The 29th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. March 7-9, 2002 in Portland, Maine, hosted by the University of Southern Maine. Theme: "The Emotions and American Philosophy." Contact: Glenn Kuehn, Philosophy Dept., Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762. E-mail: submissions@american-philosophy.org

Workshops: John Dewey and the Foundation of the Social Sciences. The Behavioral Research Council (www.brc-aier.org, a division of the American Institute for Economic Research) is running, each year, weeklong workshops on "John Dewey and the Foundation of the Social Sciences."  This year they will be on 17-23 March and 19-25 May 2002.  AIER is located in the Berkshire Hills of Western Mass. Contact: Elias Khalil, elk@aier.org, or by regular mail to BRC, PO Box 1000, Division Street, Great Barrington, MA  01230.

The Varieties of Religious Experience: Pertinent or Passé? Columbia Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Columbia University, 24-25 March 2002. A Colloquium on the Centennial of William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience. Scholars from leading institutions gathered to discuss and reevaluate the significance of a book that pioneered analysis of religious experience within a psychological and philosophical context. Speakers: Wayne Proudfoot, Jerome Bruner, David Hollinger, Richard Rorty, and Anne Taves. Location: Columbia University, 555 Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway (at West 115th Street), New York City. Contact: Marc Kaplan at kaplancomm@aol.com

The 76th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. 26-30 March 2002, Seattle, Washington. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Graduate Student Session on Pragmatist Responses to Racism and Nationalism. Speakers: Kimberly Garchar, "Du Bois's Experienced Reality of Race"; Terrance MacMullan, "Dewey and Du Bois on the Meaning of Difference."

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Session on Pragmatist Voices on Terrorism and War. Speakers: Benjamin Gregg, "Philosophical Pragmatism Contra Fundamentalist Terrorism"; Patrick Shade, "Cultivating Hope in the Face of Terrorism."

Symposium on The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams. Speakers: Marilyn Fischer, "Addams on Peace and Internationalism"; Erin McKenna, "Jane Addams and Critical Race Theory."

Symposium on Rights: Philosophical Foundations and Practical Possibilities. Speaker: Michael Sullivan, "Reconstructing Rights: Taking Pragmatism Seriously."

The Science of Religions: One Hundred Years of William James' Varieties of Religious Experience. University of Illinois at Chicago, 12-13 April 2002. Address: 250 Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 W. Harrison, Chicago, IL, 60607. 

Conference schedule: Charlene Seigfried, "The Legacy of William James: No Dogmas and No Doctrines?"; Melvin Morse, "Ineffable Truths: Childhood Near-Death Experiences"; Huston Smith, "William James and the Visionary Experience"; Chris Daugherty, "Is Prayer Therapy? Spirituality and Medical Research"; Robert Almeder, "James' Strong Minded Metaphysics"; Round Table on The Sciences of Religion in the Twenty-First Century: Huston Smith, Charlene Seigfried, Chris Daugherty, Robert Almeder.

The 100th Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Chicago, Illinois, 24-27 April 2002. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: Author Meets Critics: D. Micah Hester, Community as Healing: Pragmatist Ethics in Medical Encounters. Speakers: Mary Mahowald, Tod Chambers, Griffin Trotter. Respondent: D. Micah Hester.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: Pragmatism and Deliberative Democracy. Panel: James Bohman, Judith Green, Jack Knight, Robert Talisse.

Special Session sponsored by the APA Committee on Teaching Philosophy, Teaching American Philosophy. Speakers: Ann Clark, "Undoing Certainty in an Age of Uncertainty: What Do Students Need From Philosophy?"; Marci Moon, "Beyond Postmodernism to Pragmatism"; Randall Auxier, "A Stupid Waste of Time: The APA's Ambivalence toward the Vocation of Teaching, Then and Now."

Personalist Discussion Group. Speaker: Mark Davies, "Taking Nature Personally: Pragmatic Considerations for Adopting a Personalistic Ecological Ethic."

