Pragmatism Conferences 2007

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The 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 8-10 March 2007, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. For more information, refer to the list of SAAP contacts: http://www.american-philosophy.org/contact.htm

The 81st Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. 3-8 April 2007, San Francisco, California.

World Conference on John Dewey. 23-27 May 2007, at the University of Calabria in Cosenza, Italy. For more information contact Giuseppe Spadafora at g.spadafora@unical.it

William James and Josiah Royce a Century later: Pragmatism and Idealism in Dialogue. 25-27 May 2007, Harvard University. A conference to assess the interactions, contributions, and continuing resonance of two major American philosophers and Harvard professors. Speakers include John Clendenning, Harvey Cormier, Hans Joas, Jacquelyn Kegley, James Kloppenberg, David Lamberth, John Lachs, John J. McDermott, Frank Oppenheim, Hilary Putnam, Robert Richardson, Sandra Rosenthal, Linda Simon, Ignas Skrupskelis, Cornel West, and others. For more information contact: JamesRoyce2007@hds.harvard.edu

Applying Peirce. Conference in conjunction with the 9th World Congress of Semiotics on 11-13 June 2007, in Helsinki, Finland. Keynote and plenary speakers include Nathan Houser (Director of the Institute for American Thought and the Peirce Edition Project, Indiana University) and Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University). The deadline for abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference is 15 February 2007. All registered participants in the 9th World Congress of Semiotics may also attend Applying Peirce. However, all registrants are asked to register their participation to this conference. In addition, separate registration (for a lower fee but permitting participation only in Applying Peirce) will be possible. Registration will begin on 1 January 2006. For more information contact peirce-research@helsinki.fi

Pragmatism: A Living Tradition. A National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers. 17 June - 20 July 2007, at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. Contact project director Russell Goodman at pragma@unm.edu

Summer Institute in American Philosophy 2007. 9-14 July 2007, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. Sponsored by the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, and the Center for Dewey Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. For more information, refer to the list of SAAP contacts: http://www.american-philosophy.org/contact.htm

Expressivism, Pragmatism, and Representationalism. 29-31 August 2007, Sydney, Australia. Speakers include Simon Blackburn (Cambridge), Bob Brandom (Pittsburgh), Alexis Burgess (Stanford), Jamie Dreier (Brown), Allan Gibbard (Michigan), David Macarthur (Sydney), Philip Pettit (Princeton), Huw Price (Sydney), Geoff Sayre-McCord (UNC, Chapel Hill) and Amie Thomasson (Miami). Please direct all enquiries to John Cusbert at john.cusbert@gmail.com

The Philosophy of Pragmatism: Salient Inquiries. 26-29 September 2007, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Sponsord by The Faculty of European Studies of Babes-Bolyai University. Contact the conference organizer, Prof. Andrei Marga, PhD. at president.AM@staff.ubbcluj.ro

William James and His Influence. 19-20 October 2007, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut. In an effort to promote the study of James, especially among graduate students, the William James Society, the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Yale’s Philosophy Department, and Yale Divinity School present “William James and His Influence”, a conference in honor of Professor Emeritus John E. Smith and Dr. Smith’s contribution to the field of American philosophy. Invited Speakers: John E. Smith, Richard Bernstein, and Peter Hare. Contact: Skorburg@gmail.com.

10th International Meeting on Pragmatism. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – Brazil, 12-15 November 2007. For more information contact: Prof. Dr. Ivo Assad Ibri.

The 104th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. 27-30 December 2007, Marriott Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland.

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Topic: William James and the Importance of Individuals. Speakers: James Pawelski (University of Pennsylvania) “William James’s Dynamic Individualism”; William Gavin (University of Southern Maine) “Pragmatism and the Individual at the End of Life”.

Josiah Royce Society. Topic: Josiah Royce and the Origins of Modern Logic. Speakers: J. Brent Crouch (San Diego City College) “Frege, Peirce’s Reduction Thesis, and the Logic of Tetrads”; Scott Pratt (University of Oregon) “On the Politics of Disjunction: Russell and the Logic of Action”.

Personalist Discussion Group and Society of Philosophers in America. Topic: John McDermott’s The Drama of Possibility and Experience as Philosophy: On the Work of John J. McDermott, edited by James Campbell and Richard Hart. Speakers: Peter Hare (University at Buffalo), Megan Mustain (St. Mary’s University–San Antonio), John McDermott (Texas A&M University).