From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 1 09:08:25 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:08:25 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Books for Review (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:16:48 -0600 From: Jonathan Maskit To: philosop@louisiana.edu Philosophy & Geography, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, seeks reviewers for the following titles: Ingrid Stefanovic. Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. (1000 words) Mick Smith. An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social Theory. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. (1000 words) If interested, please drop me an email at the address below. Please make clear which book you are interested in as well as your relevant background. Thank you. Jonathan Maskit maskit@denison.edu Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From jmcollin@students.wisc.edu Wed Aug 1 14:51:52 2001 From: jmcollin@students.wisc.edu (jane collins) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:51:52 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Re: Emissaries From the World Beyond: the Authenticity of Adjuncts Message-ID: <200108011351.NAA09271@nagps.nagps.org> unsub president@nagps.org wrote: > This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education > (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The following message was enclosed: > Employment Concerns Committee Members- > > I thought some of you might be interested in this article on > adjunct faculty. > An increasing number of graduate students are serving as > adjunct faculty while pursuing their studies, so I found > particularly relevant to our mission and focus as organization > representing those students. > > _________________________________________________________________ > > From the issue dated July 27, 2001 > > Emissaries From the World Beyond: the Authenticity of Adjuncts > > By BRUCE E.R. THOMPSON > > I'm afraid I have to begin by telling you something about > myself. Because my topic is authenticity -- the notion > conveyed in such expressions as "Walk the walk" and "Practice > what you preach" -- I need to reassure you that I am > practicing what I preach. Who I am is directly relevant to > what I have to say. > > In a past life, I was a professor of philosophy. I had a Ph.D. > and other relevant credentials. After serving the usual > apprenticeship, I landed a tenure-track position -- and failed > to get tenure. They say it is a publish-or-perish world. > Socrates, for example, never published anything, and you see > what they did to him. I won't go into details, but something > similar happened to me. > > When it appeared that my academic career was over, I decided > to get a second master's degree, this time in a profession. I > studied library science and was reborn as a librarian. For the > past eight years, at academic and public libraries, I have > made my living primarily by answering reference questions, > helping people find information, and (best of all) reading > books to children. It is honest and ennobling work, and I > enjoy it. > > On the side, I occasionally teach classes in philosophy, as an > adjunct. > > Higher education employs two types of adjunct teachers. The > first are serving an often overlong apprenticeship, hoping to > become full-time, tenure-track faculty members. The second, > like me, teach only as a sideline. There is little doubt that > adjunct teachers of the first type are being exploited, > working for low pay and often without benefits. Currently, > more courses are taught by such adjuncts than is beneficial > for students, the adjuncts themselves, and academe as a whole. > Colleges and universities should be encouraged to hire those > adjuncts as regular, full-time faculty members. > > However, I want to argue that adjuncts, especially of the > second type, will always play an important role. We contribute > to the message that universities intend to convey, and we > contribute precisely because we are adjuncts. As adjuncts, we > possess something that regular, full-time faculty members > essentially lack: authenticity. > > Even at research universities, the vast majority of students > do not intend to pursue academic careers; they plan to enter > the world of business. At community colleges, even fewer > students expect to become academics. Students at all academic > institutions see college as preparation for their futures, and > we, their teachers, do not challenge that perception. > Therefore, students tend to draw a distinction between the > ivory tower and the so-called real world: They see themselves > as visitors to academe, while regular faculty members are > permanent residents, and adjuncts are emissaries from the > world beyond. > > Adjuncts who teach in professional fields, like business, > journalism, or my own profession, library science, have long > been valued for the real-world experience that they bring into > the classroom. My father, for example, was a copy editor for > the Rocky Mountain News, in Denver, and taught journalism as > an adjunct. Students appreciated him because he could tell > them what the job was really like and what they would need to > know to do it successfully. > > In library school, I took some courses from regular faculty > members and some from adjuncts. I would have to say that the > regular faculty members were better teachers. In general, > their assignments were clearer, their syllabuses better > organized and more detailed, and their class-room manner more > polished. But the most important lesson that library school > teaches is an ethic of patron service: Your job is to help the > patron, no matter how obnoxious, smelly, arrogant, or ignorant > he or she may be. When regular faculty members delivered that > message, I never knew if they meant it. Perhaps they were just > reciting from the textbook. But when an adjunct delivered the > same message, I knew it was from the heart. I knew that the > adjunct had helped patrons who were obnoxious, smelly, > arrogant, and ignorant. Adjuncts had tested the ethic of > patron service in practice, and I felt that if they were still > willing to preach it, it must be right. > > In classes that prepare students for a profession, the value > of the real-world experience of adjuncts is obvious. The > adjunct is in the profession, where the student wants to be. > Regular faculty members are outside the profession. Hence, it > is the adjunct who has the greater authenticity. The adjunct > walks the walk and practices what he preaches in ways that the > regular faculty member cannot. > > Surprisingly, the same is true even in courses that are not > intended to be professional training -- courses on subjects > like literature, history, and philosophy. In those cases, the > regular faculty members are inside the profession -- because > the profession consists of teaching and research -- and the > adjuncts are outside. Yet the adjuncts still have more > authenticity. Why? Because it is still the adjuncts who stand > where the students expect to be someday. Remember that most > students who take a literature class will never teach one; > most students who take a history course will never be > professional historians. To justify teaching such courses, we > have to be able to claim that their subject matter is valuable > even to people who may never be in the profession. > > I am prepared to make that claim about philosophy. A number of > years ago, my father died of a melanoma that had spread to his > liver. Liver cancer can be excruciatingly painful in its final > stages, and because the pain is located in the digestive > system rather than the muscles, it is hard to control with the > usual morphine-based drugs. During my last visit, my father > told me that he had joined the Hemlock Society, gotten their > instructions on how to commit suicide, and laid in a stock of > the appropriate drugs in sufficient quantities to do the job. > > I had taught medical-ethics courses and had regularly used > issues of death and dying in my introductory philosophy > classes. As a result, I had often thought through the complex > ethical questions involved in suicide. Even so, it took me a > minute to absorb what my father had said. But it did not take > longer than a minute. In a flash, I remembered that I had > solved the ethical puzzles to my own satisfaction years > before. With the intellectual work already done, I was > prepared to support my father emotionally. I knew what I > thought, I knew how I felt, and I knew how to act. > > It was then that I realized, in the pit of my stomach, what > philosophy is for. Up to that point, I had been embarrassed > when students asked why they should take an interest in > philosophy. I could not look them in the eye and say, "It will > prepare you for your future career." It is, after all, wrong > to lie. But now I realized that it had never been my job to > prepare my students for their careers. My job was vastly more > important than that: It was to prepare them for life. I had to > give them practice at puzzling out answers to the questions > raised by the mere fact that we are alive. > > Today, I tell my students that philosophy is the most > practical course they are ever likely to take. The other > humanities disciplines are practical for the same reason. Why > study literature? Because writers write about life. We learn > how to feel about things by hearing stories. Why study > history? Because it explains why our lives are the way they > are. > > You might be inclined to dismiss the humanities as mere > theory, abstraction divorced from reality. Nothing could be > farther from the truth. After all, we develop theories to > prepare us to face reality. If they do not, it is not because > of a discrepancy between theory and practice, but because of a > discrepancy between good theory and bad theory. The > humanities, in all their theoretical abstraction, are directly > relevant to the practice of living. They are valuable even to > someone who never plans to be a humanities professor. > > That is, or at least should be, the central message of any > college education. As educators, we fail every time a student > passes through four years of required humanities courses and > doesn't learn that lesson. But consider how the message sounds > when it is delivered by a regular faculty member, and when it > is delivered by an adjunct. > > A regular member of the faculty can tell students that his or > her class is relevant no matter what they are planning to do > after graduation. But the students understand perfectly well > that one reason -- perhaps the only reason -- the professor > teaches is to make money. All that talk about the course's > relevance to life may not be sincere. > > But an adjunct can say more than: "My class is relevant no > matter what you are planning to do." An adjunct can add: "I > don't teach it to earn a living. I do it because I understand > its value. My life -- a life probably very much like what > yours will be -- is richer and better because I study this > subject. Your life can be improved in the same way." > > When an adjunct delivers that message, students know it is > from the heart. So, even when it is the regular faculty member > who is inside the profession and the adjunct who is outside, > the adjunct has more authenticity. The adjunct can convince > students that a college education really is preparation for > their future lives. > > Of course, not every class should be taught by an adjunct. > Like any craft, teaching is best done by those who do it a > lot, and the only people who do it a lot are the ones who do > it for a living. Therefore, most classes should be taught by > professional academics. Adjuncts can be good teachers, too, > but our real value in academe is to remind students why they > are there in the first place. > > I began with a quip about Socrates, and he is a good way to > end as well. Socrates was not a professional philosopher. He > was a sculptor by trade, and apparently not a very good one. > In any case, he never took money for teaching philosophy. He > thought that philosophy should be practiced by everyone. > Perhaps he realized that teaching for pay would compromise his > ability to teach with authenticity. We modern adjuncts do not > go so far as to work for nothing, but I think we understand > what Socrates was talking about. We walk his walk, and we > practice what he preached. > > Bruce E.R. Thompson is a librarian at California State > University at San Marcos and an adjunct professor of > philosophy at Cuyamaca College. He is the editor of Oskar > Schindler, to be published by Greenhaven Press this year in > its People Who Made History series. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: > http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i46/46b01601.htm > > If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web > site, a special subscription offer can be found at: > > http://chronicle.com/4free > > _________________________________________________________________ > > You may visit The Chronicle as follows: > > * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com > * via telnet at chronicle.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Thu Aug 2 06:15:38 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Thu Aug 2 06:16:16 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:16:16 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP: Fiduciary Ethics: Explorations of Entrusted Care Message-ID: Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:12:59 -0500 From: James B. Sauer To: Philosophy Listserv Fiduciary Ethics: Explorations of Entrusted Care A Special Issue of _Philosophy in the Contemporary World_ Submissions are invited for a special issue of _Philosophy in the Contemporary World_ to be published in the Fall of 2002. The journal is a fully refereed, indexed, and copyrighted journal published by the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World. We welcome creative and insightful papers on any ethical concept or problem relating to the role of the fiduciary -- one who can be or is trusted with the care of others. Although philosophers have not given adequate attention to fiduciary ethics as an integral subdiscipline of ethics, it occupies a 'middle ground' between such subjects as the ethics of care and professional ethics. Sample subjects for investigation include but are not limited to: altruism, betrayal, charity, compassion, conscience, empathy, filial duty, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gift relationships, guidance, hope, loyalty, mentoring, negligence, parental duty, selfishness, stewardship, sympathy, tolerance, treachery, treason, and trust. Submission Deadlines: Abstracts due March 15 2002 Completed papers due July 15 2002 Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines: 1. Papers must be original, unpublished work. 2. Papers of 2-3,000 words are preferred, but articles of exceptional quality of any length will be considered. 3. All materials, including the abstract, block quotations, and notes, should be double-spaced. 4. 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St., NW, Washington, DC 20052 email: rpchurch@gwu.edu Stiv Fleishman, 3502 Sandy Court, Kensington, MD 20895 email: stivfleishman@hotmail.com Joe Frank Jones III, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Barton College, Wilson, NC 27893-5000 email: jjones@barton.edu ---------------------------------------------------- NetZero Platinum Sign Up Today - Only $9.95 per month! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From colinfarrelly2@HOTMAIL.COM Thu Aug 2 21:12:48 2001 From: colinfarrelly2@HOTMAIL.COM (Colin Farrelly) Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 20:12:48 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From R.Stern@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK Fri Aug 3 15:53:29 2001 From: R.Stern@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK (ROBERT A STERN) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:53:29 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: Further to John Shand's reference to George Botterill as a chess- playing philosopher, see the message from George below, which mentions the names of some others... Bob Stern ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "GEORGE S BOTTERILL" To: "ROBERT A STERN" Date sent: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:07:28 +0100 Subject: Re: (Fwd) CHESS Priority: normal Dear Bob, Oh, I hadn't seen that. The US Grandmaster Robert Byrne (brother of the D. Byrne who lost a very famous game to a young Bobby Fisher) was always supposed to be an academic philosopher at some American university. But I could never understand how he managed to play in so many tournaments, if that was so. Another chess-playing philosopher I know of was the distinguished philosopher of language Kent Bach, who attended our first Hang Seng Conference. Afterwards he sent me a very charming card pointing out that we had once had consecutive games published on the same page of a chess magazine. Best wishes, George ------------------------------------- Professor Robert Stern Department of Philosophy University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN UK http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/department/staff/Stern.html Tel: ++44 (0)114 2220582 Fax: ++44 (0)114 2798760 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srbayne@CHANNEL1.COM Fri Aug 3 10:18:51 2001 From: srbayne@CHANNEL1.COM (Steven Bayne) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:18:51 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS References: Message-ID: <3B6A6C7B.4FC6EF7F@channel1.com> Although Emmanuel Lasker was trained as a mathematician, he is widely regarded as a philosopher. He held the World Championship in chess for about a quarter of a century. He beat Capablanca which is an enormous achievement in itself. No other philosopher comes close. Steve Bayne ROBERT A STERN wrote: > Further to John Shand's reference to George Botterill as a chess- > playing philosopher, see the message from George below, which > mentions the names of some others... > > Bob Stern > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > From: "GEORGE S BOTTERILL" > To: "ROBERT A STERN" > Date sent: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:07:28 +0100 > Subject: Re: (Fwd) CHESS > Priority: normal > > Dear Bob, > > Oh, I hadn't seen that. The US Grandmaster Robert Byrne (brother > of the D. Byrne who lost a very famous game to a young Bobby > Fisher) was always supposed to be an academic philosopher at > some American university. But I could never understand how he > managed to play in so many tournaments, if that was so. > > Another chess-playing philosopher I know of was the distinguished > philosopher of language Kent Bach, who attended our first Hang > Seng Conference. Afterwards he sent me a very charming card > pointing out that we had once had consecutive games published on > the same page of a chess magazine. > > Best wishes, > George > > ------------------------------------- > > Professor Robert Stern > Department of Philosophy > University of Sheffield > Sheffield S10 2TN > UK > > http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/department/staff/Stern.html > Tel: ++44 (0)114 2220582 > Fax: ++44 (0)114 2798760 > > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. > Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From alan.waldron@SYMPATICO.CA Fri Aug 3 17:15:50 2001 From: alan.waldron@SYMPATICO.CA (alan waldron) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:15:50 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] The ARITHMETIC of Pacem en Terre.... Message-ID: <3B6ACE36.C97783FD@sympatico.ca> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment WHAT TEACHERS SHOULD ALWAYS TEACH TO ASPIRING POLITICIANS...., Simple and Academic. Available Free at :- http://www3.sympatico.ca/alan.waldron/ ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/philnet/attachments/535ee681/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment-- Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srbayne@CHANNEL1.COM Fri Aug 3 11:58:04 2001 From: srbayne@CHANNEL1.COM (Steven Bayne) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:58:04 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] E. Lasker Our Friend in Philosophy Message-ID: <3B6A83BC.1128B971@channel1.com> Just a word more on Emmanuel Lasker. Fred Reinfeld who did the Introduction to Lasker's Manual of Chess (Dover. 1960 [1947]) wrote: The reader of this book does no need to be told that Lasker devoted years of study to mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Goetingen, Heidelberg and Erlangen. The author of the Manual reveals himself not only as a philosopher in the technical sense, but as a man of philosophical temperament... p. viii. Let me just add a quote from Lasker himself at the end of his book since all too choose to do so may benefit by his words, substituting 'philosophy' for 'chess'. This harmonious life stems from life; life is generated only by life. He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess - artificial theories supported by few instances and unheld by an excess of human wit; the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief everything that leads to a standstill or to anarchy. Have we not reached in contemporary philosophy such a standstill; should we not prefer anarchy - heed Lasker, both punish us equally. It is very much worth mentioning, I think, that Einstein is said to have remarked: Emanuel Lasker was undoubtedly one of the most interesting people I came to know in my later life. (vide http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~carlson/chess/lasker.html) Also, note that Lasker loved pigeons, so drive carefully through city streets Steve Bayne Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Leslie@MICHAEL-OAKESHOTT-ASSOCIATION.ORG Fri Aug 3 22:33:56 2001 From: Leslie@MICHAEL-OAKESHOTT-ASSOCIATION.ORG (leslie-oakeshott-association) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:33:56 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Michael Oakeshott Message-ID: <03b501c11c66$1def79c0$810ea4c2@oemcomputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Michael Oakeshott Association The following speakers feature at the opening of the MOA inaugural = conference: Presidential Address: 'Oakeshott, the character' Professor Kenneth Minogue (LSE) 'Encounters with Michael Oakeshott' Professor Timothy Fuller (Colorado College) 'Why read Oakeshott' Professor No=EBl O'Sullivan (Hull) 'Oakeshott's philosophical legacy' Lord Quinton Date: 3rd September 2001 Venue: LSE, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Aldwych WC2 Time: 10:00am sharp; latecomers will interrupt video recording =A320 advance including buffet lunch =A310 (=A35 students) on door, not including buffet lunch Above tariffs include commemorative booklet=20 For reservations please contact the Convenor:=20 Leslie@michael-oakeshott-association.org Five symposia over three days will cover all aspects of Oakeshott's = thought: epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of history, political = philosophy, philosophy of education, jurisprudence, aesthetics & = religion. Full conference details available at: http://www.michael-oakeshott-association.org=20 =20 ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/philnet/attachments/d3f84e92/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment-- Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From gmm23@HERMES.CAM.AC.UK Sun Aug 5 18:11:39 2001 From: gmm23@HERMES.CAM.AC.UK (G.M. Moore) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:11:39 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Nietzsche and Science Conference In-Reply-To: Message-ID: ***** NIETZSCHE AND SCIENCE ***** The 11th Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK 7 - 9 September 2001 Sponsored by the British Academy and the Cambridge Tiarks Fund LAST CHANCE TO ENROL! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS AUGUST 10! Speakers include: Babette Babich (Fordham): Science, Art and Life: Contemporary Chaos Theory and Nietzsche's chaos sive natura Paul Bishop (Glasgow): Nietzsche and Ludwig Klages Ric Brown (Brock): Nietzsche - That Profound Physiologist Jonathan Cohen (Maine): Why Did Nietzsche Change His Mind About Science - Twice? Robin Small (Monash): What Nietzsche Did During the Science Wars Tracy B Strong (San Diego): Science, thaumazein and the Possibility of Philosophy Greg Whitlock (University of Illinois Press): Nietzsche on Time, Force and Observation Full programme and booking forms available at the conference website or from Dr Greg Moore at the following address: Sidney Sussex College GB-Cambridge CB2 3HU gmm23@cam.ac.uk Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Sun Aug 5 23:06:31 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:06:31 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <023301c11dfa$e2346a80$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Moody" To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:14 AM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > ----- Original Message ----- > > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > > > Aydin > > > ------------------------------------ > That's an interesting philosophy, especially if you're proposing that > there's no connection between "mathematics" and "thinking". My understanding > is that professional mathematicians rarely calculate; their function is to > decide what the computers should calculate. > > But leaving that aside, are you saying that philosophy is nothing but > "thinking"? Philosophy is, literally, a "love of knowledge", and knowledge > can be gained as much by experience as by reasoning. > > Nobody calculates in a vacuum. Thoughts over the chessboard are directed > into various paths by the player's knowledge, whether gained from books, > previous experience, or sheer genius. > > Whether or not you agree with his ideas, how can you say that Emanuel > Lasker's chess was not affected by his philosophical reasoning? > > David Moody > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Sun Aug 5 23:07:04 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:07:04 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: Chess Philosophy Message-ID: <023b01c11dfa$f63e6bc0$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Moody" To: Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Chess Philosophy > If someone does play the "perfect game", how will we know that it's perfect? > > David Moody Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Sun Aug 5 23:07:30 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:07:30 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <024301c11dfb$057f2520$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 6:38 AM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > Aydin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Daniels" > To: > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:42 PM > Subject: Fw: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > > > Here's another posting to PHILOS-L re George Botterill and Kent Bach. > Can't > > help wondering about the sort of intellectual who makes a superior chess > > player. Mathematicians, logicians, to be sure, but the discipline of > > philosophy, I've read, is not awash with grandmasters, the way one might > > expect. Or is that a basic error? Does the criterion of excellence obey > > independent rules? > > > > Wayne Daniels > > > > Philosophie sei, sagt der Theologe, wenn jemand in einem absolut dunklen > > Raum mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die gar nicht da > ist. > > Theologie aber ist, erwidert der Philosoph, wenn jemand in einem absolut > > dunklen Raum und mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die gar > > nicht da ist, und ruft: "Ich hab sie." > > > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Sun Aug 5 23:10:41 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:10:41 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Chess Philosophy Message-ID: <025d01c11dfb$775c0280$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Kolis" To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: Chess Philosophy > Chess and Philosophy are related: just look at the different styles players > have. > If two different players of the same stregnth but of different playing > styles spot a weakness in their opponents position, there very well may be > two logical ways > of winning. That what makes the game a "thinking" game. > > If everything logical were so rote, why are so many different openings played > ? Surely there must only be "one" correct path to follow to play a perfect > game. > > I, for one, am for imperfection, if a perfect game is ever played, that will > be end of chess. Let's hope that doesn't happen. I'll do my part, next time I > play over the board, > I'll play a gambit, surely not logical, but always fun. > > Paul Kolis Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Sun Aug 5 23:11:16 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:11:16 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <026301c11dfb$8c264680$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Sloan" To: Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > aydincil@TTNET.NET.TR writes: > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > Interesting - especially because I don't consider mathematics to be > "among sciences". > > In my opinion, mathematics is *philosophy* (and so, your last sentence > contradicts your first!) > > -- > Kenneth Sloan sloan@uab.edu > Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213 > University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473 > Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/ > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Sun Aug 5 23:11:42 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:11:42 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Chess Philosophy Message-ID: <026901c11dfb$9c180060$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Sloan" To: Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 1:20 PM Subject: Chess Philosophy > Paul Kolis writes: > > Chess and Philosophy are related: just look at the different styles players > > have. > > If two different players of the same stregnth but of different playing > > styles spot a weakness in their opponents position, there very well may be > > two logical ways > > of winning. That what makes the game a "thinking" game. > > > > If everything logical were so rote, why are so many different openings played > > ? Surely there must only be "one" correct path to follow to play a perfect > > game. > > > > I, for one, am for imperfection, if a perfect game is ever played, that will > > be end of chess. Let's hope that doesn't happen. I'll do my part, next time I > > play over the board, > > ... > > On the contrary. Chess is hard (in my opinion) precisely because there > are often many "perfect" moves (in the loose sense that any move which > does not change the final outcome is "perfect"). > > If a perfect game is ever played, I don't think it will be the end of > chess. No matter what the result of this "perfect" game - there will be > (in my opinion) many unexplored, but still "perfect" choices to be made > by both sides. > > Games which have already been solved are characterized by having only > one (or a very few) "correct" moves. These correct moves, once found, > are relatively easy to prove "perfect". > > Chess has eluded solution, precisely because there are so many royal > roads to success. > > Consider - a case could be made that "if chess is a 'draw', then almost > (almost!) any first move by White is "perfect" - in the sense that it > does not in and of itself throw away the draw. If this is the case, > then it is easy to see that there *must* be many equally valid openings. > > -- > Kenneth Sloan sloan@uab.edu > Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213 > University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473 > Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From res07lok@VERIZON.NET Mon Aug 6 00:03:54 2001 From: res07lok@VERIZON.NET (Steven Ravett Brown) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:03:54 -0500 Subject: [Philnet] Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS In-Reply-To: <024301c11dfb$057f2520$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> Message-ID: Wayne Daniels8/5/01 5:07 PM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 6:38 AM > Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > >> I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think >> chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think >> it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about > calculation >> and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world >> can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to >> identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an >> attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, >> mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. >> >> Aydin >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Wayne Daniels" >> To: >> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:42 PM >> Subject: Fw: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS >> >> >>> Here's another posting to PHILOS-L re George Botterill and Kent Bach. >> Can't >>> help wondering about the sort of intellectual who makes a superior > chess >>> player. Mathematicians, logicians, to be sure, but the discipline of >>> philosophy, I've read, is not awash with grandmasters, the way one might >>> expect. Or is that a basic error? Does the criterion of excellence obey >>> independent rules? >>> >>> Wayne Daniels >>> >>> Philosophie sei, sagt der Theologe, wenn jemand in einem absolut dunklen >>> Raum mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die gar nicht da >> ist. >>> Theologie aber ist, erwidert der Philosoph, wenn jemand in einem absolut >>> dunklen Raum und mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die > gar >>> nicht da ist, und ruft: "Ich hab sie." >>> >> > > Messages to the list are archived at > http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. > Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at > http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html Good quote. Speaking as a Go player and a philosopher, I found that Go made me a much better computer programmer, when I got reasonably good at it. I do not think that philosophy is always comparable, for a reason akin to the quote above: that in chess, Go, and programming, one's goals are almost always clear; certainly one's general goals. In philosophy, except perhaps for philosophy using formal logic, one must indeed go further than merely finding the boundaries in the darkened room, one must, in many instances, build the room around oneself, in the dark. Steven Ravett Brown srbrown@ravett.com Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From rstreet@BLACKWELLPUBLISHERS.CO.UK Mon Aug 6 09:53:05 2001 From: rstreet@BLACKWELLPUBLISHERS.CO.UK (Street Rachael) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:53:05 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Blackwell Publishers - Analysis Message-ID: <45DF35501CF1D311BC190090274643B902A07787@bpl_exchange.blackwellpublishers.co.uk> Apologies for cross posting Analysis Here is the latest table of contents for Analysis (ISSN: 0003-2638). The journal is published four times a year and is electronically available = for members of institutions which subscribe to the print edition. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From president@nagps.org Mon Aug 6 04:23:55 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 03:23:55 GMT Subject: [Philnet] A Promising Professor Backs a T.A. Union Drive and Is Rejected for Tenure Message-ID: <200108060323.DAA17530@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org From the issue dated August 10, 2001 A Promising Professor Backs a T.A. Union Drive and Is Rejected for Tenure By PIPER FOGG Joel Westheimer has run through the chain of events in his head a million times. First, he won a departmental award for research at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, where he teaches. After that, he published a critically acclaimed book. Later, his tenure bid received unanimous backing from his department. In September 1999, he became the only professor without tenure to testify at National Labor Relations Board hearings on behalf of N.Y.U.'s graduate students, who were seeking the right to unionize. In June, he was denied tenure. Mr. Westheimer thinks this chronology leaves room for only one interpretation, and so he has begun to prepare for legal proceedings against N.Y.U., accusing the institution of retaliating against him for his testimony before the N.L.R.B. While last March N.Y.U. became the first private university to officially recognize a graduate-employee union, the administration spent years and a significant amount of money opposing the drive. Mr. Westheimer claims the university's desire for retribution motivated the decision to deny him tenure. N.Y.U. calls his allegations a "stretch," but many of his peers in academe agree with him. Mr. Westheimer's case comes soon after an incident of retaliation at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where a dean removed a tenured professor as head of the English department for refusing to discipline teaching assistants suspected of withholding undergraduates' grades as a protest against the size of their stipends. Union supporters see the two cases as reflective of the price that faculty members may pay for backing graduate students in contentious conflicts with university administrations. Even if Mr. Westheimer can never prove his case, the perception that he was punished may intimidate other faculty members. "You're always going to have a rather large silent majority of faculty. They really don't want to get involved in anything," says Andrew Ross, an American studies professor at N.Y.U. Gordon Lafer, a professor of labor, education, and research at the University of Oregon and a member of the national coordinating committee of Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice, considers administrative retaliation against pro-union professors a "big issue, and it's a kind of hidden issue." He says that SAWSJ is helping to plan a Workers' Rights Board hearing in October to address academic labor issues, including retaliation. Workers' Rights Boards enlist prominent citizens in public investigations of worker abuse. "There's a particular problem in academia because it's easy to be retaliated against but very hard to police," he says. "Tenure is famously secretive." Mr. Westheimer, who will remain an assistant professor at N.Y.U. until the end of this academic year, stakes his claim of retaliation on his conviction that his resume -- which, by most standards, is impressive enough -- warrants tenure. Since he first arrived at N.Y.U. in 1996, Mr. Westheimer had consistently received high evaluations from the department of teaching and learning. Many junior faculty members consider Mr. Westheimer a role model. He is a nationally recognized scholar on the role of teacher communities in education. Mr. Westheimer has written 10 journal articles, one book chapter, and three essay reviews. His 1998 book, Among Schoolteachers: Community, Autonomy, and Ideology in Teachers' Work (Teachers College Press), has been widely cited and was greeted with rave reviews. "His book on communities is a classic in the field," says Ann Lieberman, a visiting professor of education at Stanford University. He has received N.Y.U.'s own Griffiths Award for Excellence in Educational Research. For his first three years at the institution, the administration looked favorably on Mr. Westheimer's accomplishments. In July 1998, the dean of N.Y.U.'s education school, Ann L. Marcus, wrote to Mr. Westheimer, "I hope you have realized how important your work is to your department and our school. It is wonderful to have you with us." His department chairman, Mark M. Alter, wrote in May 1999 that he was making "excellent progress" toward tenure. Such strong departmental support continued, Mr. Westheimer says -- until he testified before the N.L.R.B. on September 28, 1999. In the next evaluation after his testimony, his rating went down a notch, from "exceptional merit," the highest, to mere "merit." "I was shocked when I saw the merit rating, because I had had a good year," says Westheimer. "I didn't think of it as them trying to build a record for denial of my tenure. I just let it go." N.Y.U.'s spokesman, John Beckman, says the school does not discuss employee evaluations but adds, "If there was any change in his evaluations, it has absolutely no connection to whether or not he testified." Soon, though, Mr. Westheimer began to get suspicious. He says, "There started to be little things that crept into letters from either the dean or my department chair. One said, there are 'some concerns about your ability or willingness to commit fully to the needs of our programs.'" Mr. Westheimer considered this admonishment from his dean -- which came with his 2000 annual review -- a slap on the wrist for his N.L.R.B. testimony. Ms. Marcus officially denied Mr. Westheimer tenure in a letter dated June 26, 2001, but he first learned of the impending news by telephone on March 21. "In that conversation, the associate dean, Gabriel Carras, read me excerpts of the letter from the Tenure and Promotion Committee," says Mr. Westheimer. Mr. Carras told Mr. Westheimer that he would be denied primarily because of insufficient scholarship. Robert Cohen, a tenured education professor at N.Y.U., says Mr. Westheimer is not only "on par with, or ahead of everyone who went up for tenure this year" in the education school, but he "definitely is ahead of most people who get tenure." Mr. Westheimer will not compare himself to his peers. Instead, he points to a statement, signed by five past presidents of the American Educational Research Association, that praises his scholarship and raises concerns about the possible retaliation by N.Y.U. N.Y.U. administrators will not discuss the details of Mr. Westheimer's tenure case. Mr. Westheimer's allegation about the administration's motivations, though, strikes Ms. Marcus as unlikely. She says, "Clearly, he's trying everything he can to win his case and get publicity for it." She adds that N.Y.U. has a very rigorous tenure-review process. "It's sad that people are disappointed. But, it happens. I believe our committees acted in good faith." But Mr. Westheimer is convinced that the motivation behind the university's rejection of his tenure, which overturned both the unanimous recommendation of his department and of eight outside reviewers, was purely political. The recommending examiners included Stanford's Ms. Lieberman and William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mr. Westheimer admits, "I knew there was some risk to testifying, but I didn't think it would result in denial of tenure." The majority of his untenured peers in his department at N.Y.U. decline to go on the record about whether retribution might have played a part in the tenure process, but they will say he got a bum deal. "It was very surprising that he didn't get tenure. The facts seem a little suspicious, but I still think the school has to be above that kind of politics," says Kendall King, an assistant professor of teaching and learning. Brian Murfin, a former assistant professor in the science-education program, left N.Y.U. last semester to manage the office of educational programs at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He thinks retribution "is probably a major reason" for Mr. Westheimer's rejection. "Joel definitely has everything it takes to be tenured at N.Y.U. His involvement in the graduate- student issue was directly opposite the administration. Junior faculty are under a lot of pressure to conform to, I don't want to say 'the party line,' but to the way things are done traditionally. Tenure is a very political decision." Mr. Westheimer says he had no previous history of activism and no union ties. But, he says, "N.Y.U. is a precedent-setting case, and I felt a real responsibility to my students." He adds that "I felt a particular responsibility to speak out -- as an education professor and a specialist in the subject of teacher community -- because the administration's objection had a lot to do with the nature of the educational relationship between students and professors." The administration's position throughout the labor talks had been that a union would damage that relationship, and Mr. Westheimer felt his experience and his research suggested otherwise. "I probably would do it again," he says, adding, "I did not foresee these extreme actions taking place." Now, he's working with a lawyer, paid for by the United Auto Workers, the national union that organized the N.Y.U. graduate students, and is preparing to file charges against the university with the N.L.R.B. According to union representatives, even though the campus labor movement has picked up momentum among both graduate students and professors, faculty fears are still a main obstacle to organizing, especially for professors who lack job security. "Untenured faculty, generally, I find to be very supportive of union attempts, but that is limited by their concerns about getting tenure," says Richard Moser, a national field representative for the American Association of University Professors. Mr. Moser and the A.A.U.P. take these fears seriously. At Emerson College, for example, they encouraged nontenured faculty members to limit their open support for union organizing of adjunct faculty because of the threat of a "vindictive" administration. David Rosen, an Emerson spokesman, while acknowledging the college's opposition to unionization, says he is unaware of any incidents of retaliation. As far as how such fears apply to Mr. Westheimer's situation, Ms. Marcus is not convinced. "That seems to me a pretty big stretch," she says. "When people don't get tenure, it's obviously very upsetting." Ms. Marcus says people will simply latch on to what they can to explain it. "I guess this line of reasoning strikes a nerve with people." Sheldon E. Steinbach thinks Mr. Westheimer's allegations are beyond far-fetched. "Sounds like an early-20th-century excuse for denial of tenure," he says. Mr. Steinbach is general counsel at the American Council on Education, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of N.Y.U. during the N.L.R.B. case. "Institutes of the sophistication and legitimacy of an N.Y.U. do not go around denying tenure to people on the grounds that they participated in a union-organizing campaign. N.Y.U. is not a robber baron." In the wake of the N.Y.U. and Buffalo incidents, some faculty members sympathetic to the unionizing movement may continue to stay silent for fear of administrative reprisal. But some faculty leaders think that, despite the fears that Mr. Westheimer's case might raise for a nontenured scholar, more professors are going to speak out. Things are not bleak, N.Y.U.'s Mr. Ross maintains. It is a nationwide sentiment, he says, that "faculty are waking up. The number is growing." Mr. Moser of the A.A.U.P. agrees. "The graduate-student unionization is changing the atmosphere. It's altering the environment from the bottom up." As a result, "tenured faculty members speaking out and being vocal is likely to become more of a part of academic culture," he says. "There's safety in numbers." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i48/48a00801.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From 101446.1714@COMPUSERVE.COM Mon Aug 6 12:51:06 2001 From: 101446.1714@COMPUSERVE.COM (David Devalle) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:51:06 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] EthicsSocialscience Message-ID: <200108060751_MC3-DB82-C9A8@compuserve.com> Review of Leland B. Yeager, _Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation_ (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001). Reviewed for Hayek-L by Steven Horwitz St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617 Opening Up Ethics to Social Scientific Inquiry Leland Yeager=92s new book is a bold attempt to link up the study of ethi= cs with the empirical results of social science and, in so doing, articulate= a defense of what he refers to as =93indirect=94 utilitarianism. Yeager=92= s central thesis is that ethical theory should be grounded in an understanding of what sorts of action further the penultimate value of social cooperation, whic= h in turn furthers the ultimate value of human happiness (hence, his utilitarianism is =93indirect=94). Those actions that are ethically righ= t are those that further social cooperation and those that are wrong are those that undermine it. In developing this argument, he confronts it with other, more crude, forms of utilitarianism as well as alternatives to utilitarianism, such as natural law and contractarian approaches. In articulating and defending this thesis, Yeager is both clear and persuasive. His approach to these issues has much to recommend to those interested in= Hayekian social theory. The core of the book is an elaboration of the implications of the idea th= at =93ought presupposes can.=94 Whatever set of moral precepts we adopt, th= ey must be a set that is =93realistically possible and mutually compatible=94 (81= ). Thus, if ought presupposes can, then =93can=94 presupposes some understan= ding of what is possible in the world. And it is here that Yeager=92s title come= s to the forefront: any ethical theory must take account of the findings of t= he social sciences in order to know what can be done, and therefore what sor= ts of things might possibly fit the bill for what ought to be done. This by= itself does not get us very far as we need some sort of criterion for wha= t we can or ought =93to do.=94 For Yeager, the answer to that question com= es from utilitarianism. Yeager demarcates two criteria for judging the =93utility=94 of the alter= native institutional structures and patterns of behavior that could be manifestations of an underlying ethics. The =93penultimate criterion=94 = is what Yeager terms =93social cooperation.