From h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Wed Feb 1 18:17:05 2017 From: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au (Heikki Ikaheimo) Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 07:17:05 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] CFP: International Summer-school Critical Theory 2017, Berlin, July 17-21 Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL CRITICAL THEORY 2017 IN BERLIN (JULY 17TH TO JULY 21ST) PROGRESS, REGRESSION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE Is there such a thing as moral or social progress? How do we understand phenomena that might be seen as instances of social regression? And how, after all, are we to conceptualize social change? While some Critical Theorists hold that we need a notion of progressive social change (and its counterpart) in order to understand and evaluate the dynamics of the transformations we undergo, the very notion of progress (as it is entrenched in the self-understanding of western modernity) seems to be ambivalent and is strongly contested. So, while it is not easy to see how progress - as a certain kind of "learning process" that has played a central role in Critical Theory from its very beginning - could be dispensed with, our understanding of it certainly needs to be reconstructed. It is not only the normative question in the narrower sense, though, that is at stake here. By asking how we can possibly conceive of social transformations as "change for the better", we are not only addressing the issue of normative standards for evaluation of "the good society". If we - in the tradition of Critical Theory - don't want to rely on freestanding normative standards, we also have to re-investigate our concepts of history and social transformation. That means: we should take seriously the notion that "progress" as well as "regression" are bound up with some account of social change as a result of the erosion of institutions and social practices that have been outlived or de-legitimized. Whether this amounts to an accumulative process, as the terms "regression" and "progress" seem to suggest, is one of a variety of questions that we mean to address at our summer school. To apply for participation, graduate students and junior scholars are invited to submit short essays (3-5pages) representing their research interests which focus on the following themes or questions: * Philosophies of history/dialectics (Hegel/Kant) * Theories of revolution and social change (f.i. Historical Materialism) * Progress and regression (Benjamin and Adorno, Foucault) * Moral and institutional progress (as in Honneth, Anderson, Appiah) * Naturalist accounts of progress and accounts of social evolution (f.i. Kitcher, Habermas) Deadline for submissions: March 15th 2017, please email to: summerschool.CT at hu-berlin.de Organizers: Rahel Jaeggi, Eva von Redecker, Isette Schuhmacher (Humboldt University Berlin) in cooperation with the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and the New School for Social Research (Alice Crary) Invited Participants (amongst others): Axel Honneth, Hauke Brunkhorst, Terry Pinkard, Amy Allen, Allessandro Pinzano Heikki Ik?heimo Senior lecturer School of Humanities and Languages/Philosophy University of New South Wales Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia Email: h.ikaheimo at unsw.edu.au Tel. 04-23131713 https://unsw.academia.edu/HeikkiIkaheimo http://www.amazon.com/Anerkennung-Grundthemen-Philosophie-German-Edition/dp/3110254123 Editor of Journal of Social Ontology: www.degruyter.com/view/j/jso -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au Fri Feb 3 09:18:12 2017 From: kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au (Kevin Walton) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:18:12 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] ASLP 2017 - Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <9cdfb9ba514b466eaa0de1fcc89bb067@uxcn13-ogg-a.UoA.auckland.ac.nz> References: <9cdfb9ba514b466eaa0de1fcc89bb067@uxcn13-ogg-a.UoA.auckland.ac.nz> Message-ID: <6C5AF2D0C081B74C993E6C0D31E8636A0159CEF6E1@ex-mbx-pro-04> Dear all Please find below and in the attachment a call for papers for this year's Australian Society of Legal Philosophy conference. Best wishes, Kev The Annual Conference of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy will be hosted by the University of Auckland, Faculty of Law from Friday 14 July to Sunday 16 July 2017. The conference will feature keynote addresses by Alan Brudner (University of Toronto) and Colleen Murphy (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) as well as a book symposium on Jane Norton's recent book The Freedom of Religious Organisations (Oxford University Press, 2016). Call for Papers The Society welcomes proposals for papers on any topic in legal theory, broadly understood. The aim of the ASLP Annual Conference is to provide a forum for the discussion and debate on a range of issues in legal theory and philosophy of law. It is not restricted to analytic legal philosophy, and we strongly encourage the involvement of participants from other disciplines and the inclusion of topics from across legal fields. Pre-Conference Postgraduate Workshop A Postgraduate Workshop for PhD students will be held on Friday immediately prior to the formal commencement of the conference. The ASLP Postgraduate Workshop provides PhD students with the opportunity to receive feedback on works-in-progress in a supportive and collaborative environment. We welcome submissions on any topic in legal theory, broadly defined. Abstract Submission Abstracts for both the ASLP Conference and the Postgraduate Workshop should be submitted via email by Friday 28 April to Arie Rosen, Auckland Law School a.rosen at auckland.ac.nz. DR KEVIN WALTON Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School Director, Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY T +61 2 9351 0286 E kevin.walton at sydney.edu.au W www.sydney.edu.au/law -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Call for Papers.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 83849 bytes Desc: Call for Papers.pdf URL: From patrickm at uow.edu.au Fri Feb 3 13:18:32 2017 From: patrickm at uow.edu.au (Patrick McGivern) Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 02:18:32 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] UOW Workshop, Feb 22-23: Phenomenology, Narrative, and the Philosophy of Medicine Message-ID: <1486088313092.87731@uow.edu.au> ?UOW Philosophy and UOW's Narrative Practices in Therapy Initiative are hosting a two-day workshop on Phenomenology, Narrative, and the Philosophy of Medicine, February 22-23. All are welcome to join us. Phenomenological and narrative approaches to health and illness focus on the subjective experience of well-being, and the ways in which illnesses and their treatments can impact on self-experience. Such accounts raise a variety of philosophical questions. To what extent can features of phenomenology and narrative be used to characterise different disorders? What problems do we face in relying on such first-person accounts, and what insights can we gain? Can such characterisations be integrated with naturalistic accounts of health and illness? How should we understand the role of phenomenology and narrative in treatment, as in Narrative Therapy? This workshop will examine the role of phenomenological and narrative approaches across a range of cases. The goal is to develop a clearer account of the distinctive character of such approaches, the philosophical challenges they face, and the increased understanding they might provide. Participants include: Jonathan Cole (Poole General Hospital, UK) Shaun Gallagher (Memphis/UOW) Philip Gerrans (Adelaide) Claire Hooker (Sydney) Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie) Dominic Murphy (Sydney) Marc Slors (Radboud) The workshop will be held at the UOW's main campus in Wollongong. More details on the location and a full schedule of talks will follow shortly. Registration is free. To register, please contact Patrick McGivern at patrickm at uow.edu.au ? -- Dr. Patrick McGivern Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Wollongong Research Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University p: +61 2 4221 5676 e: patrickm at uow.edu.au w: https://uow.academia.edu/PatrickMcGivern/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: