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My Advice on Free Software

April 6, 2010

People often ask me for advice on fixing their computers and resolving IT problems, so I made this page to keep this information in a handy place. If you’re somebody who experiences problems with their PC, you might find something useful here too. Too many people are still paying too much money for software when […]

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CFP: The Philosophy of J. J. Abrams

October 24, 2009

CALL FOR PAPERS The Philosophy of J. J. Abrams Edited by Patricia Brace and Robert Arp University Press of Kentucky’s The Philosophy of Popular Culture Series: http://www.kentuckypress.com/newsite/pages/series/series_philosophy.html Abrams’ filmography from the Internet Movie Database can be found here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0009190/ Please send these two things to Patricia Brace at: pat.brace@smsu.edu, by January 1, 2010: (1) A […]

Posted in: Call for Papers, Cinema, Leads, Media, Philosophy, Publications

Mark Sacks Memorial Conference

April 1, 2009

On the 4th and 5th of June 2009 philosophers will gather to honour Mark Sacks, who died last year. Mark was the founding editor of the European Journal of Philosophy and a leading scholar of Kantian and post-Kantian philosophy. I can’t say that I got to know him as well as I would have liked, […]

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CFP: UK Sartre Conference 2009

February 10, 2009

This is a call for papers for the annual one-day conference of the UK Sartre Society (UKSS), which will be held at the Institut français (17 Queensberry Place, London: nearest tube: South Kensington) on Friday 18 September 2009. We welcome papers (lasting about 30 minutes) on any aspect of Sartre’s life or work: literature, theatre, […]

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Religious Belief and Social Pathology in the USA

November 22, 2008

According to research published in the Journal of Religion and Society this week, developed countries which are predomiantly secular seem to suffer fewer social ills like murder, suicide and teenage pregnancy. The apparent bogeyman of the piece is the USA, which, while being the most religious Western society, has rates of murder, incarceration, abortion, syphilis, […]

Posted in: Critical Theory, Democracy, Editorial, News, Religion

CFP: How Not to do Philosophy

November 3, 2008

What is the appropriate way to do philosophy? Historically, the form of philosophy has varied; Plato preferred the dialogue, Nietzsche the aphorism, Kierkegaard the parable. In the 20th century many philosophers pronounced a proper way to do philosophy. The logical positivists wanted to do away with metaphysics and held science as the ideal model for […]

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Resurgence in Marx

October 20, 2008

According to the BBC, sales of Marx’s Das Kapital are up more than 300% in Germany since the onset of the credit crunch, and have been on the rise since 2005. Even the Times is asking whether Marx was on to something. Could we be seeing the end of the popular embargo on Marxist thought?

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Andrew Lehade’s Letter

October 18, 2008

This is a copy of the resignation letter of Andrew Lehade, manager of a small California hedge fund, who has decided to call it a day after making a killing betting against the sub-prime mortgage market. Lehade rails against what he calls the ‘aristocracy’ of financial and government institutions in a week where Wall Street […]

Tagged: Andrew Lahde, Finance, Lahde, Money

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CFP: The Future(s) of Critical Theory

October 7, 2008

First Graduate Conference in Frankfurt am Main, 19.-21 March 2009 Whether or not “critical theory” constitutes a well-defined, easily identifiable and self-contained school of thought has been a matter of debate. For the organizers of this conference, given the plurality of theoretical projects that consider themselves in the tradition of the “Frankfurt School,” critical thinking […]

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CFP – Doctor Who & Philosophy

July 30, 2008

We are looking for scholarly philosophical essays written for a lay audience to be included in Doctor Who and Philosophy, to be published by Open Court Press. This is an opportunity for you to express your philosophical musings about your favorite Time Lord and popularize philosophy at the same time. All papers that focus on […]

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Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human

February 15, 2008

Posted in: Cinema, Media, Nietzsche, Philosophy

Philosophy post-1968 (University of Essex)

February 7, 2008

http://www.essex.ac.uk/philosophy/department/gradconference/gradconhome.html The call for papers can be downloaded here.

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Aurora (City University of New York)

February 6, 2008

Aurora invites graduate students to submit papers in any area of philosophy for publication. The length of the submissions should range between 4000 and 6000 words. The aim of the journal is to publish the highest quality papers by philosophers starting their career. Hence submisisons should both be clearly written and present and maintain a […]

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CFP: SEP/FEP Conference

February 5, 2008

Call for Papers for the 4th Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland, 29-31 August, 2008. The SEP-FEP Joint Conference offers faculty and graduate students the opportunity to present papers in any area of European Philosophy. Abstracts of no more than 500 […]

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CFP: Intercorporeality and Insubjectivity

February 5, 2008

UCD, Philosophy Conference 2008 Perspectives on Intercorporeality and Insubjectivity Conference, Dublin, June 6/7 2008 We invite the submission of abstracts on the theme of intercorporeality and intersubjectivity from postgraduate students and professional philosophers working in philosophy and other relevant disciplines. Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words. Speakers will have approximately 30 minutes in […]

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