Uppsala

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

The Third Nordic Pragmatism Conference
"Action and Interaction"
Uppsala, Sweden, 1-2 June 2010

The Nordic Pragmatism Network organizes its third conference in Uppsala, Sweden, 1-2 June 2010. The theme of the conference is the pragmatist understanding of action and interaction, as well as its implications in contemporary philosophical reflection on various fields, such as science, religion, ethics, education and anthropology.

The organizing committee invites paper proposals to the conference programme. The deadline for abstracts is 1 April 2010. For more information and a detailed call for papers, please see the conference webpage at: http://www.nordprag.org/npc3.html.

Please feel free to forward this announcement to contacts and mailing lists.

Henrik Rydenfelt
Coordinator
Nordic Pragmatism Network
http://www.nordprag.org/
 

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Is Medical Ethics Really in the Best Interest of the Patient?
http://www.crb.uu.se/symposia/2010/
http://www.crb.uu.se/symposia/2010/call.html

Medical Ethics Conference
14-16 June 2010, Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract submission deadline: February 15

Medical ethics is practised by doctors and nurses on an everyday basis. It is also a rapidly expanding academic discipline and ethical review boards for medical research play a key role in the life sciences. The primary concern is, or at least should be, the best interest of current and future patients. But is this really so?

This multi-disciplinary international conference will raise questions about some of the key ethical issues of concern regarding medical research. The possibility to increase knowledge about diagnosis, prevention and treatment of disease is the primary motive of medical research. Ethics is there in order to protect patients and promote their interests. But is medical ethics instrumental to this end?

The conference discusses three themes:

1. Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being?
2. What is the role of informed consent in medical research?
3. Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or     over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy?

Call for abstracts

This conference is divided into three themes, one for each day of the conference. Each theme has three keynote presentations that will be followed by oral presentations in parallel sessions.

* Monday June 14
Should ideology be allowed to trump patient well-being?
* Tuesday June 15
What is the role of informed consent in medical research?
* Wednesday June 16
Ethical review boards: are they important ethical safeguards or over-burdensome and unnecessary bureaucracy?

We wanted to be a little provocative but, as the examples of questions indicate, we expect input both regarding "medical ethics as unduly bureaucratic" and "researchers as lazy when they complain about this alleged bureaucracy". We think that both ideology and prudence may in practice play a role both in clinical decision-making and in medical research ethics, but think that medical ethics, and the patients, would benefit from a clearer understanding of their relationship and their proper roles. We welcome presentations on medical research ethics as well as clinical ethics and encourage both empirical and theoretical contributions including discussions about different philosophical approaches to these issues. The abstracts will be peer reviewed and a notification of acceptance is due in March 2010.

On this basis we invite scholars of all disciplines and medical practitioners to submit abstracts.

The Scientific Committee welcomes the submission of abstracts for oral presentation for the conference. Abstracts should be submitted according to the guidelines below [for instructions, see their web page http://www.crb.uu.se/symposia/2010/call.html].

Accepted abstracts will be published in the Final programme and on the conference website. Presenting authors must register and pay the registration fee when submitting an abstract. If the abstract is not accepted, the registration fee is refundable.

Submission deadline is 15 February 2010.

We welcome your contribution!
 
Mats G. Hansson and Ruth Chadwick
 

Call for papers

2nd Uppsala Forum Workshop on Climate Change Policy after Copenhagen: Politics, Policy and Ethics.

March 22, 2010

The workshop will be attended by Uppsala Forum visiting research fellows John Broome (White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford), and Edward Page (Associate Professor in Political Theory, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick). Workshop conveners are Professor Folke Tersman (Department of Philosophy) and Dr Jörgen Ödalen (Department of Government).

Global climate change poses significant risks for human health, wealth and security. Although some regions will escape serious climate impacts, the net impact will almost certainly be adverse, with members of future generations and developing countries being worst affected. At the same time, a consensus has emerged in favour of a co-ordinated, international, response to implement effective policies of climatic mitigation and adaptation. Over hundred countries are now committed to the proposition that avoiding dangerous climate change requires the stabilisation, and later reduction, of greenhouse gases so that global temperature does not rise more than 2°C over its pre-industrial level.