Conocimiento y Acción. Il Seminario Internacional sobre Pragmatismo. Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, 15-17 May 2002. Program: Larry Hickman, "Beyond Hoping and Coping: Pragmatic Tools for Technological Culture"; Angel Manuel Faerna, "Ética de la Creencia o Política del Método. Popper, Peirce y el Compromiso con la Razón"; Gregory Pappas, "La Etica de John Dewey: La Vida Inteligente, Democratica, y Estetica"; José Miguel Esteban, "La Unidad de la Ciencia como Acción Social: Neurath y Dewey"; Carlos Pereda, "La Buena Fama de la Guerra: una lectura de 'The Moral Equivalent of War' de William James"; Waldomiro Filho, "Pragmatismo y Escepticismo"; panel discussion of Esteban, La Crítica Pragmatista de la Cultura, panelists Alejandro Herrera, Gregory Pappas, Silvio Pinto.

The Central European Pragmatist Forum. Second Bi-Annual Meeting. Theme: Deconstruction and Reconstruction. 6-12 June 2002, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Keynote Speaker: John McDermott. Contact:  John Ryder.

Feminism and Pragmatism. Seminar at the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, 19-22 June 2002, Highlands, N.C. Coordinators: Kathlyn A. Breazeale and Marjorie Suchocki.

McD at 70/50: Celebrating the Life and Work of John J. McDermott. Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 21-23 June 2002. Program: Arthur Lothstein, "No Eros, No Buds: The McDermott Experience, or Teaching as Nectaring"; and roundtable discussions on Education, The Aesthetic Dimension, Medicine and Health, and Culture and Politics. Contact David Sprintzen at (516) 299-2341 or dsprintz@liu.edu

William James and The Varieties of Religious Experience: An International and Interdisciplinary Centenary Conference in Celebration of the 1901-1902 Gifford Lectures. At Old College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. 5-8 July 2002. Keynote Address by Eugene Taylor, PhD  (Saybrook Institute & Harvard University). Papers from international scholars in the fields of philosophy, psychology and religion: Jacob Belzen (University of Amsterdam); Richard Gale (University of Pittsburgh); Grace Jantzen (University of Manchester), Richard King (University of Derby); David Lamberth (Harvard University); Peggy Morgan (Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre and Mansfield College, Oxford) Ruth Putnam (Wellesley College); Sonu Shamdasani (Wellcome Institute, London); Robert Segal (Lancaster University); Michel Weber (Louvain, Belgium). The conference will include a reception and launch of a special centenary edition of William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience, with new introductions by Eugene Taylor and Jeremey Carrett, published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis, at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College, University of Edinburgh on Friday 5th July 2002. Conference fee: £28.00  (full rate); £10.00 (concession). For further details, conference programme and paper submissions for the Monday session contact: Catherine Derrick, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, 7 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JZ. E-Mail: cderrick@ed.ac.uk  Enquiries can also be made to the conference organizers: Dr Jeremy Carrette (Department of Religious Studies, University of Stirling) e-mail: jrc3@stir.ac.uk  or Professor Robert Morris (Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh) e-mail: rlmorris@ed.ac.uk  or Professor Timothy Sprigge (Department of Philosophy, University of Edinburgh) e-mail: sprigge@holyrood.ed.ac.uk

Summer Institute in American Philosophy 2002. University of Vermont, July 8-13, 2002. Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, SIU-Carbondale, the University of Vermont, and The Center for Dewey Studies.

American Psychological Association. Annual Meeting, Chicago, 22-25 August 2002. Events include:

Division 26, History of Psychology. Session: Historical Perspectives on William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience. Organized by John Snarey on behalf of the William James Society. Speakers: Hendrika Vande Kemp, John Snarey, Marcia Ian, Lynn Bridgers, Richard L. Gorsuch, and J. Ryan Snyder.

Division  36, Psychology of Religion. Sessions: Contemporary Readings of William James's "The Varieties of Religious Experience"   Participants: Eugene Taylor, William Douglas Woody, Janet C. de Baca, William R. Miller, Mark Krejci, Robert Emmons, E. Mark Stern

The Midwest Pragmatist Study Group of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Sixth Annual Meeting. Loyola University Chicago, 28-29 September 2002. This year’s text is about 20 pp from C. S. Peirce's 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism. Contact: Hans Seigfried, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Philosophy, 6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626-5385.  E-mail: hseigfr@luc.edu
       Presenters: Elizabeth Cooke, "Pragmatism, Feminism, and Intersubjectivity:  Mead and Habermas on Language and Becoming a Self"; Douglas Anderson, "Another Radical Empiricism: Peirce 1903"; Cornelis de Waal, "Classical Texts Session"; Kevin Decker, "Self-Development and Democracy: The Basis for a Deweyan Aesthetic Politics"; Todd Lekan, "A Pragmatist Case for Animal Advocates on Institutional Care and Use Committees".

Pragmatism at the Limit: A Conference in Commemoration of John Dewey. Department of Philosophy, Penn State University, 4-5 October 2002. A two-day conference in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the death of American Pragmatist Philosopher John Dewey. The conference includes Plenary addresses by Lucius Outlaw, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the African American Studies Program at Vanderbilt University, and Giles Gunn, Professor of English and Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Colloquium presentations will also be given by several well known scholars of Dewey and American Pragmatism, including Professors Doug Anderson (Penn State University), Randy Auxier (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Vincent Colapietro (Penn State University), Steven Fesmire (Green Mountain College), Glenn Kuehn (Mississippi State University), Gregory Pappas (Texas A&M University), John Stuhr (Penn State University), and Shannon Sullivan (Penn State University). All presentations will take place on the Penn State, University Park campus. Time and precise location of talks to be announced. For more information, contact: John Christman (jchristman@psu.edu), Vincent Colapietro (vxc5@psu.edu), or the Philosophy Department at Penn State (814 865-6397).

The 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Loyola University, Chicago, 10-12 October 2002. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: Feminist Interpretations of John Dewey. Speakers: Ana Aleman, "Identity, Feminist Teaching, and John Dewey"; Judith Green, "Deepening Democratic Transformation: Deweyan Individualism and Pragmatist Feminism"; Charlene Seigfried, "Learning from Experience: Promises and Pitfalls"; Shannon Sullivan, "The Need for Truth: Towards a Pragmatist-Feminist Standpoint Theory."

Pragmatism and International Relations Theory. Millennium: Journal of International Studies Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, 12 October 2002. This year’s Millennium Conference will explore the potential of Pragmatism as a new alleyway of inquiry into international relations. Panelists include David Owen, Mathias Albert, Molly Cochran, Iver B. Neumann, Osmo Apunen and Mathew Festenstein. From the vantage point of ‘practical knowledge’ and the recognition of fallibility, Pragmatism promises to move the discipline beyond its current epistemological stalemate into a fuller comprehension of its practical relevance as a Social Science. For further information and a detailed program please contact The Millennium Conference Organizers by email: millennium@lse.ac.uk or visit our web page http://www.e-millennium.ac

Sidney Hook Reconsidered: A Centennial Celebration. Sponsored by the CUNY Center for the Humanities. Sessions held at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5^th AVE., New York City, Friday October 25th (3 PM-9PM) and Saturday October 26th (8AM-6PM), 2002. Participants include Cornel West, Alan Ryan, Paul Kurtz, Robert Westbrook, and John P. Diggins. Fees: $25 for both days, $15 for Saturday only and non-CUNY students; Free admission for all Graduate Center students and faculty. Friday evening's roundtable discussion: $5 Admission for anyone not registered for both days. Contact: 212-817-2005.

