 March 2016. Decisions will be made by the first week of April. Please direct inquiries or paper submissions to: nyc.epistpsych.conference@gmail.com.
Invited participants include:
- Emily Balcestis (NYU)
- Jason D’Cruz (SUNY Albany)
- David Dunning (Michigan)
- Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
- Yael Granot (NYU)
- Frank Keil (Yale)
- Kristi Lockhart (Yale)
- Hilary Kornblith (UM Amherst)
- Deanna Kuhn (Columbia)
- Michael Lynch (UConn)
- Hugo Mercier (Neuchâtel)
- Emily Pronin (Princeton)
- Roy Sorensen (WashU)
- Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff)
- Phillip Tetlock (UPenn)
- Chris Tucker (William and Mary).
This event has been supported by the John Templeton Foundation and Fordham University.
A one-day workshop at Fordham University, NYC, intended to provide academic and networking opportunities for early career women working in Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy.
The workshop aims to achieve three goals: (1) to provide an opportunity for early career women working in the area to present their work and receive feedback, (2) to help foster networking opportunities with medieval philosophers working in the NYC area, and (3) to help increase the visibility of research in the area and women’s contributions to it.
Keynote speakers: Marilyn McCord Adams and Therese Scarpelli Cory.
Date: 22 April 2017
Location: Fordham University, 150 W 62nd St, New York, NY 10023
Organizers: Giorgio Pini, Zita V. Toth, Shane Wilkins.
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)
Society for the Metaphysics of Science
3rd Annual Conference
Fordham University
After its successful first meeting at Rutgers University, Newark in 2015, and even more successful second meeting at the University of Geneva in 2016, the Society for the Metaphysics of Science (SMS) will be holding its third annual conference on October 5-7, 2017 at Fordham University.
Our keynote speaker will be
Michael Strevens (NYU)
In addition, Jessica Wilson (U Toronto) will deliver a presidential address.
All other sessions will comprise submitted papers.
As well as various presentations, the conference will also feature an organizational meeting of the Society which will elect officers, continue to make various policies, plan future conferences, etc. Both those interested in presenting papers and/or participating in the Society are invited to the conference.
For more information on the society, see the Society for the Metaphysics of Science web page. SMS also has a faceboook page.
At the conference, presentations will be 30 minutes, with a 10 minutes comment, 5 min reply, and 15 minutes for Q&A. Submissions should be on a topic in the metaphysics of science broadly construed, of no more than 4,500 words and should include an abstract of ~150 words and a word count. All papers must employ gender-neutral language and be prepared for blind review.
Submissions must be made using the EasyChair online submission system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sms2017
The submission deadline is March 1, 2017. Notifications of acceptance
will be delivered by May 15, 2017. Selected speakers should confirm
their participation before May 22, 2017. The conference will have a $50 registration fee for faculty and post-docs, $10 for graduate students, $1 for emeritus faculty.
The Society would like to thank the Department of Philosophy at Fordham University for support.
Contact mkistler at the domain univ-paris1.fr for further information.
Valia Allori (Northern Illinois U)
Laura Franklin-Hall (New York U)
Carl Gillett (Northern Illinois U)
Thomas Pradeu (CNRS and U Bordeaux)
Johanna Wolff (LMU Munich)
Local Arrangements Chair:
Fordham University Graduate Conference
The Fordham Philosophical Society invites current graduate students to submit abstracts for presentation at its upcoming conference. Our topic this year is identity and we welcome submissions from all philosophical fields and interests. Some possible areas of exploration include: logical identity, the politics of identity, identity and difference, identity and narrative, personal identity, and other themes related to the critical study of identity.
The Fordham Philosophical Society is a consciously pluralistic organization and welcomes submissions from all philosophical perspectives including, but not limited to, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, Process Philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Critical Theory, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and Postmodern Philosophy.
Submission Deadline: December 4, 2017
Submissions should be in the form of maximum 300 word abstracts for a paper of 3000 words with a presentation of 30 minutes. To facilitate blind review, do not include any identifying information in the abstract, but instead include your name, institutional affiliation, and phone contact in the body of your email.
All submissions and questions should be emailed to fordhamgradconference@gmail.com.
The theme of our conference, “Thinking and Living the Good Life,” asks participants to think upon what it means to live well in contemporary society, how we can know the right or best way to live, and the role of thought in the enterprise of human life. Evocative of ancient theories of virtue, the theme of the good life also bears on prominent areas of discussion in contemporary political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics. Papers topics may include, but are not limited to: the relationship between political structures and the shared goal of realizing a common good; the complexities that arise in trying to achieve knowledge of the good; and the nature of the good in and of itself. Our conference aims to bring together graduate students that work in different areas in order to think through this singular theme of the good life and to search for commonalities and intersections amongst a broad array of approaches.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted to fordhamredstarline@gmail.com by December 20, 2018. Authors of selected papers will be notified by January 10, 2019.