This interdisciplinary workshop is organized around three broad themes which capture a number of issues critical to the emergence of a comprehensive, and stringent, climate regime: Politics, Policy and Ethics. We welcome submissions relating to these themes. Possible topics include; processes and outcomes of COP15; the North–South dialogue and central role of EU—US relations; the selection of instruments and mechanisms to meet the objective of avoiding dangerous climate change; the environmental effectiveness, cost efficiency, and political feasibility of alternative policy instruments; our responsibilities to the interests of future generations; the discounting of future lives; the procedural and distributive aspects of global climate policy, as well as questions of how the burdens of climate change mitigation and adaptation can be distributed in a fair and equitable manner.

If you are interested in giving a paper, please send an abstract of at most 200 words to jorgen.odalen(at)statsvet.uu.se before January 29, 2010. Papers will be selected on the basis of these abstracts, and notices of acceptance will be sent out by February 5, 2010.

Uppsala Forum för Fred, Demokrati & Rättvisa
Uppsala Forum on Peace, Democracy & Justice
http://forum.gamlatorget.uu.se
 

Iris Murdoch Symposium

May 29, 2009
Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University
English Park Campus, Room, Eng 2/1077

09:45 – 10:45 Niklas Forsberg (Uppsala)
Knowing and Not Knowing What a Human Being Is
(Chair: Kim Solin)

11:00 – 12:00 Elin Svenneby (Oslo)
Kierkegaard was Parked Outside:The Intricacy of Existence and Moral Thinking in Iris Murdoch's Novel An Accidental Man (1971).
(Chair: Kim Solin)

12.00 – 13.45 LUNCH

13:45 – 14:45 Nora Hämäläinen (Helsinki)
What is a Wittgensteinian Neo-Platonist?
(Chair: Ingeborg Löfgren)

15:00 – 16:00 Anna Victoria Hallberg (Örebro)
Generality and Particularity: Philosophical Pictures and Unclassifiable Images
(Chair: Ingeborg Löfgren)

16:00 – 16:30 KAFFE

16:30 – 17:30 Kate Larson (Uppsala)
A Passionate but Troubled Affair - Iris Murdoch's Struggle with Martin Heidegger's Philosophy
(Chair: Pär Segerdahl)

17:30 Reception at the Department of Philosophy

19:30 Dinner at "Trattoria Commedia"

(Pre-registration required)
Arranged by the Department of Philosophy with support from SALT

If you want to participate at the dinner, please contact Niklas Forsberg (niklas.forsberg (at) filosofi.uu.se) no later than Tuesday, May 19.
 

Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University
May 28-30, 2009
English Park Campus
organised by the Understanding Agency programme and funded by
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond

Thursday 28 May (Room, Eng 2-1077)
10.00 Opening words
10.15-11.30 Gösta Grönroos (Stockholm): 'Aristotle on Reason and Motivation'
coffee
12.00-13.15 Karen M. Nielsen (Western Ontario): 'Aristotle on Deliberation'
lunch
14.45-16.00 Erik Eliasson (Uppsala): 'Voluntary Action in the Didascalicus'
coffee
16.30-17.45 Frans Svensson (Uppsala & Arizona): 'The Primacy of the
Virtuous Reconsidered'
18.00 Reception at the Philosophy Department (Engelska parken)

Friday 29 May (Room, Eng 2-1024)
10.15-11.30 John Cooper (Princeton): 'The Stoic Way of Life'
11.30-12.45 Gretchen Reydams-Schils (Notre Dame): 'Authority and
Agency in Roman Stoicism'
lunch
14.15-15.30 Tony Long (Berkeley): 'Plotinus, Ennead 1.4, as Critical
Commentary on the Eudaimonist Tradition'
coffee
16.00-17.15 Pauliina Remes (Uppsala): 'Inverting the Order of
Priority: Plotinus and Simplicius on Action'

Saturday 30 May (Room, Eng 2-1024)
10.15-11.30 John Cooper (Princeton): 'Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life'

Welcome!

http://www.filosofi.uu.se/agency/node65
For more information, please contact
erik.eliasson (at) filosofi.uu.se
 

