The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. March 11-13, 2001 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Theme: "The City." Contact: Kenneth Stikkers, Philosophy Department, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL 62901. E-mail: kstikker@siu.edu

The 75th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 28 - April 1, 2001. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: The Work of Susanne Langer. Speakers: Vincent Colapietro, "Susanne Langer"; Bob Innis, "The Sources of Langer's Aesthetics."

Invited Symposium: The Philosophy of Joseph Margolis. Speakers: Goran Hermerin, Dale Jacquette, Joanne Waugh, Wolfgang Welsch. Respondent: Joseph Margolis.

Author Meets Critics: Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, 2nd Ed. Critics: Thomas Leddy, Paul C. Taylor, Antonia Soulez. Author: Richard Shusterman.

The 99th Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Minneapolis, 2-5 May, 2001. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: Session One. Author Meets Critics: Larry Hickman, Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work. Speakers are Paul Durbin, Robert Innis, and Robert Scharff.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: Session Two. Author Meets Critics: Shannon Sullivan, Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism. Speakers are Gail Weiss and Charlene Haddock Seigfried.

Invited Session: American Pragmatism and African-American Philosophy. Speaker: Paul C. Taylor. Commentator: G. Russell Moses.

Colloquium: Continental Philosophy. Paper by Matthew Halteman, "Re-Reading Rorty on Derrida: Why Irony Isn't Enough."

Colloquium: Social and Political Philosophy. Paper by David Dudrick, "Rorty on the 'Private-Public' Distinction."

Pragmatism Today. Universität Konstanz, DFG Forschergruppe "Logik in der Philosophie." 10-12 May 2001, University of Konstanz, Germany. Contact: André Fuhrmann at Andre.Fuhrmann@uni-konstanz.de or Erik J. Olsson at Erik.Olsson@uni-konstanz.de.

American Pragmatism and Culture: Art and Society. National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, Co-Directors John J. Stuhr and Richard Shusterman. 4-29 June 2001, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. This seminar consisted of fifteen participants working in collaboration with two leading scholars, John J. Stuhr and Richard Shusterman. For more information contact Toni Mooney, Department of Philosophy, 240 Sparks Building, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802-5201. Phone: 814-865-1240, e-mail: nehsem@psu.edu

Bioethics and Pragmatism. Workshop held at Wageningen University, Netherlands, 28-29 June 2001. 

Summer Institute in American Philosophy 2001. University of Vermont, 9-14 July 2001. Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, SIU-Carbondale, the University of Vermont, and The Center for Dewey Studies.

Dewey: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Beyond. First annual symposium sponsored by the Behavioral Research Council, 20-22 July 2001, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Contact the BRC Director Elias L. Khalil, email: elk@aier.org Phone: (413) 528-1216.

The Varieties of Pragmatism. International Seminar at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 6-8 September 2001. Speakers: Jaime Nubiola, José Miguel Esteban, Héctor González , Ricardo Laviada, Alessandro Bonello, Christopher Hookway, Moris Polanco. Contact: José Miguel Esteban at natura2@prodigy.net.mx

The Midwest Pragmatist Study Group of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Fifth Annual Meeting. Loyola University Chicago, 29 - 30 September 2001. Contact: Hans Seigfried, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Philosophy, 6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626-5385. E-mail: hseigfr@luc.edu

Presenters: Alex Klein, “How William James’ Rhetoric Exemplifies his Anti-Rationalism.” Elizabeth Sperry, “Postmodernism and Neo-Pragmatism as Kindness: Notes Toward an Ethic of Individuality.” Felicitas Krämer, “William James’s Conception of Reality.” William Myers, “Pragmatist Metaphysics: A Defense.”

Exploring the Thought of John J. McDermott. A conference in honor of McDermott's seventieth birthday. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 12-13 October 2001. Contact: James Campbell, Philosophy Department, University of Toledo, Toledo OH 43606 [james.campbell@toledo.edu]  or  Richard Hart, Humanities Division, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ 07003-3594 [rsmithmill@aol.com]. 

Presenters: William Gavin, "Locality is the Only Universal’: McDermott on American Culture and Experience." James Campbell, "The Pragmatic Scholar: McDermott on the History of American Philosophy." Jacqueline Kegley, "Living Creatively, While Terminal." Michael Allen, "John J. McDermott and the ‘Bite’ of the Existential ‘Moment’." Eugene Fontinell, "Relational Personalism: Optimism? No! Hope? Perhaps! " Richard Hart, "Landscape and Personscape: McDermott’s Urban Aesthetics ." Paul Thompson, "Does McDermott Have an Ethics? " Arthur Lothstein, "No Eros, No Buds: The McDermott Experience; Or Teaching as Nectaring." John Ryder, "The Necessity of a Cultural Pedagogy." Responses by John McDermott.

The Spiritual Currents of American Pragmatism. A Lecture Series (28 October 2001 -- 2 June 2002) by Eugene Taylor, PhD, Lecturer on Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. Sponsored by The Swedenborg Society at Harvard, to celebrate the One Hundredth Anniversary of William James's Lectures on The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1901-1902. Sunday afternoons at 1:00 PM in the Swedenborg Chapel, Quincy at Kirkland Sts., Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lectures:

Oct. 28, '01      What is Pragmatism?: Menand's Omission and Rorty's Error
Nov. 11, '01     The Doctrine of Correspondences in Emerson and Swedenborg
Dec. 9, '01        Henry James Sr. and James John Garth Wilkinson: The Physics of Creation
Feb. 3, '02        Love, Wisdom, and Use in the Pragmatism of William James, C. S. Peirce, and Chauncey Wright
Mar 3, '02         Peirce and Swedenborg
Apr 7, '02         William James and Depth Psychology
May 5, '02        Mystical Consciousness and the Transformation of Personality in James's Varieties
June 2, '02        The Annual Wilfred Gould Rice Lecture on Psychology and Religion: "The Varieties and its Contemporary Influence"

4th International Meeting on Pragmatism. Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil, 5-8 November 2001. Coordinators: Professors Ivo Assad Ibri and Edélcio Gonçalves de Souza, Department of Philosophy. Location: PUC de SP, Auditório 333, Rua Ministro Godoy, 969, 3º andar, Perdizes, São Paulo. Information: phone 55- 11 3670 84 17 com Srta. Joice, or e-mail the Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Filosofia at posfil@pucsp.br.

