Association for Evolutionary Economics. Annual Meeting, 3-5 January 2003, Washington D.C. Events include:

Session: Dewey, Pragmatism, and the Chicago School of Economics. Papers by Ken Dennis, "From Dewey to Friedman?"; James L. Webb, "Misreading Dewey: Friedman as a Deweyan Pragmatist"; Kenneth W. Stikkers, "Dewey and Friedman on 'Freedom' and 'Liberty'"; James I. Sturgeon, "Dewey and Posner on Pragmatism: Reasonable Value vs Exploitation Value"; Discussant: D. Wade Hands

 

Pragmatism and Technological Practice. Philosophy Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, 14 February 2003. Speakers: David White, John Hartman, Mark Moller, James Steib, Shannon Kincaid, Erik Anderson, Larry Hickman. Contact John Capps, Department of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology, 92 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623-5604. Email: jmcgsh@rit.edu

 

The 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. March 13-15, 2003 in Denver, Colorado, hosted by the University of Colorado at Denver. Theme: "Crossing Traditions, Crossing Divides." Contact: Glenn Kuehn, Philosophy Dept., Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762. E-mail: submissions@american-philosophy.org

 

The 77th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. San Francisco, California, 26-30 March 2003. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Session on Perspectives on Peace -- Responding to the "War on Terrorism". Panelists: Cheyney Ryan, Deen Chatterjee.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Graduate Student Session on History of American Philosophy. Papers by Roxy Green, "Lydia Maria Child: American Social and Feminist Philosopher"; Amy Story, "The Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

Society for Realist/Antirealist Discussion. Session on Realism, Pragmatism, and Philosophy of Science. Papers by Joseph Hanna, "Science and the World Order: Forecasting versus Representing"; Susan Vineberg, "Realism, Representation, and Modeling in Science"; Asher Seidel, "On the Compatibility of Pragmatism and Realism".

Invited Symposium: Pragmatism and Reference. Papers by David Boersema, "Pragmatism, Individuation, and Reference"; Cristina Lafont, "Pragmatism and Reference in Brandom and Habermas"; Robert Schwartz, "Pragmatic Instrumentalism."

Author Meets Critics: Russell Goodman, Wittgenstein and William James. Panelists are Karen Hanson, Christopher Hookway, Ray Monk, Russell Goodman.

 

Pragmatism and Moral Theory. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, 5 April 2003. Sponsored by The Pragmatism Archive, The OSU Philosophy Department, and the OSU Ethics Center. Speakers: Stuart Rosenbaum, William Caspary, Drew Christie, Wes DeMarco, Harvey Sarles, Jacob Goodson, Cody Carr, and David Hildebrand. Contact John Shook at 405-744-9231 or jshook@pragmatism.org.

 

Science, Religion, and Pragmatism. A conference in honor of Richard M. Gale. Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Department of Philosophy. Held at the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday, April 5, 2003. Lecturers include Alvin Plantinga of the University of Notre Dame and John Haldane of the University of St. Andrews.

 

The 101st Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. Chicago, Illinois, 23-26 April 2003. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Author Meets Critics: Thomas Dalton, Becoming John Dewey. Speakers: Larry Hickman, Michael Eldridge, Frank Ryan, Thomas Dalton.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Session on Pragmatic Moral Theory. Speakers: Jennifer Welchman, Todd Lekan, Paul Thompson.

 

John Dewey and Socio-Economic Theory. Behavioral Research Council. AIER Campus, Great Barrington, Mass., 18-23 May 2003. Contact the BRC Director, Elias Khalil at elk@aier.org.

 

A Conference on David Hall. The Philosophy Department of Trinity University in San Antonio is pleased to sponsor and host a small conference commemorating the life and work of fellow Texas philosopher the late David Lynn Hall of the University of Texas at El Paso. The conference begins Friday evening 23 May 2003, with Professor Richard Rorty (Stanford University) as the invited speaker for the first plenary session, and run through noon of Sunday the 25th.   Along with concurrent sessions, there will be four plenary sessions with invited speakers assessing the varied dimensions of David Hall’s philosophical work.  The other invited speakers are Professors Robert Neville (Boston University), Joseph Grange (University of Southern Maine), and Roger Ames (University of Hawaii).

 

Summer Institute in American Philosophy 2003. University of Oregon, 7-12 July 2003. Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, SIU-Carbondale, the University of Oregon, and The Center for Dewey Studies.

 

Dewey, Hayek and Embodied Cognition: Experience, Beliefs and Rules. Third Annual Symposium on the Foundations of the Behavioral Sciences, Behavioral Research Council. AIER Campus, Great Barrington, Mass., 18-20 July 2003. The Behavioral Research Council of the American Institute for Economic Research is sponsoring a conference whose aim is to discuss the role of experience, beliefs and rules in human behavior in light of recent findings in the cognitive neurosciences.  The proceedings of the conference will be published in a book.  Two texts will act as starting points, namely, John Dewey and Arthur Bentley's Knowing and the Known (1949) and Friedrich Hayek's The Sensory Order (1952).  The 2003 conference will include economic theorists, cognitive psychologists, philosophers of mind, legal theorists, and neuroscientists. For more information on registration and submission of contributed papers, please contact Director Elias L. Khalil (elk@aier.org), Behavioral Research Council, AIER, PO Box 1000, Great Barrington, MA  01230. TEL:  413-528-1216 ext. 3124. FAX: 413-528-0103.

 

Pragmatism--Democracy--Religion. The Fourth International Conference on Philosophical Theology, in Dobogoko, Hungary, 4-9 August 2003. Sponsored by the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought. Contact: jtaylor01@operamail.com or lmuray@post03.curry.edu.