=94 Social cooperation exists to the = degree that we can predict the behavior of others and thereby coordinate our actions. Social cooperation is necessary to achieve the ultimate goal, which is human happiness. Like all those in the utilitarian tradition, Yeager agrees that the ultimate criterion of judgment is whether institutions, norms, etc. promote human happiness. An ethical rule that did not further social cooperation, and therefore human happiness, is not one= that should be adopted or obeyed. Yeager spends a good deal of time carefully explicating how his indirect utilitarianism differs from so-called =93act=94 utilitarianism. Individu= als are not supposed to calculate the net contribution to human happiness of each= and every action they take. Nor are individuals, or some external observer, supposed to be able to quantify the utility or happiness of any or all individuals. Rather, Yeager argues that the utility-driven choice happen= s at the level of institutions, rules, norms, and social practices. Individuals should =93choose=94 social systems (understood as collections= of the various items in the previous sentences) that lead to the greatest degree= of social cooperation and, therefore, the greatest amount of human happiness= . Yeager believes that although our knowledge of the actual happiness of human beings is limited, we can legitimately explore the ways in which alternative social systems promote social cooperation (which can be broadly observed)= , which is the necessary condition for human happiness. If we know, for example, that market economies promote social cooperation= better than planned ones, then we can conclude they also further human happiness and that we should adopt ethical rules that are consistent with= market economies. Or in an example often raised by opponents of act-utilitarianism: the ethical status of the act of killing an innocent= person is not determined by a calculation of how much it adds or subtract= s from human happiness. Rather, the rule that =93murder is wrong=94 is one= that furthers social cooperation and human happiness, which provides it with i= ts ethical force. For Yeager, it is our ability to adopt and stick to specific rules, and to recognize that rare contexts will justify overriding those rules, that generates social cooperation and human happiness, not calculations of pleasure and pain with respect to specific acts. These examples show how indirect utilitarianism opens up ethics to empirical social scientific inquiry of a Hayekian sort. The knowledge th= at market economies promote social cooperation more effectively than planned= ones is derived from social science, as is the claim about murder. Yeage= r is quite inclusive in his conception of social science by not restricting= it to, say, just economics and political science. He includes history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology as well. That inclusiveness is important, as so much of the recent work on Hayekian liberalism and socia= l cooperation has been focused on political economy issues. One large potential benefit of Yeager=92s book is that it may encourage Hayekians t= o expand the range of institutions and practices they study and to explore how other institutions outside of political economy, as well as psychological= dispositions, contribute to or retard social cooperation. Hayekian anthropologists might explore these same issues by historical comparison.= Yeager=92s approach is also highly compatible with the evolutionary appro= ach adopted by the later Hayek. As Hayek made clear in several places, but most forcefully in The Fatal Conceit, he believed that ethics were evolved rather than objectively created. One could construct evolutionary arguments tha= t explore the ways in which particular institutions and practices have survived the evolutionary process precisely because they met the test of promoting social cooperation. One could do the same for whole societies.= A further step in bringing together Yeager=92s work with Hayek=92s would involve deepening our understanding of precisely what we mean by social cooperation. For example, what is the relationship between =93social cooperation=94 and =93spontaneous order=94? Or between =93social coopera= tion=94 and Hayek=92s discussion of equilibrium as a dovetailing of plans and expectations? As noted earlier, Yeager sees social cooperation as bound= up with the correctness of our expectation of the behavior of others. This suggests ample room for empirical-historical investigations of questions that walk the line between philosophy and psychology involving how expectations (and ideal types) are formed and maintained through time. Including insights from The Sensory Order might enable us to examine the relationship between the structure of the mind and how best to further social cooperation. Yeager=92s argument is also compatible with the recent interest in the institutions of civil society other than those of the market and the stat= e. Any ethical theory must encompass not only questions of state-enforced ethical norms (e.g., murder) but also the ways in which more informal ethical norms (e.g., trust, sympathy, tolerance, etc.) contribute to soci= al cooperation and the role played by families, religious institutions, schools, social organizations, and the like in promoting the observation = of those norms. Expanding the range of Hayekian social analysis to include these sorts of questions is central to a more thorough understanding of t= he evolution and maintenance of social order. Though ostensibly about ethics, Yeager=92s book is also a book about the = role of the social sciences in contributing to our understanding of how to mak= e the world a better place. Ultimately, economic, political, and social institutions should reflect our deepest ethical beliefs. Yeager complete= s the circle by arguing that our ethical beliefs must be consistent with, a= nd in some sense should derive from, our social-scientific understanding of the world. In order to further social cooperation and human happiness, we mu= st have ethical rules, and therefore social institutions, that are consisten= t with those goals. Yeager=92s indirect utilitarianism opens up ethics to = the results of social science, taking it deeper into the realm of the empiric= al and the evolutionary. This is an important project and one that is highl= y conducive to the kind of contributions Hayek scholars might provide. Steven Horwitz Associate Dean of the First Year Associate Professor of Economics St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 sghorwitz@stlawu.edu Leland Yeagers's book _Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation_is available on the web from Laissez Faire Books: http://laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=3Dview&pid=3DPH8451&aid=3D100= 97 And from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1840645210/thefriedrhayeksc Copyright (c) 2001 by The Hayek Center for Multidisciplinary Research, all rights reserved. This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the list. For other permissions, please contact: hayek-list@home.com Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From phlclt@HOTMAIL.COM Mon Aug 6 13:52:15 2001 From: phlclt@HOTMAIL.COM (Chris Taylor) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 12:52:15 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] Graduate Conference Reminder Message-ID: GRADUATE CONFERENCE ON MORAL KNOWLEDGE & MORAL AGENCY UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, 29-31 AUGUST, 2001. 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On Zizek's Marxism Sean Homer 7 Thinking Politically with Merleau-Ponty Diana Coole 17 The Fate of the Body Politic Mark Neocleous 29 REVIEWS Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach Swasti Mitter 40 Teresa Brennan, Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy Tony Smith, Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production Christopher J. Arthur 43 Stanley Cohen, States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering Lynne Segal 45 Couze Venn, Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity David Cunningham 46 Andrew Benjamin, Architectural Philosophy Jeremy Till 48 Elizabeth Wilson, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts Elizabeth Wilson, The Contradictions of Culture: Cities, Culture Ben Highmore 51 Ruth Abbey, Charles Taylor Arto Laitinen 52 Julian Young, Heidegger's Philosophy of Art Jonathan Ree 54 NEWS Hegemony or Socialism? 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From ferenczi@SUNSERV.KFKI.HU Mon Aug 6 17:32:01 2001 From: ferenczi@SUNSERV.KFKI.HU (Ferenczi, Szabolcs) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:32:01 +0200 Subject: [Philnet] Inquiry for bibliography items about Immanuel Kant wrt Hungary Message-ID: This is a call for scholars who has published anything about Immanuel Kant that has also something to do with Hungary. I am composing a bibliography of the research about Immanuel Kant in Hungary between 1925 and 2000/2001 that is appearing soon in EXISTENTIA/MELETAI SOPHIAS (www.existentia.hu). This should include bibliography items of any publication that is made in Hungarian or is translated into Hungarian or is published in Hungary or is reviewing work done by Hungarians or in Hungary with respect to Immanuel Kant. What is considered includes not only entire books, articles, and reviews but significant chapters or even larger portions of text in books or articles too. Bibliographies of this type have already been appeared in EXISTENTIA about Heidegger, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Camus, Nietzsche, Sartre, Parmenides, and Plato. I am trying to make it as complete as possible to be as useful for others as possible. However, I am aware that many scholars involved are living abroad or published something abroad that is very difficult for me to locate. Therefore, I kindly ask you to send me your bibliography data (or a www pointer to it) especially if you think that I might miss your publication. If you send me your publication list, I can include the relevant items into the bibliography. Thanks for your cooperation. Szabolcs Ferenczi Editor, EXISTENTIA/MELETAI SOPHIAS www.existentia.hu e-mail: ferenczi@sunserv.kfki.hu Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Mon Aug 6 19:17:42 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:17:42 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <003201c11ea4$15c84200$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Language" To: "Wayne Daniels" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:24 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > --- Wayne Daniels wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David Moody" > > To: > > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:14 AM > > Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > I see no connection between philosophy and > > chess, because I don't think > > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know > > much about chess think > > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that > > it's 99% about > > calculation > > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most > > positional player in this world > > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It > > takes a few seconds to > > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's > > position and come up with an > > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes > > minutes. So I think, > > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to > > chess among sciences. > > > > > > > > Aydin > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > That's an interesting philosophy, especially if > > you're proposing that > > > there's no connection between "mathematics" and > > "thinking". My > > understanding > > > is that professional mathematicians rarely > > calculate; their function is to > > > decide what the computers should calculate. > > > > > > But leaving that aside, are you saying that > > philosophy is nothing but > > > "thinking"? Philosophy is, literally, a "love of > > knowledge", and knowledge > > > can be gained as much by experience as by > > reasoning. > > > > > > Nobody calculates in a vacuum. Thoughts over the > > chessboard are directed > > > into various paths by the player's knowledge, > > whether gained from books, > > > previous experience, or sheer genius. > > > > > > Whether or not you agree with his ideas, how can > > you say that Emanuel > > > Lasker's chess was not affected by his > > philosophical reasoning? > > > > > > David Moody > > As if "philosophical reasoning" were of that special > kind which you suddenly acquire when you come to be > called a philosopher. > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > Messages to the list are archived at > > http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. > > Other philosophical resources on the Web can be > > found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Mon Aug 6 20:38:07 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 20:38:07 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Helsinki Hume Conference - Extended Submssion Deadline (fwd) Message-ID: From: Mikael M. Karlsson 29th Hume Conference Helsinki, Finland 6-10 August 2002 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE The organizers of the Helsinki Hume Conference, "Born for Action? Born for Reason?", which will be held 6-10 August 2002, have announced an extension of the deadline for submitted papers to October 1st, 2001. The original deadline was September 1st. Submissions must be RECEIVED by the deadline date, in electronic form. For further details, see the information posted on the Hume Society web site: and the conference web site, which is best accessed through the Society's home page. ESTIMATED COSTS An estimate of expenses for the Helsinki conferences was announced at the Hume Society's Victoria conference by Wade Robison, Chair of the Organizing Committee. The registration fee will be in the neighborhood of $50. Accommodation in Helsinki will starts at $60 per night for single rooms, $70 for double rooms. All book hotels are in the downtown area, close to the Conference Center. The banquet may run as high as $80. A day-trip to Tallin, Estonia, has been planned into the program. The ferry fare will be about $30. For those interested in a post-conference visit to St. Petersburg, train tickets and accommodation will be arranged by a travel agency working for the conference. New information is being placed regularly on the conference web site. For the Hume Society, Mikael M. Karlsson Secretary-Treasurer Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From peter@DOLLYKNOT.COM Mon Aug 6 21:14:28 2001 From: peter@DOLLYKNOT.COM (peter turland) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:14:28 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Agueing with onself Message-ID: <01080621142800.02269@localhost.localdomain> Hello, I'm fed up with arguing with myself, I've written a piece about chess, but it's rather chessy for this list., so I was going to just post a link to it. I Iive in Linux land now, safe from red code worms. and I have found difficulty without a lot of tedium converting my chess email into HTML and bunging it on my website and giving the members of this list who like my occasional output, the right just to click on the link instead. It all seemed too complex for words, so I have given in to the part of my head that says 'post it you fool' so if this email has annoyed you in any way at all, please delete the next email from me. Peter Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From peter@DOLLYKNOT.COM Mon Aug 6 21:37:53 2001 From: peter@DOLLYKNOT.COM (peter turland) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:37:53 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Chess Message-ID: <01080601584500.01576@localhost.localdomain> Hello, I once played in a chess tornament, the H E Atkins memorial tournament to be precise, but once was enough for me, a very interesting experience though. The year I played they held it in the ball room of the Grand Hotel, so it was a good setting. To those that have never attended a chess tourament, it can seem very peculiar, you enter a big room and the first thing that hits you is the silence, which is weird because there are a lot of people in there. One usually associates lots of people, with lots of noise, like a darts match or something. Certtainly after being a spectator for a while I came to the conclusion it was like watching paint dry or grass grow, but a different perspective ensued when I actually got to play. Not having a grade, I played in the duffers section. Or the minors as it was termed. I had my first opponent, a twelve year lad, I can remember him now, peering up at me. So the pair of us set off, both of us playing real careful, we ended up in a position where he had one half of the board and I had the other, both of us behind solid pawns structures in the middle, the position was locked solid, after what seemed like an eternity of aimless wood pushing, I offered the kid a draw, which he declined. So the aimless pushing wood continued, after a while I started to get a bit annoyed, thinking to myself 'can't he see it's a draw? Which motivated me to make a rash move with a pawn in the center, the little devil was all over me, he managed to get a pawn to a position, where he could exchange it for a queen, on his next move, in his excitement he failed to see I had pinned his pawn against his queen with my queen, so as he queened the pawn, my queen took his queen. He was that mortified he burst into tears, quietly of couse. I subsequently discovered he had been the under twelve champion of somewhere or other, so in a sense I got off lightly. He had a won position but blew it. On to my next oponent, a middle aged lady, I beat her as well. I played the sicilian, she really made my knights dance but could not wear them out. The amusing thing about the system of, who plays who, is it forms a ladder where you play the person next to you in score, that if you beat that person, you move up the ladder and to the left, and if you lose you move down the ladder and to the right, the way the seating was arranged was if you won, you got more space to play in, and if you lost, less space to play in, bit of a micrcosm of society really, the more you lost, the more you headed towards the slums. At the top of the ladder you had your own seperate table to play on, wow, out in the leafy suburbs or what! Then to my third opponent, by this time I had a little bit of confidence, well after putting a twelve year kid under my belt and an innocent old lady. I was playing a guy about twenty two years old. I started for the first time in my life to play real chess. I was very very focused. I remember looking at my watch at one time and seeing an hour go past, in the seeming blink of an eyelid, how different ones time sense was, from watching, to actually playing. Another thing I remember was calculating to such a depth, it made my brain warm, I knew this because I started to sweat, I've often wondered if being bald is an evolutionary adaptation to the problem caused by the brain overheating due to an excess of use, and the problems getting rid of all that excess heat with all that hair in the way. I actually achieved some spectators as well, my finest chess moment. I found a very deep combination, that started with me sacrificing a minor piece and about five moves later, winning back two of his minor piece's and it worked a treat, after that, it was a relatively simple operating mopping up, 'till he threw in the towel. Three straight wins in a row and I had made it to the top table, then I met a chess hustler. Every proper chess player gets a grade, the tournament you play in, is dictated by your grade, I was playing in the under 130 grade because I didn't have a grade. What some players will do is judiciously lose enough club games to keep their grade below 130, so they can enter the minor's and possibly win some prize money. This guy didn't beat me with chess, he beat me with psychology, what he did was play a very drawish opening, then waste nearly all of the time on his clock, he kept wandering off, there is nothing in the rules to stop you doing anything you wanted to, as long as it was not either noisy or distracting to the players. I can't remember, the amount of time you where given to the first time control, something like an hour and half for the 30 odd, moves. Well enough time, to go for a meal, do some shopping like, as long as you returned before the flag fell, no problem. He left it to the last couple of minutes, before he started to play, of course by now, I was a bit rattled by his strange behaviour with him dissapearing all the time, I ask you? He had got me so impatient to get on with it, that I started to play as quickly as him, and made a silly error and lost, which was dopey, because I had loads of time left on my clock, I analysed the game at a later date, with accurate play on both sides it would have been a draw at worst, and he had such little time left, I might have beat him on time, it was now my turn to feel mortified. Nerves shot, I lost the next two games as well. One clear recollection I had of the whole episode of three days , was feeling completely knackered at the end of it, a very intense experience indeed. It was also my realisation that if I was going to do anything to furthering my chess carreer, I would have to devote a lot more of my mental powers to sudying chess, than I was devoting to learning about computers, driving trucks, reading like a drain, and arguing about philosophy and bringing up a family, I'm afraid the chess lost out, but I often wonder if I had beaten that guy, would my life have taken a different turn? Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Mon Aug 6 21:54:37 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:54:37 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Final Posting, but carry on. Message-ID: <006d01c11eba$0176d580$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> With these two postings I conclude my moderator-like duties. (And very tedious they were, too.) I urge those interested in this or some cognate matter, to sign on to the list to which they do not presently belong, if they'd like to continue the discussion. PHILOS-L : Send to LISTSERV@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK CHESS-L : Send to LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL BTW, I wasn't kidding about the tedium. I think we should try our best to get Stephen and Frank drunk at least twice a year. Cheers, Wayne Daniels "Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious. Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea about how anything material could be conscious. So much for the philosophy of consciousness." Jerry Fodor (1992). ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:05 AM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > And, of course, calculations have nothing to do with thinking... > > In a message dated Sat, 4 Aug 2001 7:22:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aydincil@TTNET.NET.TR writes: > > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > > > Aydin Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From w.r.daniels@HOME.COM Mon Aug 6 22:10:41 2001 From: w.r.daniels@HOME.COM (Wayne Daniels) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:10:41 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <007c01c11ebc$400d8f80$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> > And, of course, calculations have nothing to do with thinking... Actually, JET's sharpish rejoinder demonstrates part of the value and interest of a philosphical inquiry into games and their rules. But I shall leave that for the moment. Wayne Daniels The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Wilfrid Sellars. ________________________________________________________ Sat, 4 Aug 2001 7:22:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aydincil@TTNET.NET.TR writes: > > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > > > Aydin Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From sue@MCPHERSONS.FREESERVE.CO.UK Tue Aug 7 00:36:36 2001 From: sue@MCPHERSONS.FREESERVE.CO.UK (Sue McPherson) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:36:36 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Raul Hilberg quote Message-ID: <002e01c11ed0$a2a77980$42b186d9@suemcp> list members: I came cross this quote by Raul Hilberg but have been unable to find the source. It was not in Destruction of the European Jews (1961) nor in the abridged edition. If anyone is familiar with it could you please advise, thanks, Sue McPherson The Holocaust is a fundamental event in history -- not only becaue one-third of the jewish people in the world died in the space of four years, not only because of the manner in which they were killed, but becasue,in the last analysis, it is inexplicable. All our assumptions about the world and its progress prior to the years when this event burst forth have been upset. The certainties of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century vanished in its face. What we once understood, we no longer comprehend. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Tue Aug 7 08:58:57 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 08:58:57 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] JOB: Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand Message-ID: From: Nicholas Agar To: aphil-l@coombs.anu.edu.au VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, Wellington, New Zealand. Lectureship (permanent) in Philosophy, starting February 1, 2002 (negotiable). Teaching load approximately equivalent to 3 one-semester courses per year (plus possible MA and Ph.D. supervision). AOS: open. AOC: open. Strong research and teaching potential are essential. Please visit www.nzjobs.co.nz/vuw for an online application form and role description (or contact the HR Assistant, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, tel +64 4 463 5208, email hss-appoint@vuw.ac.nz ). Applications (quoting Ref: HSS 139) must include a cover letter, CV, at least one writing sample, and the names and contact addresses of three referees. Information about the Philosophy Programme and its staff is available on our website at=A0 http://www.vuw.ac.nz/phil/ Closing date: November 16 2001. Interviews of some candidates at the APA Eastern Division Meeting. Others to be interviewed by phone.=A0 Please indicate in your application whether you will be attending the APA.=A0 Victoria University of Wellington is an EEO employer. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Tue Aug 7 09:43:29 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:43:29 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] [MIT NEW BOOK] Samuel Todes _Body and World_ Message-ID: I don't normally encourage ads for new books (there are too many new books). On the other hand, perhaps this is an ad for an old book ..... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:04:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi To: Prof. Stephen Clark Subject: [MIT NEW BOOK] Samuel Todes _Body and World_ [for philosophy-l lists) Dear Professor Stephen Clark, A new pub..Body and World by Samuel Todes: introductions by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Piotr Hoffman Body and World is an original and systematic contribution to existential phenomenology. Todes goes beyond Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty in his description of how independent physical nature and experience are united in our bodily action. His account allows him to preserve the authority of experience while avoiding the tendency toward idealism that threatens both Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. In so doing, Todes offers a new defense of realism that will have to be taken into account by those in the current realism/anti-realism debate. The book also makes an important contribution to the current debate among analytic philosophers concerning non-conceptual content and its relation to thought. In this conncetion, Todess relevant theses are: (1) Our unified, active body, in moving to meet our needs, generates a unified, spatio-temporal field. (2) In that field we use our perceptual skills to make the determinable perceptual objects that show up relatively determinate. (3) Once we have made the objects of practical perception determinate, we can make practical perceptual judgements about them. Such judgments have conditions of satisfaction, but they are non-conceptual in that they are a way of coping with an actual object in this situation, from this point of view, in this light, in this orientation, and so forth. (4) By withholding our activity, however, we can transform our practical perception into a detached, spectatorial perception of qualities that are experienced as independent of the object they qualify. (5) Thanks to our conceptual imagination, we can then treat these qualities as reidentifiable properties of reidentifiable objects that can be entertained by thought. Todes emphasizes the complex structure of the human body--front/back asymmetry, the need to balance in a gravitational field, and so forth--and the role that structure plays in producing the spatiotemporal field of experience and in making possible objective knowledge of the objects in it. He shows that perception involves nonconceptual, but nonetheless objective forms of judgment. Samuel Todes was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University at the time of his death in 1994. Body and World is based on his dissertation, written in 1963 and published in 1990 in the series Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy under the title The Human Body as Material Subject of the World. Dagfinn Follesdal comment: Todes' dissertation is a remarkable work. It delves deeply into issues that have only now, forty years later, become central concerns in epistemology, philosophy of action and philosophy of mind. These issues had been broached by Husserl in manuscripts and had been followed up by Heidegger and above all by Merleau-Ponty, but Todes carried the discussion further with careful analyses and original ideas. He discusses how the body has anticipations that can be satisfied or frustrated, and shows how these processes are of crucial importance for clarifying the nonconceptual elements in knowledge. He also throws much needed light on the percipient as a bodily subject, on the unity of the person and the unity of the object experienced. The dissertation is a classic in the sense that it remains as thought-provoking and illuminating today as when it was written. Details at Thank you..its an important publication.. Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi -- Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From register@washingtonpost.com Tue Aug 7 07:01:13 2001 From: register@washingtonpost.com (register@washingtonpost.com) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:01:13 GMT Subject: [Philnet] A washingtonpost.com article from president@nagps.org Message-ID: <200108070601.GAA21310@nagps.nagps.org> You have been sent this message from president@nagps.org as a courtesy of the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com). To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40156-2001Aug6.html?referer=email Alliance Forms on Immigrant Policies By Thomas B. Edsall and Cheryl W. Thompson A powerful alliance of labor and business groups, immigrants rights organizations and Republican political strategists has formed to lobby for immigration liberalization, reversing the anti-immigrant tenor that has dominated the nation's capital for much of the last decade. As top U.S. and Mexican officials prepare for an important meeting on the immigration plan Thursday, representatives from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have met with State and Justice Department officials. Officials with the American Immigration Lawyers Association are talking with members of Congress and have sent their immigration reform ideas to the White House. The League of United Latin American Citizens met Friday with Vice President Cheney's staff. Rallies have been held in Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Petition drives are underway to send postcards to Mexican President Vicente Fox. "Things have changed," said Theresa Cardinal Brown, manager of immigration and labor policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a principal in a key pro-immigration business organization, the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition. "This is probably one of the most friendly environments for positive immigration reform that I have seen." While specific proposals under discussion by the working group of U.S. and Mexican officials have not been made public, they cover a range of issues and could include a legalization plan for some of the estimated 6 million to 9 million undocumented people now living and working in the United States. Mexicans account for an estimated half of that population, while Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Canadians, Haitians, Filipinos, Hondurans, Poles and other nationalities make up the rest, according to the INS. The plan may include a system for undocumented workers to earn permanent residency status -- green cards -- which would put them on the road to citizenship. President Bush has said, however, that he does not favor blanket amnesty for undocumented workers like that provided by the 1986 law, which legalized 2.7 million undocumented people. The proposals being discussed also may include an expanded guest worker program favored by some who oppose legalization or regularization plans. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Attorney General John D. Ashcroft are scheduled to meet with Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda and Interior Minister Santiago Creel Thursday at the State Department. Next month, Bush and Fox are to meet for the first time in Washington, and an immigration plan is expected to be a key issue. Despite the shortage of specifics, and the possibility of only small changes, the prospect of reform has galvanized a wide spectrum of groups interested in comprehensive change. John Gay, co-chairman of the Essential Workers Coalition, which represents more than 30 trade organizations, said he has made the case to several senators that immigration reform must be comprehensive. "A guest worker program alone won't make it through" Congress, said Gay, who is also vice president for governmental affairs for the American Hotel and Lodging Association. "Legalization alone won't make it through. Politically, we believe that a comprehensive bill is the only thing that's going to make it through Congress." Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said his organization lobbied Cheney's staff to "encourage them to stick with a plan to regularize" immigrants' status and allow them to work legally. Business and labor groups are generally agreed that penalties against businesses that hire undocumented workers -- enacted in 1986 but rarely enforced -- need to be ended, except in the cases of businesses that actively smuggle illegal workers into the country. Organized labor and many immigrant groups involved in the issue, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, are preparing to call for full legal and workplace rights for temporary workers, including the right to organize and form unions. This could pit business against labor, and force the Bush administration to choose between the pro-business forces in the Republican Party and the leaders of Hispanic organizations, most of whom are strongly supportive of labor protections. In the case of immigration liberalization, said Charles Kamasaki, vice president of the National Council of La Raza, an administration program with the potential to achieve at least a partial political breakthrough among Hispanic voters would have to include a legalization program with "an eventual path to citizenship, and real labor rights." He noted the strong levels of Hispanic support Bush received as Texas's governor, as well as support given to Republican mayors Rudolph Giuliani and Richard Riordan of New York and Los Angeles, respectively. "There is some basis for the argument that Republicans who make significant policy changes and distinguish themselves from the anti-immigration wing of their party can make very significant inroads on the Hispanic vote," Kamasaki said. The Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that favors more controls on immigration, has prepared a detailed study by University of Maryland political scientists James G. Gimpel and Karen Kaufmann. Their analysis suggests that liberalized immigration will not only fail to win votes for the GOP, but that it will backfire by strengthening the Democratic Party over time. The report indirectly disputes the arguments made by White House political strategist Karl Rove and GOP polling specialist Matthew Dowd. The report says survey data, including an exhaustive poll of Hispanics by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University, show that Hispanics who are not yet citizens are more inclined to support Democrats than Hispanics who are citizens. It also says there is "no evidence that a significant percentage of the Latino vote is 'in play.' " Others also note that the Hispanic vote is not monolithic, with Cuban Americans in Miami concerned about very different issues than Mexican Americans are in Los Angeles. The developments of recent months have left anti-immigration groups on the defensive, forcing them to bolster their traditional lobbying arguments: that immigrants use a disproportionate share of welfare programs, increase urban and suburban sprawl, lower wages and contribute to environmental deterioration. "They [pro-immigration forces] have got more of the cards in their deck," said Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who is outraged by some colleagues' support of outright amnesty for illegal immigrants. "You have to ask a member of the Congress if they are in fact in support of upholding the laws of the land." Anti-immigration forces are banking on extended debate to revive substantial public opposition to immigration, which pits the two major forces in the Republican Party, business and social conservatives, against each other. "As this drags out, people are going to pay attention, and the people it is going to make the most angry are the base of the Republican Party -- law and order voters," said Steven A. Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies. One of the difficulties facing anti-immigration groups is that key interest groups and constituencies have become convinced of the legitimacy of liberalized immigration. The most dramatic of these conversions has been within the AFL-CIO, which for years saw immigration as a source of cheap labor that competed with union workers and forced wages down. In 2000, the AFL-CIO abandoned this policy and has since become a leading proponent of amnesty and legalization for undocumented workers, who are now seen as a key organizing target and a source of new members. "There are immigrants now everywhere where people work," said John Wilhelm, president of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union and chair of the AFL-CIO immigration committee. "The labor movement has embraced that reality and returned to its roots" to become "a labor movement that is being rebuilt by immigrants," he said. Similarly, for key sectors of the business community, immigrants -- legal and illegal -- are a critical source of workers, often performing jobs that U.S. citizens will not take. For much of the service, restaurant, hotel and construction sectors, immigrant labor has become essential. "There are not enough people. In spite of the increasing unemployment rate, you can't find enough people to fill the jobs," Brown said. For religious groups, particularly the Catholic Church, Hispanic immigration has been a huge source of parishioners. "We estimate that about 70 percent of the Latinos in this country are Catholic," said Kevin Appleby, director of migration policy for the Bishops' Conference. "The primary consideration of the church is that legalization promotes family unity." He noted that a large number of immigrant children, many of whom are Catholic, live in "mixed status" families, in which an immediate relative, often a parent, lives illegally in this country. From president@nagps.org Tue Aug 7 07:28:58 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:28:58 GMT Subject: [Philnet] NYTimes.com Article: Citing Costs, U.S. Seeks to Raise Fees for Immigrants' Applications Message-ID: <200108070628.GAA21442@nagps.nagps.org> This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by president@nagps.org. ISCC- Based on conversations with some of you, it sounds like this proposed INS fee increase could increase hardships for international grads. I would be interested to hear feedback from list serv members about their thoughts on this proposal. Kim Suedkamp Wells NAGPS President /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Let NYTimes.com Come to You Sign up for one of our weekly e-mails and the news will come directly to you. YOUR MONEY brings you a wealth of analysis and information about personal investing. CIRCUITS plugs you into the latest on personal technology. 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"These fees are badly needed to recoup the costs of adjudicating applications and petitions," said William R. Yates, the agency's chief immigration services official. The fees are now subject to public comment, but if the Bush administration gives final approval, they would take effect in January and raise $127 million a year in additional revenue, Mr. Yates said. Much of that money could be used to help prevent backlogs from growing. Currently, someone applying for citizenship must wait an average of nine months, but that delay can be much longer in some parts of the country. The wait for a green card granting permanent residency is about 16 months, officials said today, but that wait also varies widely by region. Mr. Yates told reporters that the fee increases would not dissuade immigrants. "Whenever you increase fees," he said, "obviously there's concern about the burden on those paying the fees. But these fee increases are not huge." Advocacy groups for immigrants criticized the agency today for proposing higher fees at a time when many immigrants struggle with long lines, surly service and bureaucratic delays. "It's wrong," said Gustavo Torres, executive director of Casa of Maryland, a nonprofit agency in Takoma Park, Md., that assists mainly low- income Hispanics. "They say they're going to improve service with the fee increases, but their focus has always been more on detention than on providing quality service." Indeed, on his first official day on the job, the new commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, James W. Ziglar, said he planned to get up early one day this week to talk to the hundreds of immigrants who line up every morning outside the agency's field office in Arlington, Va. This week Mr. Ziglar is also likely to join other administration officials in preparing for a meeting on immigration and border issues here on Thursday with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Attorney General John Ashcroft and their Mexican counterparts. An administration working group headed by Mr. Powell and Mr. Ashcroft recommended to President Bush last month that the United States allow some of the estimated three million Mexicans who live here unlawfully to earn permanent legal residency. In recent days, administration officials have repeated Mr. Bush's assertion that no blanket amnesty will be granted, but they have kept quiet about specifics they will discuss with Mexican officials this week. At a meeting at the White House last Friday, Diana Schacht, one of Mr. Bush's domestic policy advisers, told a dozen advocacy groups for immigrants that the administration was interested in a new model for immigration policy. Ms. Schacht also emphasized Mr. Bush's public support for a new temporary-worker program with Mexico, and possibly a plan that could be expanded to other countries. But, participants in the meeting said, administration officials were noncommittal on any program to allow illegal immigrants already in this country or new temporary workers to earn permanent legal status. Supporters of such a program have increased their lobbying. A new internal conducted for Republican governors shows narrow support for a legalization plan for unlawful Mexicans already here (50 percent of respondents approve; 45 percent oppose) and strong backing for a guestworker program that permits new immigrants to earn permanent legal residency over time (57 percent approve; 39 percent oppose). http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/national/07IMMI.html?ex=998202718&ei=1&en=cb0eccf0789c096a /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ Visit NYTimes.com for complete access to the most authoritative news coverage on the Web, updated throughout the day. Become a member today! 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For the Hume Society, Mikael M. Karlsson Secretary-Treasurer Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From mailback@jobs.thes.co.uk Wed Aug 8 19:45:24 2001 From: mailback@jobs.thes.co.uk (mailback@jobs.thes.co.uk) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 19:45:24 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Jobs Online at THES Message-ID: <00e042545180881TSL_JOBS2@tsl_jobs2> Dear THES reader, Here are this week's results for your search. Valid from Wed 08/08/01 08:00am. 'philosophy' - 9 ads http://www.thesjobs.co.uk/output.asp?searchID=20223 *****************ADVERTISEMENT****************** Universities and Students: A guide to rights, responsibilities & practical remedies Legal actions against universities are increasing. 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Paul Cecil, Head of the Academic Office University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH 01273 877755 E-mail: P.L.Cecil@sussex.ac.uk Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From dorisdirks00_@hotmail.com Thu Aug 9 12:14:12 2001 From: dorisdirks00_@hotmail.com (Doris Dirks) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:14:12 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Fwd: NAFSA.news Vol. 6, No. 29a Message-ID: <200108091114.LAA00352@nagps.nagps.org> Hello Internationals and Friends, I have attatched the latest information and advocacy opportunities to repeal the CIPRIS/SEVIS legislation. This has been an issue near and dear to NAGPS internationals. Please read this carefully and write a letter. Regards, Doris Dirks International Student Concerns Committee, Chair >From: "NAFSA.news" >To: NAFSANEWS@LISTS.NAFSA.ORG >Subject: NAFSA.news Vol. 6, No. 29a >Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:48:49 -0400 > >********************** >NAFSA.news Extra >********************** > >Vol. 6, No. 29a >August 7, 2001 > >ACTION ALERT > >**CIPRIS Repeal Bill Introduced in the House; More Cosponsors for Repeal >Bill Needed** > >On August 2, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) introduced H.R. 2779, "The >International Students Reporting Act of 2001." The bill would repeal >section >641 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act >(IIRAIRA) of 1996, which is the legislative authority for CIPRIS. NAFSA >supports H.R. 2779 and urges you to ask your representative in Congress to >cosponsor this bill. > >*Background* >Section 641 requires the Immigration and Naturalization Service to collect >information from higher education and exchange visitor programs on all F, >J, >and M visa holders. The electronic tracking system is commonly known as >CIPRIS and is now referred to as SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor >Information System). In order to develop and maintain SEVIS, a >nonrefundable >fee will be charged to foreign students and exchange visitors prior to >receiving their visa classification. For more background information on >CIPRIS/SEVIS please go to: >http://www.nafsa.org/content/PublicPolicy/NAFSAontheIssues/CIPRISissuebrief. >htm. > >Tell your member of Congress to repeal CIPRIS/SEVIS and cosponsor H.R. >2779! > > >*Current List of Cosponsors* >The following members of the House of Representatives have already joined >McCollum as original cosponsors: Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Earl Blumenauer >(D-Ore.), Bob Filner (D-Calif.), James McGovern (D-Mass.) and James >Oberstar >(D-Minn.). If one of these members is your representative, please write and >thank them for their support. 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Choose "Take >Action" and then select "Send a Message to Washington." >3. Select the sample letter "Urge Your Representative to Cosponsor CIPRIS >Repeal Bill." >4. Edit the text that appears in the box. Congress wants to hear from its >constituents, so feel free to personalize your letters. YOU WILL NEED TO >FILL IN THE NAME OF YOUR INSTITUTION IN THE SECOND AND LAST PARAGRAPHS OF >THE SAMPLE LETTER BEFORE SENDING IT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. This screen is >the best place for you to do that. >5. After modifying the sample letter text in the box, click "continue." >6. Fill in your name, address, and e-mail address (used to help identify >your representative for you) and click "continue." >7. Select "Print" and then "Send." >The "send" key does not actually send your letter to Congress if you have >selected the "print" option. It simply formats your letter. If possible, we >ask that you do not use the e-mail option when sending a letter. 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NAFSA accepts no legal responsibility >for its accuracy. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From rowland.stout@MAN.AC.UK Fri Aug 10 09:43:13 2001 From: rowland.stout@MAN.AC.UK (Rowland Stout) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:43:13 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Research posts at Manchester Message-ID: Centre for Philosophy University of Manchester Simon Research Fellowships There are vacancies for two Simon Research Fellowships in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law. The Fellowships are in 'social sciences', but since the Centre for Philosophy is in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, this includes Philosophy. The Fellowships are intended for outstanding researchers who have recently completed a doctoral degree or research to an equivalent standard. Further particulars and application forms can be downloaded from the University's vacancies page http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research/. The closing date for applications is 30 September 2001. For informal enquiries, please contact Rowland Stout at rowland.stout@man.ac.uk. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From r.a.young@DUNDEE.AC.UK Fri Aug 10 11:08:34 2001 From: r.a.young@DUNDEE.AC.UK (Roger Young) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:08:34 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] (Fwd) international PhD school Message-ID: <3B73C09E.31401.FB69858@localhost> I am forwarding this message to PHILOS-L, because it has not been sent before, and it might interest a few of you. Yours, Roger Young Philosophy Dundee ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:58:05 +0200 To: fempsr@usc.es From: Carlos Martin-Vide Subject: international PhD school Copies to: mark_mandel@dragonsys.com, zuijlen@attglobal.net, hubert.cuyckens@arts.kuleuven.ac.be, benoit.lagrue@lpl.univ-aix.fr, francois.bavaud@imaa.unil.ch, mike_maxwell@sil.org, crocker@coli.uni-sb.de, pbosch@uni-osnabrueck.de, mflsswgb@fs1.art.man.ac.uk, e.haeberli@reading.ac.uk, s.varlokosta@reading.ac.uk, april.mcmahon@shef.ac.uk, ad@ling.ucl.ac.uk, dwew2@cam.ac.uk, m.groefsema@herts.ac.uk, gillian.ramchand@linguistics-philology.oxford.ac.uk, mirovsky@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz, roland.mill@ntr.co.uk, geoffs@cogs.susx.ac.uk, bouquet@cs.unitn.it, chiara@csc.liv.ac.uk, serafini@irst.itc.it, rich@thomason.org, akman@cs.bilkent.edu.tr, massimo.benerecetti@na.infn.it, r.a.young@dundee.ac.uk, rmt@umcs.maine.edu, hknoerr@uottawa.ca, weinberg@uottawa.ca, phil@sharp.co.uk (Apologies for multiple copies. Please, help us to spread this initiative.) 1st INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS 2001-2003 Rovira i Virgili University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Tarragona, Spain Courses and professors 1st year (April-June 2002): Applications of Formal Languages Solomon Marcus, Bucharest Languages Victor Mitrana, Bucharest Combinatorics on Words Tero Harju, Turku Regular Grammars Masami Ito, Kyoto Context-Free Grammars Manfred Kudlek, Hamburg Context-Sensitive Grammars Alexandru Mateescu, Bucharest Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars Henning Bordihn, Potsdam Derivation Trees Carlos Martin-Vide, Tarragona Finite Automata Sheng Yu, London ON Pushdown Automata Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Leiden Turing Machines Maurice Margenstern, Metz Patterns Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON Infinite Words Juhani Karhumaki, Turku Two-Dimensional Languages Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima Regulated Rewriting Juergen Dassow, Magdeburg Contextual Grammars Rodica Ceterchi, Bucharest Parallel Grammars Henning Fernau, Tuebingen Courses and professors 2nd year (October 2002-January 2003): Grammar Systems Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju, Budapest Ecogrammar Systems and Colonies Alica Kelemenova, Opava Tree Automata and Tree Languages Magnus Steinby, Turku Formal Power Series Werner Kuich, Vienna DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden Membrane Computing Gheorghe Paun, Bucharest Splicing Systems and Aqueous Computing Tom Head, Binghamton Quantum Computing Cristian Calude, Auckland Formal Languages and Natural Language Syntax Walter Savitch, San Diego Parsing Giorgio Satta, Padua Tree Adjoining Grammars James Rogers, Richmond IN Weighted Finite-State Transducers Mehryar Mohri, AT&T, Florham Park NJ Formal Languages and Logic Vincenzo Manca, Pisa Grammatical Inference and Learning Takashi Yokomori, Tokyo Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life Jozef Kelemen, Opava Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition Rudolf Freund, Vienna Text Searching Algorithms Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Santiago de Chile Cryptography Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Vaasa Complexity Markus Holzer, Munich Dissertation: After following the courses, students enrolled in the programme will have to write a dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called European PhD degree. All the professors in the programme will be allowed to supervise students' work. Students: Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world. Most appropriate previous degrees of students include: Computer Science, Mathematics and Linguistics. Students are assumed either to have a certain background in discrete mathematics or to be ready to get it by April 2002. According to the expected programme's budget, more than half of the accepted students will be funded, so that their accommodation and living expenses while in Spain will be covered by the programme. These conditions could be improved, at the programme chairman's discretion and depending on the definite availability of resources, in the case of students from Eastern European countries and others. Deadlines: Free pre-registration: September 30, 2001 Selection of students: November 15, 2001 Application for funding: December 15, 2001 Decision about funding: February 15, 2002 Registration: February 28, 2002 Starting of the courses: April 2, 2002 Questions and further information: Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martin-Vide, at cmv@astor.urv.es ------- End of forwarded message ------- Roger Young, Philosophy Department, University of Dundee r.a.young@dundee.ac.uk tel 01382 344539 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From rowland.stout@MAN.AC.UK Fri Aug 10 17:45:13 2001 From: rowland.stout@MAN.AC.UK (Rowland Stout) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:45:13 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Research Posts at Manchester Message-ID: The website address provided in the first posting was truncated. It should have been the following: http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html#522 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From s.wilkinson@PHIL.KEELE.AC.UK Fri Aug 10 17:55:31 2001 From: s.wilkinson@PHIL.KEELE.AC.UK (Stephen Wilkinson) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:55:31 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] EDUCATION AND SOCIETY in the 21st Century Message-ID: <00f901c121bd$4ff86920$93626ad5@l0ish> 20th Annual Conference of the SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY 28th - 30th June 2002 Mansfield College, Oxford EDUCATION AND SOCIETY in the 21st Century Call for Papers Education always takes place in a social context, broadly construed, and its values reflect this fact. It is a commonplace that, in these terms, the context for education is changing rapidly. The aim of the conference is to explore the impact of these changes on educational practice and aims and examine what values should underpin education in the coming years. The conference will be organised around three main themes, and contributions are invited on the following topics (the questions are merely indicative) 1. THE VALUE OF EDUCATION: For what and, more importantly, for whom is education? What, if anything, is the 'good' of education? Is it a universal good? Has education intrinsic or instrumental value? What has been, or will be, the impact on our conceptions of education and its aims of market consumerism and structural changes such as privatisation? Is the idea of a liberal education now dead or does the fashionable notion of 'student empowerment' revive it? 2. EDUCATION AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY: How should educators respond to the challenges of new technology and globalisation? Is there any point to campus based universities any more? Does access to ICT simply provide information, or can it deepen knowledge and understanding? Does the skills agenda undermine the broader aims of education? What impact should considerations of 'relevance' and 'employability' have on what and how we teach? What is the importance of 'embodied presence' to teaching and learning? 3. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL EDUCATION: Can we, and should we, teach values? What values should we teach? What should be the role of education in a multicultural society (or, at least, a society with an increasing plurality of value) or the so-called global village? Should we teach 'citizenship', and what does this mean? When does moral education become indoctrination? Should education positively promote our understanding of values and ends? Should it be, so to speak, merely 'about' rather than 'in' value? Offers of papers are invited by the conference advisors, Stephen Burwood and Stephen Wilkinson. Papers should be of a suitable length for presentation in 20-30 minutes; but full-length versions may be published in the conference proceedings. Please send abstracts by 1st December 2001 (200 words) to Stephen Burwood, Department of Philosophy, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, HU6 7RX, UK. Email: s.a.burwood@phil.hull.ac.uk The conference fee, inclusive of meals and accommodation, will be in the region of £130, with a small number of subsidies available to students and the unwaged. Further details are available from Stephen Burwood at the address given above. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From peter@DOLLYKNOT.COM Sun Aug 12 22:43:23 2001 From: peter@DOLLYKNOT.COM (peter turland) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 22:43:23 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Meme or mneme Message-ID: <01081222432300.01722@localhost.localdomain> Hello, A friend came around in the week and he asked me if statements like 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain' AKA the colours of the rainbow AKA the colors of the different electromagnetic catagorical spectrum definitions, were acronyms. I answered 'no' they are pneumonics. Stunned by my verbal temeriity, I consulted a dictionary, the 'Chambers Consise' to be precise, to my chagrin I discovered that the definition allowed and I quote, 'a word formed, or based on, the intitial letters or syllables of other words, such as radar'. Think about it. A categorical imperitive on language says 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain' has suddenly been put in the same category, as what any explorer into computers comes across ie 'dos' disc operating system, 'DOS' Denial of service, need I go on ? I decided to investigate further. My first discovery on this investigation was that, pneumonic never had an entry, I looked in vain in the dictionary, for a while for some other spellings for this strange word in my verbal dictionary. To no avail. Like as per usual, I gave up my search, 'till today that is, I asked another friend (who has an A level in English) how he would spell pnuemonic he replied, he would spell it mnemonic. Then I hit paydirt. Mneme ' a memory like capacity of living matter for the after-effect of stimulation of the indivdual, or the ancestor'. Peter. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From rbjones@RBJONES.COM Mon Aug 13 07:28:59 2001 From: rbjones@RBJONES.COM (Roger Bishop Jones) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 07:28:59 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Meme or mneme References: <01081222432300.01722@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <024501c123c1$5b9f2060$109d68d5@j> ----- Original Message ----- From: peter turland To: Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 10:43 PM Subject: Meme or mneme | Stunned by my verbal temeriity, I consulted a dictionary, the 'Chambers | Consise' to be precise, to my chagrin I discovered that the definition | allowed and I quote, 'a word formed, or based on, the intitial letters or | syllables of other words, such as radar'. Surely the dictionary definition is too broad. One would expect an acronym to be a name. [the same dictionary expects a pseudonym to be a name] 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain' doesn't satisfy the dictionary definition (whether or not an acronym is required to be a name), since it is not even a word. Roger Jones Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From D.P.Rowbottom@BTINTERNET.COM Mon Aug 13 09:11:38 2001 From: D.P.Rowbottom@BTINTERNET.COM (Darrell Patrick Rowbottom) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 09:11:38 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Meme or mneme References: <01081222432300.01722@localhost.localdomain> <024501c123c1$5b9f2060$109d68d5@j> Message-ID: <3B778BBA.1030207@btinternet.com> Nor does 'Naughty Elephants Squirt Water'! I would say that the definition to which you refer is, rather, too *narrow*. I would propose: a mnemonic is a device that aids the memory. Thus, Fleming's left hand rule also qualifies as a mnemonic, but not just in virtue of the letters FCM (First -> Field, seCond -> Current, thuMb -> Movement); this seems intuitively correct. Darrell. Roger Bishop Jones wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: peter turland > To: > Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2001 10:43 PM > Subject: Meme or mneme > > > | Stunned by my verbal temeriity, I consulted a dictionary, the 'Chambers > | Consise' to be precise, to my chagrin I discovered that the definition > | allowed and I quote, 'a word formed, or based on, the intitial letters or > | syllables of other words, such as radar'. > > Surely the dictionary definition is too broad. > One would expect an acronym to be a name. > [the same dictionary expects a pseudonym to be > a name] > > 'Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain' doesn't satisfy > the dictionary definition (whether or not an acronym > is required to be a name), since it is not even a word. > > Roger Jones > > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. > Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html > > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From scott.campbell@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK Mon Aug 13 15:46:03 2001 From: scott.campbell@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK (Scott Campbell) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:46:03 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] August 2001 Skeptics in the Pub meet Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20010813154522.031401f0@gwimap.nottingham.ac.uk> Skeptics in the Pub August 2001 DATE - Thursday, August 16th, 2001 TIME - 19:30 PLACE- Upstairs in the Florence Nightingale pub, 199 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1, U.K. (On the junction with York Road, on the roundabout, near Waterloo station.) Entry fee is =A32. Detailed directions and a map of how to get to the pub can be found at=20 . This month's speaker is Scott Wood. Scott is a writer of fiction (which so= =20 has eluded publication so far) and non-fiction (some of which has sneaked=20 thorough). He has had reviews published in The Fortean Times and the=20 Fortean Times Web Site. He lives in South East London and, while being a=20 long term attendee of Skeptics in the Pub, is of a more Fortean state of=20 mind. As the 16th of August is one of the possible dates of Charles Fort's= =20 birthday, he requests this month's meeting is known as Un-Skeptics in the= Pub. His title is "Sex and Dogs and UFO's : A Meze of Strange Beliefs and=20 Outsider Ideas". Scott says: "Tuck in to a table full of treats from the disreputable=20 peripheries of philosophy, medicine, science and religion. This talk is to= =20 highlight strange ideas and ponder how people get to be so out on the=20 fringe. Find out: Which marsupial is a survivor from the Lost Continent of= =20 Lemuria. What the 'Crowbar method' is and how it causes 'Convergence of the= =20 eyebrows'. Who was the 'Supreme Grand Master of the Knight Templar of the=20 Inner Sanctum of the Holy Order of the Spiritual Hierarchy of the Earth'.=20 Which household pet is carcinogenic. How vampires in the Midlands meet up,= =20 and much, much more." This talk will also feature the first public appearance of The Two=20 Dimensional, 100% Portable Kooks Gallery. A welcome is extended to anyone interested in, or skeptical about,=20 conspiracy theories, the paranormal, alternative medicine, psychic powers,= =20 pseudo-science, UFOs, alien abductions, creationism, Fortean phenomena,=20 cult religions, water-divining, lost civilisations, etc. The evening will be an informal one, in a relaxed and friendly pub=20 atmosphere. Real ales and food available. Non-skeptics are welcome and you= =20 can turn up at any time during the night. Planned meeting dates to September are as follows: Thursday September 20: Dr Charles Paxton (Univ of St Andrews). Topic: Sea Monsters? Science and unknown giant aquatic animals. Thanks to CSICOP/The Skeptical Inquirer, The Skeptic and ASKE for their=20 support. E-mail me for more information, or to recommend a speaker (perhaps= yourself). Scott Campbell . __________________________________ Dr Scott Campbell, Department of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, U.K. and: Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society (IGBiS), University of Nottingham. (44 + 115) 8466 964 __________________________________ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From dermot.moran@UCD.IE Mon Aug 13 16:27:00 2001 From: dermot.moran@UCD.IE (Dermot Moran) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:27:00 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Re: International Journal of Philosophical Studies Message-ID: <009101c1240c$6561cbc0$792a2b89@ucd.ie> The International Journal of Philosophical Studies is now published quarterly. Here are the contents of the latest issue: Contents Volume 9 Number 2 (2001) Articles: 1.Carleton Christensen ( University of Sydney, Australia ) Escape From Twin Earth - Putman's 'Logic' of Natural Kind Terms 2.Ingrid Scheibler ( Boston College, USA ) Art as Festival in Heidegger and Gadamer 3.Roland Breeur ( Katholieke Universiteit Lueven, Belgium ) Bergson's and Sartre's Account of the Self in Relation to the Transcendental Ego 4.Mark Thomas Walker ( University of Birmingham, UK ), Against One Form of Judgement-Determinism Critical Notices : 1.On Self-Knowledge and Grasping the Content of One's Own Thoughts Asa Maria Wikforss ( Stockholm University, Sweden) 2.The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy G.L Huxley ( Trinity College, Dublin) Book Reviews: 1. Simon Blackburn, Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy - James R.O'Shea 2. Michael E. Bratman, Faces of Intention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency - Neil Roughley 3. Bill Brewer, Perception and Reason - Philip Percival 4.James McGilvray, Chomsky: Language, Mind and Politics Neil Smith, Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals Feargal Murphy 5. Stephen Mumford, Dispositions - Alice Drewery 6. John G. Slater ( ed.), Last Philosophical Testament : The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, volume 11, 1943-1968 - Stephen Mumford Professor Dermot Moran, Editor, International Journal of Philosophical Studies http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/09672559.html Philosophy Department, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland Tel: (+353) - (1) - 716 8123 (direct) Tel: (+353)- (1) - 716 8186 (secretary) Fax: (+353) - 1 - 269 3469 Email: dermot.moran@ucd.ie www.ucd.ie/~philosop Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From rbjones@RBJONES.COM Mon Aug 13 17:02:42 2001 From: rbjones@RBJONES.COM (Roger Bishop Jones) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:02:42 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Meme or mneme References: <01081222432300.01722@localhost.localdomain> <024501c123c1$5b9f2060$109d68d5@j> <3B778BBA.1030207@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <007101c12411$afc2aea0$4f9f68d5@j> In response to Darrell Patrick Rowbottom Monday, August 13, 2001 9:11 AM | Nor does 'Naughty Elephants Squirt Water'! | | I would say that the definition to which you refer is, rather, too | *narrow*. I would propose: a mnemonic is a device that aids the memory. | | Thus, Fleming's left hand rule also qualifies as a mnemonic, but not | just in virtue of the letters FCM (First -> Field, seCond -> Current, | thuMb -> Movement); this seems intuitively correct. Your message (which appears to be responding to mine) sounds as if it is discussing the meaning of the term "mnemonic". However, my message was concerned with the meaning of the word "acronym", so I sense that we are talking at cross purposes. Roger Jones Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From president@nagps.org Mon Aug 13 09:16:23 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 08:16:23 GMT Subject: [Philnet] When Is Post-Tenure Review Not Post-Tenure Review? Message-ID: <200108130816.IAA11885@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org From the issue dated August 17, 2001 When Is Post-Tenure Review Not Post-Tenure Review? By ANA MARIE COX Drexel University has a system of post-tenure review that professors there love. They like it, they say, because the system was crafted by the faculty itself, rather than imposed from above, and because it gives professors the tools -- such as personal attention and travel to conferences -- to meet professional goals. It's also voluntary, and completion of the three-year process, whose terms are tailored to each faculty member's aspirations, nets participants a raise in base pay. "I know I sound overly positive," says Barbara G. Hornum, Drexel's associate provost for academic affairs, "but we really haven't had any negative experiences." The university's policy may also be popular because of what it does not do: require participation, enforce uniform standards, or punish anyone for poor performance. In fact, it's not really post-tenure review at all, suggests Richard Chait, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education. "What happens to nonvolunteers, to laggards?" he says. "What about the end-user, the student?" Debates about what post-tenure review means and even whether it should exist have cooled somewhat since the heated battles of the late 90's, when the adoption of post-tenure-review policies at several major public-university systems forced administrators and professors at institutions of all types to consider how the trend might affect them. Since then, colleges have adopted a range of policies. Some focus on giving faculty members the resources to meet individual goals; others that provide mechanisms to judge whether professors have met certain goals -- and can lead to dismissal if they have not. Drexel's is "a very unusual model," admits Ms. Hornum. So unusual, she says, that "I feel uncomfortable even calling it post-tenure review. So we call it post-tenure renewal." All this begs the question: How lenient can a policy of post-tenure review be before it is no longer post-tenure review? "It does have the same goal as post-tenure review," insists Hazem Diab Maragah, an associate professor of decision sciences and one of the first participants in the program. "It's a way to make senior faculty more invested in their universities. The only question is, How are you going to do it?" There is no doubt that Ms. Hornum and the university's Faculty Development Committee designed the policy "in response to the national dialogue" about post-tenure review, says Brian Louis Wagner, an associate professor of visual arts and a member of the committee. Ms. Hornum approached the panel in 1997, at the behest of the provost, to suss out their feelings on the issue. More than anything, the committee felt it wanted to avoid the kind of punitive, top-down policies it saw being instituted at places like the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where a policy instigated by the administration makes reviews mandatory and can ultimately lead to disciplinary action or even dismissal. "We decided to take action before our board caught up with the national trend," says Mr. Wagner. By acting first, he says, they ensured that the policy wouldn't be a threat to tenure. Drexel's experiment also stemmed from the pragmatic concerns that have motivated other efforts at post-tenure review. "Demographically, we have a graying faculty, so we anticipate massive retirements," says Mr. Wagner. "And a lot people are just gliding until they get there." Ms. Hornum is more diplomatic. "There was a concern that perhaps senior faculty were switching gears," she says. "Maybe people felt burned out." At the urging of Drexel's president, Constantine Papadakis, the committee focused the policy on dealing with issues of teaching and learning rather than, say, promoting research. As it has taken shape, the pilot program is aimed squarely at senior faculty members, each of whom is teamed with a sponsor, usually a department head. Although the emphasis is on the faculty member's professional development, both the professor and the sponsor set goals for themselves, participate in the program's various activities (including going to national conferences on teaching), and are held accountable for the goals being met. And, of course, says Mr. Maragah, "It's not called 'post-tenure review,'" a term that, he says, "is kind of scary." Herman E. Gollwitzer and Nira Herrmann, both of the mathematics department, exemplify the possibilities of post-tenure renewal, says Ms. Hornum. It wasn't exactly that Mr. Gollwitzer, the professor half of the pair, was bored before entering the program. "I have tended to be upbeat over the years," he says, "but there weren't any opportunities in the department to review and reflect" on how his goals had changed since he earned tenure. Working with Ms. Herrmann, the department head, gave Mr. Gollwitzer the opportunity to think about these things and the support to carry out the strategy that emerged. The pair focused on using technology in teaching, and on improving Mr. Gollwitzer's teaching in general. Faced with the challenge of measuring just how much his teaching improved, Mr. Gollwitzer developed syllabuses that incorporated into the classes themselves opportunities for student feedback. Morning coffee with Ms. Herrmann, and the chance to talk about such issues as curriculum and student assessment, became a part of his daily routine. Ms. Herrmann says that Mr. Gollwitzer has now taken on increasing responsibilities within his department, and has been instrumental in changing the way his colleagues approach teaching. Just as important, says Ms. Herrmann, "he generated excitement for doing this, because it came from a peer. If it had just come from me, it would have been top-down" and, she implies, easier to ignore. The program has "really been a rejuvenator," says Mr. Gollwitzer. "It has reminded us that certain things you thought didn't count -- like curriculum design, energy level -- really do count." Christine Licata, a senior associate of the American Association for Higher Education and an associate dean at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is monitoring the Drexel program, along with those at 33 other institutions that also received A.A.H.E. mini-grants to experiment with post-tenure review. Ms. Licata says that she was surprised by the wholeheartedness of the faculty's embrace of the Drexel program. "I didn't detect any cracks in the armor," she says. "I was thinking 'This can't be,' but there it is, it really is successful." The Drexel program's emphasis on encouraging professional growth and its popularity go hand in hand, says Ms. Licata: "You are almost assured that if you have a developmental motivation, you will get development, and it will be nonthreatening." Public institutions, she says, are beholden to elected officials, who tend to demand that reviews have real consequences -- like the possibility of termination. Private colleges, free from legislators' gaze, usually wind up with developmental programs. Ms. Licata points to King's College in Pennsylvania and St. Michael's College in Vermont as private institutions with post-tenure-review programs akin to Drexel's. "Some publics that have instituted post-tenure review have tried to have a developmental approach," she says, "but not to the degree that Drexel has." Still, says Ms. Licata, "very, very few are purely summative." She adds, "As you can imagine, they don't fly with faculty." Drexel's experiment, she says, "has been very successful because it was a grass-roots approach to faculty renewal. And it wasn't called post-tenure review." Professors at Drexel allow that their renewal program is very different from review policies they have seen elsewhere. But that's not the point, they say. The point is that they've accomplished what proponents of post-tenure review say are its goals: Senior faculty members are more involved, and department heads have a set of criteria to judge senior faculty by, albeit criteria that are attuned to a specific faculty member. Michel Vallieres, the head of the physics department and a program participant, goes a step further: Renewal is better than review. "Renewal addresses needs of students in a much better way -- picking out a bad apple and punishing him takes up many resources and doesn't help any students," he says, "while teaching a few teachers how to teach better will affect many, many students." Mr. Chait of Harvard says that contrary to the contention of Drexel professors, their policy does not necessarily meet the same goals as post-tenure review. Chief among its flaws, he says, is that it doesn't look at an entire faculty. He asks, Does a voluntary program mean that those who need it the most are the least likely to enroll? Ms. Hornum admits that that's a distinct possibility. "Fortunately, I don't have to make decisions on how to deal with that. But I think it's rare in general. I have been approached by department heads who have faculty not contributing anything in any area, but this has to be voluntary. You can't just take someone and say, 'Do this.'" Drexel's program, she says "excites faculty, and that's very different from an administrator coming in and saying, 'You're going to do this and it's going to make you happy or else.'" So, the participants in Drexel's renewal program are happy. And, Mr. Chait acknowledges, that's one way to judge whether the pilot program is a successful instance of post-tenure review. "From a traditional academic viewpoint," he jokes, "any policy that pleases faculty is a good policy." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i49/49a00801.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From rweibl@aaas.org Mon Aug 13 11:27:01 2001 From: rweibl@aaas.org (Richard Weibl) Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:27:01 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Postdoc Network Editor Sought Message-ID: <200108131027.KAA12918@nagps.nagps.org> Friends and Colleagues, This is an excellent opportunity for someone with solid writing skills and a holistic view on science, and professional development. Please pass this message along as you feel is appropriate. Thank you, Ric =======================Forwarded Message======================= You already know Science's Next Wave as a vibrant, weekly on-line publication that covers scientific training, career development, and the science job market. Reader interest has sustained us and allowed us to grow. As we grow, we change, and that change is creating new opportunities for writers and editors interested in professional development issues and career opportunities for scientists. Most recently, an internal reorganization has allowed us to reopen a position for an individual interested in issues faced by postdoctoral scientists. Launched in November 2000, the Postdoc Network is a section of the Next Wave designed to help postdocs, faculty, and administrators share solutions to postdoc needs through online content, outreach events, and electronic communication (i.e., a Listserv and forum discussions). 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Email a cover letter that includes a proposed vision statement for the Postdoc Network, a resume, and a non-technical writing sample to Ric Weibl at rweibl@aaas.org Review of applications will begin August 27, 2001. EOE. Nonsmoking work environment. ============================================================= Richard A. Weibl Editor, Science's Next Wave 1200 New York Avenue NW Washington DC 20005 USA (202) 312-6342 (202) 371-9227 fax rweibl@aaas.org www.nextwave.org From register@washingtonpost.com Tue Aug 14 06:45:49 2001 From: register@washingtonpost.com (register@washingtonpost.com) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 05:45:49 GMT Subject: [Philnet] A washingtonpost.com article from president@nagps.org Message-ID: <200108140545.FAA20794@nagps.nagps.org> You have been sent this message from president@nagps.org as a courtesy of the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com). Human Diversity and International Folks- This article might be of interest to some as it touched on issues of race, class, and immigration among Hispanics, which I believe are the largest growing demographic group in the U.S. right now. Thoughts? Kim Suedkamp Wells NAGPS President To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6808-2001Aug13.html?referer=email Some Hispanics Live Close Together, Are Worlds Apart By Nurith C. Aizenman Slowly at first, then by the dozens they flocked to Langley Park's main intersection: baby-faced teenagers fresh from remote villages in Guatemala and El Salvador, weather-beaten veterans of street corners in Los Angeles and Miami -- all drawn by the hope of getting picked up for a landscaping or construction job. It wasn't long before residents of the working-class Prince George's County suburb were grumbling. "They're just sitting there waiting for work to come to them instead of going out and finding it. It's like they want everything handed to them," said a garage attendant who holds down two jobs to pay his mortgage. A homemaker, who lives a block from the day laborers' gathering site in front of two shopping strips at University Boulevard and New Hampshire Avenue, complained: "A lot of them are selling drugs or they're drunk. . . . When young women pass, they insult them. I worry for my daughter." Langley Park's locals, in short, have reacted like hundreds of Americans in communities where the past decade's boom in Hispanic immigration has brought a sudden influx of day laborers. Except for one detail: The day laborers' critics -- like nearly two-thirds of the community's 16,000 residents -- are themselves Hispanic immigrants. The garage attendant, Elias Martinez, came from El Salvador illegally 17 years ago and became a U.S. citizen a little more than a month ago. The homemaker, Maria Cristina Chinchilla, arrived from Guatemala less than five years ago and speaks only halting English. Her husband, who came 10 years ago, spent two years waiting for work on an area street corner before landing his current job in a vegetable warehouse. The resentment they express for the day laborers offers a window on two conflicting impulses shaping Hispanic attitudes toward immigration: an instinctive identification with newcomers and a feeling of distance, even contempt, toward those who are less integrated into American society. "It's natural for people not to want to be associated with a stigmatized population," said Harry Pachon, president of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at Claremont Graduate University, which studies Hispanic public opinion. "So the human inclination is to say, 'That guy, he's the other; I'm different.' " This tendency may help explain why nearly one in five Latinos surveyed in a 1999 Washington Post poll said immigration should be decreased, even while a majority favored immigration. A similar inclination appears to be driving the Langley Park Latinos who cheered when non-Hispanic business owners pushed the day laborers onto a temporary hiring site in a neighboring town last month; who howled when local authorities and advocates considered leasing a permanent site for the workers back in Langley Park; and who have gathered more than 200 signatures in support of a police officer who was ordered to avoid the community after day laborers complained that he was violent. Polls indicate that the more money Latinos make and the longer they have been in the United States, the less likely they are to look favorably upon new Hispanic arrivals. Certainly in Langley Park, some of the Latinos criticizing the day laborers share little in common with them. For instance, Brigitte Rutstein, a restaurant owner who fears that a few "delinquent" laborers have hurt her business, emigrated from Peru in 1964 to attend college, is a U.S. citizen and is married to an American-born economist. But many in Langley Park are just a rung up the economic ladder from the day laborers they complain about -- a fact that appears only to have widened the psychological gulf. Consider Martinez, the Salvadoran garage attendant, who lives with his wife, newborn daughter and sister-in-law in a tidy brick house filled with red, white and blue furniture and a bronze sculpture of an eagle. The decor is a coincidence, he said. The copy of American Baby magazine on his coffee table is not. "I've always said you have to adapt to the country you move to, not the other way around," he explained. That has meant straining to pick up his near-perfect English from the bosses at his first job breaking concrete at a Los Angeles construction site in the mid-1980s. It has meant giving up salsa music for the Dixie Chicks. It has meant choosing "Ally McBeal" and "The West Wing" over the latest telenovela on Univision. "The only thing I still watch on Spanish television is soccer," he noted with satisfaction. So when the man his mother-in-law has dubbed "El Americano" looks at newer arrivals from El Salvador and other Central American lands, he does not see himself. He sees everything he has worked so hard to escape. The Hispanic street vendors selling watermelons and fruit juice on the corners of his residential neighborhood provoke anxiety about his family's health. ("They're violating sanitation laws. They could start an epidemic!" he said.) The arrival of Hispanic neighbors who he said play loud music and keep cars in their yards make him fear for his property value. But Martinez is most frustrated with the day laborers. Not only do they litter and harass women, he said, "they give a bad name to Hispanics and to the community." Langley Park's day laborers hotly dispute such allegations. "What they say about us is not true. There's only one guy here who drinks a lot," Alex Mendez, a 17-year-old roofer and painter, said in Spanish one morning as he waited in one of the parking lots at University and New Hampshire. "The rest of us are here because we're looking for work." Although in May the owner declared the Langley Park lot off-limits to day laborers, Mendez and his friends said they were determined to keep gathering there. They don't have cars, and in contrast to a temporary site two miles away that was recently leased for the workers by Takoma Park and a local immigrant advocacy group, the Langley Park lot is right next to the apartment complexes where Mendez and his friends live. Martinez has little sympathy for this argument. "When we first moved here, my wife used to wake up at 5 a.m. and go out in the cold to take two buses to her job cleaning houses in Capitol Hill," he said. "When I first got to California, I would take an hour and a half bus ride to construction sites to look for work. . . . These people want to get work without making any sacrifices." Maria Cristina Chinchilla, the homemaker, and her husband, Isaias, are considerably less Americanized than Martinez. The small apartment they rent is in a complex favored by many day laborers. During a reporter's visit there, Isaias Chinchilla had to speak loudly to be heard over the salsa music on the stereo as he described the period eight years ago when he worked as a day laborer. Yet, like Martinez, Chinchilla said he feels a world apart from today's laborers. A clerk in Guatemala's defense department, he came to the United States not in search of economic opportunity but to escape a brutal civil war. He feared his association with the military would make him a target. Unable to find a steady job, he joined the crowd at the corner. The rigors of physical labor were a shock to a man accustomed to going to work in suit and tie. "The first day, I just sat and cried," he said. Rather than make him feel closer to his fellow day laborers, the experience underscored how different he was from them. "Those guys are from rural areas, a lot of them are uneducated -- they're used to this kind of life," he said. If many of Langley Park's Latino residents share concerns about newer arrivals, their views are more varied when it comes to national immigration policies such as a Bush administration plan that could legalize millions of undocumented immigrants. Martinez, for instance, worries that the initiative will be too sweeping. "I think some people should be [legalized], but there are others that shouldn't. You can't just take everybody," said Martinez, who has not yet registered a party affiliation but leans Republican. Rutstein, the restaurant owner and a Democrat, supports the Bush plan. "Hopefully, if they're legalized, a lot of these immigrants will start paying taxes," she said. Meanwhile, the Chinchillas -- who are not citizens but favor Democrats -- said an amnesty would improve their view of Republicans because it would greatly benefit the many undocumented day laborers living in their neighborhood. If their response seems surprising, it should not be, said Maria Cristina Chinchilla. She and her husband have nothing personal against the day laborers, she said. In fact, they have done their best to help the workers in their apartment complex by finding them affordable doctors and donating extra food. And they would love for local authorities to find a permanent place for the workers to gather. "Just not in our community," she added. From cperring@YAHOO.COM Wed Aug 15 01:05:49 2001 From: cperring@YAHOO.COM (Christian Perring) Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 17:05:49 -0700 Subject: [Philnet] Books for review in Metapsychology Online Review Message-ID: <20010815000549.8333.qmail@web13402.mail.yahoo.com> I am looking for prompt and careful reviewers for Metapsychology Online Review. Either Ph.D. or ABD in Philosophy is preferable. Ideally, reviews should draw connections between the subject of the book and issues in mental health and psychopathology. Guidelines at http://metapsych.topcities.com/revguide.htm Deadline: November 15, 2001 If interested, please e-mail me at METAPSYCHOLOGY@MENTALHELP.NET with * your name * e-mail address * mailing address * list of books you are interested in * an explanation of your competence to review the books * details of your ability to write for a general audience Women and Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Stories Janet Wirth-Cauchon Rutgers University Press 2001 235 pages Habits of Mind The Practice of Philosophy as education Antonio T. De Nicolas Authors Choice Press 2001 530 pages Counseling with Choice Theory The New Reality Therapy William Glasser Quill 2000 243 pages The Seven Sins of Memory How the Mind Forgets and Remembers Daniel L Schacter Houghton Mifflin 2001 272 pages Mother Millett Kate Millett Verso Books 2001 308 pages The Metaphysical Touch A Novel Sylvia Brownrigg Picador 1998 390 pages The Misunderstood Gene Michel Morange Harvard UP 2001 222 pages Enduring Creation Art, Pain, and Fortitude Nigel Spivey U California Press 2001 272 pages Hooked Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab System Lonny Savelson The New Press 2001 310 pages The View From Within First-Person Approaches to the Study of Consciousness Francisco Varela (ed) Imprint Academic 1999 314 pages Bright Splinters of the Mind A Personal Story of Research with Autistic Savants Beate Hermelin Jessica Kingsley 2001 188 pages Fact and Value Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson Edited by Alex Byrne et al MIT Press 2001 236 pages Death Attitudes and the Older Adult Theories, Concepts, and Applications Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement Adrian Tomer Brunner-Routledge 2000 292 pages Re-Creating Medicine Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine Gregory Pence Rowman & Littlefield 2000 207 pages Saving Milly Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease Morton Kondracke Public Affairs 2001 288 pages Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias Peter Ludlow, (editor) MIT Press 2001 485 pages The Scientific American Book of the Brain The Best Writing on Consciousness, IQ, … Editors of Sci Am Lyons Press 1999 340 pages Good Work When Excellence and Ethics Meet Howard Gardner et al Basic Books 2001 270 pages Excessive Appetites A Psychological View of Addictions Second edition Jim Orford Wiley 2001 400 pages On Freud's "Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego" Ethel Spector Person (editor) Analytic Press 2001 183 pages The Connection Gap Why Americans Feel So Alone Laura Pappano Rutgers University Press 2001 232 pages Fashion, Desire and Anxiety Image and Morality in the 20th Century Rebecca Arnold Rutgers University Press 2001 144 pages Recreating Motherhood Barbara Katz Rothman Rutgers University Press 1989 226 pages Religion Explained The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought Pascal Boyer Basic Books 2001 375 pages The Defective Image How Darwinism Fails to Provide an Adequate Account of the World Ben Carter University Press of America 2001 183 pages Neurons and Networks An Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience Second edition MIT Press 2001 563 pages The Gender and Consumer Culture Reader Jennifer Scanlon (ed) NYU Press 2000 397 pages Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice The Social Justice Group NYU Press 2000 389 pages Parenthood in America Under valued, underpaid, and under seige Jack Westman (ed) U Wisconsin Press 2001 300 pages Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry Peter Zacher John Benjamins 2000 340 pages Rethinking the Sociology of Mental Health Joan Busfield (editor) Blackwell 2001 182 pages Between Ourselves Second-Person issues in the study of consciousness Evan Thompson (ed) Imprint Academic 2001 314 pages Cognitive Models and Spiritual Maps J Andresen & R Forman (eds) Imprint Academic 2000 287 pages How to Solve the Mind-Body Problem Nicholas Humphrey Imprint Academic 2000 112 pages Models of the self Shaun Gallagher and Jonathan Shear (eds) Imprint Academic 1999 524 pages Reclaiming Cognition The primacy of action intention and emotion R Nunez and W Freeman (eds) Imprint Academic 1999 284 pages Evolutionary Origins of Morality Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives L Katz (ed) Imprint Academic 2000 352 pages Conscious Experience Thomas Metzinger (ed) Imprint Academic 1995 564 pages Clinical and Observational Psychoanalytic Research Roots of a Controversy Psychoanalytic Monograph 5 S Sandler et al Karnak Books 2000 163 pages Clinical Studies in Neuro-Psychoanalysis Introduction to a Depth Psychoanalysis K Kaplan-Solms and M Solms Karnac 2000 308 pages Edvard Munch Psyche, Symbol and Expression Jeffrey Howe (ed) McMullen Museum of Art 2001 173 pages + 83 plates Ethics and the Discovery of the Unconsious John Hanwell Riker SUNY Press 1997 254 pages The Madonna of the Future Essays in a Pluralistic Art World Arthur C Danto U California Press 2000 431 pages _______________________________________________ We have recently reviewed the following books -- for a full list go to http://mentalhelp.net/books/new/ The Body/Body Problem Selected Essays by Arthur Danto Review by Adrian Haddock on 10 Aug 2001. University of California Press; 1999 (ISBN: 0520212827) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0520212827 Foundations of Ethical Practice, Research, and Teaching in Psychology by Karen Strohm Kitchener Review by Heike Schmidt-Felzmann on 10 Aug 2001. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 2000 (ISBN: 0805823093) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0805823093 An Odd Kind of Fame Stories of Phineas Gage by Malcolm Macmillan Review by James R. Beebe on 8 Aug 2001. MIT Press; 2000 (ISBN: 0262133636) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0262133636 Breakdown of Will by George Ainslie Review by Rachel Cooper on 8 Aug 2001. Cambridge University Press; 2001 (ISBN: 0521596947) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0521596947 Mind in Everyday Life and Cognitive Science by Sunny Y. Auyang Review by John Collier, Ph.D. on 6 Aug 2001. MIT Press; 2001 (ISBN: 0262011816) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0262011816 In Pursuit of Happiness Better Living from Plato to Prozac by Mark Kingwell Review by Christian Perring, Ph.D. on 2 Aug 2001. Crown; 1998 (ISBN: 0609605356) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0609605356 Altered Egos How the Brain Creates the Self by Todd E. Feinberg Review by Isabel Gois on 1 Aug 2001. Oxford University Press; 2000 (ISBN: 019513625X) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=019513625X Animal Minds Beyond Cognition to Consciousness by Donald R. Griffin Review by Adriano Palma, Ph.D. on 1 Aug 2001. University of Chicago Press; 2001 (ISBN: 0226308650) http://mentalhelp.net/mhn/bookstore/db.cgi?&uid=default&view_records=1&ISBN=0226308650 Thanks, Christian Perring ===== Home Page: http://www.dowling.edu/faculty/cperring Editor of Metapsychology Online Review: http://mentalhelp.net/books/ Philosophy of Psychiatry Links: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/metapsychology/psypsylinks.html Contributing Editor to The Philosophers' Magazine: http://www.philosophers.co.uk Office Phone/Fax: (631) 244-3349 / 589-6644 Dept Philosophy, Dowling College, Oakdale, NY 11769, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 15 11:07:49 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 11:07:49 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP: TH Green and Contemporary Philosophy Message-ID: As from m.dimova-cookson@ucl.ac.uk T. H. Green and Contemporary Philosophy An Interdisciplinary Conference September 2-4, 2002 Harris Manchester College, Oxford Organising Committee: Maria Dimova-Cookson (UCL), Colin Tyler (University of Hull), Bill Mander (University of Oxford) Call for Papers and Panel Proposals Paper and panel proposals are invited in the field of T. H. Green=92s metaphysics, moral philosophy and political theory. The purpose of the conference is to stimulate a discussion about all aspects of Green=92s scholarship and its relevance and application to contemporary philosophy. Plenary papers to be delivered by Gerald Gaus (Tulane University), Peter Nicholson (University of York), Raymond Plant (University of Southampton) and John Skorupski (University of St Andrews). Other featured speakers include David Brink (UCSD), Avital Simhony (Arizona State University), Andrew Vincent (Cardiff University), Leslie Armour (Dominican College, Ottawa), Stephen Priest (University of Edinburgh), and William Sweet (St Francis Xavier University) Paper abstracts and Panel Proposals should be sent by December 15, 2001 to: Dr. Maria Dimova-Cookson Bentham Project University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Email: m.dimova-cookson@ucl.ac.uk Phone: 020 7679 3609 Fax: 020 7916 8510 *** Additional information concerning the conference, when available, will be posted on http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/Events-Seminars/Green-conference.htm Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 15 12:25:24 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:25:24 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP@ NW COnference (Washington State) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 14:33:57 -0400 From: Michelle Francl Subject: conference announcement 53RD ANNUAL NORTHWEST CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2001 Reply to philo@wsu.edu for all questions. http://libarts.wsu.edu/philo/53rd%20Annual%20NW%20Conf%20on%20Phil has further information and a registration form. 53RD ANNUAL NORTHWEST CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY October 12 & 13, 2001 Hosted by: Washington State University Department of Philosophy Pullman, WA 99164-5130 Keynote address: Robert Solomon, University of Texas "On the Passivity of the Passions." (Professor Solomon will also deliver the Annual Potter Memorial Lecture to the WSU community the preceding evening, October 11, on "Nietzsche's Fatalism"). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2001 Papers are invited in all areas of philosophy for presentation and discussion. Papers are particularly encouraged on the topic of the emotions, with the expectation of one or two special sessions being focused in that area. Papers by undergraduates are invited, in any area of philosophy, for a special student session. Commentators are also needed. Please indicate your areas of competence and any special interests on the Registration Form available at http://libarts.wsu.edu/philo/53rd%20Annual%20NW%20Conf%20on%20Phil Papers should not exceed twelve pages, double spaced (about 35 minutes reading time). Please submit: one paper copy to: Michael Neville, Department of Philosophy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-5130 AND an e-mail copy to: philo@wsu.edu (In Microsoft Word format) SCHEDULE Friday, October 12, Compton Union Building (the CUB) 12:00am First sessions 4:00pm Keynote address: Robert Solomon of the University of Texas, "On the Passivity of the Passions" 6:00pm Social hour, followed by banquet and Presidential Address by David Boersema of Pacific University, on "Moral Explanation" Alternate activities and evening entertainment arranged for undergraduates by WSU Philosophy Club Saturday, October 13, Compton Union Building (the CUB) 9:00am Morning sessions, including papers on the emotions and undergraduate papers 12:00am Lunch 1:00pm Afternoon sessions 5:00pm? Conclusion Some evening sociability will be planned for those staying over for Sunday flights. TRAVEL Pullman is served by Horizon Airlines out of Seattle. Alternatively, anyone flying into Spokane may find ground transportation to Pullman on Link Transportation. When that service is not convenient, a pick-up by the Philosophy Department can be arranged, as it can for anyone flying into Lewiston, Idaho. But the department needs to be alerted several days in advance (509-335-8611) Anyone driving to Pullman may obtain a parking permit for use on campus, covered by the conference registration fee, as well as maps and advice, at the Visitors Information Center for Washington State University. (The Center is located in a converted railroad station next to the Washington Mutual Bank in downtown Pullman, where Highway 195 from the north/west intersects Grand Avenue, the main north/south road.) Even those driving to Pullman and staying at one of the hotels listed below may wish to leave a car at the Inn and use the complementary shuttle, as finding a parking space can be difficult on Friday. Saturday parking, on the other hand, should prove to be no problem. HOUSING The Hawthorn Inn, newly built and fully equipped, is offering a conference rate of $50 per room (single or double occupancy) for those booking by September 3. That price includes a hot breakfast and shuttle service to campus. When making reservations (509-332-0928), mention the Northwest Conference on Philosophy to obtain the special rate. Two other options, a bit closer to campus but with no special rate, would be The Holiday Inn Express (509-334-4437) and The Quality Inn (509-332-0500), each of which also provides shuttle service to campus. The Philosophy Club will host student participants in their dorms or apartments if requests are made at least two weeks prior to the conference. http://libarts.wsu.edu/philo/53rd%20Annual%20NW%20Conf%20on%20Phil has further information and a registration form. Michelle M. Francl Associate Professor of Chemistry Bryn Mawr College email: mfrancl@brynmawr.edu real mail: 101 N. Merion Ave Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 phone: 610 526 5108 FAX: 610 526 5086 ------------------------------ End of BIOMED-L Digest - 2 Aug 2001 to 13 Aug 2001 (#2001-56) ************************************************************* Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 15 12:26:42 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:26:42 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] AAP (NZ) (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:33:23 +1000 From: Di Crosse To: aphil-l@coombs.anu.edu.au &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& >AUSTRALASIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHILOSOPHY (NEW ZEALAND DIVISION) >ANNUAL CONFERENCE, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND >2-7 DECEMBER 2001 > >CALL FOR PAPERS > >The conference is open to papers on all aspects of philosophy. >Papers should be >either of 40 or 20 minutes' duration. > >Offers of papers, including an abstract, should be sent to >sj.davies@auckland.ac.nz. > >******The initial deadline for submissions is September 1****** > >The conference is being organised by the Department of Philosophy at the >University of Auckland. > >For information concerning registration and accommodation, please consult the >Department's website at >http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/phi/ > > >Correspondence by e-mail is preferred. Inquiries should be directed to: >Stephen Davies, >Department of Philosophy, >The University of Auckland, >Private Bag 92019, >Auckland, NEW ZEALAND. >sj.davies@auckland.ac.nz --- Di Crosse Administrator Philosophy Program, RSSS, ANU phone: 02 6125 2341, fax 02 6125 3294 (when dialling internally, extension is 52341). Home Page:http://philrsss.anu.edu.au Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 15 13:16:30 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:16:30 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP - Graduate Philosophy Conference at UofT (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 12:24:15 -0500 From: Klaus Jahn To: philosop@louisiana.edu Apologies for cross-postings. THE LEGITIMATE STATE A Graduate Conference in Philosophy University of Toronto, May 3-5, 2002 CALL FOR PAPERS: This conference aims to reflect the diversity of interests within the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. We encourage submissions from graduate students in all areas of philosophy: analytic and continental, western and (especially) non-western. Submissions are invited on all topics, but preference will be given to papers relating to the broad theme of =91the legitimate state=92. Creative interpretation of the theme is welcomed. In keeping with this theme, some issues that might be addressed are: 1.What is the justification of state power? 2.What legitimates state coercion? 3.What norms govern relations between states? 4.How can state power be legitimized given the fact of reasonable pluralism? 5.How can we reconcile the competing demands of citizens living in multi-ethnic, poly-national states? 6.Is the language of rights the most effective way to address issues of basic justice? 7.Representation and the state 8.When is a state obliged to aid non-citizens living outside its borders? 9.What obligations do states have to the citizens that comprise it? 10.When is civil disobedience justified? Papers (no longer than 4,000 words, for 30 minutes presentation time) should be submitted by mail, in duplicate, to arrive before September 7th, 2001. They should be prepared for blind review, and should be accompanied by an abstract of 150-200 words and a cover sheet containing the author=92s name, institutional affiliation, title of paper, mailing address, e-mail addresses, and telephone number(s). To save paper, we encourage double-sided submissions. We hope to notify applicants of our decision by October 1st, 2001. Please send submissions to: Graduate Philosophy Conference, c/o Sari Kisilevsky Department of Philosophy University of Toronto 215 Huron Street, 9th Floor Toronto, ON CANADA M5S 1A1 Queries may be directed to: utgradconf@hotmail.com -- Klaus Michael Jahn Dept. of Philosophy University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada M5S 1A1 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 15 13:17:20 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:17:20 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] another book announcement Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 08:56:29 +0200 From: "Zink, Katrin" We are pleased to announce that the following volume on Harry G. Frankfurt'= s philosophy has just appeared: Monika Betzler/Barbara Guckes (eds.) Autonomes Handeln Beitraege zur Philosophie von Harry G. Frankfurt Deutsche Zeitschrift f=FCr Philosophie, Sonderband 2 Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2000, 281 S., 17 x 24 cm Gebundene Ausgabe, DM 148,-; f=FCr Abonnenten der "Deutschen Zeitschrift f= =FCr Philosophie" DM 98,- ISBN 3-05-003511-0 Dieser Sammelband vereint Beitraege, die sich mit der Philosophie von Harry G. Frankfurt auseinandersetzen; er liefert einen umfassenden =DCberblick = =FCber die Diskussion seines Werks sowohl im deutschsprachigen als auch im angloamerikanischen Raum. Dabei entzuendet sich die Kontroverse vor allem an zwei Grundthesen des amerikanischen Philosophen - zum einen, dass Freiheit nicht der Faehigkeit bedarf, anders zu handeln, und zum anderen, da=DF autonome Personen sich dadurch auszeichnen, Wuensche hoeherer Ordnung ausbilden zu koennen. Aus dem Inhalt: John Martin Fischer: Responsibility and Alternative Possibilites: The Frankfurt-Type Examples Alfred R. Mele: Responsibility and Freedom: The Challenge of Frankfurt-Styl= e Examples Barbara Guckes: Frankfurts Herausforderung an den Inkompatibilisten Gary Watson: Soft Liberatarianism and Hard Compatibilism Peter Baumann: Ueber Zwang Anna Kusser: Zwei-Stufen-Theorie und praktische Ueberlegung Ralf Stoecker: Guidance - ein Fuehrer durch Frankfurts Handlungstheorie Michael Quante: The things we do for love. Zur Weiterentwicklung von Frankfurts Analyse personaler Autonomie Barbara Merker: Der Wille - Eigenheit, Freiheit, Notwendigkeit und Autonomi= e Martina Herrmann: Freier Wille ohne Wunschkritik - Autonomie als Zustimmung zum eigenen Wuenschen Holmer Steinfath: Freiheit und Notwendigkeit. Zu einigen Motiven bei Harry Frankfurt Ruediger Bittner: "Ich kann nicht anders" Gottfried Seebass: Was heisst, sich im Wollen orientieren? R. Jay Wallace: Caring, Reflexivity, and the Structure of Volition Monika Betzler: Warum sollen wir Ziele verfolgen? Harry Frankfurt: Rationalism in Ethics Please order at your local book shop or directly at Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Rosenheimer Str. 145, D-81671 M=FCnchen, Fax 089-450 51-266 or at www.oldenbourg.de Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. 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For more information please contact mailto:helpdesk@jobs.thes.co.uk ________________________________________ From jonesey@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Thu Aug 16 13:44:15 2001 From: jonesey@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Lisa Jones) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 13:44:15 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Call for Essays Message-ID: --- Begin Forwarded Message --- ********************************************************************************* PHILOSOPHICAL WRITINGS CALL FOR ESSAYS Philosophical Writings is an international journal with no commitment to any particular school or branch of philosophy. Our remit is to provide a channel for the publication of superior work written by postgraduates and new academics. We welcome submissions from established academics, and aim to orientate such pieces for the interest of our readers by including a profile of personal influences and interests. In this manner Philosophical Writings plays a vital role in the growth and development of philosophical awareness in the next generation of philosophers. Submission guidelines and further details about the journal can be found at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/Philosophical.Writings/ Any further questions may be addresed to: M. D. Eddy Editor-in-Chief Philosophical Writings University of Durham Department of Philosophy Durham DH1 3HN UK Tel: 0191 374 7641 Fax: 0191 374 7635 Philosophical.Writings@dur.ac.uk --- End Forwarded Message --- Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Thu Aug 16 14:56:26 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:56:26 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Conference 'Dialogue and Difference' at SOAS (fwd) Message-ID: From: Arvind Mandair An International Conference: 12-13-14th September 2001, S.O.A.S. University of London Organisers: Cosimo Zene, Arvind-pal S. Mandair. Michael Richardson Dialogue has been a recurrent theme in the history of European ideas, from the Socratic dialogue, often said to be the foundation of the Western philosophical tradition of debate, to high profile political summits. Inherent within this history is the assumption, as the recent British Telecom slogan has it, that it is 'good to talk'. In organising this conference, however, we intend to stress the ambiguity of 'dialogue' and to explore its equivocal character. While religious and political leaders often invoke 'dialogue' as a sign of 'good will', representing a disposition to openness and democracy, it may just as often be but the wrapping upon manipulation or deceit. Dialogue, importantly, was called upon in precisely such a manner during the spread of Western colonialism, and, even in the light of such knowledge, is uttered as part of a Western body of theory and discourse. This hegemony of discourse and language immediately raises pressing issues and questions which will be central to the conference: How best can this problem of hegemony itself be addressed? Can post-colonial theorising provide the means by which dialogue may be 'rethought'? How might non-Western languages enter into a dialogue conducted primarily in English? How is dialogue conceptualised in non-Western cultures? Are 'indigenous' forms of dialogue, irreducible to European models, capable of evading existing power structures and opening a path to mutual understanding possible or viable; or, must cross-cultural dialogue necessarily find itself reduced to a Western model of 'movement of the self towards the other'? Can critical theory help us to 'un-say' the 'said' of a monological dialogue? Can theories from outside Europe disrupt such dominance? Is European thought able to deconstruct itself so as to welcome other ways of dialogue without once more imposing a universal model? Is, in other words, an ethical dialogue possible? The conference will focus jointly on specific instances within socio-cultural settings, and also upon the broader nature and roots of dialogue. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Thu Aug 16 14:58:24 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:58:24 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Dialogue COnference at SOAS Message-ID: I forgot to add the URL for the programme http://www.soas.ac.uk/Religions/dialogue/programme.html Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From bernreuter@POLYLOG.ORG Thu Aug 16 16:04:33 2001 From: bernreuter@POLYLOG.ORG (Bertold Bernreuter) Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:04:33 +0200 Subject: [Philnet] polylog No. 2.1 on "Social Justice in Intercultural Perspective" Message-ID: <3B7BE101.9FDD0A6E@polylog.org> [Apologies for cross-posting!] Dear colleague! Issue 2.1 of 'polylog - Forum for Intercultural Philosophizing' is now online: http://www.polylog.org polylog is an interdisciplinary scholarly e-journal for intercultural philosophy, comparative philosophy, and problems of inter- and multi-cultural phenomena. It appears in English, Spanish, and German. Content of issue 2.1: Focal theme: Social Justice in Intercultural Perspective. Voices from the South Amartya Sen (India/UK): Global Justice. Beyond International Equity Soraj Hongladarom (Thailand): Cultures and Global Justice Joseph C.W. Chan (Hong Kong): Making Sense of Confucian Justice Sungtaek Cho (Korea/USA): Selflessness: Toward a Buddhist Vision of Social Justice Enrique Dussel (Argentina/Mexico): Principios éticos y economía. Desde la perspectiva de la ética de la liberación Mogobe Ramose (South Africa): An African perspective on justice and race Abdullahi A. An-Na'im (Sudan/USA): The Synergy and Interdependence of Human Rights, Religion and Secularism Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Egipt/Netherlands): The Qur'anic Concept of Justice Luis Villoro (Mexico): "Mi experiencia es que el consenso es posible" (Interview mit Bertold Bernreuter) Additional contributions: Bo Mou (China/USA): Becoming-Being Complementarity: An Account of the Yin-Yang Metaphysical Vision of the Yijing Miguel Gamboa (Colombia/Austria): "Agonismo" y deliberación. Consideraciones sobre el artículo de Chantal Mouffe 'Wittgenstein, Political Theory and Democracy' Niels Weidtmann (Germany): Kann Schriftlichkeit fehlen? Afrikanische Weisheitslehren im interkulturellen Dialog Eduardo Galeano (Uruguay): Una marcha universal Also in this issue are reviews, bibliographical information, reports of conferences, and presentations of intercultural projects. Themes in focus of the upcoming issues: No. 2.2 (December 2001) Sources of knowledge in philosophy. On the relation between philosophy and religion No. 3.1 (June 2002) Social Justice in Intercultural Perspective. Responses from the North Suggestions, critique, and, of course, contributions are most welcome. For more information for authors and possibilities for collaboration see: http://www.polylog.org/prof/index-en.htm Further parts of the polylog project: Discussion forum: http://www.polylog.org/for/index-en.htm Event announcements: http://www.polylog.org/agd/cal.htm Web directory: http://www.polylog.org/serv/index-en.htm Yours sincerly, Bertold Bernreuter and the polylog-team ________________________ polylog editor@polylog.org http://www.polylog.org ________________________ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Fri Aug 17 20:28:52 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 20:28:52 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] phil/psychiatry meeting, Stirling, 19th September (fwd) Message-ID: From: Matthew Elton To: scotsphil@lists.ed.ac.uk Philosophy and Psychiatry University of Stirling Wednesday 19th September 2001 10.00 a.m. =AD 4.30pm Room A5/A7 Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling Scottish Division of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (Philosophy Special Interest Group) and Scots Philosophical Club AM How can minds be sick? Prof. Eric Matthews, University of Aberdeen Commentary Dr Allan Beveridge, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline PM - The assessment of (in)capacity Dr David Findlay, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital Commentary Speaker to be confirmed Cost: =A320 (includes coffee and lunch) or =A315 for full-time postgraduate students Registration is in advance (by 14th September at the latest). Please send cheque, payable to =8CThe University of Stirling=B9 to: Matthew Elton Dept. Philosophy University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA Further information from Matthew Elton (email me3@stir.ac.uk) or Jacqueline Atkinson (email j.m.atkinson@clinmed.gla.ac.uk CPD credit applied for. Please pass details to those you think might be interested. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From missu000@MAIL.UNI-MAINZ.DE Sat Aug 18 20:43:11 2001 From: missu000@MAIL.UNI-MAINZ.DE (Ulrich Missberger) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:43:11 +0200 Subject: [Philnet] epistemology of cognitive science References: <3B658E4B.1C7996B5@mail.uni-mainz.de> Message-ID: <3B7EC54F.9C33BF43@mail.uni-mainz.de> Dear subscribers, three weeks ago I broadcasted a question about classics or current works in epistemology of cognitive science to the list. Until now I have got two responses. As I promised, I have compiled the following short summary for the benefit of the whole list: -Margaret Boden (ed.): The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. Oxford. 1990. useful for some classics. In addition to Turing and Searle, there are papers by Marr, Newell, and McDermott of great value. -Andy Clark's MINDWARE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE (OUP, 2001). is useful as a textbook. ------------ Other classics good for teaching are: -Jack Copeland, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTION (Blackwell, 1993) -Tim Crane, THE MECHANICAL MIND (Penguin, 1995) ------------- Research books which explicitly address the tough epistemological issues: -Barbara von Eckardt, WHAT IS COGNITIVE SCIENCE? (MIT, 1993) -Valerie Hardcastle, HOW TO BUILD A THEORY IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (SUNY Press, 1996). ------------- John Sutton presents a rich set of links and websites on philosophy of cognitive science at: http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/CogSciLinks.html =20 Best regards, =20 Ulrich Missberger=20 ************************************* Ulrich Missberger (University of Mainz / Germany) email: missu000@mail.uni-mainz.de ************************************* --=20 Mit freundlichem Gru=DF Ulrich Missberger ************************************* Ulrich Missberger (Universit=E4t Mainz) Wallaustr. 35 D - 55118 Mainz Tel. & Fax: (+49) 6131/679478 E-Mail: missu000@mail.uni-mainz.de ************************************* Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From res07lok@VERIZON.NET Sat Aug 18 23:42:15 2001 From: res07lok@VERIZON.NET (Steven Ravett Brown) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 17:42:15 -0500 Subject: [Philnet] Re: epistemology of cognitive science In-Reply-To: <3B7EC54F.9C33BF43@mail.uni-mainz.de> Message-ID: Ulrich Missberger8/18/01 2:43 PM > Dear subscribers, > > three weeks ago I broadcasted a question about classics or current works > in epistemology of cognitive > science to the list. > Until now I have got two responses. > As I promised, I have compiled the following short summary for the > benefit of the whole list: > > -Margaret Boden (ed.): The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence. > Oxford. > 1990. > useful for some classics. In addition to Turing and Searle, there are > papers > by Marr, Newell, and McDermott of great value. > > -Andy Clark's MINDWARE: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF COGNITIVE > SCIENCE (OUP, 2001). > is useful as a textbook. > ------------ > Other classics good for teaching are: > -Jack Copeland, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A PHILOSOPHICAL INTRODUCTION > (Blackwell, 1993) > -Tim Crane, THE MECHANICAL MIND (Penguin, 1995) > ------------- > Research books which explicitly address the tough epistemological > issues: > -Barbara von Eckardt, WHAT IS COGNITIVE SCIENCE? (MIT, 1993) > -Valerie Hardcastle, HOW TO BUILD A THEORY IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE (SUNY > Press, 1996). > ------------- > John Sutton presents a rich set of links and websites on philosophy of > cognitive science at: > http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/CogSciLinks.html > Well, I'd recommend Goldman, A. I. E. (1995). Readings in philosophy and cognitive science. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Goldman, A. I. (1986). Epistemology and cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Fodor, J. A. (1975). The language of thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. and what about the Churchlands, Dennett, etc.? Steven Ravett Brown srbrown@ravett.com Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From boisvert@phil.ufl.edu Mon Aug 20 11:56:45 2001 From: boisvert@phil.ufl.edu (Daniel Boisvert) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 06:56:45 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] [gradconference] September 2001.htm Message-ID: <0.900007741.499746470-212058698-998305162@topica.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment philgrad: September 2001Because of the large number of submission deadlines early in September, we thought it best to send this Newsletter out earlier than usual. Please forward this message to any graduate student you think may be interested in the following conferences. Calendar Administration Team ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Welcome to the Graduate Student Philosophy Conference Calendar 2001-2002 This page is maintained by the Graduate Student Philosophy Society of the University of Florida. Since we strive to keep this calendar up-to-date and as useful a resource as possible for graduate students and conference coordinators, we welcome any comments and suggestions for improving the calendar. Please email all comments, suggestions and inquiries to the calendar administrator. Join our Mailing List! To receive a summary of the submission deadlines and conference information for the upcoming month, simply send a blank email message to gradconference-subscribe@topica.com. All mailing list messages will be sent in HTML format only. 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Publications of the Institute include books in applied aesthetics (the IIAA series) and the IO Internet Magazine of Applied Aesthetics. The address is: http://www.lpt.fi/io/ Thank you for your interest. Konsta Korhonen ( konsta.korhonen@lpt.fi ) Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From James.South@MARQUETTE.EDU Mon Aug 20 17:12:58 2001 From: James.South@MARQUETTE.EDU (James B. South) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:12:58 -0500 Subject: [Philnet] Call for Papers Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS The Department of Philosophy, Marquette University and Marquette University Press are sponsoring a session at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (2-5 May 2002). The topic is: Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation Papers on any topic concerning Medieval Philosophy and translation broadly construed are welcome. Some possible topics: a) Transmission of philosophical terminology from Greek, Arabic and Hebrew into Latin, or Greek into Arabic, or Arabic into Hebrew. b) Philosophical issues and problems occasioned by medieval and modern translations. c) Presentations regarding projects of translation into modern European languages. d) Philosophical doctrines transmitted and disputes occasioned by medieval translations. Send abstracts to the session organizer: Dr. James B. South Dept. of Philosophy Coughlin Hall 132 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 Fax: (414) 288-3010 E-mail: james.south@marquette.edu Deadline for submissions of abstracts is September 15, 2001. From president@nagps.org Tue Aug 21 08:08:40 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:08:40 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Study Analyzes Impact of Parenthood on Scholarly Productivity of Sociologists Message-ID: <200108210708.HAA12433@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org Tuesday, August 21, 2001 Study Analyzes Impact of Parenthood on Scholarly Productivity of Sociologists By D.W. MILLER The obligations of child-rearing do not directly hamper the scholarly productivity of parents embarking on academic careers in sociology, according to research released here Monday at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. But graduate students with children, particularly women, are less likely to enjoy the professional opportunities crucial to publishing research and landing tenure-track jobs. "Moms come into graduate school with a different status, and that may lead to differential treatment. That difference may show up in terms of the resources that would lead to productivity, such as research assistantships, such as mentoring, such as faculty help in getting published," said Roberta M. Spalter-Roth, the association's director of research and a coauthor of the study. Previous research has established that women entering academic disciplines, including sociology, have been less likely than men to publish scholarly articles and books, a crucial part of career advancement, and have been less likely to obtain tenure-track positions. Scholars who have studied this phenomenon have suggested two explanations. Female academics may have to shoulder more of the time-consuming obligations of marriage and family than married men in academe. Alternatively, women in general may enjoy fewer of the professional resources helpful to career advancement. Female graduate students generally attend universities with less prestige and smaller research budgets, and are less likely to garner research fellowships and develop relationships with academic mentors, who could help them get their research published. Ms. Spalter-Roth and Stacey Merola, her coauthor and a colleague at the association, suggest that those explanations are intertwined. Parenthood per se has not hampered the productivity of graduate students, but parenthood is associated with some deficit in the opportunities that lead to publication, they conclude. The researchers surveyed a cohort of 435 sociology graduate students who received their Ph.D.'s in the 12 months ending August 31, 1997. Roughly a third of the men and women were parents during graduate school; 3 in 10 of the mothers in the study were unmarried. The scholars found significant gaps in the resources available to parents starting careers in sociology. Only 55 percent of mothers in the sample received research assistantships during graduate school, for example, compared with 69 percent of childless women and 72 percent of childless men. In some instances, the professional disadvantages of female scholars seem to relate more to their sex than to their parental status. For example, about 45 percent of both childless women and mothers in the survey received faculty help in publishing in scholarly journals. By contrast, 54 percent of fathers and 62 percent of childless men received such assistance. Similarly, disparities in the publishing record between men and women did not seem strongly linked to parental status. Whereas one-fifth of mothers and about one-quarter of childless women had published two or more articles in peer-reviewed journals by the summer of 1997, about one-third of fathers and about 40 percent of childless men had done so. The most productive doctoral students were those who received faculty help in getting published and attended prestigious graduate institutions -- both factors that worked against female students with children. When the researchers accounted for disparities in the prestige and resources of the sociologists' graduate schools, there was very little difference between men and women with children and women without. All else being equal, however, childless men were still more likely to have published two or more articles as graduate students than the other groups. "Perhaps it is a question of more time, fewer responsibilities, more motivation, different status expectations, or differential treatment during undergraduate school that explains these differences," the researchers wrote. The result of these disparities is that women with children while in graduate school were less likely than childless men to have landed a tenure-track job right out of graduate school -- about 53 percent versus 65 percent. By this year, three to four years after receiving their Ph.D.'s, the two groups had been equally successful -- about 76 percent. But Ms. Spalter-Roth cautioned against interpreting that finding with optimism. It may be, she said, that the childless men are getting jobs at more-prestigious institutions and producing more scholarship as assistant professors. Until she conducts more research, she cannot know for sure. "For me, the point of the research is that moms can be more productive, if they get resources," said Ms. Spalter-Roth. "The message is that you have to fight for resources, you have to demand resources. This is not a bad time to do it. It's a fairly good job market." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/08/2001082102n.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From dorisdirks00_@hotmail.com Tue Aug 21 13:10:18 2001 From: dorisdirks00_@hotmail.com (Doris Dirks) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:10:18 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Fwd: NAFSA.news Vol. 6, No. 31a Extra Message-ID: <200108211210.MAA07527@nagps.nagps.org> The latest on CIPRIS/SEVIS. Doris ISCC Chair >From: "NAFSA.news" >To: NAFSANEWS@LISTS.NAFSA.ORG >Subject: NAFSA.news Vol. 6, No. 31a Extra >Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 14:39:03 -0400 > >********************** >NAFSA.news Extra >********************** > >Vol. 6, No. 31a >August 21, 2001 > >ACTION ALERT > >**CIPRIS Repeal Phase II: Institutional Letter Campaign; Have Your >Institution Sign on Today** > >*Background* >By now, we hope that you have sent a letter to your representative in >Congress asking him/her to cosponsor the House bill that calls for the >repeal of the CIPRIS/SEVIS program. If you haven't yet done so, we urge you >to take a moment to write a letter (see http://www.nafsa.org, Public >Policy, >Take Action.) > >*New Action* >Now, we need to focus on the second phase of our campaign to repeal >CIPRIS--to demonstrate to members of Congress strong support by higher >education institutions for CIPRIS repeal. Please have your institution sign >on to a letter of support to Rep. 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NAFSA accepts no legal responsibility >for its accuracy. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 22 06:39:41 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 06:39:41 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Call for Papers (fwd) Message-ID: From: James B. South To: SOPHIA@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK CALL FOR PAPERS The Department of Philosophy, Marquette University and Marquette University Press are sponsoring a session at the 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan (2-5 May 2002). The topic is: Medieval Philosophical Texts in Translation Papers on any topic concerning Medieval Philosophy and translation broadly construed are welcome. Some possible topics: a) Transmission of philosophical terminology from Greek, Arabic and Hebrew into Latin, or Greek into Arabic, or Arabic into Hebrew. b) Philosophical issues and problems occasioned by medieval and modern translations. c) Presentations regarding projects of translation into modern European languages. d) Philosophical doctrines transmitted and disputes occasioned by medieval translations. Send abstracts to the session organizer: Dr. James B. South Dept. of Philosophy Coughlin Hall 132 Marquette University Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 Fax: (414) 288-3010 E-mail: james.south@marquette.edu Deadline for submissions of abstracts is September 15, 2001. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 22 19:00:21 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:00:21 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP: "Things" conference announcement (fwd) Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 2001 10:35:09 EDT From: Monika.C.Otter@Dartmouth.EDU To: MDVLPHIL@yahoogroups.com * Cross-posted on Ansax, Chaucer, mediev-l, medieval religion, medfem, medgay, medtextl lists. Feel free to post in other appropriate forums.* THINGS IN GENERAL: OBJECTS, FACTS, AND MATERIALITY IN MEDIEVAL CULTURE http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/NEMC2001.html Please join us at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, on Oct. 13-14, for this year's New England Medieval Conference. Panels are titled: *Theories of Thingness, Medieval and Modern *Things as Signs and Signs as Things: Of Diverse Arts *Counting, measuring, ordering, organizing: The rationality of things * The Social Life of Things, I: Personal Possessions and Wills * The Social Life of Things, II: Objects of Devotion The speakers (in alphabetical order): George Dameron, Stephen Harris, Amy Hollywood, Martha Howell, Joel Kaye, Sharon Kinoshita, Thomas Forrest Kelly, Andrew Morris, Adrian Randolph, Jeffrey Rider, Sarah Stanbury, and Angela Jane Weisl. For the full program and registration information, please visit http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/NEMC2001.html OR personalweb.smcvt.edu/nemc Keep in mind that mid-October is a very nice time to visit New Hampshire. For any further questions, e-mail me (Monika.Otter@Dartmouth.edu) or Walter.Simons@Dartmouth.edu. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. 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For more information please contact mailto:helpdesk@jobs.thes.co.uk ________________________________________ From president@nagps.org Wed Aug 22 14:10:11 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:10:11 GMT Subject: [Philnet] U. of Arizona Employees Discuss Joint Union for Faculty Members, TA's, and Staff Message-ID: <200108221310.NAA03913@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org Wednesday, August 22, 2001 U. of Arizona Employees Discuss Joint Union for Faculty Members, TA's, and Staff By DANA MULHAUSER Employees at the University of Arizona are attempting to create the country's first joint union for faculty members, graduate teaching assistants, and staff members. The organizers face heavy opposition from a university that will not negotiate with unions, as well as from a state Legislature that has enacted strong right-to-work laws. "It's not just faculty that are paid poorly, it's not just TA's, it's everybody," said Jeffrey A. Imig, a media specialist at the university who heads the organizing committee. "If we can unify the 20,000 people that work here, it will be the best way to put pressure on the Board of Regents." Several professors and national union organizers said they knew of no previous efforts to combine faculty and staff members and students in the same union. At several institutions, each of those three groups has unionized separately. A coalition of 15 to 25 employees at Arizona has met and distributed information for the past month. The group, which includes graduate students, professors, and staff members, seeks higher salaries, more-comprehensive benefits, and a better grievance policy for all university employees. The Board of Regents and possibly legislators would have to take action before a union could bargain collectively with the university. A statute in the policy manual enacted by the board prohibits the university from negotiating or conferring with unions. "The statute can be changed," said Danika M. Brown, a doctoral student and a cofounder of a campus coalition to unionize graduate students. "It's not written in stone." The university counters that it cannot negotiate with unions without approval from the Legislature. A university spokesman also said the unionization efforts, led by the American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees, lack support from workers at Arizona. "AFSCME comes on campus every year or two and sets up a table," said Vernon E. Lamplot, the spokesman. "I'm surprised it's attracted anybody's attention." Arizona has some of the country's toughest laws against unionization, according to Stephanie S. Baxter, a lawyer for the American Federation of Teachers. Few state workers in any sector have unions. While no Arizona public college has a union, at least one, Pima Community College, has less-formal negotiating units. Pima has "employee group associations" that confer with the institution and are affiliated with national unions. Ms. Brown said that she would welcome such an arrangement as a first step toward unionization, but the Board of Regents prohibits it. University of Arizona officials have met informally with Ms. Brown and some of her fellow graduate students over the past several years to discuss medical insurance, tuition waivers, and teaching loads. The meetings have produced positive results, according to both sides. Mr. Lamplot said that the progress on graduate-student concerns is an indication that union pressure is not necessary to force the university to act. Ms. Brown, on the other hand, sees her success as an indication that the university would benefit from unionization. "It's because of our moving as an organized group that they've recognized these issues that need to be changed." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/08/2001082203n.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From nivanova@SPNET.NET Thu Aug 23 08:46:46 2001 From: nivanova@SPNET.NET (Nevena) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 10:46:46 +0300 Subject: [Philnet] Inquiry for Materials on Japanese Cyberculture Message-ID: <000901c12ba7$c3469480$1020a9d5@d6v5k5> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi dear listers. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From s.sandford@MDX.AC.UK Thu Aug 23 12:45:45 2001 From: s.sandford@MDX.AC.UK (STELLA SANDFORD) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:45:45 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Research Studentships in Philosophy Message-ID: MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Part-time Research Studentships in Philosophy Funding opportunities for Part-time MPhil/PhD The School of Humanities and Cultural Studies is offering three Part-time Research Studentships in Philosophy. Two of the studentships are in the area of Modern European Philosophy; the third may be held in any area of philosophy, subject to the availability of a suitable supervisor. The awards are granted for tuition fees at the EU rate of =A31400 and an annual study expenses grant of =A3350. They will be tenable for up to three years in the first instance and, conditions permitting, may be renewable for a further two years. Studentships in the area of Modern European Philosophy will be held in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, which offers MA programmes in Modern European Philosophy and Aesthetics & Art Theory and runs regular research events. The research interests of the staff team offering supervision in Modern European Philosophy are: Professor Alexander Garc=EDa D=FCttmann: Adorno, Derrida, aesthetics and French philosophy Professor Peter Osborne: contemporary art and cultural theory, Kant, Hegel and Frankfurt critical theory Jonathan R=E9e: history of philosophy, Kierkegaard, phenomenology Dr Stella Sandford: Levinas, Plato, philosophies of sex and gender Applicants are normally expected to have a good honours degree and a postgraduate qualification (MA or equivalent) in a relevant discipline. All applicants should submit a letter of application (citing two academic referees), a full CV, and a research proposal of three to four A4 sides, double-spaced. The proposal should: Outline the field of inquiry Identify the topic and purpose of the study Indicate the significance of the expected outcome Include a short bibliography (no more than one side A4) The closing date for applications is 21 September 2001. Interviews will be held in October and successful applicants will take up their awards prior to 30 November 2001. For informal inquiries about the studentships, please contact Prof. Peter Osborne on p.osborne@mdx.ac.uk after 3 August. Applications should be sent to a.pavlakos@mdx.ac.uk or mailed to: Anna Pavlakos, School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Middlesex University, White Hart Lane, London N17 8HR (Tel. 020 8411 5363). Peter Osborne Professor of Modern European Philosophy Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy Middlesex University White Hart Lane London N17 8HR, UK Tel./Fax (44) 020- 8362-5493 Dr Stella Sandford School of Humanities and Cultural Studies Middlesex University White Hart Lane London N17 8HR (0)20 8362 5482 S.Sandford@mdx.ac.uk Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Thu Aug 23 21:08:50 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:08:50 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP: 2002 BSET conference (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 17:42:33 +0100 From: Jimmy Lenman To: bset@maillists.keele.ac.uk Just a reminder folks that the earlier than usual deadline for next year's conference appraoches apace: CALL FOR PAPERS The BRITISH SOCIETY for ETHICAL THEORY 2002 CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF READING 25th-26th APRIL, 2002 Invited Speakers: David Copp (Bowling Green State University) Susan Hurley (University of Warwick) The conference will be run in association with the Ratio conference to be held on 27th April. Papers are invited for the annual conference at the University of Reading of the British Society for Ethical Theory. The subject area is open within metaethics and normative ethics. Papers on topics in applied ethics or the history of ethics may also be considered provided they are also of wider theoretical interest. Please supply your full name, address (electronic as well as postal if possible) and academic affiliation on a separate sheet. Papers, which should be unpublished at the time of submission, should be in English, no longer than 6500 words, readable in at most 45 minutes and in a form suitable for blind review. Please tell us if you are a postgraduate student: submissions from postgraduates are encouraged as our aim is that some such should be represented at the conference. Those who submitted papers for our previous conferences - successfully or otherwise- are welcome to submit again (though not of course the same papers!). Selected conference papers will be published in the journal "Ethical Theory and Moral Practice". Please make clear in any covering letter whether you want your paper considered for publication here as well as for the conference programme. The deadline for submissions is 15th September, 2001. Papers should be received by this date - i.e. it is NOT a postmark deadline. Papers and accompanying particulars should be sent to: Dr Brad Hooker, Philosophy Department, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AA, UK or by email attachment to: b.w.hooker@reading.ac.uk Further particulars regarding registration will be available in due course from Dr Hooker to whom any inquiries should be addressed. Conference home: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/conference.html Dr Jimmy Lenman Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK Secretary, British Society for Ethical Theory Email: j.lenman@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk Homepage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Personnel/jimmy/index.html BSET homepage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/bset.html Office 'phone + 44 (0)141 330 2591 (internally: 2591) Home 'phone +44 (0) 141 337 3884 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From president@nagps.org Fri Aug 24 07:15:30 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 06:15:30 GMT Subject: [Philnet] The Backlash Against Hiring Couples Message-ID: <200108240615.GAA16514@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org From the issue dated April 13, 2001 The Backlash Against Hiring Couples By ROBIN WILSON Barbara Harbach's 20 CD recordings on organ and harpsichord have won rave reviews from the international press, which cites her "impeccable" playing. She's written six musicals and is at work on a seventh. She edits a national journal on female composers. She's also the wife of the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, which has just created a $57,000 visiting professorship for her. Faculty members had little say in the appointment, and some in the music department are outraged. Ms. Harbach may be talented, says Robert Kase, the department's chairman, but university-wide budget reductions forced his department to cut faculty posts a few years back. He asks, "Now, all of a sudden, the university can come up with 60 grand?" Gerard T. McKenna, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication at Stevens Point, knows that music professors there are touchy about the situation. That's why he didn't force the chancellor's wife on just that department, but cobbled a joint appointment in music, technology, and media arts. Ms. Harbach reports directly to him. Her husband, Thomas F. George, sounds pained when asked about the controversy, but insists that he never demanded a position for his wife. Her credentials, he says, speak for themselves. She adds: "I have worked at this career all my life and sought to excel in all environments. I am sorry if that offends the faculty to whom you have talked." The controversy at Stevens Point raises questions that have been overlooked as the number of couples hired by universities continues to rise. "We have more requests to accommodate partners than we can possibly fill," says Sally Frost Mason, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas. Thirteen percent of the college's faculty hires last year were spouses or partners of other new hires or current faculty members. Six couples work in the molecular-biosciences department alone. Universities say couple-hiring makes good business sense, and couples call the arrangements an improvement on the torturous commuter relationships of the past. However, some professors -- especially single scholars and those whose partners work outside academe -- believe that the trend has gone too far. They say hiring partners without a national search establishes a misguided form of affirmative action that gives an edge to people who need it least. "As someone who's been in the job market, I think about every tiny incremental advantage people can have," says one faculty member at a private university in the East whose wife has a job in advertising. "Being married is not at all like publishing an extra book or article. I would hate to imagine how many times I've lost a job to a spouse." Stephen C. Cooke, an associate professor of agricultural economics at the University of Idaho, was among the majority of professors there who voted against a policy in 1998 that would have allowed the hiring of partners without a national search. "Academic institutions are meritocracies in the extreme, and if you start a buddy system, it just looks bad, even if there's nothing wrong with the people involved," he says. "You may get the odd star, but you'll pay for it with your morale and your image." Not too long ago, if colleges paid attention to spouses at all, they paid attention to the spouses of the stars. If a senior scholar was in high demand, he -- it was almost always a man -- could often persuade a college to find a job for his wife. For the rest of academe, finding two jobs in one place wasn't easy. Stories abounded of professors who lived thousands of miles from their spouses and children and spent weekends in hectic commutes. The news media, including The Chronicle, publicized the problem. In the past couple of years, though, a lot has changed. Wendy K. Wilkins has seen it happen. Back in the mid-1990's, when she was associate dean of academic personnel at Arizona State University, she knew she could "get a leg up on the competition" by offering a job to a spouse. "We were succeeding then at doing things for couples that our competitors weren't able to do," she recalls. And since she took over three years ago as dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University, finding room for spouses has become "standard practice," she says. Last year, seven of the nine new faculty hires in Ms. Wilkins's college were partners of other new hires or of professors already at the university. Of the six tenured or tenure-track faculty members hired to date for the coming academic year, three are partners of current Michigan State employees. Universities are hiring so many couples largely because so many academics are married to other academics. With the influx of women into advanced-degree programs, graduate schools have become the perfect mating ground. A national faculty survey completed in 1997 found that 35 percent of male professors and 40 percent of female faculty members had partners who were also academics. Like other couples, they want jobs that will allow them to live together. But their options are limited. With roughly 3,500 colleges and universities in the United States, it sounds as if academics should have lots of posts to choose from. But until recently, many institutions have been scarce on new jobs for professors, particularly in the humanities. And in many rural areas, there is only one higher-education game in town. If half of an academic couple is recruited by an isolated institution, there is often no place else suitable for the other half to work. If a couple can't find two tenure-track jobs that allow them to live under the same roof, they usually must live apart. Commuter marriages have long been considered a necessary evil in academe. In the past few years, though, universities have begun recognizing the downside of hiring one partner and not the other. Professors who are separated from their spouses typically aren't happy about it, and spend less time on the campus and more time visiting their partners. Couples who live and work together, on the other hand, are likely to be more active and productive members of their campus communities. Stanley Fish, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, realized earlier than most that keeping couples together was a smart idea. He's used it as a recruiting tool at Chicago and earlier, as chairman of the English department at Duke University. "It's such a natural," he says. "People who are apart, bearing both the emotional and financial drain, are going to listen to you when you call them up and say, How would you like to be together?" At Chicago, he has taken spousal hiring to a new level. This spring, he's hoping to snag a total of five couples, representing more than 30 percent of the total new hires in the college for the coming academic year. Although few administrators are as aggressive as Mr. Fish, many have made couple-hiring a top priority. The interest extends to same- and opposite-sex couples alike, and heterosexual couples need not be married to benefit. With universities seeking to bulk up on the number of female professors they employ, it is increasingly likely that the "trailing spouse" is a man. "It is the unusual appointment now that does not involve the raising of a spousal question," says William James Adams, associate dean of academic affairs in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. "If there is nothing we can do to accommodate the spouse, it is quite likely they will take some other offer." Deans often allow a department to hire a trailing spouse even if there are no positions open. That's an advantage for a department that might otherwise have to wait to make a hire until someone retires. At Michigan, the provost contributes as much as a third of the money needed to pay a spouse's salary. Purdue University created a special program seven years ago to encourage the hiring of partners, and offers extra money to departments that do. The money, which helps pay the partner's salary, usually lasts until the person receives tenure. In all, Purdue has helped 33 couples that way. As interest in hiring couples rises, the unheard of has begun to take place: Young couples are getting dual offers from not one but two institutions. It happened to Paul and Ruth Ann Atchley. In the spring of 1998, she had job interviews in cognitive psychology with the University of Kansas and with Colorado State University at Fort Collins. She told both institutions that her husband was also an academic, and each responded with a tenure-track post for him, too. The couple chose Kansas, where they are assistant professors of psychology. Their story sometimes gets a rise out of other dual-career couples. "You see people raise their eyebrows and say, You must be very special," says Mr. Atchley. With the flood of couples onto campuses, it is sometimes difficult to keep track of who is married to whom. On Pennsylvania State University's main campus, it may be best to assume that everyone is married to someone at the university. In the English department, 10 of the 60 faculty members are married to each other, and 10 more professors are married to administrators or to faculty members in other departments. One of those is Sandra Spanier, whose husband, Graham B. Spanier, is Penn State's president. Like many other institutions, Penn State has written rules prohibiting professors from deciding their spouses' salary increases or voting on their tenure and promotion. Don Bialostosky, the English-department chairman, says the presence of so many couples hasn't created any problems there. Couples who have suffered through long-distance relationships feel that the special attention they are now getting simply evens the score after years of neglect. Some even argue that academe hasn't done enough to encourage faculty members to have family lives. "I believe in merit, but if we're going to consider people on bases other than strictly merit, family status ought to be part of that," says Charles W. Nuckolls, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He and his wife, Janis B. Nuckolls, lived apart for 10 years, until the department hired her this year. Mr. Nuckolls says academic departments should go after mothers the same way they recruit minority scholars. "If it is prima facie evidence of discrimination that a department has no minorities and no women, then it should be prima facie evidence that it has no reproductively active women," he says. Ever since universities began hiring couples, people have been raising questions about the qualifications of the trailing spouses. Academics who have been "accommodated" -- oftentimes women -- have had to live with that stigma. Now questions surrounding a partner's qualifications have died down as more and more husbands become trailing spouses, and as partner hires have become so common. Of course, there are some notorious cases that faculty members on some campuses still whisper about. There's Sally McNall, wife of the provost on California State University's Chico campus, whom the English department refused to hire. Carol Burr, a former chair of the department, says Ms. McNall wanted to teach but wouldn't submit to a job interview. The provost's wife eventually got a job lecturing in the honors program, which is designated for the institution's best professors. But she has consistently received poor student evaluations, according to professors who say they've seen them and who do not want to be named. Ms. McNall says "it simply isn't true" that she has received bad evaluations. Byron M. Jackson, vice provost for academic affairs and dean of undergraduate education at Chico, agrees. "I have not seen any problems in her evaluations or in her teaching at all," he says. Those who question couple-hiring say the usual issue is not a spouse's qualifications. With an overabundance of Ph.D.'s, particularly in the humanities, it is common for several hundred qualified candidates to apply for a job. The real question is whether a person is the best candidate a university could have hired. "If the person is average, it is not so much a question of whether they harm you as whether they don't allow you to improve," explains Kingsley R. Browne, a law professor at Wayne State University, in Michigan, whose specialty is employment discrimination. One prestigious private law school recently hired the wife of another law professor whom it wanted to keep. "She has a solid record, but if you were going to pick someone, would you really pick her?" asks a law professor at a major research university. Equally as important, he says, is the question of who isn't hired. Donna L. Clevinger, chairwoman of the theater department at Hardin-Simmons University, is worried it might be someone like her. She's single and has left two tenured posts during the past several years to care for her sick parents. Each time she's returned to the job market, she's had to search on her own, "without relying on somebody else's coattails to get me through." Meanwhile, no university offered to help Ms. Clevinger with her own family circumstances by paying someone to take care of her parents, so that she wouldn't have to resign. "But it is OK to ask for a favor for your spouse, because it's been institutionalized," she says. An assistant professor of medicine who works on the East Coast says favoritism for couples is simply a twist on the old-boy network. She is a divorced mother of two, and no one has done anything to help her get a job, she says. Universities would find it preposterous, she argues, if she applied for a position and asked for a job for her sister, too. "If I were close to my sister and we lived together and shared a household, and I got a fabulous job at the University of Kentucky, could I say to them: What about my sister? Can you give me a job for her, because I'm not going to leave her here?" In the world outside academe, people don't assume that an employer will hire their spouses, says the assistant professor. "In the private sector, if your husband got a job in Seattle, then you would have to make a decision about what you wanted to do with your career." Karen S. Usher, president of the Personnel Office, a company that helps businesses handle personnel issues, agrees that the private sector is different from higher education when it comes to the issue of dual-career couples. "In the private sector, the support for the working spouse is more focused on helping them network into employment and find work rather than offering them an opportunity within the same organization," she says. "It does happen, but it's rare." Some professors have taken a public stand against spousal hiring. At the University of Idaho, the issue arose a few years ago, when the wife of the dean of the College of Agriculture was given a coveted job as an assistant to the dean of another college at the university. Up in arms, administrative staff members helped persuade professors that spousal hires were a bad idea. The couple who sparked the uprising have moved on to another university. At Miami University, in Ohio, Mark Bernheim votes against partner hires in the English department if it is clear that they are candidates primarily because their spouses already work on the campus. He knows that this makes him look like a curmudgeon: Opposing accommodations for couples, he says, is like opposing motherhood and apple pie. "It is many of the things one would like to be on the side of. It's convenient, collegial, and nice," he says. But there are consequences. "In the academy, we like to say we're on the side of justice, fair play, and openness," says Mr. Bernheim, whose wife works in publishing. ''Then I find myself hearing about jobs that are being tailor-made for a spouse, while applications from other people are being thrown away like so much chaff." Jonathan F. Lewis, a professor of sociology at Benedictine University, in Illinois, jokes that the interest in academic couples could be the basis for a situation comedy: "Two people who really don't have a whole lot in common decide to get married to get teaching positions." The hiring of so many couples has made academic life more complicated. It is difficult to say no when the partner of one of your favorite colleagues comes up for tenure. If one half of an academic couple gets tenure and the other doesn't, the department is likely to lose both. And entire departments now suffer when a couple breaks up. That's what happened in Mr. Bernheim's department. In 1992, it hired Kate McCullough. Two years later, it found a spot for her partner, Victoria L. Smith. Soon after Ms. Smith accepted the job, she and Ms. McCullough broke up, but Ms. Smith decided to join the department anyway. "It was a nightmare," Ms. Smith says. She and Ms. McCullough didn't speak to one another. The department chairman had to make sure that they didn't serve on the same committees or advise the same graduate students. Ms. Smith is starting over this month, leaving Miami University for a teaching job in Germany. Ms. McCullough has been on leave for two years as a visiting professor at Cornell University, which just made her a permanent job offer. Her new partner is an assistant professor of English there. _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i31/31a01601.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From Richard.Taylor@MARQUETTE.EDU Sat Aug 25 14:56:50 2001 From: Richard.Taylor@MARQUETTE.EDU (Prof. Richard C. Taylor) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 08:56:50 -0500 Subject: [Philnet] The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy Message-ID: ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy =46all 2001 Speakers September 20, 2001, Taneli Kukkonen, University of Helsinki: "Averroes and the Teleological Argument" 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252 October 4, 2001,Sarah Rappe, University of Michigan: "Damascius and Pseudo-Dionysius " 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252: October 18, 2001,Jim Wetzel, Princeton University: "Will and Interiority in Augustine" 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252 Spring 2002 Speakers Edward Halper, University of Georgia (January) Carl Still, University of Calgary (April) Jennifer Hart Weed, St Louis University (April) Precise dates TBA. Marquette University Faculty Participants: Owen Goldin (Ancient), Susanne Foster (Ancient, Ethics), John Jones (Medieval Social Thought, Neoplatonism), Mary Rousseau (Aquinas, Ethics), James South (Late Medieval & Renaissance), Andrew Tallon (NeoThomism, phenomenology), Richard C. Taylor (Medieval Latin & Arabic), Roland Teske, S.J., (Medieval, Augustine, Philosophy of Religion), John Treloar, S.J., (Late Medieval, Kant), David Twetten (Medieval, Aquinas). Recent visiting participants in the seminar have included Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute), Alfred Ivry (New York University), Thomas Williams (University of Iowa), Eugene Garver (Saint John's University), Patricia Curd (Purdue University), Cristina D'Ancona (Universit=E0 di Padova), John Sisko (College of William and Mary). -- Dr. Richard C. Taylor Graduate Program Director Department of Philosophy Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 USA Office: (414) 288-5649 Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-2 PM, Thursdays 9:15-10:45, and by appointment. Marquette Philosophy Department Main Office: (414) 288-6857, fax: (414) 288-3010 email: Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu alternate email: ctaylor949@earthlink.net Philosophy Dept Graduate Program Website: http://www.marquette.edu/phil/pages/grad.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/philnet/attachments/1c16103a/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment-- From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Sat Aug 25 19:18:09 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 19:18:09 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] *Philosophical Papers* Special Issue--2nd Call For Papers (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:40:11 +0200 From: Ward Jones To: aphil-l@coombs.anu.edu.au Call for Papers 'Ethics in the Light of Wittgenstein' Special edition of *Philosophical Papers* Guest editor: Andrew Gleeson, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, South Africa. "Ethics cannot be put into words". [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus] Wittgenstein wrote little explicitly about ethics. Yet there are profound ethical themes and implications in his work. Philosophical Papers invites submissions for a special issue on Wittgenstein devoted to the implications of his work for ethics. Papers should not focus narrowly on interpretive and exegetical issues but on how the spirit of Wittgenstein's work can be developed in moral philosophy. Suggestions for discussion include: > Does Wittgenstein's anti-theoretical conception of philosophy imply that moral thinking owes more to imagination and example than argumentative construction of general theories? Does it imply quietism, scepticism or conservatism? Would it sympathise with "particularism"? What sense is to be made of his remark (in the 'Lecture on Ethics') that "I can only appear as a person speaking for myself"? > What relation would an approach to ethics in the spirit of Wittgenstein have to the standard ethical theories, e.g., consequentialism, Kantianism and virtue ethics? > Wittgenstein often spoke of an "absolute" sense of value as opposed to a "relative" one. How should a Wittgensteinian moral philosophy understand the Platonic teaching of an absolute good? > In the Tractatus, Wittgenstein speaks of morality as ineffable. So should a moral philosophy under his influence see morality as religious or mystical in some sense? > For Wittgenstein mental concepts depend on basic emotional and practical reactions: I can't understand what pain is if I lack the capacity for sympathy, for example. Is something similar true of moral concepts? How would it connect to the view that believing I ought to A requires some motivation to A? Are there implications for the relation of philosophy of mind to moral philosophy? > What would an account of moral truth inspired by Wittgenstein's work look like? The deadline for submissions is 31 July 2002. This issue of Philosophical Papers, comprising both invited and submitted articles, will appear in November of 2002. Expected contributors include Cora Diamond and Stephen Mulhall. Manuscripts should be submitted by post to Philosophical Papers, Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa. Please include two hard copies and an electronic copy on a new 3.5-inch, PC-formatted diskette. Further enquiries may be addressed to either Andrew Gleeson at a.gleeson@ru.ac.za or Ward Jones (Editor, Philosophical Papers) at w.jones@ru.ac.za. ************************ Dr. Ward E. Jones Lecturer, Philosophy Department, Rhodes University, Grahamstown South Africa 6140 Editor, *Philosophical Papers* (www.ru.ac.za/philosophy/PhilosophicalPapers) email: W.Jones@ru.ac.za Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From alan.waldron@SYMPATICO.CA Sat Aug 25 22:47:55 2001 From: alan.waldron@SYMPATICO.CA (Alan Waldron) Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 22:47:55 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] The SIMPLE ARITHMETIC of Pacem en Terre.... Message-ID: JUST THE BASICS ! WHAT TEACHERS SHOULD ALWAYS TEACH TO YOUNG ASPIRING POLITICIANS..., Academic. Simple and Free at :- http://www3.sympatico.ca/alan.waldron/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Sun Aug 26 17:56:36 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 17:56:36 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] FW: INPC 2002 (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 13:24:50 -0700 From: J M Fritzman 5th Annual Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference Topic: Law and Social Justice Dates: April 5-7, 2002 Location: Moscow, ID & Pullman, WA The Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference is a topic-focused, interdisciplinary conference, co-sponsored by the Philosophy Departments at the University of Idaho and Washington State University. This year the subjects of law and social justice will be addressed from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, e.g., philosophy, law, political science, sociology, and criminal justice. Commitments include: Josh Cohen (Keynote), Philip Bobbitt, Jules Coleman, Carl Cranor, John Gardner, Mark Greenberg, PJ Ivanhoe, Ann Levey, Tom Morawetz, Dennis Patterson, Stephen Perry, Robert Schopp, Scott Shapiro, Ori Simchen, Lee Tilson, and Ben Zipursky. Essays of up to 12 pages in length (30-40 minutes reading time) will be accepted until December 15. Please send one electronic copy (standard word processing program, either on disk or to: josephc@wsu.edu) and two hard copies of your submission to the following address: Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference Department of Philosophy Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5130 Individuals will be notified of decisions regarding submissions in February. Accepted papers will be eligible for publication in volume three of _Topics in Contemporary Philosophy_, an edited volume to be published by Seven Bridges Press, pending editorial review. Graduate students and individuals in other disciplines are welcome to submit essays. In addition, there will be a session devoted to undergraduate work on this topic; please mention this to interested undergraduates. Chairs and commentators are also needed. If you are interested, please indicate areas of competence. Additional information about this conference can be obtained at our website: http://www.its.uidaho.edu/inpc Sincerely, Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University Michael O'Rourke, University of Idaho David Shier, Washington State University INPC, Co-Directors Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Mon Aug 27 10:35:35 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:35:35 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (fwd) Message-ID: From: Prof. Richard C. Taylor To: SOPHIA@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval Philosoph= y Fall 2001 Speakers September 20, 2001, Taneli Kukkonen, University of Helsinki: "Averroes and the Teleological Argument" 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252 October 4, 2001,Sarah Rappe, University of Michigan: "Damascius and Pseudo-Dionysius " 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252: October 18, 2001,Jim Wetzel, Princeton University: "Will and Interiority in Augustine" 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252 Spring 2002 Speakers Edward Halper, University of Georgia (January) Carl Still, University of Calgary (April) Jennifer Hart Weed, St Louis University (April) Precise dates TBA. Marquette University Faculty Participants: Owen Goldin (Ancient), Susanne Foster (Ancient, Ethics), John Jones (Medieval Social Thought, Neoplatonism), Mary Rousseau (Aquinas, Ethics), James South (Late Medieval & Renaissance), Andrew Tallon (NeoThomism, phenomenology), Richard C. Taylor (Medieval Latin & Arabic), Roland Teske, S.J., (Medieval, Augustine, Philosophy of Religion), John Treloar, S.J., (Late Medieval, Kant), David Twetten (Medieval, Aquinas). Recent visiting participants in the seminar have included Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute), Alfred Ivry (New York University), Thomas Williams (University of Iowa), Eugene Garver (Saint John's University), Patricia Curd (Purdue University), Cristina D'Ancona (Universit=E0 di Padova), John Sisko (College of William and Mary). -- Dr. Richard C. Taylor Graduate Program Director Department of Philosophy Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 USA Office: (414) 288-5649 Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-2 PM, Thursdays 9:15-10:45, and by appointment= =2E Marquette Philosophy Department Main Office: (414) 288-6857, fax: (414) 288-3010 email: Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu alternate email: ctaylor949@earthlink.net Philosophy Dept Graduate Program Website: http://www.marquette.edu/phil/pages/grad.html Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From president@nagps.org Mon Aug 27 05:12:05 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 04:12:05 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Pennsylvania Labor Board Denies Temple's Bid to Invalidate TA Union Vote Message-ID: <200108270412.EAA25199@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org Monday, August 27, 2001 Pennsylvania Labor Board Denies Temple's Bid to Invalidate TA Union Vote By MARTIN VAN DER WERF The attempt by graduate assistants at Temple University to unionize has moved a step closer to reality. The Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board has denied an attempt by the institution to invalidate a March vote in which almost 95 percent of the Temple teaching assistants who voted chose to organize. The university had disagreed with an earlier board finding that the TA's are "employees" as defined by state law. In its response, the board relied on findings by the Federal Labor Relations Board in other attempts by teaching assistants to unionize, including at New York University, where the administration was ordered earlier this year to begin bargaining with the new union. In its decision last Tuesday, the Pennsylvania board concluded that there was no evidence that the extension of collective-bargaining rights to graduate assistants "will or has in any way infringed upon an institution's ability to carry out its core educational mission." It also rejected an argument by Temple that granting collective bargaining to TA's might infringe on academic freedom, noting that the university has long engaged in collective bargaining with its faculty union, but introduced no evidence that it hindered academic freedom. Rob Callahan, the lead organizer for the graduate-student union at Temple, called the decision a "knockout blow." But it is not clear how the university will respond. Harriet K. Goodheart, a Temple spokeswoman, said the university's general counsel is examining the decision. The university has the option of going to court to block the TA union. The more than 500 graduate assistants at Temple are the first in Pennsylvania to attempt to unionize. In March, they voted 290-16 to be represented by the Temple University Graduate Students' Association, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers. _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/08/2001082703n.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Mon Aug 27 15:16:04 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:16:04 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Justice on Line (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 13:01:58 +0000 From: JOELLE GODARD The French section of the Franco-British Lawyers Society organises its annual Colloquium in Paris on the 14th of September 2001. The topic is: ON LINE JUSTICE Litigation, mediation, arbitration and information technology It is an exceptional event since it is a cyber-colloquium. The seminar can be followed either at the venue in Paris or live on the Internet, both in French and English. The presentations given by the various speakers will be accessible from the Website. They will be available for download, as well as supporting documents, which will be available in video or audio formats in both languages. Please visit the Colloquium Website at: http://www.justice-en-ligne.org/uk/index_uk.htm or www.justice-en-ligne.org to find the day's programme and the registration form. http://www.justice-en-ligne.org/uk/index_uk.htm Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Mon Aug 27 15:16:26 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:16:26 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Call for papers - IO Internet Magazine - "Creativity" (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:01:46 +0300 From: Konsta Korhonen To: aphil-l@coombs.anu.edu.au http://www.lpt.fi/io/IO3callforpapers.htm Creativity seems to be useful in any field of life. In arts, science, business, household=85 New ways of thinking that express ingenious solving of problems is appreciated because it is profitable. In arts conceptual skilfulness is considered to be creative. Who else than artists could need creativity, designers or architects? How is it expressed? This is the aim of the next issue of the IO. Here are some suggestions for starting points. New ideas about the meaning of the word creativity are, of course, welcome and expected. -New ways of thinking. -Ability to solve problems is juxtaposed with creativity. But is creativity only ability to find old ideas and make them look like new ones? -Romantic idea of creativity: about great artists expressing their ideas with technical excellence. We are waiting for articles of 2000-4000 words before the end of December. The previous issues of the IO are found at http://www.lpt.fi/io The first is about environmental art and the second about the aesthetics of moving or travelling. For more information, please contact Tero Hyv=E4rinen, the administrator of the IIAA. Tel + 358 3 7817857 Fax + 358 3 7817858 email: iiaa@lpt.fi Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From James.Barlow@DOC.STATE.WI.US Tue Aug 28 15:02:25 2001 From: James.Barlow@DOC.STATE.WI.US (Barlow, James C. DOC) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:02:25 -0500 Subject: [Philnet] Re: The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medi eval Philosophy Message-ID: Thank you. -jb -----Original Message----- From: Prof. Richard C. Taylor [mailto:Richard.Taylor@MARQUETTE.EDU] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 8:57 AM To: SOPHIA@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK Subject: The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and = Medieval Philosophy The Marquette University Mid-West Seminar on Ancient and Medieval = Philosophy Fall 2001 Speakers September 20, 2001, Taneli Kukkonen, University of Helsinki: "Averroes = and the Teleological Argument" 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252 October 4, 2001,Sarah Rappe, University of Michigan: "Damascius and Pseudo-Dionysius " 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252: October 18, 2001,Jim Wetzel, Princeton University: "Will and = Interiority in Augustine" 7:15-8:45 PM, AMU Room 252 Spring 2002 Speakers Edward Halper, University of Georgia (January) Carl Still, University of Calgary (April) Jennifer Hart Weed, St Louis University (April) Precise dates TBA. Marquette University Faculty Participants: Owen Goldin (Ancient), = Susanne Foster (Ancient, Ethics), John Jones (Medieval Social Thought, Neoplatonism), Mary Rousseau (Aquinas, Ethics), James South (Late = Medieval & Renaissance), Andrew Tallon (NeoThomism, phenomenology), Richard C. = Taylor (Medieval Latin & Arabic), Roland Teske, S.J., (Medieval, Augustine, Philosophy of Religion), John Treloar, S.J., (Late Medieval, Kant), = David Twetten (Medieval, Aquinas). Recent visiting participants in the seminar have included Suzanne Stern-Gillet (Bolton Institute), Alfred Ivry (New York University), = Thomas Williams (University of Iowa), Eugene Garver (Saint John's University), Patricia Curd (Purdue University), Cristina D'Ancona (Universit=E0 di = Padova), John Sisko (College of William and Mary). -- Dr. Richard C. Taylor Graduate Program Director Department of Philosophy Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881 USA Office: (414) 288-5649 Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:30-2 PM, Thursdays 9:15-10:45, and by = appointment. Marquette Philosophy Department Main Office: (414) 288-6857, fax: (414) 288-3010 email: Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu alternate email: ctaylor949@earthlink.net Philosophy Dept Graduate Program Website: http://www.marquette.edu/phil/pages/grad.html From president@nagps.org Tue Aug 28 07:03:06 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 06:03:06 GMT Subject: [Philnet] New Psychology Ph.D.'s Enjoy Healthy Job Market, With Increasing Options Outside Academe Message-ID: <200108280603.GAA29562@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org Tuesday, August 28, 2001 New Psychology Ph.D.'s Enjoy Healthy Job Market, With Increasing Options Outside Academe By D.W. MILLER New Ph.D.'s in psychology are enjoying a robust job market, but most of the growth in employment options is coming from outside academe, according to data presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association. Nearly 3,700 Ph.D.'s were awarded in psychology in 1999, a figure that has barely grown in a decade, only slightly more than in 1988, said William E. Pate II, a research associate at the association, who compiled his data from various surveys conducted by the association and the National Science Foundation. But the number of people earning doctorates of psychology (Psy.D.), a relatively new degree available mainly through professional schools, has more than doubled to about 1,000 in that period. "When you look at 'unemployed, seeking employment,' it's not too bad," Mr. Pate told the audience, made up mostly of job-seeking graduate students. "So there's hope." Recent graduates have faced fairly good odds of finding a job. In a 1999 survey, only 2.7 percent of them reported being unemployed despite efforts to find a job. Sixty-seven percent were employed full time, 10 percent part time, and 17 percent held postdoctoral fellowships. More than 70 percent of 1999 graduates had found a job within three months of graduation. Among all psychologists, the numbers were even better. In 1999, only 1.1 percent of the nation's 94,000 or so Ph.D. psychologists were seeking employment, and fewer than 5 percent were working in a field unrelated to psychology. After dipping in the mid-1990s, the economic outlook of new graduates has recovered to levels last seen before the 1990-91 recession. Less than 4 percent of 1999 graduates called the job market "bleak," while 11 percent called it "excellent." Mr. Pate's study suggests that clinical practice and private-sector research opportunities have become more alluring to Ph.D. psychologists than academe. In 1973, about 55 percent of them worked in colleges, universities or medical schools; since 1993, that proportion has stabilized at around 33 percent. Over the same period, the proportion of psychologists working at nonprofit organizations has dropped from 15 percent to 10 percent. By contrast, about 13 percent of psychologists in 1973 were self-employed or worked in a for-profit company. Since 1993, that share has hovered at around 40 percent. In part, that high level of nonacademic employment reflects the large number of Ph.D. psychologists who specialize in clinical practice, currently about 70 percent of the profession. Still, barely more than half of newly-minted research psychologists toil in academe; a third found jobs in business or government. About 18 percent of all psychologists consider research to be their main job activity, about the same as in 1973. But the share of psychologists engaged mainly in teaching has dropped from 37 percent to 27 percent. Over the same period, the proportion of psychologists who report being engaged in "other activities" -- mainly "professional services" such as clinical therapy and management consulting -- rose from 28 percent to 52 percent. "It's not that people are leaving academe to go to dot-coms," said Mr. Pate. "It's that there are more areas to work in." One plausible explanation for this shift away from academe is money. In 1999, the median full-time salary for independent clinical psychologists reached $75,000, about $30,000 more than assistant professors and about the same as full professors. Specialists in applied psychology and industrial/organizational psychology, much sought by corporations and management-consulting businesses, averaged about $90,000. Median starting salaries for all of Mr. Pate's private-sector career categories surpassed the $40,000 earned by the average novice assistant professor. Income may be no small consideration for the typical Ph.D. graduate. According to Mr. Pate's study, more than a third of new research psychologists left their graduate programs with $31,000 or more of student debt. Mr. Pate found that recent successful job-seekers in psychology cited "informal channels" as their route to employment more often than any other. His message to the audience: "It's called networking." Mr. Pate's study also shows that the ranks of psychologists have grown considerably more diverse in the last 30 years. Between 1973 and 1999, the proportion of women among psychology Ph.D.'s in the workforce grew from 20 percent to 46 percent, while their proportion of new Ph.D. recipients grew from 33 percent of those granted in 1976 to 70 percent in 1999. Similarly, between 1977 and 1999, the share of Ph.D.'s earned by racial and ethnic minority groups grew from 7.5 percent to 15 percent, and their share of all psychology doctorates in the workforce rose from 2 percent in 1973 to 9 percent two years ago. Despite those demographic shifts, the psychology professoriate is still skewed toward white men at the tenured ranks. Women occupy about half of tenure-track positions, and more than half of non-tenure-track positions, but only about 30 percent of the tenured ranks. In graduate departments of psychology, women constitute more than 35 percent of faculty, up from about 20 percent in the 1985-86 academic year. "The proportion of women and minorities has been increasing, but we haven't seen parity," said Mr. Pate. "There are a lot of old white men who haven't retired yet. But they are going to have to retire, soon and in large numbers." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/08/2001082804n.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 29 06:56:19 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 06:56:19 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Fwd: [ARGTHRY] Informal Logic: Call for Papers (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 22:19:13 +0100 Via: Peter McBurney From: William Rehg CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of Informal Logic (Fall 2003) on Habermas and Argumentation Theory Guest Editor: William Rehg In his efforts to re-establish the rational basis for critical social theory, J=FCrgen Habermas has drawn upon=97and significantly influenced=97t= he field of argumentation theory. Supplementing his earlier analysis of the different aspects of argumentation (product, procedure, and process), Habermas=92s mature =93discourse theory=94 (Between Facts and Norms, 1996) elaborates the complex social and institutional contexts in which public argumentation is embedded. Thus the time is ripe to take stock once again of the relevance and implications of Habermas=92s project for the study of argumentation. This Call for Papers invites original essays that critically assess aspects of Habermas=92s work from the standpoint of argumentation theory or that apply Habermas=92s ideas to argumentation theory in novel ways. Submission deadline: July 1, 2002 Papers should conform to the Informal Logic style sheet (references in APA style, no footnotes, minimal endnotes) and be accompanied by a 100-word abstract. Copy must be ready for blind refereeing (NO self-identifying references in text or notes). Send two hard copies and one electronic copy (formatted in Microsoft Word or RTF only) by July 1, 2002 to: William Rehg Department of Philosophy Saint Louis University 3800 Lindell Blvd. P. O. Box 56907 St. Louis MO 63156-0907 USA Email: rehgsp@slu.edu Please address further questions to the guest editor either by email (as above) or at the following address (Sept. 2001-May 2002): 42 Kirkland St. Cambridge MA 02138-2031 Tel: 617-497-5564 or 5565 ------------------------------------------------------- - Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From yuen@ACL.ARCHAEOLOGY.USYD.EDU.AU Wed Aug 29 06:49:38 2001 From: yuen@ACL.ARCHAEOLOGY.USYD.EDU.AU (Rachel Yuen Collingridge) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 15:49:38 +1000 Subject: [Philnet] Epigraphical Methodology (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:56:49 +1000 (EST) From: Rachel Yuen Collingridge To: epigraph@idirect.ca Subject: Epigraphical Methodology I am currently researching the epigraphic evidence concerning philosophy and the philosopher using the PHI. I cannot find a general work on the nature of Greek epigraphy which would give me some idea of the relative numbers of inscriptions over time; the proportions for each area; the proportions of particular types of inscription over time; and other general information concerning the way these source materials should be used. Can anyone help?? Any suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks, Rachel Yuen-Collingridge From OCramer@COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU Wed Aug 29 10:21:36 2001 From: OCramer@COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU (Owen Cramer) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 03:21:36 -0600 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Epigraphical Methodology (fwd) Message-ID: <5E5B5397B92DA849874262D1AF191C2C02489A01@exchange2.ColoradoCollege.edu> You might start with A. Geoffrey Woodhead, The Study of Greek Inscriptions, 2nd ed. Cambridge 1981 (reprint Oklahoma 1991). > -----Original Message----- > From: Rachel Yuen Collingridge [SMTP:yuen@ACL.ARCHAEOLOGY.USYD.EDU.AU] > Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:50 PM > To: SOPHIA@LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK > Subject: Epigraphical Methodology (fwd) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 13:56:49 +1000 (EST) > From: Rachel Yuen Collingridge > To: epigraph@idirect.ca > Subject: Epigraphical Methodology > > > I am currently researching the epigraphic evidence concerning philosophy > and the philosopher using the PHI. I cannot find a general work on the > nature of Greek epigraphy which would give me some idea of the relative > numbers of inscriptions over time; the proportions for each area; the > proportions of particular types of inscription over time; and other > general information concerning the way these source materials should be > used. Can anyone help?? Any suggestions would be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Rachel Yuen-Collingridge From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Wed Aug 29 12:17:32 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 12:17:32 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] [CfP] Foundations of the Formal Sciences (FotFS) III (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 14:32:43 -0000 From: Maxim Lebedev To: philos-russia@yahoogroups.com > ----- ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ----- > > PhD EuroConference > FOUNDATIONS OF THE FORMAL SCIENCES III > > FotFS III > > Complexity in Mathematics and Computer Science > > > Universitaet Wien > Institut fuer Formale Logik > > http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/fotfs/III/ > > > September, 21st to 24th, 2001 > >"Foundations of the Formal Sciences" (FotFS) is a series of >interdisciplinary conferences in mathematics, philosophy, computer science >and linguistics. The main goal is to reestablish the traditionally strong >links between these areas of research that have been lost in the past >decades. > >The talks of the conferences will be addressed at a general audience, >but their objective is to teach techniques and methods from the >different parts of the Formal Sciences to researchers from other >parts. > >FotFS III with the subtitle "Complexity in Mathematics and Computer >Science" will bring speakers together to give a holistic view of the >ramifications of the notion of complexity. The conference is a satellite >meeting of the 15th OeMG-Kongress and the DMV Jahrestagung 2001 > (http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~oemg/Tagungen/2001/). > >The conference will be organized in six sections: > > (A) Descriptive Set Theory and Core Models > (B) Topology and Analysis > (C) Models of Computation > (D) Complexity Classes in Computer Science > (E) Algorithms > (F) Complexity in Algebra and Universal Algebra > >Each section will have two invited speakers (one hour talks) and three >contributed talks (30 minute talks). The list of invited speakers includes >Petra Berenbrink (Warwick), Joerg Brendle (Kobe), Riccardo Camerlo >(Torino), Lars Engebretsen (Cambridge MA), Martin Grohe (Edinburgh), Joel >David Hamkins (New York NY), Elvira Mayordomo Camara (Zaragoza), Szabolcs >Mikulas (London), Ralf-Dieter Schindler (Wien), Helmut Veith (Wien), >Jindra Zapletal (Gainesville FL) > >All talks will be given to a general audience of mathematicians, >logicians, computer scientists, philosophers and linguists. Since we >intend to promote genuinely interdisciplinary joint work, we would like to >have talks that are neither general surveys nor specialized research >announcements, but presentations of problems and techniques. > >The ideal talk at FotFS III would describe certain techniques at the level >of understanding of a knowledgeable but not necessarily specialized >researcher, apply the techniques to an illustrative example, and then move >on to list open problems that might possibly be tackled with these >techniques. > >FotFS III is a PhD EuroConference in the European Community program >"Improving Human Research Potential and the Socio-Economic Knowledge Base >- High-Level Scientific Conferences". Therefore the speakers have to >satisfy the "young researcher" criterion of the European Commission. > >The European Community defines a young researcher as "a researcher up to >an age limit of 35 years at the time of a particular conference event. >Allowance will be made for compulsory military or civil service (actual >time spent in military or civil service) and childcare (maximum 2 years >per child for the actual time spent off work)." > >If you are interested in giving a talk, please help us to check whether >you meet the criteria by providing the following data: > > (a) your name, affiliation and address, > (b) your country of citizenship, > (c) your country of permanent residence, > (d) your date of birth, > (e) dates of actual time spent in compulsory military or civil service > as well as time spent off work for childcare, > (f) the title of your talk, > (g) the section your talk is supposed to belong to, and > (h) an abstract of at most 15 lines > >to fotfs@math.uni-bonn.de before JUNE 15th, 2001. (Please send all the >data in the text of the e-mail - don't use attachments.) > >If you are a citizen of an EU country or of one of the Associated States >(Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, >Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, >Israel, and Switzerland), you can apply for a travel grant partially >reimbursing you for your travel and accommodation expenses and the >conference fee. If you want to apply for one of those travel grants, add >to the above submission the following data (again, don't use attachments): > > (i) an estimate of travel expenses, > (j) a short CV with a list of publications, > (k) a brief (about 10 to 25 lines) letter of recommendation by a > permanent faculty member of your institution. > >You can also check the guidelines for submission and application at > > http://www.math.uni-bonn.de/people/fotfs/III/howto.html > >and follow them step by step. > >We intend to be able to decide on the acceptance of your talk and your >application for an EU Travel Grant until end of July 2001. > >There will be a proceedings volume with refereed papers of the invited >speakers and the contributed talks. > >We shall collect a conference fee of ATS 750 (= $ 50) covering material >and other expenses. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the >organizers via > > fotfs@math.uni-bonn.de > > >All the very best, > >Benedikt Loewe (Bonn) >Boris Piwinger (Vienna) >Thoralf Raesch (Potsdam) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> The Nissan Sentra Everything but compact http://NissanDriven.com http://us.click.yahoo.com/3vsIKC/txlCAA/ySSFAA/pyIolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences http://www.philosophy.ru Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From harnad@COGLIT.ECS.SOTON.AC.UK Wed Aug 29 16:33:22 2001 From: harnad@COGLIT.ECS.SOTON.AC.UK (Stevan Harnad) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:33:22 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer Message-ID: AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer Stevan Harnad Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/ It would have been possible to make an intelligent film about Artificial Intelligence -- even a cuddly-intelligent film. And without asking for too much from the viewer. It would just ask for a bit more thought from the maker. http://aimovie.warnerbros.com http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Tp/ai.html AI is about a "robot" boy who is "programmed" to love his adoptive human mother but is discriminated against because he is just a robot. I put both "robot" and "programmed" in scare-quotes, because these are the two things that should have been given more thought before making the movie. (I have not read the short story by Brian Aldiss that inspired the movie, nor the screen story by Ian Watson on which the movie is based, but they are irrelevant: The buck stops with the film as made, and its maker.) So, what is a "robot," exactly? It's a man-made system that can move independently. So, is a human baby a robot? Let's say not, though it fits the definition so far! It's a robot only if it's not made in the "usual way" we make babies. So, is a test-tube fertilized baby, or a cloned one, a robot? No. Even one that grows entirely in an incubator? No, it's still growing from "naturally" man-made cells, or clones of them. What about a baby with most of its organs replaced by synthetic organs? Is a baby with a silicon heart part-robot? Does it become more robot as we give it more synthetic organs? What if part of its brain is synthetic, transplanted because of an accident or disease? Does that make the baby part robot? And if all the parts were swapped, would that make it all robot? I think we all agree intuitively, once we think about it, that this is all very arbitrary: The fact that part or all of someone is synthetic is not really what we mean by a robot. If someone you knew were gradually replaced, because of a progressive disease, by synthetic organs, but they otherwise stayed themselves, at no time would you say they had disappeared and been replaced by a robot -- unless, of course they did "disappear," and some other personality took their place. But the trouble with that, as a "test" of whether or not something has become a robot, is that exactly the same thing can happen without any synthetic parts at all: Brain damage can radically change someone's personality, to the point where they are not familiar or recognizable at all as the person you knew -- yet we would not call such a new personality a robot; at worst, it's another person, in place of the one you once knew. So what makes it a "robot" instead of a person in the synthetic case? Or rather, what -- apart from being made of (some or all) synthetic parts -- is it to be a robot? Now we come to the "programming." AI's robot-boy is billed as being "programmed" to love. Now exactly what does it mean to be "programmed" to love? I know what a computer programme is. It is a code that, when it is run on a machine, makes the machine go into various states -- on/off, hot/cold, move/don't-move, etc. What about me? Does my heart beat because it is programmed (by my DNA) to beat, or for some other reason? What about my breathing? What about my loving? I don't mean choosing to love one person rather than another (if we can "choose" such things at all, we get into the problem of "free will," which is a bigger question than what we are considering here): I mean choosing to be able to love -- or to feel anything at all: Is our species not "programmed" for such a capacity by our DNA, as surely as we are programmed for a capacity to breathe or walk? Let's not get into technical questions about whether or not the genetic code that dictates our shape, our growth, and our other capacities is a "programme" in exactly the same sense as a computer programme. Either way, it's obvious that a baby can no more "choose" to be able to love than it can choose to be able to fly. So this is another non-difference between us and the robot-boy that can love. So what is the relevant way in which the robot-boy differs from us, if it isn't just that it has synthetic parts, and it isn't because its capacity for feeling is any more (or less) "programmed" than our own is? The film depicts how, whatever the difference is, our attitude to it is rather like racism. We mistreat robots because they are different from us. We've done that sort of thing before, because of the color of people's skins; we're just as inclined to do it because of what's under their skins. But what the film misses completely is that, if the robot-boy really can feel (and, since this is fiction, we are meant to accept the maker's premise that he can), then mistreating him is not just like racism, it is racism, as surely as it would be if we started to mistreat a biological boy because parts of him were replaced by synthetic parts. Racism (and, for that matter, speciesism, and terrestrialism) is simply our readiness to hurt or ignore the feelings of feeling creatures because we think that, owing to some difference between them and us, their feelings do not matter. Now you might be inclined to say: This film doesn't sound like a no-brainer at all, if it makes us reflect on racism, and mistreating creatures because they are different! But the trouble is that it does not really make us reflect on racism, or even on what robots and programming are. It simply plays upon the unexamined (and probably even incoherent) stereotypes we have about such things already. There is a scene where still-living but mutilated robots, with their inner metal showing, are scavenging among the dismembered parts of dead robots (killed in a sadistic rodeo) to swap for defective parts of their own. But if it weren't for the metal, this could be real people looking for organ transplants. It's the superficial cue from the metal that keeps us in a state of fuzzy ambiguity about what they are. The fact that they are metal on the inside must mean they are different in some way: But what way (if we accept the film's premise that they really do feel)? It becomes trivial and banal if this is all just about cruelty to feeling people with metal organs. There would have been ways to make it less of a no-brainer. The ambiguity could have been about something much deeper than metal: It could have been about whether other systems really do feel, or just behave as if they feel, and how we could possibly know that, or tell the difference, and what difference the difference could really make -- but that film would have had to be called "TT" (for Turing Test) rather than "AI" or "ET," and it would have had to show (while keeping in touch with our "cuddly" feelings) how we are exactly in the same boat when we ask this question about one another as when we ask it about "robots." Instead, we have the robot-boy re-enacting Pinnochio's quest to find the blue fairy to make him into a "real" boy. But we know what Pinnochio meant by "real": He just wanted to be made of flesh instead of wood. Is this just a re-make of Pinnochio then, in metal? The fact that the movie is made of so many old parts in any case (Wizard of Oz, Revenge of the Zombies, ET, Water-World, I couldn't possibly count them all) suggests that that's really all there was to it. Pity. An opportunity to do something new, and intelligent, lost. http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad00.turing.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=002549632124328&rtmo=fwlvsvYs&atmo=99999Jb9&pg=/et/01/7/5/ecfai05.html http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/CM302/Granny/sld001.htm Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From ucrhamh@UCL.AC.UK Wed Aug 29 17:34:22 2001 From: ucrhamh@UCL.AC.UK (Adam M. Hedgecoe) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:34:22 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010829163422.008eb100@pop-server.ucl.ac.uk> Relax Steve. It's. Just. A. Movie. do you send out this kind of review of every film you've seen? If not, then you've missed the point about A.I. It's. Just. A. Movie. it doesn't have to conform to what science says a 'robot' is. It's. Just. A. Movie. I'm not angry at Tim Burton for 'Planet of the Apes' because he muddles up evolution and apparently dosen't understand time travel. I'm angry at Tim Burton coz his film 'lacks opposable thumbs' (in the words of one memorable review), contains risable dialogue and bismirches the memory of one of the coolest films of the late 1960s. I want those 2 hours of my life back. Your comment that A.I. is "An opportunity to do something new, and intelligent, lost" neatly summarises 90% of the films that come out of Hollywood. It's nothing personal. It's not against science. It's. Just. A. Movie. adam Hedgecoe STS@UCL At 16:33 29/08/01 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote: > AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer > > Stevan Harnad > Department of Electronics and Computer Science Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From daniel.russell@WICHITA.EDU Wed Aug 29 16:45:38 2001 From: daniel.russell@WICHITA.EDU (daniel.russell) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:45:38 -0500 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer Message-ID: <3B6E9FAE@webmail.wichita.edu> I wonder whether this begs the question against Steven Harnad's original post. I took his point to be that we shouldn't be content to let some movies be "just" movies. Movies play a lot of functions, some of which are fluffy entertainment, but some of which are to move us and make us more thoughtful; e.g. "To Kill a Mockingbird"--a scene from which I just showed one of my classes--is the latter sort of movie. It isn't "just a movie"; e.g. it requires us to ask whether Atticus Finch was a failure for losing a case, a client's life, and some of his standing, or a success for acting well despite misfortune--the sort of question that occupied every ancient school of ethics. And we should expect more movies to be more than "just movies"; Steven Harnad's claim was that in the case of AI this expectation would be justified. To say that Hollywood routinely fails of such expectations is not a reply, but a restatement of the problem. DCR >===== Original Message From ucrhamh@UCL.AC.UK ===== >Relax Steve. >It's. Just. A. Movie. > >do you send out this kind of review of every film you've seen? If not, then >you've missed the point about A.I. >It's. Just. A. Movie. > >it doesn't have to conform to what science says a 'robot' is. >It's. Just. A. Movie. > >I'm not angry at Tim Burton for 'Planet of the Apes' because he muddles up >evolution and apparently dosen't understand time travel. I'm angry at Tim >Burton coz his film 'lacks opposable thumbs' (in the words of one memorable >review), contains risable dialogue and bismirches the memory of one of the >coolest films of the late 1960s. I want those 2 hours of my life back. > >Your comment that A.I. is "An opportunity to do something new, and >intelligent, lost" neatly summarises 90% of the films that come out of >Hollywood. It's nothing personal. It's not against science. > >It's. Just. A. Movie. > >adam Hedgecoe >STS@UCL > >At 16:33 29/08/01 +0100, Stevan Harnad wrote: >> AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer >> >> Stevan Harnad >> Department of Electronics and Computer Science > >Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. >Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From ucrhamh@UCL.AC.UK Wed Aug 29 18:05:58 2001 From: ucrhamh@UCL.AC.UK (Adam M. Hedgecoe) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 17:05:58 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer In-Reply-To: <3B6E9FAE@webmail.wichita.edu> Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010829170558.008e6c60@pop-server.ucl.ac.uk> My point is that its often 'science' based movies that come in for this stick. Why? We know movies don't represent real life in anything approaching reality. Special effects protray the flouting of the rules of physics on a regular basis. Yet somehow science based movies are more unauthentic. Most Movies lie. that's what they do. They do it about jobs (all lawyers are rapacious sharks), religions (all muslims are terrorists), and people (Kevin Cosner can act). Why should science be portrayed accurately? As for the general issue of movie quality, well that's the way it is. Sure some movies make us think, but I didn't get from stevan's critique of A.I. that the problem was not making us think (otherwise why did he single out _this_ film?). Rather it was not making us think properly abt science. To which the reply is; why go to a spielberg movie? It strikes me as special pleading for science. adam. At 10:45 29/08/01 -0500, daniel.russell wrote: >I wonder whether this begs the question against Steven Harnad's original post. > I took his point to be that we shouldn't be content to let some movies be >"just" movies. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From D.P.Rowbottom@BTINTERNET.COM Wed Aug 29 18:48:44 2001 From: D.P.Rowbottom@BTINTERNET.COM (Darrell Patrick Rowbottom) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:48:44 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer References: <3.0.6.32.20010829170558.008e6c60@pop-server.ucl.ac.uk> Message-ID: <3B8D2AFC.8080200@btinternet.com> Adam M. Hedgecoe wrote: > My point is that its often 'science' based movies that come in for this stick. > Why? Perhaps because the gap between the knowledge of the educated layperson and the knowledge of the specialist scientist (with respect to his discipline) is ever-widening. That is, in both a faster and more pronounced fashion than it does with respect to specialists in other academic disciplines. Philosophers still read Plato. How many physicists read Galileo, Newton, Young, Maxwell, Einstein, or Bohr? > It strikes me as special pleading for science. And many would say that science needs some special pleading for, right about now. Take the poor quality of the media debates about genetically modified crops, or potential human clones, as justification for this pleading. In short, it does not seem unreasonable, in the case of the film AI, to bemoan an opportunity lost, or even *wasted*. (Besides, would it be reasonable to allow films to have any content imaginable, no matter what the practical consequences, provided that they carry the disclaimer 'fictional and only for the purposes of entertainment'?) Darrell. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From davisf@UNION.EDU Wed Aug 29 19:35:55 2001 From: davisf@UNION.EDU (Felmon Davis) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 20:35:55 +0200 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer In-Reply-To: <3B8D2AFC.8080200@btinternet.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20010829170558.008e6c60@pop-server.ucl.ac.uk> <3B8D2AFC.8080200@btinternet.com> Message-ID: <01082920355503.01095@lappie> On Wednesday 29 August 2001 19:48, you wrote: > Adam M. Hedgecoe wrote: > > My point is that its often 'science' based movies that come in > > for this stick. Why? > > Perhaps because the gap between the knowledge of the educated > layperson and the knowledge of the specialist scientist (with > respect to his discipline) is ever-widening. That is, in both a > faster and more pronounced fashion than it does with respect to > specialists in other academic disciplines. > > Philosophers still read Plato. How many physicists read Galileo, > Newton, Young, Maxwell, Einstein, or Bohr? > I don't think this means that philosophy isn't in process of fast, pronounced change. its subject-matter and techniques are different and one needs to know a history of 'moves' in order to engage in current discussion. after all, philosophers don't read Plato in order to attain the Form of the Good! > > It strikes me as special pleading for science. > > And many would say that science needs some special pleading for, > right about now. Take the poor quality of the media debates about > genetically modified crops, or potential human clones, as > justification for this pleading. > I didn't read Harnad's post as a pleading for science but as a pleading for _thought_ or even conceptual _imagination_. in fact, none of the issues he addresses in his post are 'scientific' issues ("can one be programmed to love?" "what is a robot as such?" "how would becoming 'robotic' affect my personal identity?"), they are philosophical or, anyway, conceptual. I think we can agree we'd like more movies to excite our imaginations? I thought _The Matrix_, _The Thirteenth Floor_ and _Being John Malkovich_ did this though they weren't very 'scientifically' plausible. > In short, it does not seem unreasonable, in the case of the film > AI, to bemoan an opportunity lost, or even *wasted*. > > (Besides, would it be reasonable to allow films to have any content > imaginable, no matter what the practical consequences, provided > that they carry the disclaimer 'fictional and only for the purposes > of entertainment'?) > > Darrell. > I haven't seen AI and don't think I will. I've sworn off Woody Allen and I think I'm going to swear off Spielberg too. still, the plot as described reminds me of a _Twilight Zone_ episode where a perky cheerful young miss, happy in her suburban family bliss, discovers she's actually an 'android' special ordered by the family whereupon she starts moving and speaking 'robotically'. I guess she discovered that, contrary to her own impressions, she didn't really have feelings or emotions! 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Its contributors are distributed over several continents, and they keep contact mainly by electronic mail, annual meetings, the newsletter, and the World Wide Web. PCP focuses on the clear formulation of basic concepts and principles of the cybernetic approach. The PCP philosophy starts from the self-organization of multi-level systems through blind variation and natural selection. This leads to a process metaphysics, a constructive-selectionist epistemology, and an evolutionary ethics. Articles are available in HTML format. Editor: Dr. Francis Heylighen Email: PCP@vnet3.vub.ac.be Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From D.P.Rowbottom@BTINTERNET.COM Thu Aug 30 14:13:01 2001 From: D.P.Rowbottom@BTINTERNET.COM (Darrell Patrick Rowbottom) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:13:01 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Re: Spielberg's AI: Another Cuddly No-Brainer References: <003701ca28e0$db0f9fa0$16c5bdac@d7e5y3> Message-ID: <3B8E3BDD.2080803@btinternet.com> Adam Hedgecoe wrote: ..snip.. >None of this science is cutting edge or particularly tricky. It's just >that in films, science serves the plot/narrative. Because it's a film, >not a public information documentary. Science does not usually serve the plot/narrative; it is, rather, pseudo-science that does. And the question at hand is, obviously, whether this *should* be the case. (Not whether it *is*.) >> DPR: >> Take the poor quality of the media debates about genetically >> modified crops, or potential human clones, as justification for this >> pleading. >AH: >what poor quality of the debate? The issue in human cloning is abt >ethics/safety rather than the possiblity of the science. The GM seems >to be an expansion of the debate within science: it's not like there's >a widespread scientific consensus on GM food that is being distorted by >the media/politicians (cf climate change). Presumably, then, you would dispute the claim that one must understand a process, or at least what our best current theories tell us about that process, in order to make sound ethical judgements about it? I would not. Serious ethical decisions, relating to science, are placed into the hands of those who are often forced to respond to *public pressure*. (Read: Politicians.) Hence, better public knowledge of science *might*, I would argue, be vital for the future well-being of Western society. (Provided, of course, that its political landscape does not radically change.) >>DPR: >>(Besides, would it be reasonable to allow films to have any content >>imaginable, no matter what the practical consequences, provided that >>they carry the disclaimer 'fictional and only for the purposes of >>entertainment'?) >AH: >what practical consequences? please tell me you are not equating >falling public trust in science with hollywood films? On the contrary, I was suggesting that many such films serve to promote public misunderstanding of science. (As they also do with history.) >AH: > Its. Just. A. Film. A film (or a play) can greatly influence not only the individual, moving him to laughter or tears, but also a society, moving it even to violence. Did not 'The Marriage of Figaro' poignantly demonstrate this, in pre-revolutionary France? {Clearly there were other causal factors, but I would say that this play had a catalytic effect, at the very least.} It is easy to *say* 'it's just a film', but where does suspension-of-disbelief end, and belief begin? And is this 'dividing line' the same for everyone? I see no obvious reason to suppose that it is. I don't think that continuing this discussion is likely to prove fruitful, so I'll let you have the last say. ;-) Darrell Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Jan.Bransen@PHIL.UU.NL Thu Aug 30 14:33:36 2001 From: Jan.Bransen@PHIL.UU.NL (Jan Bransen) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:33:36 +0200 Subject: [Philnet] Civic Virtue and Pluralism Message-ID: Symposium CIVIC VIRTUE AND PLURALISM November 23, 2001 Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Five political philosophers and political scientists will present their accounts of the interrelationship of the two notions from the title. Colleagues from several Dutch universities will comment on their papers. There will be ample room for discussion. The papers by the main speakers will be made available beforehand in a special issue of the journal PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS (IV/3, 2001) See the website: http://www.phil.uu.nl/philexpl/ If you register for the symposium with mailto:h.h.a.brink@kub.nl (Bert van den Brink), you will receive a free copy of this issue by the beginning of October 2001 to allow for preparation. Participation in the symposium is open to all and free of charge. The format of the sessions requires that participants study the papers in advance. PROGRAM (for CV's of the main speakers see below) Location: Ruth First Room, Building A, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Chair: Willem Witteveen and Bert van den Brink (both Tilburg University) 09.20 Opening 09.30 -11.00 hrs. RICHARD DAGGER (Arizona State University, Tempe) "Republicanism and the Politics of Place" Comment by Wouter de Been (Tilburg University) 11.15 - 12.45 hrs HERLINDE PAUER-STUDER (University of Vienna) "Liberalism, Perfectionism, and Civic Virtue" Comment by Roland Pierik (Tilburg University) 14.00 - 15.30 hrs. RAINER FORST (Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main) "Tolerance as a Virtue of Justice" Comment by Martin van Hees (Groningen University) 15.45 - 17.15 hrs. RUSSELL BENTLEY and DAVID OWEN (University of Southampton) "Ethical Loyalties, Civic Virtue, and the Circumstances of Politics" Comment by Beate Roessler (University of Amsterdam) The symposium will be organized and financed by Globus, Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development (http://fsw.kub.nl/globus/) and the Pioneer Research Group "Ideals in Law, Morality and Politics" (http://schoordijk.kub.nl/pionier/) of The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), both at Tilburg University. Information and registration: Bert van den Brink Schoordijk Instituut (U43) Tilburg University PO Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg Tel +31-(0)13-4668137 Fax+31-(0)13-4668045 h.h.a.brink@kub.nl CV's of the main speakers: RICHARD DAGGER is Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, Arizona, U.S.A. He is the author of *Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism* (1997) and co-author, with Terence Ball, of *Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal* (1990). His recent essays in political and legal philosophy include "Membership, Fair Play, and Political Obligation", Political Studies (2000) and "Philosophical Anarchism and Its Fallacies: A Review Essay", Law and Philosophy (2000). HERLINDE PAUER-STUDER is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests are in social and moral philosophy and feminist philosophy. She is the author of *Das Andere der Gerechtigkeit: Moral Theorie im Kontext der Geschlechterdifferenz* (1996) and *Autonom Leben: Reflexionen ueber Freiheit und Gleichheit* (2000). She is the editor of *Konstruktionen praktischer Vernunft: Philosophie im Gespraech* (2000). RAINER FORST teaches philosophy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. A translation of his *Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit* (1994) is fortcoming as *Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism* (2001). He is the editor of *Toleranz* (2000) and is currently working on a book about the concept of toleration. He has published many articles in moral and political philosophy. RUSSELL BENTLEY is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Southampton, G.B. He has published articles and review articles in Political Studies, History of Political Thought and Polis. His research interests are in classical political thought, democracy and deliberation, and civic education. He is currently completing a book on civic education. DAVID OWEN is Reader in Political Philosophy and Assistant Director of the Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, G.B. His books include *Maturity and Modernity* (1994), *Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity* (1995), and, as co-editor, *Foucault contra Habermas* (1999). He has published numerous articles and book chapters on questions in contemporary moral and political philosophy. He is currently working on issues of ethical and political perfectionism in Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Cavell and Foucault. WOUTER DE BEEN is a Junior Research Fellow in Intellectual History and Political Theory, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University; ROLAND PIERIK is a Research Fellow in Political Theory, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University; MARTIN VAN HEES is Associate Professor in Ethics and Social and Political Philosophy at Groningen University, The Netherlands; BEATE ROESSLER is Associate Professor in Ethics and Metaphysics at the University of Amsterdam; WILLEM WITTEVEEN is Professor of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University; BERT VAN DEN BRINK is Research Fellow in Political Philosophy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, based at Tilburg University. =============================================== Jan Bransen Socrates Professor of Philosophy Leiden University Department of Philosophy Utrecht University P.O. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From president@nagps.org Thu Aug 30 07:38:23 2001 From: president@nagps.org (president@nagps.org) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:38:23 GMT Subject: [Philnet] U. of Toronto Becomes the First in Canada to Offer a Minimum Stipend to Doctoral Students Message-ID: <200108300638.GAA03398@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org Thursday, August 30, 2001 U. of Toronto Becomes the First in Canada to Offer a Minimum Stipend to Doctoral Students By KAREN BIRCHARD The University of Toronto has become the first Canadian university to offer a guaranteed level of financial support for students in doctoral programs. The package seeks to make the university more attractive to top Canadian graduate students, for whom Toronto competes with leading American universities. Starting this fall, doctoral students will receive an annual minimum stipend of $7,800, plus $11,400 to cover the cost of tuition and fees. Departments with more resources, such as science programs, will be able to offer packages well above the guaranteed minimum. The deal should make the university more attractive to students globally. "The guaranteed funding basically levels the playing field, especially for international students who must, by provincial mandate, pay higher tuition at Ontario universities," said Pekka Sinervo, vice-dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Jorge Sousa, president of the Graduate Students' Union, said that his group sees the guarantee as a move in the right direction. "The bottom line is that nowthere is a minimum," he said. "It's not enough, but it's a start." The university is allocating about $7.1-million for the stipends, which will benefit nearly 4,000 students in doctoral programs. An additional $4.5-million will be needed to guarantee five years of support to doctoral students, based on current enrollment levels. Guaranteed stipends are common at universities in the United States. _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/daily/2001/08/2001083005n.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From R.Pierik@KUB.NL Thu Aug 30 15:47:38 2001 From: R.Pierik@KUB.NL (Roland Pierik) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 16:47:38 +0200 Subject: [Philnet] symposium CIVIC VIRTUE AND PLURALISM Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Symposium CIVIC VIRTUE AND PLURALISM =96 November 23, 2001-08-30 On November 23, 2001, a symposium on the theme of =91Civic Virtue and Pluralism=92 will take place at Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherla= nds. Five political philosophers and political scientists will present their accounts of the interrelationship of the two notions from the title. Colleagues from several Dutch universities will comment on their papers. There will be ample room for discussion. The papers by the main speakers will be made available beforehand in a special issue of the journal PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS (IV/3, 2001 =96 http://www.phil.uu.nl/philexpl/ ). If you register for the symposium with h.h.a.brink@kub.nl (Bert van den Brink), you will receive a free copy of this issue by the beginning of October 2001 t= o allow for preparation. Participation in the symposium is open to all and free of charge. The format of the sessions requires that participants stu= dy the papers in advance. PROGRAM (for CV=92s of the main speakers see below) Location: Ruth First Room, Building A, Tilburg University, The Netherland= s Chair: Willem Witteveen and Bert van den Brink (both Tilburg University) 09.20 Opening 09.30 -11.00 hrs. RICHARD DAGGER (Arizona State University, Tempe) =93Republicanism and the Politics of Place=94 Comment by Wouter de Been (Tilburg University) 11.15 - 12.45 hrs HERLINDE PAUER-STUDER (University of Vienna) =93Liberalism, Perfectionism, and Civic Virtue=94 Comment by Roland Pierik (Tilburg University) 14.00 - 15.30 hrs. RAINER FORST (Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main) =93Tolerance as a Virtue of Justice=94 Comment by Martin van Hees (Groningen University) 15.45 =96 17.15 hrs. RUSSELL BENTLEY and DAVID OWEN (University of Southampton) =93Ethical Loyalties, Civic Virtue, and the Circumstances of Politics=94 Comment by Beate Roessler (University of Amsterdam) The symposium will be organized and financed by Globus, Institute for Globalization and Sustainable Development ( http://fsw.kub.nl/globus/) an= d the Pioneer Research Group =93Ideals in Law, Morality and Politics=94 http://schoordijk.kub.nl/pionier/) of The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), both at Tilburg University Information and registration: Bert van den Brink Schoordijk Instituut (U43) Tilburg University PO Box 90153 NL-5000 LE Tilburg Tel +31-(0)13-4668137 Fax+31-(0)13-4668045 h.h.a.brink@kub.nl CV=92s of the main speakers: Richard Dagger is Professor of Political Science, Arizona State Universit= y, Arizona, U.S.A. He is the author of Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, a= nd Republican Liberalism (1997) and co-author, with Terence Ball, of Politic= al Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal (1990). His recent essays in politica= l and legal philosophy include =93Membership, Fair Play, and Political Obligation,=94 Political Studies (2000) and =93Philosophical Anarchism an= d Its Fallacies: A Review Essay,=92 Law and Philosophy (2000). Herlinde Pauer-Studer is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests are in social and moral philosophy and feminist philosophy. She is the author of Das Andere der Gerechtigkeit: Moraltheorie im Kontext der Geschlechterdifferenz (1996) and Autonom Leben: Reflexionen ueber Freihei= t und Gleichheit (2000). She is the editor of Konstruktionen praktischer Vernunft: Philosophie im Gespraech (2000) Rainer Forst teaches philosophy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. A translation of his Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit (1994) is fortcoming as Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism (2001). He is the editor of Toleranz (2000) and is currently working on a book about the concept of toleration. He has published many articles in moral and political philosophy. Russell Bentley is Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Southampton, G.B. He has published articles and review articles in Politi= cal Studies, History of Political Thought and Polis. His research interests a= re in classical political thought, democracy and deliberation, and civic education. He is currently completing a book on civic education. David Owen is Reader in Political Philosophy and Assistant Director of th= e Centre for Post-Analytic Philosophy at the University of Southampton, G.B. His books include Maturity and Modernity (1994), Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995), and, as co-editor, Foucault contra Habermas (1999). He = has published numerous articles and book chapters on questions in contemporar= y moral and political philosophy. He is currently working on issues of ethi= cal and political perfectionism in Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Cavell and Foucau= lt. Wouter de Been is a Junior Research Fellow in Intellectual History and Political Theory, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University; Roland Pierik is a Research Fellow in Political Theory, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University; Martin van Hees is Associate Professor in Ethics at Groningen University, The Netherlands; Beate Roessler is Associate Professor in Ethics and Metaphysics at the University of Amsterdam; Willem Witteveen is Professor= of Jurisprudence, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University; Bert van den Brink is Research Fellow in Political Philosophy of the Royal Netherlands Academy = of Arts and Sciences, based at Tilburg University. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ccil.org/pipermail/philnet/attachments/2b6b4059/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment-- Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Fri Aug 31 07:09:12 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:09:12 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Next PFA Kant's Cave lecture: Wednesday 5 September (fwd) Message-ID: From: Philosophy for All The next PFA Kant's Cave lecture will be at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 5 September, at the upstairs bar of the George, 213 Strand (opposite the Roya= l Courts of Justice.) A link to a map showing the location of the George is below. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?Postcode2Map?code=3DWC2R+1Ap Professor Peter Rickman, the distinguished philosopher and author, is the speaker. The title of the lecture is "Poets and their metaphysical function". The bar will be open from 7 pm. Admission is free to PFA members; for non-members there is a door charge of =A32. Best wishes, Andrew Dodsworth PFA Secretary secretary@pfalondon.freeserve.co.uk http://www.pfalondon.freeserve.co.uk Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK Fri Aug 31 07:14:31 2001 From: srlclark@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Prof S.R.L. Clark) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 07:14:31 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP: Virtues at Stirling, March 2002 (fwd) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 12:39:14 +0100 From: Jimmy Lenman To: bset@maillists.keele.ac.uk Virtues: Moral and Epistemic University of Stirling March 2-3 2002 One of the dominant movements in post-war ethical philosophy has been that of virtue ethics, which takes its cue from the writings of Aristotle. Until recently, however, this virtue-theoretic approach had stayed largely confined within this ethical setting, despite the fact that Aristotle himself accorded a significant role to the kind of intellectual virtues - such as conscientiousness and open-mindedness - that also enable us to gain knowledge. What has been significant about recent discussion in epistemolog= y is that it has started to draw on virtue-theoretic approaches in ethics to offer analogous virtue-theoretic accounts of knowledge. Indeed, there have even been some notable attempts to integrate the two areas of philosophy under a general virtue theoretic approach. Moreover, this cross-fertilisation of ideas between those working in ethics and epistemology has been extremely fruitful, producing some of the most interesting work in these areas in recent years. =09This international conference aims to bring together some of the leading figures working on virtue-theoretic accounts in ethics and epistemology. Confirmed speakers include Sarah Broadie (University of St. Andrews and Princeton University); Antony Duff (University of Stirling); Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College, University of London); Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield), Marie McGinn (University of York); John Skorupski (University of St. Andrews); Michael Slote (University of Maryland), and Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma). Call for papers In addition to invited papers, there will be a session for postgraduate presentations. Papers are invited on a topic related to the theme of the conference, and should be suitable for presentation in 30 minutes. Submissions should be sent to either Michael Brady or Duncan Pritchard (addresses below), and should arrive no later than October 1st, 2001 (submission by email attachment is acceptable). There are a number of bursaries to assist with travel and accommodation costs for postgraduate students; these are not limited to postgraduate speakers. Registration The fee for the two-day conference is =A350, and those wishing to attend should register by December 1st, 2001. For further details please contact either Michael Brady or Duncan Pritchard at the Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland. (E-mail: m.s.brady@stir.ac.uk or d.h.pritchard@stir.ac.uk). The organisers of this conference are grateful for the financial support provided by the following organisations: The Analysis Trust Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling Faculty of Arts, University of Stirling Scots Philosophical Club Mind Dr Jimmy Lenman Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK Secretary, British Society for Ethical Theory Email: j.lenman@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk Homepage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Personnel/jimmy/index.html BSET homepage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/Lenman/bset.html Office 'phone + 44 (0)141 330 2591 (internally: 2591) Home 'phone +44 (0) 141 337 3884 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From stephen.butterfill@PHILOSOPHY.OXFORD.AC.UK Fri Aug 31 15:36:18 2001 From: stephen.butterfill@PHILOSOPHY.OXFORD.AC.UK (Stephen Butterfill) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 15:36:18 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] CFP - Oxford University Graduate Philosophy Conference Message-ID: <00b901c1322a$5767a4f0$06074381@steve> -------------------------------------------------- Oxford University Graduate Philosophy Conference -------------------------------------------------- Dates: Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th November 2001. Location: Sub-Faculty of Philosophy, 10 Merton Street, Oxford Guest speakers: Saturday: Professor Edward Craig, University of Cambridge 'Kant's Things-in Themselves' Sunday: Professor Peter Railton, University of Michigan 'How can reason be practical?' Submissions welcomed on all topics from all post-graduate students. Please email papers or draft papers, including an abstract, to conference@philosophy.ox.ac.uk or send it to Graduate Conference Sub-Faculty of Philosophy 10 Merton Street Oxford OX1 4JJ UK. Submission deadline: 30 September 2001. Presentations should not take more than 45minutes, and discussions will be opened by replies from Sub-Faculty members (last year's respondents included, among others, Philippa Foot, Tim Williamson and Michael Ayers). Papers are welcomed in any area of philosophy, but should be comprehensible to graduate students with other areas of specialisation. Enquiries & submissions: conference@philosophy.ox.ac.uk Details will be posted on the conference website: http://www.philosophy.ox.= ac.uk/conference.html Some accommodation should be available in college guest rooms, at around 15-20 pounds per night ($21-28). Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Prof S.R.L. Clark" Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 23:16:48 -0600 From: Jonathan Maskit To: philosop@louisiana.edu Philosophy & Geography, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, seeks reviewers for the following titles: Ingrid Stefanovic. Safeguarding Our Common Future: Rethinking Sustainable Development. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000. (1000 words) Mick Smith. An Ethics of Place: Radical Ecology, Postmodernity, and Social Theory. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. (1000 words) If interested, please drop me an email at the address below. Please make clear which book you are interested in as well as your relevant background. Thank you. Jonathan Maskit maskit@denison.edu Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From nagps-emp-con@nagps.org Wed Aug 1 14:51:52 2001 From: nagps-emp-con@nagps.org (jane collins) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:51:52 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Re: Emissaries From the World Beyond: the Authenticity of Adjuncts Message-ID: <200108011351.NAA09271@nagps.nagps.org> unsub president@nagps.org wrote: > This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education > (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > > The following message was enclosed: > Employment Concerns Committee Members- > > I thought some of you might be interested in this article on > adjunct faculty. > An increasing number of graduate students are serving as > adjunct faculty while pursuing their studies, so I found > particularly relevant to our mission and focus as organization > representing those students. > > _________________________________________________________________ > > From the issue dated July 27, 2001 > > Emissaries From the World Beyond: the Authenticity of Adjuncts > > By BRUCE E.R. THOMPSON > > I'm afraid I have to begin by telling you something about > myself. Because my topic is authenticity -- the notion > conveyed in such expressions as "Walk the walk" and "Practice > what you preach" -- I need to reassure you that I am > practicing what I preach. Who I am is directly relevant to > what I have to say. > > In a past life, I was a professor of philosophy. I had a Ph.D. > and other relevant credentials. After serving the usual > apprenticeship, I landed a tenure-track position -- and failed > to get tenure. They say it is a publish-or-perish world. > Socrates, for example, never published anything, and you see > what they did to him. I won't go into details, but something > similar happened to me. > > When it appeared that my academic career was over, I decided > to get a second master's degree, this time in a profession. I > studied library science and was reborn as a librarian. For the > past eight years, at academic and public libraries, I have > made my living primarily by answering reference questions, > helping people find information, and (best of all) reading > books to children. It is honest and ennobling work, and I > enjoy it. > > On the side, I occasionally teach classes in philosophy, as an > adjunct. > > Higher education employs two types of adjunct teachers. The > first are serving an often overlong apprenticeship, hoping to > become full-time, tenure-track faculty members. The second, > like me, teach only as a sideline. There is little doubt that > adjunct teachers of the first type are being exploited, > working for low pay and often without benefits. Currently, > more courses are taught by such adjuncts than is beneficial > for students, the adjuncts themselves, and academe as a whole. > Colleges and universities should be encouraged to hire those > adjuncts as regular, full-time faculty members. > > However, I want to argue that adjuncts, especially of the > second type, will always play an important role. We contribute > to the message that universities intend to convey, and we > contribute precisely because we are adjuncts. As adjuncts, we > possess something that regular, full-time faculty members > essentially lack: authenticity. > > Even at research universities, the vast majority of students > do not intend to pursue academic careers; they plan to enter > the world of business. At community colleges, even fewer > students expect to become academics. Students at all academic > institutions see college as preparation for their futures, and > we, their teachers, do not challenge that perception. > Therefore, students tend to draw a distinction between the > ivory tower and the so-called real world: They see themselves > as visitors to academe, while regular faculty members are > permanent residents, and adjuncts are emissaries from the > world beyond. > > Adjuncts who teach in professional fields, like business, > journalism, or my own profession, library science, have long > been valued for the real-world experience that they bring into > the classroom. My father, for example, was a copy editor for > the Rocky Mountain News, in Denver, and taught journalism as > an adjunct. Students appreciated him because he could tell > them what the job was really like and what they would need to > know to do it successfully. > > In library school, I took some courses from regular faculty > members and some from adjuncts. I would have to say that the > regular faculty members were better teachers. In general, > their assignments were clearer, their syllabuses better > organized and more detailed, and their class-room manner more > polished. But the most important lesson that library school > teaches is an ethic of patron service: Your job is to help the > patron, no matter how obnoxious, smelly, arrogant, or ignorant > he or she may be. When regular faculty members delivered that > message, I never knew if they meant it. Perhaps they were just > reciting from the textbook. But when an adjunct delivered the > same message, I knew it was from the heart. I knew that the > adjunct had helped patrons who were obnoxious, smelly, > arrogant, and ignorant. Adjuncts had tested the ethic of > patron service in practice, and I felt that if they were still > willing to preach it, it must be right. > > In classes that prepare students for a profession, the value > of the real-world experience of adjuncts is obvious. The > adjunct is in the profession, where the student wants to be. > Regular faculty members are outside the profession. Hence, it > is the adjunct who has the greater authenticity. The adjunct > walks the walk and practices what he preaches in ways that the > regular faculty member cannot. > > Surprisingly, the same is true even in courses that are not > intended to be professional training -- courses on subjects > like literature, history, and philosophy. In those cases, the > regular faculty members are inside the profession -- because > the profession consists of teaching and research -- and the > adjuncts are outside. Yet the adjuncts still have more > authenticity. Why? Because it is still the adjuncts who stand > where the students expect to be someday. Remember that most > students who take a literature class will never teach one; > most students who take a history course will never be > professional historians. To justify teaching such courses, we > have to be able to claim that their subject matter is valuable > even to people who may never be in the profession. > > I am prepared to make that claim about philosophy. A number of > years ago, my father died of a melanoma that had spread to his > liver. Liver cancer can be excruciatingly painful in its final > stages, and because the pain is located in the digestive > system rather than the muscles, it is hard to control with the > usual morphine-based drugs. During my last visit, my father > told me that he had joined the Hemlock Society, gotten their > instructions on how to commit suicide, and laid in a stock of > the appropriate drugs in sufficient quantities to do the job. > > I had taught medical-ethics courses and had regularly used > issues of death and dying in my introductory philosophy > classes. As a result, I had often thought through the complex > ethical questions involved in suicide. Even so, it took me a > minute to absorb what my father had said. But it did not take > longer than a minute. In a flash, I remembered that I had > solved the ethical puzzles to my own satisfaction years > before. With the intellectual work already done, I was > prepared to support my father emotionally. I knew what I > thought, I knew how I felt, and I knew how to act. > > It was then that I realized, in the pit of my stomach, what > philosophy is for. Up to that point, I had been embarrassed > when students asked why they should take an interest in > philosophy. I could not look them in the eye and say, "It will > prepare you for your future career." It is, after all, wrong > to lie. But now I realized that it had never been my job to > prepare my students for their careers. My job was vastly more > important than that: It was to prepare them for life. I had to > give them practice at puzzling out answers to the questions > raised by the mere fact that we are alive. > > Today, I tell my students that philosophy is the most > practical course they are ever likely to take. The other > humanities disciplines are practical for the same reason. Why > study literature? Because writers write about life. We learn > how to feel about things by hearing stories. Why study > history? Because it explains why our lives are the way they > are. > > You might be inclined to dismiss the humanities as mere > theory, abstraction divorced from reality. Nothing could be > farther from the truth. After all, we develop theories to > prepare us to face reality. If they do not, it is not because > of a discrepancy between theory and practice, but because of a > discrepancy between good theory and bad theory. The > humanities, in all their theoretical abstraction, are directly > relevant to the practice of living. They are valuable even to > someone who never plans to be a humanities professor. > > That is, or at least should be, the central message of any > college education. As educators, we fail every time a student > passes through four years of required humanities courses and > doesn't learn that lesson. But consider how the message sounds > when it is delivered by a regular faculty member, and when it > is delivered by an adjunct. > > A regular member of the faculty can tell students that his or > her class is relevant no matter what they are planning to do > after graduation. But the students understand perfectly well > that one reason -- perhaps the only reason -- the professor > teaches is to make money. All that talk about the course's > relevance to life may not be sincere. > > But an adjunct can say more than: "My class is relevant no > matter what you are planning to do." An adjunct can add: "I > don't teach it to earn a living. I do it because I understand > its value. My life -- a life probably very much like what > yours will be -- is richer and better because I study this > subject. Your life can be improved in the same way." > > When an adjunct delivers that message, students know it is > from the heart. So, even when it is the regular faculty member > who is inside the profession and the adjunct who is outside, > the adjunct has more authenticity. The adjunct can convince > students that a college education really is preparation for > their future lives. > > Of course, not every class should be taught by an adjunct. > Like any craft, teaching is best done by those who do it a > lot, and the only people who do it a lot are the ones who do > it for a living. Therefore, most classes should be taught by > professional academics. Adjuncts can be good teachers, too, > but our real value in academe is to remind students why they > are there in the first place. > > I began with a quip about Socrates, and he is a good way to > end as well. Socrates was not a professional philosopher. He > was a sculptor by trade, and apparently not a very good one. > In any case, he never took money for teaching philosophy. He > thought that philosophy should be practiced by everyone. > Perhaps he realized that teaching for pay would compromise his > ability to teach with authenticity. We modern adjuncts do not > go so far as to work for nothing, but I think we understand > what Socrates was talking about. We walk his walk, and we > practice what he preached. > > Bruce E.R. Thompson is a librarian at California State > University at San Marcos and an adjunct professor of > philosophy at Cuyamaca College. He is the editor of Oskar > Schindler, to be published by Greenhaven Press this year in > its People Who Made History series. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: > http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i46/46b01601.htm > > If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web > site, a special subscription offer can be found at: > > http://chronicle.com/4free > > _________________________________________________________________ > > You may visit The Chronicle as follows: > > * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com > * via telnet at chronicle.com > > _________________________________________________________________ > Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From Prof S.R.L. Clark" From: Science and Religion Forum This email is sent by the Science and Religion Forum - see end of email. The British Association for the Advancement of Science are holding their Fe= stival of Science at the University of Glasgow from 3 - 7 September 2001. There are 2 events which may interest you in particular. Please bring them = to the attention of colleagues & friends: 1) The Science and Religion Forum session: "Science and Theology from a soc= iological perspective: common ground or worlds apart?" 2) The Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology: "The Nature and Limits of Huma= n Understanding" If you want further details about these events together with a booking form= for the Festival of Science, please reply to this email. The essential inf= ormation is given below. 1) The Science and Religion Forum session is on Thursday 6th September 1400= to 1730 hours We will discuss questions such as... In what ways does society shape the pr= actice of science and theology? To what extent does a sociological perspect= ive level the disciplines? Can both be thought of as =91merely=92 social co= nstructs? What are the implications for the truth claims of each? Programme 1400-1445 Professor Harry Collins - Levelling the Playing Field for Scienc= e and Religion 1445-1530 Professor Roger Trigg - Does science deal with the real world? 1530-1600 Tea 1600-1645 Professor Alan Torrance - Two incompatible affiliations characte= ristic of contemporary academia and Professor David Saxon - Scientific Obje= ctivity? 1645-1730 Panel Discussion Session is chaired by Mike Poole Speakers * Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Direc= tor of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) a= t Cardiff University. * Roger Trigg is Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick and Chairm= an of the National Committee for Philosophy. * Alan Torrance is Professor of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Divinity, = University of St Andrews. * David Saxon is is Kelvin Professor of Physics at the University of Glasg= ow. He is a researcher in Experimental Particle Physics. * Mike Poole is Visiting Research Fellow in Science and Religion at the Sc= hool of Education, King=92s College, London. To attend, you need to book for the Festival of Science which is done via t= he British Association and not the Science and Religion Forum. We can send = a booking form in the post - just reply to this email requesting a BA booki= ng form. Alternatively you may book online at www.the-ba.net. For accommoda= tion, call +44 (0)20 7973 3062. 2) The Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology: "The Nature and Limits of Huma= n Understanding" The lectures take place within the framework of the BA Festival of Science = but attendance is free. All lectures: Room 15, James Watt Building; Round T= able session: Senate Room, Main Building. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Prof S.R.L. Clark" Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 19:12:59 -0500 From: James B. Sauer To: Philosophy Listserv Fiduciary Ethics: Explorations of Entrusted Care A Special Issue of _Philosophy in the Contemporary World_ Submissions are invited for a special issue of _Philosophy in the Contemporary World_ to be published in the Fall of 2002. The journal is a fully refereed, indexed, and copyrighted journal published by the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World. We welcome creative and insightful papers on any ethical concept or problem relating to the role of the fiduciary -- one who can be or is trusted with the care of others. Although philosophers have not given adequate attention to fiduciary ethics as an integral subdiscipline of ethics, it occupies a 'middle ground' between such subjects as the ethics of care and professional ethics. Sample subjects for investigation include but are not limited to: altruism, betrayal, charity, compassion, conscience, empathy, filial duty, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gift relationships, guidance, hope, loyalty, mentoring, negligence, parental duty, selfishness, stewardship, sympathy, tolerance, treachery, treason, and trust. Submission Deadlines: Abstracts due March 15 2002 Completed papers due July 15 2002 Submissions should adhere to the following guidelines: 1. Papers must be original, unpublished work. 2. Papers of 2-3,000 words are preferred, but articles of exceptional quality of any length will be considered. 3. All materials, including the abstract, block quotations, and notes, should be double-spaced. 4. An abstract suitable for publication should be submitted with the completed paper. 5. For style, see the journal; Kate L. Turabian, _A Manual for Writers_, latest edition; or _Chicago Manual of Style_, latest edition. 6. 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Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Ewa Lekka-Kowalik Fri Aug 3 12:51:23 2001 From: Ewa Lekka-Kowalik (Ewa Lekka-Kowalik) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 13:51:23 +0200 Subject: [Philnet] questions Message-ID: 1. WHERE did Morris Raphael Cohen die? 2. Were any papers (preferable books) written within last 20 years on (a) Morris Raphael Cohen (b)Rudolf Eucken? If you know the answer please, send directly to: alekka@kul.lublin.pl Thanks.Agnieszka Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From ROBERT A STERN Fri Aug 3 15:53:29 2001 From: ROBERT A STERN (ROBERT A STERN) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:53:29 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: Further to John Shand's reference to George Botterill as a chess- playing philosopher, see the message from George below, which mentions the names of some others... Bob Stern ------- Forwarded message follows ------- From: "GEORGE S BOTTERILL" To: "ROBERT A STERN" Date sent: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:07:28 +0100 Subject: Re: (Fwd) CHESS Priority: normal Dear Bob, Oh, I hadn't seen that. The US Grandmaster Robert Byrne (brother of the D. Byrne who lost a very famous game to a young Bobby Fisher) was always supposed to be an academic philosopher at some American university. But I could never understand how he managed to play in so many tournaments, if that was so. Another chess-playing philosopher I know of was the distinguished philosopher of language Kent Bach, who attended our first Hang Seng Conference. Afterwards he sent me a very charming card pointing out that we had once had consecutive games published on the same page of a chess magazine. Best wishes, George ------------------------------------- Professor Robert Stern Department of Philosophy University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN UK http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/department/staff/Stern.html Tel: ++44 (0)114 2220582 Fax: ++44 (0)114 2798760 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Steven Bayne Fri Aug 3 10:18:51 2001 From: Steven Bayne (Steven Bayne) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 09:18:51 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS References: Message-ID: <3B6A6C7B.4FC6EF7F@channel1.com> Although Emmanuel Lasker was trained as a mathematician, he is widely regarded as a philosopher. He held the World Championship in chess for about a quarter of a century. He beat Capablanca which is an enormous achievement in itself. No other philosopher comes close. Steve Bayne ROBERT A STERN wrote: > Further to John Shand's reference to George Botterill as a chess- > playing philosopher, see the message from George below, which > mentions the names of some others... > > Bob Stern > > ------- Forwarded message follows ------- > From: "GEORGE S BOTTERILL" > To: "ROBERT A STERN" > Date sent: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 15:07:28 +0100 > Subject: Re: (Fwd) CHESS > Priority: normal > > Dear Bob, > > Oh, I hadn't seen that. The US Grandmaster Robert Byrne (brother > of the D. Byrne who lost a very famous game to a young Bobby > Fisher) was always supposed to be an academic philosopher at > some American university. But I could never understand how he > managed to play in so many tournaments, if that was so. > > Another chess-playing philosopher I know of was the distinguished > philosopher of language Kent Bach, who attended our first Hang > Seng Conference. Afterwards he sent me a very charming card > pointing out that we had once had consecutive games published on > the same page of a chess magazine. > > Best wishes, > George > > ------------------------------------- > > Professor Robert Stern > Department of Philosophy > University of Sheffield > Sheffield S10 2TN > UK > > http://www.shef.ac.uk/~phil/department/staff/Stern.html > Tel: ++44 (0)114 2220582 > Fax: ++44 (0)114 2798760 > > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. > Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From alan waldron Fri Aug 3 17:15:50 2001 From: alan waldron (alan waldron) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:15:50 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] The ARITHMETIC of Pacem en Terre.... 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 http://www3.sympatico.ca/alan.waldron/ --------------4CCF43B0E40300E709BDE0C3-- Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Steven Bayne Fri Aug 3 11:58:04 2001 From: Steven Bayne (Steven Bayne) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 10:58:04 +0000 Subject: [Philnet] E. Lasker Our Friend in Philosophy Message-ID: <3B6A83BC.1128B971@channel1.com> Just a word more on Emmanuel Lasker. Fred Reinfeld who did the Introduction to Lasker's Manual of Chess (Dover. 1960 [1947]) wrote: The reader of this book does no need to be told that Lasker devoted years of study to mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Berlin, Goetingen, Heidelberg and Erlangen. The author of the Manual reveals himself not only as a philosopher in the technical sense, but as a man of philosophical temperament... p. viii. Let me just add a quote from Lasker himself at the end of his book since all too choose to do so may benefit by his words, substituting 'philosophy' for 'chess'. This harmonious life stems from life; life is generated only by life. He who wants to educate himself in Chess must evade what is dead in Chess - artificial theories supported by few instances and unheld by an excess of human wit; the habit of playing with inferior opponents; the custom of avoiding difficult tasks; the weakness of uncritically taking over variations or rules discovered by others; the vanity which is self-sufficient; the incapacity for admitting mistakes; in brief everything that leads to a standstill or to anarchy. Have we not reached in contemporary philosophy such a standstill; should we not prefer anarchy - heed Lasker, both punish us equally. It is very much worth mentioning, I think, that Einstein is said to have remarked: Emanuel Lasker was undoubtedly one of the most interesting people I came to know in my later life. (vide http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~carlson/chess/lasker.html) Also, note that Lasker loved pigeons, so drive carefully through city streets Steve Bayne Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From leslie-oakeshott-association Fri Aug 3 22:33:56 2001 From: leslie-oakeshott-association (leslie-oakeshott-association) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:33:56 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Michael Oakeshott Message-ID: <03b501c11c66$1def79c0$810ea4c2@oemcomputer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_02E2_01C11C6C.61A73BC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Michael Oakeshott Association The following speakers feature at the opening of the MOA inaugural = conference: Presidential Address: 'Oakeshott, the character' Professor Kenneth Minogue (LSE) 'Encounters with Michael Oakeshott' Professor Timothy Fuller (Colorado College) 'Why read Oakeshott' Professor No=EBl O'Sullivan (Hull) 'Oakeshott's philosophical legacy' Lord Quinton Date: 3rd September 2001 Venue: LSE, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, Aldwych WC2 Time: 10:00am sharp; latecomers will interrupt video recording =A320 advance including buffet lunch =A310 (=A35 students) on door, not including buffet lunch Above tariffs include commemorative booklet=20 For reservations please contact the Convenor:=20 Leslie@michael-oakeshott-association.org Five symposia over three days will cover all aspects of Oakeshott's = thought: epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of history, political = philosophy, philosophy of education, jurisprudence, aesthetics & = religion. Full conference details available at: http://www.michael-oakeshott-association.org=20 =20 ------=_NextPart_000_02E2_01C11C6C.61A73BC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Sun Aug 5 23:06:31 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:06:31 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <023301c11dfa$e2346a80$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Moody" To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:14 AM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > ----- Original Message ----- > > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > > > Aydin > > > ------------------------------------ > That's an interesting philosophy, especially if you're proposing that > there's no connection between "mathematics" and "thinking". My understanding > is that professional mathematicians rarely calculate; their function is to > decide what the computers should calculate. > > But leaving that aside, are you saying that philosophy is nothing but > "thinking"? Philosophy is, literally, a "love of knowledge", and knowledge > can be gained as much by experience as by reasoning. > > Nobody calculates in a vacuum. Thoughts over the chessboard are directed > into various paths by the player's knowledge, whether gained from books, > previous experience, or sheer genius. > > Whether or not you agree with his ideas, how can you say that Emanuel > Lasker's chess was not affected by his philosophical reasoning? > > David Moody > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Sun Aug 5 23:07:04 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:07:04 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: Chess Philosophy Message-ID: <023b01c11dfa$f63e6bc0$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Moody" To: Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:15 PM Subject: Re: Chess Philosophy > If someone does play the "perfect game", how will we know that it's perfect? > > David Moody Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Sun Aug 5 23:07:30 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:07:30 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <024301c11dfb$057f2520$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 6:38 AM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > Aydin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Daniels" > To: > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:42 PM > Subject: Fw: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > > > Here's another posting to PHILOS-L re George Botterill and Kent Bach. > Can't > > help wondering about the sort of intellectual who makes a superior chess > > player. Mathematicians, logicians, to be sure, but the discipline of > > philosophy, I've read, is not awash with grandmasters, the way one might > > expect. Or is that a basic error? Does the criterion of excellence obey > > independent rules? > > > > Wayne Daniels > > > > Philosophie sei, sagt der Theologe, wenn jemand in einem absolut dunklen > > Raum mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die gar nicht da > ist. > > Theologie aber ist, erwidert der Philosoph, wenn jemand in einem absolut > > dunklen Raum und mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die gar > > nicht da ist, und ruft: "Ich hab sie." > > > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Sun Aug 5 23:10:41 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:10:41 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Chess Philosophy Message-ID: <025d01c11dfb$775c0280$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Kolis" To: Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 5:44 PM Subject: Chess Philosophy > Chess and Philosophy are related: just look at the different styles players > have. > If two different players of the same stregnth but of different playing > styles spot a weakness in their opponents position, there very well may be > two logical ways > of winning. That what makes the game a "thinking" game. > > If everything logical were so rote, why are so many different openings played > ? Surely there must only be "one" correct path to follow to play a perfect > game. > > I, for one, am for imperfection, if a perfect game is ever played, that will > be end of chess. Let's hope that doesn't happen. I'll do my part, next time I > play over the board, > I'll play a gambit, surely not logical, but always fun. > > Paul Kolis Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Sun Aug 5 23:11:16 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:11:16 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <026301c11dfb$8c264680$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Sloan" To: Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > aydincil@TTNET.NET.TR writes: > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > Interesting - especially because I don't consider mathematics to be > "among sciences". > > In my opinion, mathematics is *philosophy* (and so, your last sentence > contradicts your first!) > > -- > Kenneth Sloan sloan@uab.edu > Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213 > University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473 > Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/ > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Sun Aug 5 23:11:42 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:11:42 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Chess Philosophy Message-ID: <026901c11dfb$9c180060$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenneth Sloan" To: Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 1:20 PM Subject: Chess Philosophy > Paul Kolis writes: > > Chess and Philosophy are related: just look at the different styles players > > have. > > If two different players of the same stregnth but of different playing > > styles spot a weakness in their opponents position, there very well may be > > two logical ways > > of winning. That what makes the game a "thinking" game. > > > > If everything logical were so rote, why are so many different openings played > > ? Surely there must only be "one" correct path to follow to play a perfect > > game. > > > > I, for one, am for imperfection, if a perfect game is ever played, that will > > be end of chess. Let's hope that doesn't happen. I'll do my part, next time I > > play over the board, > > ... > > On the contrary. Chess is hard (in my opinion) precisely because there > are often many "perfect" moves (in the loose sense that any move which > does not change the final outcome is "perfect"). > > If a perfect game is ever played, I don't think it will be the end of > chess. No matter what the result of this "perfect" game - there will be > (in my opinion) many unexplored, but still "perfect" choices to be made > by both sides. > > Games which have already been solved are characterized by having only > one (or a very few) "correct" moves. These correct moves, once found, > are relatively easy to prove "perfect". > > Chess has eluded solution, precisely because there are so many royal > roads to success. > > Consider - a case could be made that "if chess is a 'draw', then almost > (almost!) any first move by White is "perfect" - in the sense that it > does not in and of itself throw away the draw. If this is the case, > then it is easy to see that there *must* be many equally valid openings. > > -- > Kenneth Sloan sloan@uab.edu > Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213 > University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473 > Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/info/faculty/sloan/ Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Steven Ravett Brown Mon Aug 6 00:03:54 2001 From: Steven Ravett Brown (Steven Ravett Brown) Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 18:03:54 -0500 Subject: [Philnet] Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS In-Reply-To: <024301c11dfb$057f2520$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> Message-ID: Wayne Daniels8/5/01 5:07 PM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 6:38 AM > Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > >> I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think >> chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think >> it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about > calculation >> and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world >> can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to >> identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an >> attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, >> mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. >> >> Aydin >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Wayne Daniels" >> To: >> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 10:42 PM >> Subject: Fw: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS >> >> >>> Here's another posting to PHILOS-L re George Botterill and Kent Bach. >> Can't >>> help wondering about the sort of intellectual who makes a superior > chess >>> player. Mathematicians, logicians, to be sure, but the discipline of >>> philosophy, I've read, is not awash with grandmasters, the way one might >>> expect. Or is that a basic error? Does the criterion of excellence obey >>> independent rules? >>> >>> Wayne Daniels >>> >>> Philosophie sei, sagt der Theologe, wenn jemand in einem absolut dunklen >>> Raum mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die gar nicht da >> ist. >>> Theologie aber ist, erwidert der Philosoph, wenn jemand in einem absolut >>> dunklen Raum und mit verbundenen Augen eine schwarze Katze sucht, die > gar >>> nicht da ist, und ruft: "Ich hab sie." >>> >> > > Messages to the list are archived at > http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. > Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at > http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html Good quote. Speaking as a Go player and a philosopher, I found that Go made me a much better computer programmer, when I got reasonably good at it. I do not think that philosophy is always comparable, for a reason akin to the quote above: that in chess, Go, and programming, one's goals are almost always clear; certainly one's general goals. 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Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From nagps-emp-con@nagps.org Mon Aug 6 04:23:55 2001 From: nagps-emp-con@nagps.org (nagps-emp-con@nagps.org) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 03:23:55 GMT Subject: [Philnet] A Promising Professor Backs a T.A. Union Drive and Is Rejected for Tenure Message-ID: <200108060323.DAA17530@nagps.nagps.org> This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education (http://chronicle.com) was forwarded to you from: president@nagps.org From the issue dated August 10, 2001 A Promising Professor Backs a T.A. Union Drive and Is Rejected for Tenure By PIPER FOGG Joel Westheimer has run through the chain of events in his head a million times. First, he won a departmental award for research at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education, where he teaches. After that, he published a critically acclaimed book. Later, his tenure bid received unanimous backing from his department. In September 1999, he became the only professor without tenure to testify at National Labor Relations Board hearings on behalf of N.Y.U.'s graduate students, who were seeking the right to unionize. In June, he was denied tenure. Mr. Westheimer thinks this chronology leaves room for only one interpretation, and so he has begun to prepare for legal proceedings against N.Y.U., accusing the institution of retaliating against him for his testimony before the N.L.R.B. While last March N.Y.U. became the first private university to officially recognize a graduate-employee union, the administration spent years and a significant amount of money opposing the drive. Mr. Westheimer claims the university's desire for retribution motivated the decision to deny him tenure. N.Y.U. calls his allegations a "stretch," but many of his peers in academe agree with him. Mr. Westheimer's case comes soon after an incident of retaliation at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where a dean removed a tenured professor as head of the English department for refusing to discipline teaching assistants suspected of withholding undergraduates' grades as a protest against the size of their stipends. Union supporters see the two cases as reflective of the price that faculty members may pay for backing graduate students in contentious conflicts with university administrations. Even if Mr. Westheimer can never prove his case, the perception that he was punished may intimidate other faculty members. "You're always going to have a rather large silent majority of faculty. They really don't want to get involved in anything," says Andrew Ross, an American studies professor at N.Y.U. Gordon Lafer, a professor of labor, education, and research at the University of Oregon and a member of the national coordinating committee of Scholars, Artists, and Writers for Social Justice, considers administrative retaliation against pro-union professors a "big issue, and it's a kind of hidden issue." He says that SAWSJ is helping to plan a Workers' Rights Board hearing in October to address academic labor issues, including retaliation. Workers' Rights Boards enlist prominent citizens in public investigations of worker abuse. "There's a particular problem in academia because it's easy to be retaliated against but very hard to police," he says. "Tenure is famously secretive." Mr. Westheimer, who will remain an assistant professor at N.Y.U. until the end of this academic year, stakes his claim of retaliation on his conviction that his resume -- which, by most standards, is impressive enough -- warrants tenure. Since he first arrived at N.Y.U. in 1996, Mr. Westheimer had consistently received high evaluations from the department of teaching and learning. Many junior faculty members consider Mr. Westheimer a role model. He is a nationally recognized scholar on the role of teacher communities in education. Mr. Westheimer has written 10 journal articles, one book chapter, and three essay reviews. His 1998 book, Among Schoolteachers: Community, Autonomy, and Ideology in Teachers' Work (Teachers College Press), has been widely cited and was greeted with rave reviews. "His book on communities is a classic in the field," says Ann Lieberman, a visiting professor of education at Stanford University. He has received N.Y.U.'s own Griffiths Award for Excellence in Educational Research. For his first three years at the institution, the administration looked favorably on Mr. Westheimer's accomplishments. In July 1998, the dean of N.Y.U.'s education school, Ann L. Marcus, wrote to Mr. Westheimer, "I hope you have realized how important your work is to your department and our school. It is wonderful to have you with us." His department chairman, Mark M. Alter, wrote in May 1999 that he was making "excellent progress" toward tenure. Such strong departmental support continued, Mr. Westheimer says -- until he testified before the N.L.R.B. on September 28, 1999. In the next evaluation after his testimony, his rating went down a notch, from "exceptional merit," the highest, to mere "merit." "I was shocked when I saw the merit rating, because I had had a good year," says Westheimer. "I didn't think of it as them trying to build a record for denial of my tenure. I just let it go." N.Y.U.'s spokesman, John Beckman, says the school does not discuss employee evaluations but adds, "If there was any change in his evaluations, it has absolutely no connection to whether or not he testified." Soon, though, Mr. Westheimer began to get suspicious. He says, "There started to be little things that crept into letters from either the dean or my department chair. One said, there are 'some concerns about your ability or willingness to commit fully to the needs of our programs.'" Mr. Westheimer considered this admonishment from his dean -- which came with his 2000 annual review -- a slap on the wrist for his N.L.R.B. testimony. Ms. Marcus officially denied Mr. Westheimer tenure in a letter dated June 26, 2001, but he first learned of the impending news by telephone on March 21. "In that conversation, the associate dean, Gabriel Carras, read me excerpts of the letter from the Tenure and Promotion Committee," says Mr. Westheimer. Mr. Carras told Mr. Westheimer that he would be denied primarily because of insufficient scholarship. Robert Cohen, a tenured education professor at N.Y.U., says Mr. Westheimer is not only "on par with, or ahead of everyone who went up for tenure this year" in the education school, but he "definitely is ahead of most people who get tenure." Mr. Westheimer will not compare himself to his peers. Instead, he points to a statement, signed by five past presidents of the American Educational Research Association, that praises his scholarship and raises concerns about the possible retaliation by N.Y.U. N.Y.U. administrators will not discuss the details of Mr. Westheimer's tenure case. Mr. Westheimer's allegation about the administration's motivations, though, strikes Ms. Marcus as unlikely. She says, "Clearly, he's trying everything he can to win his case and get publicity for it." She adds that N.Y.U. has a very rigorous tenure-review process. "It's sad that people are disappointed. But, it happens. I believe our committees acted in good faith." But Mr. Westheimer is convinced that the motivation behind the university's rejection of his tenure, which overturned both the unanimous recommendation of his department and of eight outside reviewers, was purely political. The recommending examiners included Stanford's Ms. Lieberman and William Ayers, a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Mr. Westheimer admits, "I knew there was some risk to testifying, but I didn't think it would result in denial of tenure." The majority of his untenured peers in his department at N.Y.U. decline to go on the record about whether retribution might have played a part in the tenure process, but they will say he got a bum deal. "It was very surprising that he didn't get tenure. The facts seem a little suspicious, but I still think the school has to be above that kind of politics," says Kendall King, an assistant professor of teaching and learning. Brian Murfin, a former assistant professor in the science-education program, left N.Y.U. last semester to manage the office of educational programs at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. He thinks retribution "is probably a major reason" for Mr. Westheimer's rejection. "Joel definitely has everything it takes to be tenured at N.Y.U. His involvement in the graduate- student issue was directly opposite the administration. Junior faculty are under a lot of pressure to conform to, I don't want to say 'the party line,' but to the way things are done traditionally. Tenure is a very political decision." Mr. Westheimer says he had no previous history of activism and no union ties. But, he says, "N.Y.U. is a precedent-setting case, and I felt a real responsibility to my students." He adds that "I felt a particular responsibility to speak out -- as an education professor and a specialist in the subject of teacher community -- because the administration's objection had a lot to do with the nature of the educational relationship between students and professors." The administration's position throughout the labor talks had been that a union would damage that relationship, and Mr. Westheimer felt his experience and his research suggested otherwise. "I probably would do it again," he says, adding, "I did not foresee these extreme actions taking place." Now, he's working with a lawyer, paid for by the United Auto Workers, the national union that organized the N.Y.U. graduate students, and is preparing to file charges against the university with the N.L.R.B. According to union representatives, even though the campus labor movement has picked up momentum among both graduate students and professors, faculty fears are still a main obstacle to organizing, especially for professors who lack job security. "Untenured faculty, generally, I find to be very supportive of union attempts, but that is limited by their concerns about getting tenure," says Richard Moser, a national field representative for the American Association of University Professors. Mr. Moser and the A.A.U.P. take these fears seriously. At Emerson College, for example, they encouraged nontenured faculty members to limit their open support for union organizing of adjunct faculty because of the threat of a "vindictive" administration. David Rosen, an Emerson spokesman, while acknowledging the college's opposition to unionization, says he is unaware of any incidents of retaliation. As far as how such fears apply to Mr. Westheimer's situation, Ms. Marcus is not convinced. "That seems to me a pretty big stretch," she says. "When people don't get tenure, it's obviously very upsetting." Ms. Marcus says people will simply latch on to what they can to explain it. "I guess this line of reasoning strikes a nerve with people." Sheldon E. Steinbach thinks Mr. Westheimer's allegations are beyond far-fetched. "Sounds like an early-20th-century excuse for denial of tenure," he says. Mr. Steinbach is general counsel at the American Council on Education, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of N.Y.U. during the N.L.R.B. case. "Institutes of the sophistication and legitimacy of an N.Y.U. do not go around denying tenure to people on the grounds that they participated in a union-organizing campaign. N.Y.U. is not a robber baron." In the wake of the N.Y.U. and Buffalo incidents, some faculty members sympathetic to the unionizing movement may continue to stay silent for fear of administrative reprisal. But some faculty leaders think that, despite the fears that Mr. Westheimer's case might raise for a nontenured scholar, more professors are going to speak out. Things are not bleak, N.Y.U.'s Mr. Ross maintains. It is a nationwide sentiment, he says, that "faculty are waking up. The number is growing." Mr. Moser of the A.A.U.P. agrees. "The graduate-student unionization is changing the atmosphere. It's altering the environment from the bottom up." As a result, "tenured faculty members speaking out and being vocal is likely to become more of a part of academic culture," he says. "There's safety in numbers." _________________________________________________________________ Chronicle subscribers can read this article on the Web at this address: http://chronicle.com/weekly/v47/i48/48a00801.htm If you would like to have complete access to The Chronicle's Web site, a special subscription offer can be found at: http://chronicle.com/4free _________________________________________________________________ You may visit The Chronicle as follows: * via the World-Wide Web, at http://chronicle.com * via telnet at chronicle.com _________________________________________________________________ Copyright 2001 by The Chronicle of Higher Education From David Devalle <101446.1714@COMPUSERVE.COM> Mon Aug 6 12:51:06 2001 From: David Devalle <101446.1714@COMPUSERVE.COM> (David Devalle) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 07:51:06 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] EthicsSocialscience Message-ID: <200108060751_MC3-DB82-C9A8@compuserve.com> Review of Leland B. Yeager, _Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation_ (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001). Reviewed for Hayek-L by Steven Horwitz St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 13617 Opening Up Ethics to Social Scientific Inquiry Leland Yeager=92s new book is a bold attempt to link up the study of ethi= cs with the empirical results of social science and, in so doing, articulate= a defense of what he refers to as =93indirect=94 utilitarianism. Yeager=92= s central thesis is that ethical theory should be grounded in an understanding of what sorts of action further the penultimate value of social cooperation, whic= h in turn furthers the ultimate value of human happiness (hence, his utilitarianism is =93indirect=94). Those actions that are ethically righ= t are those that further social cooperation and those that are wrong are those that undermine it. In developing this argument, he confronts it with other, more crude, forms of utilitarianism as well as alternatives to utilitarianism, such as natural law and contractarian approaches. In articulating and defending this thesis, Yeager is both clear and persuasive. His approach to these issues has much to recommend to those interested in= Hayekian social theory. The core of the book is an elaboration of the implications of the idea th= at =93ought presupposes can.=94 Whatever set of moral precepts we adopt, th= ey must be a set that is =93realistically possible and mutually compatible=94 (81= ). Thus, if ought presupposes can, then =93can=94 presupposes some understan= ding of what is possible in the world. And it is here that Yeager=92s title come= s to the forefront: any ethical theory must take account of the findings of t= he social sciences in order to know what can be done, and therefore what sor= ts of things might possibly fit the bill for what ought to be done. This by= itself does not get us very far as we need some sort of criterion for wha= t we can or ought =93to do.=94 For Yeager, the answer to that question com= es from utilitarianism. Yeager demarcates two criteria for judging the =93utility=94 of the alter= native institutional structures and patterns of behavior that could be manifestations of an underlying ethics. The =93penultimate criterion=94 = is what Yeager terms =93social cooperation.=94 Social cooperation exists to the = degree that we can predict the behavior of others and thereby coordinate our actions. Social cooperation is necessary to achieve the ultimate goal, which is human happiness. Like all those in the utilitarian tradition, Yeager agrees that the ultimate criterion of judgment is whether institutions, norms, etc. promote human happiness. An ethical rule that did not further social cooperation, and therefore human happiness, is not one= that should be adopted or obeyed. Yeager spends a good deal of time carefully explicating how his indirect utilitarianism differs from so-called =93act=94 utilitarianism. Individu= als are not supposed to calculate the net contribution to human happiness of each= and every action they take. Nor are individuals, or some external observer, supposed to be able to quantify the utility or happiness of any or all individuals. Rather, Yeager argues that the utility-driven choice happen= s at the level of institutions, rules, norms, and social practices. Individuals should =93choose=94 social systems (understood as collections= of the various items in the previous sentences) that lead to the greatest degree= of social cooperation and, therefore, the greatest amount of human happiness= . Yeager believes that although our knowledge of the actual happiness of human beings is limited, we can legitimately explore the ways in which alternative social systems promote social cooperation (which can be broadly observed)= , which is the necessary condition for human happiness. If we know, for example, that market economies promote social cooperation= better than planned ones, then we can conclude they also further human happiness and that we should adopt ethical rules that are consistent with= market economies. Or in an example often raised by opponents of act-utilitarianism: the ethical status of the act of killing an innocent= person is not determined by a calculation of how much it adds or subtract= s from human happiness. Rather, the rule that =93murder is wrong=94 is one= that furthers social cooperation and human happiness, which provides it with i= ts ethical force. For Yeager, it is our ability to adopt and stick to specific rules, and to recognize that rare contexts will justify overriding those rules, that generates social cooperation and human happiness, not calculations of pleasure and pain with respect to specific acts. These examples show how indirect utilitarianism opens up ethics to empirical social scientific inquiry of a Hayekian sort. The knowledge th= at market economies promote social cooperation more effectively than planned= ones is derived from social science, as is the claim about murder. Yeage= r is quite inclusive in his conception of social science by not restricting= it to, say, just economics and political science. He includes history, anthropology, sociology, and psychology as well. That inclusiveness is important, as so much of the recent work on Hayekian liberalism and socia= l cooperation has been focused on political economy issues. One large potential benefit of Yeager=92s book is that it may encourage Hayekians t= o expand the range of institutions and practices they study and to explore how other institutions outside of political economy, as well as psychological= dispositions, contribute to or retard social cooperation. Hayekian anthropologists might explore these same issues by historical comparison.= Yeager=92s approach is also highly compatible with the evolutionary appro= ach adopted by the later Hayek. As Hayek made clear in several places, but most forcefully in The Fatal Conceit, he believed that ethics were evolved rather than objectively created. One could construct evolutionary arguments tha= t explore the ways in which particular institutions and practices have survived the evolutionary process precisely because they met the test of promoting social cooperation. One could do the same for whole societies.= A further step in bringing together Yeager=92s work with Hayek=92s would involve deepening our understanding of precisely what we mean by social cooperation. For example, what is the relationship between =93social cooperation=94 and =93spontaneous order=94? Or between =93social coopera= tion=94 and Hayek=92s discussion of equilibrium as a dovetailing of plans and expectations? As noted earlier, Yeager sees social cooperation as bound= up with the correctness of our expectation of the behavior of others. This suggests ample room for empirical-historical investigations of questions that walk the line between philosophy and psychology involving how expectations (and ideal types) are formed and maintained through time. Including insights from The Sensory Order might enable us to examine the relationship between the structure of the mind and how best to further social cooperation. Yeager=92s argument is also compatible with the recent interest in the institutions of civil society other than those of the market and the stat= e. Any ethical theory must encompass not only questions of state-enforced ethical norms (e.g., murder) but also the ways in which more informal ethical norms (e.g., trust, sympathy, tolerance, etc.) contribute to soci= al cooperation and the role played by families, religious institutions, schools, social organizations, and the like in promoting the observation = of those norms. Expanding the range of Hayekian social analysis to include these sorts of questions is central to a more thorough understanding of t= he evolution and maintenance of social order. Though ostensibly about ethics, Yeager=92s book is also a book about the = role of the social sciences in contributing to our understanding of how to mak= e the world a better place. Ultimately, economic, political, and social institutions should reflect our deepest ethical beliefs. Yeager complete= s the circle by arguing that our ethical beliefs must be consistent with, a= nd in some sense should derive from, our social-scientific understanding of the world. In order to further social cooperation and human happiness, we mu= st have ethical rules, and therefore social institutions, that are consisten= t with those goals. Yeager=92s indirect utilitarianism opens up ethics to = the results of social science, taking it deeper into the realm of the empiric= al and the evolutionary. This is an important project and one that is highl= y conducive to the kind of contributions Hayek scholars might provide. Steven Horwitz Associate Dean of the First Year Associate Professor of Economics St. Lawrence University Canton, NY 13617 sghorwitz@stlawu.edu Leland Yeagers's book _Ethics as Social Science: The Moral Philosophy of Social Cooperation_is available on the web from Laissez Faire Books: http://laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=3Dview&pid=3DPH8451&aid=3D100= 97 And from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1840645210/thefriedrhayeksc Copyright (c) 2001 by The Hayek Center for Multidisciplinary Research, all rights reserved. This work may be copied for non-profit educational use if proper credit is given to the author and the list. For other permissions, please contact: hayek-list@home.com Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. 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NB: PLEASE REGISTER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE IF YOU REQUIRE ACCOMMODATION. (more details at www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/html/moral_knowledge.htm) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Sean Sayers Mon Aug 6 14:13:46 2001 From: Sean Sayers (Sean Sayers) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:13:46 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Radical Philosophy 108 - table of contents Message-ID: <004c01c11e79$9fc24670$bc120c81@ukc.ac.uk> R a d i c a l P h i l o s o p h y 108 a journal of socialist and feminist philosophy july/august 2001 www.radicalphilosophy.com CONTENTS COMMENTARY Out of Japan: The New Associationist Movement Harry Harootunian 2 ARTICLES It's the Political Economy, Stupid! On Zizek's Marxism Sean Homer 7 Thinking Politically with Merleau-Ponty Diana Coole 17 The Fate of the Body Politic Mark Neocleous 29 REVIEWS Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach Swasti Mitter 40 Teresa Brennan, Exhausting Modernity: Grounds for a New Economy Tony Smith, Technology and Capital in the Age of Lean Production Christopher J. Arthur 43 Stanley Cohen, States of Denial: Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering Lynne Segal 45 Couze Venn, Occidentalism: Modernity and Subjectivity David Cunningham 46 Andrew Benjamin, Architectural Philosophy Jeremy Till 48 Elizabeth Wilson, Bohemians: The Glamorous Outcasts Elizabeth Wilson, The Contradictions of Culture: Cities, Culture Ben Highmore 51 Ruth Abbey, Charles Taylor Arto Laitinen 52 Julian Young, Heidegger's Philosophy of Art Jonathan Ree 54 NEWS Hegemony or Socialism? Stewart Martin 56 Cover: Andrew Fisher, Onlookers, 2000 ************************************************************* Contributors Harry Harootunian is Director of the Program in East Asian Studies and Professor of History at New York University. His books include History's Disquiet: Modernity and Everyday Life (Columbia University Press, 2000) and Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan (Princeton University Press, 2000). Sean Homer teaches psychoanalysis and English literature at Sheffield University. He is the author of Fredric Jameson: Marxism, Hermeneutics, Postmodernism (Polity, 1998) and editor of the forthcoming Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader (Palgrave). Diana Coole teaches politics at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her most recent book is Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism (Routledge, 2000). Mark Neocleous teaches in the Department of Government at Brunel University. 