Nationalkommittén för logik, metodologi och filosofi (KVA)
i samarbete med Kollegiet för Samhällsforskning (SCAS) och institutionerna
för filosofi och matematik vid Uppsala Universitet arrangerar:

 WORKSHOP
 The Philosophy of Logical Consequence
 31/10 - 2/11 2008

Thunbergssalen, Kollegiet för Samhällsforskning (SCAS)
Thunbergsvägen 2, 752 36 Uppsala

Inbjudna talare:
John Cantwell (KTH, Stockholm), Matti Eklund (Cornell), Sten Lindström
(Umeå), Per Martin-Löf (Stockholm), Sara Negri (Helsinki), Peter Pagin
(Stockholm), Erik Palmgren (Uppsala), Dag Prawitz (Stockholm), Stephen Read (St Andrews), Tor Sandqvist (KTH, Stockholm), Gabriel Sandu (Helsinki/Paris), Peter Schroeder-Heister (Tübingen), Sören Stenlund (Uppsala), Göran Sundholm (Leiden), Dag Westerståhl (Gothenburg).

Abstract
There is a traditional picture of logic that may be spelled out as follows:
Logic is concerned with the principles for correct reasoning and valid
arguments; its principles are universal, necessary, apriori and formal;
logically valid arguments are necessarily truth-preserving and have a
fundamental epistemic significance; and finally, logic is in some sense a
normative discipline. This traditional picture gives rise to many questions. The
notions of universality, logical necessity, apriority, and formality are
difficult to analyze. In what sense, if any, is logic normative? Is there a
principled way of distinguishing between logical and non-logical concepts? While continuing to face these foundational questions, logic has developed into an advanced mathematical discipline; mathematical logic; where the informal notions of logical proof, validity and logical consequence are given mathematical explications.

In mathematical logic, there are two major approaches to these notions:
model-theoretic and proof-theoretic ones. Both are faced with philosophical
problems: To what extent do they correspond to our pre-theoretic requirements on logical consequence? Which requirements should we expect an explication of
logical consequence to meet? Is there only one satisfactory explication of the
notion of logical consequence or are there several equally good ones? Do the two
approaches compete or rather complement each other? These and related questions will be discussed during the workshop.

Organisationskommitté:
Sten Lindström (Umeå), Rysiek Sliwinski (Uppsala), Dag Westerståhl
(Göteborg)
Kontaktperson, information, frågor: Prof. Sten Lindström, 070-2130178,
Sten.Lindstrom (at) philos.umu.se

Arrangemanget är öppet för allmänheten.
 
 

Action and Agency, Aristotle and Anscombe
A conference on philosophy of action with an emphasis on the Aristotelian tradition

Uppsala, September 27-29, 2008 at the Gustavianum

This conference will bring together leading philosophers concerned in one way or another with a broadly Aristotelian account of the metaphysics and epistemology of action. The conference is co-hosted by the Uppsala University Philosophy Department and the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN) University of Oslo, and is jointly organized by the RJ research program Understanding Agency and the rational agency section of CSMN.

Invited papers by:

    David Charles (Oriel College, Oxford)
    Ursula Coope (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
    Anton Ford (Chicago)
    John McDowell (Pittsburgh)
    Anselm Mueller (Keimyung University, Korea)
    Thomas Pink (King’s College, London)
    Martin Stone (Yeshiva University and the New School)
    Rowland Stout (University College, Dublin)
    Michael Thompson (Pittsburgh)
    Gary Watson (California at Riverside)


Organizing committee:
In Uppsala: Lilli Alanen, Tomas Ekenberg, Martin Gustafsson (Stockholm), Fred Stoutland, Frans Svensson; in Oslo: Olav Gjelsvik, Jennifer Hornsby.

Wish to attend? Registration at the latest August 10, 2008.

Registration and more information:

http://www.filosofi.uu.se/agency/node20

Freedom, Desire, and the Other

The Centenary of Simone de Beauvoir

September 22, 2008
University of Uppsala

SALT (Forum for Advanced Studies in Arts, Languages and Theology) celebrates the centenary of Simone de Beauvoir (1908-2008) with an interdisciplinary day, open to all. Three lectures and one text seminar connect de Beauvoir's philosophical, political, and literary work with contemporary discussions on alterity, desire, and post-colonialism.

Time and place: September 22, 2008, 09.15-17.00, Centre of Humanities, English Park Campus, room 16-0043.

Invited speakers: Michel Kail (editor, L'Homme et la Société, France), Sara Heinämaa (philosophy, University of Helsinki), Edda Manga (history of ideas, University of Uppsala)

Program:

9.15 Opening: Ulrika Björk (Uppsala University)
9.45 Michel Kail (editor L'Homme et la Société, France): "Political
Philosophy according to Simone de Beauvoir: the Question of Alterity",
discussant: Ulrika Björk
Break
11.15 Sara Heinämaa (University of Helsinki): "Simone de Beauvoir's
Phenomenology of Sexual Difference", discussant: Lisa Käll (Uppsala
University)
Chair, am: Jonna Bornemark (Södertörn University College/Uppsala University)

LUNCH

14.00 Edda Manga (Uppsala University): "The Desire of the Other:
Internalised Oppression in Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon",
discussant: Stefan Helgesson (Uppsala University)
Break
15.30 Open text seminar on de Beauvoir's essay "Must We Burn Sade?"
(Faut-il brûler Sade?, 1951-1952), room 2-1077
Chair, pm: Petra Carlsson (Uppsala University)
17.30 Reception buffet at the Department of Philosophy, English Park
Campus, building 2

Deadline for registration: September 10

Registration and further information:
petra.carlsson (at) teol.uu.se,
ulrika.bjork (at) helsinki.fi
salt (at) engelskaparken.uu.se
More information: salt.engelskaparken.uu.se
 

Bioethics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU
Our use of animals and nature includes many ethical questions. SLU, a member of the Network for Research Ethics and Bioethics (NRB), aims to strengthen education and research in bioethics and will therefore employ two senior lecturers, one in Environmental- and bioethics and one in Animal ethics.

Senior Lecturer Position in Animal Ethics
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Senior Lecturer Position in Environmental- and Bioethics
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SLU satsar på bioetik         
Människans nyttjande av djur och natur rymmer många etiska frågeställningar. SLU, som är med i Nätverk för forsknings- och bioetik, vill stärka undervisning och forskning i bioetik och söker därför två lektorer, en i Miljö- och bioetik och en i Djuretik.

Universitetslektor i djuretik  
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Universitetslektor i miljö- och bioetik
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UPPSALA WORKSHOP IN EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Mind, Body, and Agency in Spinoza and Leibniz

University of Uppsala, 22-23 May 2008

Engelska parken, Humanistiskt centrum, building 2, second floor, room 2-1077

 

Thursday 22 May

9:30: Opening words

9:45-11:00 Edwin Curley (Michigan): “Can Humans be Agents in a World where God is Omnipotent?”

11:15-12:30 Donald Rutherford (UCSD): “Spinoza, Human Agency and the Good”

Lunch

14:00-15:15 André Gombay (Toronto): “Spinoza’s Condemnation of Deceit”

Coffee

15:45-17:00 Jon Miller (Queen’s): “Spinoza and the Stoics on Activity and Passivity”

 

18:00 Reception

 

Friday 23 May

9:15-10:30: Peter Myrdal (Uppsala): “Persons, Agents, and Love in Leibniz”

10:45-12:00 Valtteri Viljanen (Turku): “Leibniz and Spinoza on Passion and Action”

Lunch

13:30-14:45 Pierre-François Moreau (ENS-Lyon): “Quelques difficultés dans l’analyse spinoziste des rapports entre mens et corpus”

15.00-16.15 Chantal Jaquet (Paris): “L’égalité du corps et de l’esprit chez Spinoza”

Coffee

16:45-18:00 Lilli Alanen (Uppsala) : “Spinoza on Pride and Self-Knowledge”

 

19:00 Dinner

 

The workshop is organized by the research program Understanding Agency, funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, together with the Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University.

 

For more details and availability, please contact Lilli Alanen (), or Peter Myrdal ().

See also the web page at http://www.filosofi.uu.se/agency/node16.