Pragmatism Conferences in 2008

Pragmatism Conferences 2008

Please also visit the websites of SAAP and The Peirce Society for conference announcements.

New York Pragmatist Forum. Spring 2008 Speakers Schedule. Fordham University at Lincoln Center - Lowenstein Building 708, Columbus (9th) Avenue at 60th Street - New York, New York. For more information contact Judith Green at jmgreen@fordham.edu, or Hugh McDonald at hmcdonald@citytech.cuny.edu
        Friday, February 1, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Hugh McDonald, New York City College of Technology/CUNY, "Nietzsche: Existentialist or Pragmatist?"; Daniel Finke, Fordham University, "Is Pragmatic Truth Nietzsche's 'All Too Human' Truth?"; James Pawelski, University of Pennsylvania, "William James's Dynamic Individualism".
        Friday, February 29, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Frank Kirkland, Hunter College/CUNY, "Frederick Douglass and the Reaches of American Enlightenment"; John R. Shook, Center for Inquiry and University at Buffalo, "Thoreau and King on Civil Disobedience".
        Friday, March 28, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Seth Joshua Thomas, Fordham University, "Pragmatism and the Limits of Biomedicine"; Jessica Wahman, Dickinson College, "Eyes of the World: George Santayana's Ontology Set to Music".
        Friday, April 25, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Danjuma Madupe, Hunter College/CUNY, "Cultural Afro-Centrism vs. Nationalism & Universalism"; John Ryder, State University of New York at Cortland, "Pragmatic Naturalism".
        Friday, May 16, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. William Joseph Gavin, University of Southern Maine, Vincent Colapietro, The Pennsylvania State University, "The American Evasion of Tragedy and Other Slanderous Tales".

The 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 13-15 March 2008, Michigan State University. For more information, refer to the list of SAAP contacts: http://www.american-philosophy.org/contact.htm

The Third Annual Atlantic Coast Pragmatist Meeting. 5-6 April 2008, University of North Carolina at Asheville. Chair: Russell Goodman, University of New Mexico. Discussion topic: William James, "What Pragmatism Means in Pragmatism." Please send papers and questions about the meeting to Jacob Goodson at goodson@virginia.edu

The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association. 18-23 March 2008, Pasadena, California.

William James Society. Topic: "William James as Social and Political Philosopher". John Kaag (Harvard University) "A Call to Arms? William James on Militarism and Political Unity"; Colin Koopman (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Pragmatism's Pluralism"; Andrew F. Smith (State University of New York, Stony Brook) "Communication and Conviction: James's Contribution to Deliberative Democracy"; Commentator: Noelle McAfee (George Mason University).

The 106th Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association. 17-20 April 2008, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.

The 5th Central European Pragmatist Forum. International Conference on "Identity and Social Transformation". Masaryk University of Brno, Czech Republic, May 25 - May 31, 2008. For more information, contact Emil Visnovsky at ksbkemvi@savba.sk or John Ryder at john.ryder@suny.edu

Nordic Pragmatism Conference. 2-4 June 2008, Helsinki, Finland. Contact Henrik Rydenfelt, Secretary, PO Box 9, 00014 University of Helsinki . Email: henrik.rydenfelt(at)helsinki.fi

Summer Institute in American Philosophy 2008. 7-12 July 2008, 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

The Midwest Pragmatist Study Group of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. Tenth Annual Meeting. Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 27-28 September 2008. The Midwest Pragmatist Study Group meets annually to promote interaction among scholars and students interested in classical and contemporary pragmatism broadly conceived. Papers on any aspect of pragmatist philosophy are welcome. The annual meetings do not have themes or special topics. One session each year, however, will be devoted to a textual analysis and discussion of a significant chapter or essay of an American pragmatist. This year's text is John Dewey's "Search for the Great Community" from The Public and Its Problems (1927). For information contact Martin Coleman at martcole@iupui.edu

11th International Meeting on Pragmatism. Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo – Brazil, November 2008. For more information contact: Prof. Dr. Ivo Assad Ibri.

The 105th Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. 27-30 December 2008, Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.