Papers on pragmatism:
Thomas Byrnes, "George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act: A Neglected Pragmatic Metaphysics"
Nancy Frankenberry, "Sleepwalking through History: Reflections on Pragmatism on Pragmatism, Religion, and Democracy in a Time of Terror"
Vaughan McTernan, "Intersections of Process and Pragmatism in Dynamic Constructions of God"
Randall Morris, "Whitehead, Pragmatism, and Legal Reasoning: An Aesthetic Theory of Law"
Robert C. Neville, "Naturalism and Supernaturalism in American Theology"
Sami Pihlstrom, "Mortality,Individuality, and Pluralism: William James' Democratic Religion"

 

The Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy. Instanbul, Turkey, 10-17 August 2003. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

Round-table: Personal and Impersonal Aspects of a Common Faith. David White, John Shook, Tomasz Komendzinski, Nickolay Omelchenko, Celal Türer.

Papers:
Girard Brenneman, "A Pragmatic Defense of Religious Exclusivism."
Chi-Chun Chiu, "A Critique of Moderate Rationalism."
Elizabeth F. Cooke, "Pragmatic Bioethics and the Goal of Ethics Committees: Toward a Theory of Error."
Jose Manoel de Cozar, " Environment: A Pragmatist Approach."
Ulvi Doguoglu, "Sense and Sensitivity: Putnam and Travis on Meaning, Sense and Understanding."
Marilyn Fischer, "Addams, Pacifism, and Cultural Feminism."
Robert Mesle, "Suffering, Meaning, and Pragmatism: What do Theodicies Do?"
Sandra Rosenthal, "Experience, Experimentalism, and Religious Overbelief: James and Dewey."
Sandra B. Rosenthal and Rogene A. Buchholz, " Corporate Growth as Inherently Moral: A Deweyan Reconstruction."
Celal Türer, "The Challenge of  William James’s Philosophy of Religion."
Wen-fang Wang, "Putnam’s Way to Essentialism."

 

The Midwest Pragmatist Study Group of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Seventh Annual Meeting. Loyola University Chicago, 27-28 September 2003. The Midwest Study Group of Classical and Contemporary Pragmatism is an informal group which meets annually to promote interaction among scholars interested in pragmatism. For information contact Hans Seigfried, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Philosophy, 6525 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL 60626-5385.  E-mail: hseigfr@luc.edu
Program: Mathew Foust, "The Relevance of William James' 'The Dilemma of Determinism' to Philosophy of Religion"; Lee McBride III, "James, Addams, & Du Bois: Overcoming Certain Blindnesses"; Classical Texts Session led by Kevin Decker on Sidney Hook's Pragmatism and The Tragic Sense of Life; Pat Manfredi, "Objects and Dewey's Pluralistic Idealism"; Randy Auxier, "The Space of Dissent: Lessons in Democracy from Frank Lloyd Wright to the War in Iraq."

 

6th International Meeting on Pragmatism. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – Brazil, 3-6 November 2003. For more information contact: Miss Joice Tremonti, - 11 - 3670.8417; Philosophy Graduate Program, posfil@pucsp.br, http://www.pucsp.br/~posfil. Or contact the coordinator: Prof. Dr. Ivo Assad Ibri.

 

American Academy of Religion. 2003 Annual Meeting, 22-25 November 2003, in Atlanta, Georgia. Events include:

Session: Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought. Theme: Pragmatism and Democracy: Assessing Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition: Religion, Ethics, and Public Philosophy. Panelists: Stanley Hauerwas, Cornel West, Richard Rorty. Responding: Jeffrey Stout

Session: Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought. Theme: Issues in Pragmatism and Empiricism. Presenters: William Dean, "A Neglected Apology for Mystery"; Jacob Lynn Goodson, "William James's 'Philosophy' in The Varieties of Religious Experience: From Theology through the Science of Religions to a Science of Convictions"; John Walter Woell, "The Proliferation of Pragmatisms: A Call for Restraint".

 

The 100th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. Washington Hilton, 27-30 December 2003. Events include:

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Topic: Justice, Intelligence, and Democracy: Pragmatic Responses to Terrorism. Presenters: Andrew Fiala, "Defusing Fear: A Critical Response to the War on Terrorism." Commentator, John Lachs. Phillip McReynolds, "Terrorism, Technology, and the Method of Intelligence." Commentator, Larry Hickman.

Charles S. Peirce Society. Address by the President, Nathan Houser: "Peirce in the 21st Century." Presenter: the Winner of the Peirce Society's Essay Contest, Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, "Peirce’s Magic Lantern: Moving Pictures of Thought."

William James Society. Panel Topic: Contextualizing William James: The Interface of Biography and the Scholarship of Ideas. Speakers: Harvey Cormier, “Philosophy in the Life of James”; John Danisi, “Psychology in the Life of James”; John Roth, “Religion in the Life of James.”

Personalist Discussion Group. Topic: Persons and Place. Presenters: Scott Pratt, "Persons in Place: The Agent Ontology of Vine Deloria, Jr."; Michael Ventimiglia, "Peirce on Philosophical Agency."

Symposium: 100th Anniversary of W. E. B. Dubois's Souls of Black Folk. Presenters: Robert Gooding-Williams, Bernard Boxill, and Joy James.

Symposium: William James Prize. Winner: Bernardo Cantens, "Overcoming the Evidentialist's Challenge: Peirce's Conjectures of Instintive Reason and the Reality of God." Commentators: John Capps, Douglas Anderson.

Radical Philosophy Assocation. Topic: Author Meets Critics, Clarence Shole Johnson's Cornel West and Philosophy. Speakers: Cynthia Willett, Albert Mosley, Robert Bernasconi, and Clarence Shole Johnson.