C. S. Peirce and the Art of Icons. Philosophy Department, University of Buffalo, 25-26 October, 2002. Location: Poetry and Rare Books Room, 420 Capen Hall. Participants: Charles Bernstein, Randall Dipert, Andre DeTienne, Johanna Drucker, Jorge Gracia, Peter Hare, Nathan Houser, Susan Howe, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Albert Lewis, Jerome McGann, and Peter Ochs. Contact: Philosophy Department, 716-645-2444 ext. 133.

5th  International Meeting on Pragmatism. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – Brazil, 4-7 November 2002. Location: Auditorium 333 / PUC - SP, Rua Ministro Godoy, 969, 3º andar, Perdizes, São Paulo. 
      Presenters: Sandra Rosenthal, "Pragmatic Metaphysics: A Pathway For The Future"; Ivo Assad Ibri, "Pragmatism and the Possibility of Metaphysics"; Rogene Buchholz, "Theory Versus Cases In Business Ethics: A Pragmatic Reconciliation"; Izidoro Blikstein, "Corporate and Top Management Discourse: Linguistic and Semiotic Analysis"; Kelly Parker, "Reconstructing the Normative Sciences"; Lauro Frederico Barbosa da Silveira, "The Good, the Beautiful and the Truthful"; Nathan Houser, "Pragmatism and the Loss of Innocence"; Thereza Vaz Calvet, "Realism After the Linguistic - Pragmatic Turn".

Exploring Jane Addams. University of Dayton, 8-9 November 2002. Contact: Marilyn Fischer, Philosophy Department, University of Dayton, OH 45469-1546. E-mail: Fischer@udayton.edu

The Legacy of John Dewey (1859-1952): America's Leading Naturalistic Humanist Philosopher, in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of His Death. The Center for Inquiry, Buffalo, New York, 10 November 2002. Speakers include Robert Talisse, "Dewey's Views on Democracy"; H. James Birx, "Dewey/Darwin and Evolution: The Future of Naturalism"; Lee Nisbet, "Dewey as a Moral Philosopher"; John M. Novak, "Dewey on Education"; Paul Kurtz, "Personal Reminiscences of John Dewey".  Sunday, November 10th, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst, New York. $7.00 Luncheon at 12:30 p.m. Contact Joe Beck, (716) 636-7571 ext 222 by Thursday, November 7th.

The 99th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy: Positive Psychology. Speaker: Martin Seligman, "Positive Psychology: Underpinnings." Commentators: Judith Green, Charles Scott, and Harvey Siegel.

Charles S. Peirce Society: Presidential Address by Gérard Deledalle; paper by Mathias Girel, "The Metaphysics and Logic of Psychology: Peirce's Reading of James's Principles."

William James Society: Presidential Address by John McDermott; and Panel Session on James's Meliorism with Dwight Goodyear, Henry Jackman, and Wesley Cooper.

Santayana Society: Santayana and Dewey. Papers by John Shook, "The Metaphysical Inquiries of Dewey and Santayana"; Richard Rubin, "The Absence of Religion in Shakespeare"; David Dilworth, "The Principled Differences between Dewey and Santayana."

International Institute for Field-Being. Speakers: Laura Weed, "William James, Religious Experience, and Consciousness"; David White, "William James on the Sick Soul."

Society for the Philosophical Study of Marx: Symposium on Sidney Hook's Towards an Understanding of Karl Marx. Speakers: Christopher Phelps, Paul Kurtz, and Justin Schwartz.

Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion: Rorty, Wittgenstein, and Realism. Paper by James Stieb, "Rorty on the 'Pointlessness' of Realist and anti-Realist Discussion: Navigating the Critique of Analytic Philosophy."

Symposium: Hegel and Pragmatism. Speakers: John Lachs and Terry Pinkard. Commentator: Sally Sedgwick.

Colloquium: American Philosophy. Papers by Melissa Bergeron, "The Queerest Idol: James, Clifford, and the Right to Believe"; Gregory Fahy, "Walking the Walk: A Deweyan, Urbanist Moral Psychology."