Hesperus is Bosphorus CALL FOR APPLICATIONSMethods in Normative Political Theory/Philosophy16-26 June 2014Summer School at Keele University (UK), sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research. Faculty:* George Sher (Rice)* Herlinde Pauer-Studer (Vienna)* David Owen (Southampton)* Monica Mookherjee (Keele)* Glen Newey (Brussels)* John Horton (Keele)* Elizabeth Frazer (Oxford)* Andrew Dobson (Keele)* Geoffrey Cupit (Waikato)* Sorin Baiasu (Vienna/Keele) The School gives 20 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working in the field of moral and political theory/philosophy a unique opportunity to exchange research and teaching ideas with colleagues from other universities and research institutes. This will be the fifth ECPR Summer School organised at Keele and the first organised by the ECPR Kantian Political Thought Standing Group. Funding:The Summer School was awarded by the ECPR two travel and accommodation grants (up to €165 each).
Royal Institute Philosophy Philosophy Pages Taste Project | NYIP | NYU The concept of taste in aesthetics had its origins in ideas about gustatory taste, and much was made of this analogy in the eighteenth century. Recent research on taste opens up the possibility of a re-examination of the relations between the gustatory and aesthetic concepts. Questions about the nature of taste perception, the role that knowledge plays in our appreciation of tastes, whether we can separate the descriptive and evaluative aspects of taste judgments, the contribution language makes to identification of flavors, the cultural aspects of taste, and the nature of expertise, all raise interesting and important parallels with the exercise of taste in other domains. The time is right to explore a range of connected issues spanning the domains of sensory science, psychology, connoisseurship, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and aesthetics. The Project on the Nature of Taste is a multi-institutional project.
Butterflies and Wheels » Discussing all the things Philosophy Now | a magazine of ideas The Project on Science and Religion | NYIP | NYU Chaired by Professor Thomas Nagel The subject is the relation between science and religion. The project's initial focus was on epistemological questions. Later in the study, we take up legal, political, and ethical issues as well. These issues are at present salient because of the highly politicized controversy over intelligent design, but our interest is broader. We want to explore: The boundaries between science and other forms of belief The epistemological status of religion The role of probabilistic reasoning in biology and cosmology (e.g. with respect to the origin of life), and how it is affected by nonempirical background assumptions The ways in which different forms of religious belief are and are not in competition with scientific claims The relation between religious views about the scope and limits of scientific explanation and secular alternatives to naturalistic reductionism in ethics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.
Table of Contents abduction (Igor Douven) Abelard [Abailard], Peter (Peter King) Abhidharma (Noa Ronkin) abilities (John Maier) Abner of Burgos (Shalom Sadik) Abrabanel, Judah (Aaron Hughes) abstract objects (Gideon Rosen) accidental properties — see essential vs. accidental properties action (George Wilson and Samuel Shpall) action-based theories of perception (Robert Briscoe and Rick Grush) action at a distance — see quantum mechanics: action at a distance in actualism (Christopher Menzel) adaptationism (Steven Hecht Orzack and Patrick Forber) Addams, Jane (Maurice Hamington) Adorno, Theodor W. (Lambert Zuidervaart) advance directives (Agnieszka Jaworska) Aegidius Romanus — see Giles of Rome Aenesidemus — see skepticism: ancient aesthetic, concept of the (James Shelley) aesthetics aesthetics of the everyday (Yuriko Saito) affirmative action (Robert Fullinwider) Africana Philosophy (Lucius T. Outlaw Jr.) B [jump to top] C [jump to top] D [jump to top] Damian, Peter (Toivo J.
The Project on Foundations of Epistemology | NYIP | NYU Chaired by Paul Boghossian, Paul Horwich, and Crispin Wright This project will focus on belief, inference, rationality, truth, probability, knowledge, and doubt. It aims to address problems that are both central yet understudied, and to promote work that addresses those concepts from unfamiliar angles. Amongst the questions with which we will be concerned are: What are the differences between (i) believing something, (ii) relying upon it for practical purposes, and (iii) supposing its truth for the sake of argument? The project is expected to run for three or four years. In addition to Professor Boghossian, Professor Horwich and Professor Wright, the faculty who have served as members of the project are: The graduate students who have served as members of the project are:
Guidelines on Reading Philosophy It will be difficult for you to make sense of some of the articles we'll be reading. This is partly because they discuss abstract ideas that you're not accustomed to thinking about. They may also use technical vocabulary which is new to you. Sometimes it won't be obvious what the overall argument of the paper is supposed to be. The prose may be complicated, and you may need to pick the article apart sentence by sentence. Contents Skim the Article to Find its Conclusion and Get a Sense of its Structure A good way to begin when you're trying to read a difficult article is to first skim the article to identify what the author's main conclusion is. When you're skimming the article, try also to get a general sense of what's going on in each part of the discussion. The articles we read won't always have a straightforward structure. This is the conclusion I want you to accept. The conclusion I want you to accept is A. Articles can be complex in other ways, too. and so on.
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Peter Unger, Faculty of Philosophy | NYU Peter Unger, Professor of Philosophy, has written extensively in epistemology, ethics, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. He has had fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the author of Ignorance: A Case for Scepticism (Oxford, 1975 and 2002); Philosophical Relativity (Blackwell and Minnesota, 1984; Oxford 2002); Identity, Consciousness and Value (Oxford, 1990); Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Oxford, 1996); and All the Power in the World (Oxford, 1996). Twenty-two of his previously published papers are contained in a two-volume collection comprising his Philosophical Papers, Volume 1 (Oxford, 2006) and his Philosophical Papers, Volume 2 (Oxford, 2006). Currently, his research interests are mainly in metaphilosophy and metaphysics, while his current teaching interests are mainly in metaphysics, ethics and metaphilosophy. EMPTY IDEAS — Book Abstract and Sample of Back Cover Copy Online Papers Courses
Paul Boghossian, Faculty of Philosophy | NYU PAUL BOGHOSSIAN (Ph.D., Princeton, 1987), is Silver Professor of Philosophy and the director of the New York Institute of Philosophy. He also serves as Director of NYU's Global Institute for Advanced Study. He was Chair of Philosophy from 1994-2004. His research interests are primarily in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, although he has written on a wide range of topics, including: color, rule-following, naturalism, self-knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, relativism, the aesthetics of music and the concept of genocide. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences He has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Magdalen College (Oxford), the School of Advanced Study (University of London), and the Australian National University (Canberra). He has also taught at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at Princeton. Books Selected Articles "The Maze of Moral Relativism". Courses Undergraduate Graduate