Program: "Classical American Pragmatism: A Systematic Overview" by Sandra Rosenthal (University of Loyola at New Orleans). "A Vital Importância da Primeiridade na Filosofia de Peirce" by Ivo Assad Ibri (PUC - SP). "Peirce on Science and Metaphysics: Some Critical Reflections" by Cornelius Delaney (University of Notre Dame). "Peirce on Truth and Ethics" by Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto). "Primeiros Passos Rumo à Verdade: Uma Abordagem Semiótica" by Lauro Frederico Barbosa da Silveira (UNESP - Marília). "On Peirce's Methodology of Logic and Philosophy" by Leila Haaparanta (University of Tampere - Finland). "Abductive Reasoning and Self-Organization" by Maria Eunice Quilici Gonzalez (UNESP - Marília). "Existência e Contradição" by Edélcio Gonçalves de Souza (PUC - SP). "The Role of Pragmaticism in Education" by Patricia Turrisi (University of North Carolina at Wilmington). "Dewey and Beyond: From Inquiry to Revision" by Pierre Livet (Université d'Aix-Marseille I - France). "Os Significados Pragmáticos da Mente e do Sinequismo em Peirce" by Lucia Santaella (Palestra de Encerramento).

Building Bridges: American and Continental Philosophy in Dialogue. Fourth Annual Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, November 16th-17th, 2001. Keynote Address: "American Existentialism and Phenomenology" by Prof. Bruce Wilshire. The topic for this year's Building Bridges conference is American and Continental Philosophy in Dialogue. Papers should address topics of intersection between the two areas. Topics may include, but are not limited to: (1) Any American and Continental thinker on a shared topic such as aesthetics, communication, education, ethics, feminism, logic, political philosophy/democracy, religion, realism/anti-realism, science, society and technology. (2) The compatibility or incompatibility of traditions in American with Continental thought such as existentialism, idealism, naturalism, phenomenology, postmodernism, pragmatism, process metaphysics, structuralism/poststructuralism, or transcendentalism. (3) The role of such themes as dualisms, totalities, metaphysics, the end of metaphysics, history or community in American and Continental philosophy.
     Deadline for Submissions: September 1st, 2001. Submission Guidelines: Submissions should be no more than thirty minutes in length of reading time. All papers will go through an anonymous review process. Send three copies with name and institutional affiliation on title-page only to: Matt Goodwin, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL 62901-4505. Phone: 618-453-7444, E-mail: mgoodwin@siu.edu  Web Page: http://www.siu.edu/~philos/bridges

2001 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Denver, Colorado, 17-20 November 2001. Events include:

Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group. Theme: New Insights on Pragmatism and Religion. Papers: Douglas Jacobsen (Messiah College), "The Undeveloped Empiricism of Early Pentecostal Theology in Dialogue with D. C. Macintosh and Donald L. Gelpi." James S. Freeman (Columbia University), "Rorty's Concept of Romance and the Justification of Religious Faith." James Kraft (Graduate Theological Union), "Religious Belief Without Rational or Experiential Foundations: James and Heidegger Compared and Appropriated."

Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group. Theme: Religious Naturalism Today. Panelists: Gordon D. Kaufman (Harvard University), Ursula Goodenough (Washington University), Henry S. Levinson (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Charley D. Hardwick (American University), Donald A. Crosby (Colorado State University).

Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought Group and Theology and Continental Philosophy Group. Theme: Intersections: Pragmatism and Postmodernism. Papers: Tirdad Derakhshani (University of Pennsylvania), "Hope Before Knowledge: Rorty and the Messianic." Richard Alexis Amesbury (Claremont Graduate University), "Can Deconstruction's Formal Conception of Justice Be Given Pragmatic Content?" Christina Hutchins (Graduate Theological Union), "Breaking Habits: Whitehead and Butler as Theological Opportunity." David Lamberth (Harvard University), "Twentieth-Century Philosophies in the Twenty-First Century: What Is the
Future for Pragmatism and Postmodernism?"

Philosophy of Religion Section. Theme: Ways of Living: Religious Experience and Philosophy. Papers: Matthew Bagger (Columbia University), "The Skeptic's Practical Criterion and Pragmatism." Jeremy Carrette (University of Stirling), "Passionate Belief: William James, Emotion, and Religious Experience."

The 98th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. 27-30 December 2001, Atlanta, Georgia. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Theme: William James Revisited. Papers by Phil Oliver, "'Pure Experience' and Personal Subjectivity: Compatible or Incompatible?" James Pawelski, "'On the Energies of Men [and Women]': A New Approach from Positive Psychology."

The Charles S. Peirce Society. Speakers: Umberto Eco, President; Winner, Society Essay Competition winner

The William James Society. Theme: Fronting Life in the 21st Century: James in the New Century. Papers by Phil Oliver, "James and the Return to Life." Jason Gary Horn, "Literature, Philosophy, and William James." Robert Talisse, "The Need for a Moral Equivalent of War." William Gavin, "Vagueness, Death and Dying in the New Millennium."

Symposium: The 100th Anniversary of James' Varieties of Religious Experience. Papers by James Campbell and Douglas Anderson.