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I am composing a bibliography of the research about Immanuel Kant in Hungary between 1925 and 2000/2001 that is appearing soon in EXISTENTIA/MELETAI SOPHIAS (www.existentia.hu). This should include bibliography items of any publication that is made in Hungarian or is translated into Hungarian or is published in Hungary or is reviewing work done by Hungarians or in Hungary with respect to Immanuel Kant. What is considered includes not only entire books, articles, and reviews but significant chapters or even larger portions of text in books or articles too. Bibliographies of this type have already been appeared in EXISTENTIA about Heidegger, Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, Camus, Nietzsche, Sartre, Parmenides, and Plato. I am trying to make it as complete as possible to be as useful for others as possible. However, I am aware that many scholars involved are living abroad or published something abroad that is very difficult for me to locate. Therefore, I kindly ask you to send me your bibliography data (or a www pointer to it) especially if you think that I might miss your publication. If you send me your publication list, I can include the relevant items into the bibliography. Thanks for your cooperation. Szabolcs Ferenczi Editor, EXISTENTIA/MELETAI SOPHIAS www.existentia.hu e-mail: ferenczi@sunserv.kfki.hu Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Mon Aug 6 19:17:42 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 14:17:42 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <003201c11ea4$15c84200$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Language" To: "Wayne Daniels" Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 7:24 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > --- Wayne Daniels wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "David Moody" > > To: > > Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 7:14 AM > > Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > > > > I see no connection between philosophy and > > chess, because I don't think > > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know > > much about chess think > > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that > > it's 99% about > > calculation > > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most > > positional player in this world > > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It > > takes a few seconds to > > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's > > position and come up with an > > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes > > minutes. So I think, > > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to > > chess among sciences. > > > > > > > > Aydin > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > That's an interesting philosophy, especially if > > you're proposing that > > > there's no connection between "mathematics" and > > "thinking". My > > understanding > > > is that professional mathematicians rarely > > calculate; their function is to > > > decide what the computers should calculate. > > > > > > But leaving that aside, are you saying that > > philosophy is nothing but > > > "thinking"? Philosophy is, literally, a "love of > > knowledge", and knowledge > > > can be gained as much by experience as by > > reasoning. > > > > > > Nobody calculates in a vacuum. Thoughts over the > > chessboard are directed > > > into various paths by the player's knowledge, > > whether gained from books, > > > previous experience, or sheer genius. > > > > > > Whether or not you agree with his ideas, how can > > you say that Emanuel > > > Lasker's chess was not affected by his > > philosophical reasoning? > > > > > > David Moody > > As if "philosophical reasoning" were of that special > kind which you suddenly acquire when you come to be > called a philosopher. > > Daniel > > > > > > > > > Messages to the list are archived at > > http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. > > Other philosophical resources on the Web can be > > found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger > http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ > Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Prof S.R.L. Clark" From: Mikael M. Karlsson 29th Hume Conference Helsinki, Finland 6-10 August 2002 EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE The organizers of the Helsinki Hume Conference, "Born for Action? Born for Reason?", which will be held 6-10 August 2002, have announced an extension of the deadline for submitted papers to October 1st, 2001. The original deadline was September 1st. Submissions must be RECEIVED by the deadline date, in electronic form. For further details, see the information posted on the Hume Society web site: and the conference web site, which is best accessed through the Society's home page. ESTIMATED COSTS An estimate of expenses for the Helsinki conferences was announced at the Hume Society's Victoria conference by Wade Robison, Chair of the Organizing Committee. The registration fee will be in the neighborhood of $50. Accommodation in Helsinki will starts at $60 per night for single rooms, $70 for double rooms. All book hotels are in the downtown area, close to the Conference Center. The banquet may run as high as $80. A day-trip to Tallin, Estonia, has been planned into the program. The ferry fare will be about $30. For those interested in a post-conference visit to St. Petersburg, train tickets and accommodation will be arranged by a travel agency working for the conference. New information is being placed regularly on the conference web site. For the Hume Society, Mikael M. Karlsson Secretary-Treasurer Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From peter turland Mon Aug 6 21:14:28 2001 From: peter turland (peter turland) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:14:28 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Agueing with onself Message-ID: <01080621142800.02269@localhost.localdomain> Hello, I'm fed up with arguing with myself, I've written a piece about chess, but it's rather chessy for this list., so I was going to just post a link to it. I Iive in Linux land now, safe from red code worms. and I have found difficulty without a lot of tedium converting my chess email into HTML and bunging it on my website and giving the members of this list who like my occasional output, the right just to click on the link instead. It all seemed too complex for words, so I have given in to the part of my head that says 'post it you fool' so if this email has annoyed you in any way at all, please delete the next email from me. Peter Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From peter turland Mon Aug 6 21:37:53 2001 From: peter turland (peter turland) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:37:53 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Chess Message-ID: <01080601584500.01576@localhost.localdomain> Hello, I once played in a chess tornament, the H E Atkins memorial tournament to be precise, but once was enough for me, a very interesting experience though. The year I played they held it in the ball room of the Grand Hotel, so it was a good setting. To those that have never attended a chess tourament, it can seem very peculiar, you enter a big room and the first thing that hits you is the silence, which is weird because there are a lot of people in there. One usually associates lots of people, with lots of noise, like a darts match or something. Certtainly after being a spectator for a while I came to the conclusion it was like watching paint dry or grass grow, but a different perspective ensued when I actually got to play. Not having a grade, I played in the duffers section. Or the minors as it was termed. I had my first opponent, a twelve year lad, I can remember him now, peering up at me. So the pair of us set off, both of us playing real careful, we ended up in a position where he had one half of the board and I had the other, both of us behind solid pawns structures in the middle, the position was locked solid, after what seemed like an eternity of aimless wood pushing, I offered the kid a draw, which he declined. So the aimless pushing wood continued, after a while I started to get a bit annoyed, thinking to myself 'can't he see it's a draw? Which motivated me to make a rash move with a pawn in the center, the little devil was all over me, he managed to get a pawn to a position, where he could exchange it for a queen, on his next move, in his excitement he failed to see I had pinned his pawn against his queen with my queen, so as he queened the pawn, my queen took his queen. He was that mortified he burst into tears, quietly of couse. I subsequently discovered he had been the under twelve champion of somewhere or other, so in a sense I got off lightly. He had a won position but blew it. On to my next oponent, a middle aged lady, I beat her as well. I played the sicilian, she really made my knights dance but could not wear them out. The amusing thing about the system of, who plays who, is it forms a ladder where you play the person next to you in score, that if you beat that person, you move up the ladder and to the left, and if you lose you move down the ladder and to the right, the way the seating was arranged was if you won, you got more space to play in, and if you lost, less space to play in, bit of a micrcosm of society really, the more you lost, the more you headed towards the slums. At the top of the ladder you had your own seperate table to play on, wow, out in the leafy suburbs or what! Then to my third opponent, by this time I had a little bit of confidence, well after putting a twelve year kid under my belt and an innocent old lady. I was playing a guy about twenty two years old. I started for the first time in my life to play real chess. I was very very focused. I remember looking at my watch at one time and seeing an hour go past, in the seeming blink of an eyelid, how different ones time sense was, from watching, to actually playing. Another thing I remember was calculating to such a depth, it made my brain warm, I knew this because I started to sweat, I've often wondered if being bald is an evolutionary adaptation to the problem caused by the brain overheating due to an excess of use, and the problems getting rid of all that excess heat with all that hair in the way. I actually achieved some spectators as well, my finest chess moment. I found a very deep combination, that started with me sacrificing a minor piece and about five moves later, winning back two of his minor piece's and it worked a treat, after that, it was a relatively simple operating mopping up, 'till he threw in the towel. Three straight wins in a row and I had made it to the top table, then I met a chess hustler. Every proper chess player gets a grade, the tournament you play in, is dictated by your grade, I was playing in the under 130 grade because I didn't have a grade. What some players will do is judiciously lose enough club games to keep their grade below 130, so they can enter the minor's and possibly win some prize money. This guy didn't beat me with chess, he beat me with psychology, what he did was play a very drawish opening, then waste nearly all of the time on his clock, he kept wandering off, there is nothing in the rules to stop you doing anything you wanted to, as long as it was not either noisy or distracting to the players. I can't remember, the amount of time you where given to the first time control, something like an hour and half for the 30 odd, moves. Well enough time, to go for a meal, do some shopping like, as long as you returned before the flag fell, no problem. He left it to the last couple of minutes, before he started to play, of course by now, I was a bit rattled by his strange behaviour with him dissapearing all the time, I ask you? He had got me so impatient to get on with it, that I started to play as quickly as him, and made a silly error and lost, which was dopey, because I had loads of time left on my clock, I analysed the game at a later date, with accurate play on both sides it would have been a draw at worst, and he had such little time left, I might have beat him on time, it was now my turn to feel mortified. Nerves shot, I lost the next two games as well. One clear recollection I had of the whole episode of three days , was feeling completely knackered at the end of it, a very intense experience indeed. It was also my realisation that if I was going to do anything to furthering my chess carreer, I would have to devote a lot more of my mental powers to sudying chess, than I was devoting to learning about computers, driving trucks, reading like a drain, and arguing about philosophy and bringing up a family, I'm afraid the chess lost out, but I often wonder if I had beaten that guy, would my life have taken a different turn? Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Mon Aug 6 21:54:37 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:54:37 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Final Posting, but carry on. Message-ID: <006d01c11eba$0176d580$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> With these two postings I conclude my moderator-like duties. (And very tedious they were, too.) I urge those interested in this or some cognate matter, to sign on to the list to which they do not presently belong, if they'd like to continue the discussion. PHILOS-L : Send to LISTSERV@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK CHESS-L : Send to LISTSERV@NIC.SURFNET.NL BTW, I wasn't kidding about the tedium. I think we should try our best to get Stephen and Frank drunk at least twice a year. Cheers, Wayne Daniels "Nobody has the slightest idea how anything material could be conscious. Nobody even knows what it would be like to have the slightest idea about how anything material could be conscious. So much for the philosophy of consciousness." Jerry Fodor (1992). ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 10:05 AM Subject: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS > And, of course, calculations have nothing to do with thinking... > > In a message dated Sat, 4 Aug 2001 7:22:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aydincil@TTNET.NET.TR writes: > > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > > > Aydin Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Wayne Daniels Mon Aug 6 22:10:41 2001 From: Wayne Daniels (Wayne Daniels) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 17:10:41 -0400 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: Re: (Fwd) Re: (Fwd) CHESS Message-ID: <007c01c11ebc$400d8f80$4235e218@busy1.on.home.com> > And, of course, calculations have nothing to do with thinking... Actually, JET's sharpish rejoinder demonstrates part of the value and interest of a philosphical inquiry into games and their rules. But I shall leave that for the moment. Wayne Daniels The aim of philosophy is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term. Wilfrid Sellars. ________________________________________________________ Sat, 4 Aug 2001 7:22:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, aydincil@TTNET.NET.TR writes: > > > I see no connection between philosophy and chess, because I don't think > > chess is a game of thinking. People who don't know much about chess think > > it's the ultimate thinking game, but we know that it's 99% about calculation > > and only 1% about thinking. Even the most positional player in this world > > can't get anywhere without sharp calculations. It takes a few seconds to > > identify the weaknesses in your opponent's position and come up with an > > attacking plan, but calculation the lines takes minutes. So I think, > > mathematics is most likely to be the closest to chess among sciences. > > > > Aydin Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Sue McPherson Tue Aug 7 00:36:36 2001 From: Sue McPherson (Sue McPherson) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 00:36:36 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Raul Hilberg quote Message-ID: <002e01c11ed0$a2a77980$42b186d9@suemcp> list members: I came cross this quote by Raul Hilberg but have been unable to find the source. It was not in Destruction of the European Jews (1961) nor in the abridged edition. If anyone is familiar with it could you please advise, thanks, Sue McPherson The Holocaust is a fundamental event in history -- not only becaue one-third of the jewish people in the world died in the space of four years, not only because of the manner in which they were killed, but becasue,in the last analysis, it is inexplicable. All our assumptions about the world and its progress prior to the years when this event burst forth have been upset. The certainties of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century vanished in its face. What we once understood, we no longer comprehend. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Prof S.R.L. Clark" From: Nicholas Agar To: aphil-l@coombs.anu.edu.au VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, Wellington, New Zealand. Lectureship (permanent) in Philosophy, starting February 1, 2002 (negotiable). Teaching load approximately equivalent to 3 one-semester courses per year (plus possible MA and Ph.D. supervision). AOS: open. AOC: open. Strong research and teaching potential are essential. Please visit www.nzjobs.co.nz/vuw for an online application form and role description (or contact the HR Assistant, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, tel +64 4 463 5208, email hss-appoint@vuw.ac.nz ). Applications (quoting Ref: HSS 139) must include a cover letter, CV, at least one writing sample, and the names and contact addresses of three referees. Information about the Philosophy Programme and its staff is available on our website at=A0 http://www.vuw.ac.nz/phil/ Closing date: November 16 2001. Interviews of some candidates at the APA Eastern Division Meeting. Others to be interviewed by phone.=A0 Please indicate in your application whether you will be attending the APA.=A0 Victoria University of Wellington is an EEO employer. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Prof S.R.L. Clark" I don't normally encourage ads for new books (there are too many new books). On the other hand, perhaps this is an ad for an old book ..... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:04:53 +0200 (MET DST) From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi To: Prof. Stephen Clark Subject: [MIT NEW BOOK] Samuel Todes _Body and World_ [for philosophy-l lists) Dear Professor Stephen Clark, A new pub..Body and World by Samuel Todes: introductions by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Piotr Hoffman Body and World is an original and systematic contribution to existential phenomenology. Todes goes beyond Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty in his description of how independent physical nature and experience are united in our bodily action. His account allows him to preserve the authority of experience while avoiding the tendency toward idealism that threatens both Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. In so doing, Todes offers a new defense of realism that will have to be taken into account by those in the current realism/anti-realism debate. The book also makes an important contribution to the current debate among analytic philosophers concerning non-conceptual content and its relation to thought. In this conncetion, Todess relevant theses are: (1) Our unified, active body, in moving to meet our needs, generates a unified, spatio-temporal field. (2) In that field we use our perceptual skills to make the determinable perceptual objects that show up relatively determinate. (3) Once we have made the objects of practical perception determinate, we can make practical perceptual judgements about them. Such judgments have conditions of satisfaction, but they are non-conceptual in that they are a way of coping with an actual object in this situation, from this point of view, in this light, in this orientation, and so forth. (4) By withholding our activity, however, we can transform our practical perception into a detached, spectatorial perception of qualities that are experienced as independent of the object they qualify. (5) Thanks to our conceptual imagination, we can then treat these qualities as reidentifiable properties of reidentifiable objects that can be entertained by thought. Todes emphasizes the complex structure of the human body--front/back asymmetry, the need to balance in a gravitational field, and so forth--and the role that structure plays in producing the spatiotemporal field of experience and in making possible objective knowledge of the objects in it. He shows that perception involves nonconceptual, but nonetheless objective forms of judgment. Samuel Todes was Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University at the time of his death in 1994. Body and World is based on his dissertation, written in 1963 and published in 1990 in the series Harvard Dissertations in Philosophy under the title The Human Body as Material Subject of the World. Dagfinn Follesdal comment: Todes' dissertation is a remarkable work. It delves deeply into issues that have only now, forty years later, become central concerns in epistemology, philosophy of action and philosophy of mind. These issues had been broached by Husserl in manuscripts and had been followed up by Heidegger and above all by Merleau-Ponty, but Todes carried the discussion further with careful analyses and original ideas. He discusses how the body has anticipations that can be satisfied or frustrated, and shows how these processes are of crucial importance for clarifying the nonconceptual elements in knowledge. He also throws much needed light on the percipient as a bodily subject, on the unity of the person and the unity of the object experienced. The dissertation is a classic in the sense that it remains as thought-provoking and illuminating today as when it was written. Details at Thank you..its an important publication.. Sincerely yours Arun Tripathi -- Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From nagps-intl@nagps.org Tue Aug 7 07:01:13 2001 From: nagps-intl@nagps.org (nagps-intl@nagps.org) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:01:13 GMT Subject: [Philnet] A washingtonpost.com article from president@nagps.org Message-ID: <200108070601.GAA21310@nagps.nagps.org> You have been sent this message from president@nagps.org as a courtesy of the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com). To view the entire article, go to http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40156-2001Aug6.html?referer=email Alliance Forms on Immigrant Policies By Thomas B. Edsall and Cheryl W. Thompson A powerful alliance of labor and business groups, immigrants rights organizations and Republican political strategists has formed to lobby for immigration liberalization, reversing the anti-immigrant tenor that has dominated the nation's capital for much of the last decade. As top U.S. and Mexican officials prepare for an important meeting on the immigration plan Thursday, representatives from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have met with State and Justice Department officials. Officials with the American Immigration Lawyers Association are talking with members of Congress and have sent their immigration reform ideas to the White House. The League of United Latin American Citizens met Friday with Vice President Cheney's staff. Rallies have been held in Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Petition drives are underway to send postcards to Mexican President Vicente Fox. "Things have changed," said Theresa Cardinal Brown, manager of immigration and labor policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a principal in a key pro-immigration business organization, the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition. "This is probably one of the most friendly environments for positive immigration reform that I have seen." While specific proposals under discussion by the working group of U.S. and Mexican officials have not been made public, they cover a range of issues and could include a legalization plan for some of the estimated 6 million to 9 million undocumented people now living and working in the United States. Mexicans account for an estimated half of that population, while Salvadorans, Guatemalans, Canadians, Haitians, Filipinos, Hondurans, Poles and other nationalities make up the rest, according to the INS. The plan may include a system for undocumented workers to earn permanent residency status -- green cards -- which would put them on the road to citizenship. President Bush has said, however, that he does not favor blanket amnesty for undocumented workers like that provided by the 1986 law, which legalized 2.7 million undocumented people. The proposals being discussed also may include an expanded guest worker program favored by some who oppose legalization or regularization plans. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Attorney General John D. Ashcroft are scheduled to meet with Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castaneda and Interior Minister Santiago Creel Thursday at the State Department. Next month, Bush and Fox are to meet for the first time in Washington, and an immigration plan is expected to be a key issue. Despite the shortage of specifics, and the possibility of only small changes, the prospect of reform has galvanized a wide spectrum of groups interested in comprehensive change. John Gay, co-chairman of the Essential Workers Coalition, which represents more than 30 trade organizations, said he has made the case to several senators that immigration reform must be comprehensive. "A guest worker program alone won't make it through" Congress, said Gay, who is also vice president for governmental affairs for the American Hotel and Lodging Association. "Legalization alone won't make it through. Politically, we believe that a comprehensive bill is the only thing that's going to make it through Congress." Brent Wilkes, national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, said his organization lobbied Cheney's staff to "encourage them to stick with a plan to regularize" immigrants' status and allow them to work legally. Business and labor groups are generally agreed that penalties against businesses that hire undocumented workers -- enacted in 1986 but rarely enforced -- need to be ended, except in the cases of businesses that actively smuggle illegal workers into the country. Organized labor and many immigrant groups involved in the issue, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, are preparing to call for full legal and workplace rights for temporary workers, including the right to organize and form unions. This could pit business against labor, and force the Bush administration to choose between the pro-business forces in the Republican Party and the leaders of Hispanic organizations, most of whom are strongly supportive of labor protections. In the case of immigration liberalization, said Charles Kamasaki, vice president of the National Council of La Raza, an administration program with the potential to achieve at least a partial political breakthrough among Hispanic voters would have to include a legalization program with "an eventual path to citizenship, and real labor rights." He noted the strong levels of Hispanic support Bush received as Texas's governor, as well as support given to Republican mayors Rudolph Giuliani and Richard Riordan of New York and Los Angeles, respectively. "There is some basis for the argument that Republicans who make significant policy changes and distinguish themselves from the anti-immigration wing of their party can make very significant inroads on the Hispanic vote," Kamasaki said. The Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that favors more controls on immigration, has prepared a detailed study by University of Maryland political scientists James G. Gimpel and Karen Kaufmann. Their analysis suggests that liberalized immigration will not only fail to win votes for the GOP, but that it will backfire by strengthening the Democratic Party over time. The report indirectly disputes the arguments made by White House political strategist Karl Rove and GOP polling specialist Matthew Dowd. The report says survey data, including an exhaustive poll of Hispanics by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University, show that Hispanics who are not yet citizens are more inclined to support Democrats than Hispanics who are citizens. It also says there is "no evidence that a significant percentage of the Latino vote is 'in play.' " Others also note that the Hispanic vote is not monolithic, with Cuban Americans in Miami concerned about very different issues than Mexican Americans are in Los Angeles. The developments of recent months have left anti-immigration groups on the defensive, forcing them to bolster their traditional lobbying arguments: that immigrants use a disproportionate share of welfare programs, increase urban and suburban sprawl, lower wages and contribute to environmental deterioration. "They [pro-immigration forces] have got more of the cards in their deck," said Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who is outraged by some colleagues' support of outright amnesty for illegal immigrants. "You have to ask a member of the Congress if they are in fact in support of upholding the laws of the land." Anti-immigration forces are banking on extended debate to revive substantial public opposition to immigration, which pits the two major forces in the Republican Party, business and social conservatives, against each other. "As this drags out, people are going to pay attention, and the people it is going to make the most angry are the base of the Republican Party -- law and order voters," said Steven A. Camarota, research director for the Center for Immigration Studies. One of the difficulties facing anti-immigration groups is that key interest groups and constituencies have become convinced of the legitimacy of liberalized immigration. The most dramatic of these conversions has been within the AFL-CIO, which for years saw immigration as a source of cheap labor that competed with union workers and forced wages down. In 2000, the AFL-CIO abandoned this policy and has since become a leading proponent of amnesty and legalization for undocumented workers, who are now seen as a key organizing target and a source of new members. "There are immigrants now everywhere where people work," said John Wilhelm, president of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union and chair of the AFL-CIO immigration committee. "The labor movement has embraced that reality and returned to its roots" to become "a labor movement that is being rebuilt by immigrants," he said. Similarly, for key sectors of the business community, immigrants -- legal and illegal -- are a critical source of workers, often performing jobs that U.S. citizens will not take. For much of the service, restaurant, hotel and construction sectors, immigrant labor has become essential. "There are not enough people. In spite of the increasing unemployment rate, you can't find enough people to fill the jobs," Brown said. For religious groups, particularly the Catholic Church, Hispanic immigration has been a huge source of parishioners. "We estimate that about 70 percent of the Latinos in this country are Catholic," said Kevin Appleby, director of migration policy for the Bishops' Conference. "The primary consideration of the church is that legalization promotes family unity." He noted that a large number of immigrant children, many of whom are Catholic, live in "mixed status" families, in which an immediate relative, often a parent, lives illegally in this country. From nagps-intl@nagps.org Tue Aug 7 07:28:58 2001 From: nagps-intl@nagps.org (nagps-intl@nagps.org) Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 06:28:58 GMT Subject: [Philnet] NYTimes.com Article: Citing Costs, U.S. Seeks to Raise Fees for Immigrants' Applications Message-ID: <200108070628.GAA21442@nagps.nagps.org> This article from NYTimes.com has been sent to you by president@nagps.org. ISCC- Based on conversations with some of you, it sounds like this proposed INS fee increase could increase hardships for international grads. I would be interested to hear feedback from list serv members about their thoughts on this proposal. Kim Suedkamp Wells NAGPS President /-------------------- advertisement -----------------------\ Let NYTimes.com Come to You Sign up for one of our weekly e-mails and the news will come directly to you. YOUR MONEY brings you a wealth of analysis and information about personal investing. CIRCUITS plugs you into the latest on personal technology. TRAVEL DISPATCH offers you a jump on special travel deals and news. http://email.nytimes.com/email/email.jsp?eta5 \----------------------------------------------------------/ Citing Costs, U.S. Seeks to Raise Fees for Immigrants' Applications By ERIC SCHMITT WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 — The Immigration and Naturalization Service proposed to raise fees today by nearly 20 percent for applications and services used by millions of immigrants. The cost of applying for citizenship, for instance, would increase to $260 from $225. Two years ago, the agency raised that fee from $95. The application for permanent residency would rise to $255 from $220. Replacing a green card or citizenship certificate would cost $155, up from $135. Immigration officials said the increases were necessary to cover the rising costs of services paid for by user fees, not money appropriated by Congress. The higher fees would also pay for services to refugees and asylum seekers, who are not charged for benefits. "These fees are badly needed to recoup the costs of adjudicating applications and petitions," said William R. Yates, the agency's chief immigration services official. The fees are now subject to public comment, but if the Bush administration gives final approval, they would take effect in January and raise $127 million a year in additional revenue, Mr. Yates said. Much of that money could be used to help prevent backlogs from growing. Currently, someone applying for citizenship must wait an average of nine months, but that delay can be much longer in some parts of the country. The wait for a green card granting permanent residency is about 16 months, officials said today, but that wait also varies widely by region. Mr. Yates told reporters that the fee increases would not dissuade immigrants. "Whenever you increase fees," he said, "obviously there's concern about the burden on those paying the fees. But these fee increases are not huge." Advocacy groups for immigrants criticized the agency today for proposing higher fees at a time when many immigrants struggle with long lines, surly service and bureaucratic delays. "It's wrong," said Gustavo Torres, executive director of Casa of Maryland, a nonprofit agency in Takoma Park, Md., that assists mainly low- income Hispanics. "They say they're going to improve service with the fee increases, but their focus has always been more on detention than on providing quality service." Indeed, on his first official day on the job, the new commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, James W. Ziglar, said he planned to get up early one day this week to talk to the hundreds of immigrants who line up every morning outside the agency's field office in Arlington, Va. This week Mr. Ziglar is also likely to join other administration officials in preparing for a meeting on immigration and border issues here on Thursday with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Attorney General John Ashcroft and their Mexican counterparts. An administration working group headed by Mr. Powell and Mr. Ashcroft recommended to President Bush last month that the United States allow some of the estimated three million Mexicans who live here unlawfully to earn permanent legal residency. In recent days, administration officials have repeated Mr. Bush's assertion that no blanket amnesty will be granted, but they have kept quiet about specifics they will discuss with Mexican officials this week. At a meeting at the White House last Friday, Diana Schacht, one of Mr. Bush's domestic policy advisers, told a dozen advocacy groups for immigrants that the administration was interested in a new model for immigration policy. Ms. Schacht also emphasized Mr. Bush's public support for a new temporary-worker program with Mexico, and possibly a plan that could be expanded to other countries. But, participants in the meeting said, administration officials were noncommittal on any program to allow illegal immigrants already in this country or new temporary workers to earn permanent legal status. Supporters of such a program have increased their lobbying. A new internal conducted for Republican governors shows narrow support for a legalization plan for unlawful Mexicans already here (50 percent of respondents approve; 45 percent oppose) and strong backing for a guestworker program that permits new immigrants to earn permanent legal residency over time (57 percent approve; 39 percent oppose). http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/07/national/07IMMI.html?ex=998202718&ei=1&en=cb0eccf0789c096a /-----------------------------------------------------------------\ Visit NYTimes.com for complete access to the most authoritative news coverage on the Web, updated throughout the day. Become a member today! 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For more information please contact mailto:helpdesk@jobs.thes.co.uk ________________________________________ From Paul Cecil Wed Aug 8 23:38:39 2001 From: Paul Cecil (Paul Cecil) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 23:38:39 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Fw: joachim stolz Message-ID: <000601c1205a$dff97e60$80ad7ad5@home> > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Michel Weber > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 9:55 AM > > Subject: joachim stolz > > > > > > > Dear listers > > > Does anybody know the coordinates of Joachim Stolz, author of > > Whitehead und > > > Einstein ? > > > Yrs > > > MW > A quick check shows that JS is based at Dortmund University. The following is an English-language gateway (the rest was in German). http://www.uni-dortmund.de/UniDo/index_en.html Hope this helps. Paul Cecil, Head of the Academic Office University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH 01273 877755 E-mail: P.L.Cecil@sussex.ac.uk Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From nagps-intl@nagps.org Thu Aug 9 12:14:12 2001 From: nagps-intl@nagps.org (Doris Dirks) Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 11:14:12 GMT Subject: [Philnet] Fwd: NAFSA.news Vol. 6, No. 29a Message-ID: <200108091114.LAA00352@nagps.nagps.org> Hello Internationals and Friends, I have attatched the latest information and advocacy opportunities to repeal the CIPRIS/SEVIS legislation. This has been an issue near and dear to NAGPS internationals. Please read this carefully and write a letter. Regards, Doris Dirks International Student Concerns Committee, Chair >From: "NAFSA.news" >To: NAFSANEWS@LISTS.NAFSA.ORG >Subject: NAFSA.news Vol. 6, No. 29a >Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:48:49 -0400 > >********************** >NAFSA.news Extra >********************** > >Vol. 6, No. 29a >August 7, 2001 > >ACTION ALERT > >**CIPRIS Repeal Bill Introduced in the House; More Cosponsors for Repeal >Bill Needed** > >On August 2, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) introduced H.R. 2779, "The >International Students Reporting Act of 2001." The bill would repeal >section >641 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act >(IIRAIRA) of 1996, which is the legislative authority for CIPRIS. NAFSA >supports H.R. 2779 and urges you to ask your representative in Congress to >cosponsor this bill. > >*Background* >Section 641 requires the Immigration and Naturalization Service to collect >information from higher education and exchange visitor programs on all F, >J, >and M visa holders. The electronic tracking system is commonly known as >CIPRIS and is now referred to as SEVIS (Student and Exchange Visitor >Information System). In order to develop and maintain SEVIS, a >nonrefundable >fee will be charged to foreign students and exchange visitors prior to >receiving their visa classification. For more background information on >CIPRIS/SEVIS please go to: >http://www.nafsa.org/content/PublicPolicy/NAFSAontheIssues/CIPRISissuebrief. >htm. > >Tell your member of Congress to repeal CIPRIS/SEVIS and cosponsor H.R. >2779! > > >*Current List of Cosponsors* >The following members of the House of Representatives have already joined >McCollum as original cosponsors: Tammy Baldwin (D-Wisc.), Earl Blumenauer >(D-Ore.), Bob Filner (D-Calif.), James McGovern (D-Mass.) and James >Oberstar >(D-Minn.). If one of these members is your representative, please write and >thank them for their support. If you do not know the name of your >representative, please go to http://www.house.gov/writerep/. You will need >to type in your state and zip code, and your representative will be >displayed. Also, the advocacy tool on NAFSA's Web site will identify your >member of Congress for you as you enter your mailing address. > >*How to Make a Difference* >We need cosponsors! Write your representative and urge him or her to >cosponsor H.R. 2779. NAFSA has provided a sample letter on our Web site >through our new "Take Action" letter-writing tool. > >*How to Use the New Letter-Writing Tool on the Web* >1. Go to >http://www.nafsa.org/content/PublicPolicy/NAFSAontheIssues/CIPRISissuebrief. >htm and print out the PDF version of the CIPRIS repeal issue brief to >attach >with your letter. >2. Go to http://cw2k.capweb.net/nafsa/letterstate.cfm?CurrentState=index to >access the sample letter. If you have trouble accessing this Web address, >you may also go to www.nafsa.org and select "Public Policy." Choose "Take >Action" and then select "Send a Message to Washington." >3. Select the sample letter "Urge Your Representative to Cosponsor CIPRIS >Repeal Bill." >4. Edit the text that appears in the box. Congress wants to hear from its >constituents, so feel free to personalize your letters. YOU WILL NEED TO >FILL IN THE NAME OF YOUR INSTITUTION IN THE SECOND AND LAST PARAGRAPHS OF >THE SAMPLE LETTER BEFORE SENDING IT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. This screen is >the best place for you to do that. >5. After modifying the sample letter text in the box, click "continue." >6. Fill in your name, address, and e-mail address (used to help identify >your representative for you) and click "continue." >7. Select "Print" and then "Send." >The "send" key does not actually send your letter to Congress if you have >selected the "print" option. It simply formats your letter. If possible, we >ask that you do not use the e-mail option when sending a letter. Most >congressional offices receive thousands of formatted e-mails that go >unanswered. Instead, we recommend that NAFSA members copy and paste the >finished letter onto your own letterhead before mailing or faxing to >Congress. >8. The next screen will display the entire letter for you. Copy and paste >it >onto your own letterhead, make any necessary margin adjustments, ATTACH THE >CIPRIS REPEAL ISSUE BRIEF, and mail or fax the letter and issue brief. >Don't forget to print out the NAFSA's issue brief on CIPRIS repeal and >enclose it with your letter. >http://www.nafsa.org/content/PublicPolicy/NAFSAontheIssues/CIPRISissuebrief. >htm > >NAFSA suggests you coordinate your letter-writing effort with your >president >or government relations office. If your institution will not approve a >letter, please write a letter on your own. Also, members of Congress will >be >back in their districts during the August recess to meet with constituents >and conduct public forums. This is a good opportunity to let your >representative know the importance of CIPRIS repeal. > >*Take Action Now!* >To write your letter now, go to >http://cw2k.capweb.net/nafsa/letterstate.cfm?CurrentState=index >For instructions on how the letter-writing tool on the Web site works, >please see directions above. > >DON'T FORGET TO ATTACH THE NAFSA ISSUE BRIEF ON CIPRIS REPEAL WITH YOUR >LETTER AND TO FILL IN THE NAME OF YOUR INSTITUTION IN THE SECOND AND LAST >PARAGRAPHS OF THE SAMPLE LETTER BEFORE SENDING IT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. > >If you have any questions regarding this advocacy campaign, please e-mail >govrel@nafsa.org. > > >=============================== >DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE >=============================== > >Do not reply to this message. This is an automated mailbox. Inquiries are >deleted immediately and will not be answered. Please direct electronic >mailing list change of address requests to data@nafsa.org. > >============ > >NAFSA: Association of International Educators >1307 New York Avenue, NW, Eighth Floor >Washington, DC 20005-4701 USA >tel: 202.737.3699 fax: 202.737.3657 >inbox@nafsa.org >http://www.nafsa.org > >================ >NAFSA.news STAFF >================ > >Senior Director, Publications >Stephen G. Pelletier; stevep@nafsa.org > >Managing Editor >Eric Kronenwetter; erick@nafsa.org > > >Copyright 2001 by NAFSA: Association of International Educators. NAFSA >reserves all rights to electronic material. This publication may not be >retransmitted. The information contained in this broadcast is given in good >faith based on available information. NAFSA accepts no legal responsibility >for its accuracy. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From Rowland Stout Fri Aug 10 09:43:13 2001 From: Rowland Stout (Rowland Stout) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 09:43:13 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Research posts at Manchester Message-ID: Centre for Philosophy University of Manchester Simon Research Fellowships There are vacancies for two Simon Research Fellowships in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law. The Fellowships are in 'social sciences', but since the Centre for Philosophy is in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, this includes Philosophy. The Fellowships are intended for outstanding researchers who have recently completed a doctoral degree or research to an equivalent standard. Further particulars and application forms can be downloaded from the University's vacancies page http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research/. The closing date for applications is 30 September 2001. For informal enquiries, please contact Rowland Stout at rowland.stout@man.ac.uk. Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Roger Young Fri Aug 10 11:08:34 2001 From: Roger Young (Roger Young) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 11:08:34 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] (Fwd) international PhD school Message-ID: <3B73C09E.31401.FB69858@localhost> I am forwarding this message to PHILOS-L, because it has not been sent before, and it might interest a few of you. Yours, Roger Young Philosophy Dundee ------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 23:58:05 +0200 To: fempsr@usc.es From: Carlos Martin-Vide Subject: international PhD school Copies to: mark_mandel@dragonsys.com, zuijlen@attglobal.net, hubert.cuyckens@arts.kuleuven.ac.be, benoit.lagrue@lpl.univ-aix.fr, francois.bavaud@imaa.unil.ch, mike_maxwell@sil.org, crocker@coli.uni-sb.de, pbosch@uni-osnabrueck.de, mflsswgb@fs1.art.man.ac.uk, e.haeberli@reading.ac.uk, s.varlokosta@reading.ac.uk, april.mcmahon@shef.ac.uk, ad@ling.ucl.ac.uk, dwew2@cam.ac.uk, m.groefsema@herts.ac.uk, gillian.ramchand@linguistics-philology.oxford.ac.uk, mirovsky@ufal.ms.mff.cuni.cz, roland.mill@ntr.co.uk, geoffs@cogs.susx.ac.uk, bouquet@cs.unitn.it, chiara@csc.liv.ac.uk, serafini@irst.itc.it, rich@thomason.org, akman@cs.bilkent.edu.tr, massimo.benerecetti@na.infn.it, r.a.young@dundee.ac.uk, rmt@umcs.maine.edu, hknoerr@uottawa.ca, weinberg@uottawa.ca, phil@sharp.co.uk (Apologies for multiple copies. Please, help us to spread this initiative.) 1st INTERNATIONAL PhD SCHOOL IN FORMAL LANGUAGES AND APPLICATIONS 2001-2003 Rovira i Virgili University Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics Tarragona, Spain Courses and professors 1st year (April-June 2002): Applications of Formal Languages Solomon Marcus, Bucharest Languages Victor Mitrana, Bucharest Combinatorics on Words Tero Harju, Turku Regular Grammars Masami Ito, Kyoto Context-Free Grammars Manfred Kudlek, Hamburg Context-Sensitive Grammars Alexandru Mateescu, Bucharest Mildly Context-Sensitive Grammars Henning Bordihn, Potsdam Derivation Trees Carlos Martin-Vide, Tarragona Finite Automata Sheng Yu, London ON Pushdown Automata Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom, Leiden Turing Machines Maurice Margenstern, Metz Patterns Kai Salomaa, Kingston ON Infinite Words Juhani Karhumaki, Turku Two-Dimensional Languages Kenichi Morita, Hiroshima Regulated Rewriting Juergen Dassow, Magdeburg Contextual Grammars Rodica Ceterchi, Bucharest Parallel Grammars Henning Fernau, Tuebingen Courses and professors 2nd year (October 2002-January 2003): Grammar Systems Erzsebet Csuhaj-Varju, Budapest Ecogrammar Systems and Colonies Alica Kelemenova, Opava Tree Automata and Tree Languages Magnus Steinby, Turku Formal Power Series Werner Kuich, Vienna DNA Computing: Theory and Experiments Grzegorz Rozenberg, Leiden Membrane Computing Gheorghe Paun, Bucharest Splicing Systems and Aqueous Computing Tom Head, Binghamton Quantum Computing Cristian Calude, Auckland Formal Languages and Natural Language Syntax Walter Savitch, San Diego Parsing Giorgio Satta, Padua Tree Adjoining Grammars James Rogers, Richmond IN Weighted Finite-State Transducers Mehryar Mohri, AT&T, Florham Park NJ Formal Languages and Logic Vincenzo Manca, Pisa Grammatical Inference and Learning Takashi Yokomori, Tokyo Grammar-Theoretic Models in Artificial Life Jozef Kelemen, Opava Syntactic Methods in Pattern Recognition Rudolf Freund, Vienna Text Searching Algorithms Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Santiago de Chile Cryptography Valtteri Niemi, Nokia, Vaasa Complexity Markus Holzer, Munich Dissertation: After following the courses, students enrolled in the programme will have to write a dissertation in English in their own area of interest, in order to get the so-called European PhD degree. All the professors in the programme will be allowed to supervise students' work. Students: Candidate students for the programme are welcome from around the world. Most appropriate previous degrees of students include: Computer Science, Mathematics and Linguistics. Students are assumed either to have a certain background in discrete mathematics or to be ready to get it by April 2002. According to the expected programme's budget, more than half of the accepted students will be funded, so that their accommodation and living expenses while in Spain will be covered by the programme. These conditions could be improved, at the programme chairman's discretion and depending on the definite availability of resources, in the case of students from Eastern European countries and others. Deadlines: Free pre-registration: September 30, 2001 Selection of students: November 15, 2001 Application for funding: December 15, 2001 Decision about funding: February 15, 2002 Registration: February 28, 2002 Starting of the courses: April 2, 2002 Questions and further information: Please, contact the programme chairman, Carlos Martin-Vide, at cmv@astor.urv.es ------- End of forwarded message ------- Roger Young, Philosophy Department, University of Dundee r.a.young@dundee.ac.uk tel 01382 344539 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Rowland Stout Fri Aug 10 17:45:13 2001 From: Rowland Stout (Rowland Stout) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:45:13 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] Research Posts at Manchester Message-ID: The website address provided in the first posting was truncated. It should have been the following: http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html#522 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html. Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/Philosophy/philos.html From Stephen Wilkinson Fri Aug 10 17:55:31 2001 From: Stephen Wilkinson (Stephen Wilkinson) Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 17:55:31 +0100 Subject: [Philnet] EDUCATION AND SOCIETY in the 21st Century Message-ID: <00f901c121bd$4ff86920$93626ad5@l0ish> 20th Annual Conference of the SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY 28th - 30th June 2002 Mansfield College, Oxford EDUCATION AND SOCIETY in the 21st Century Call for Papers Education always takes place in a social context, broadly construed, and its values reflect this fact. It is a commonplace that, in these terms, the context for education is changing rapidly. The aim of the conference is to explore the impact of these changes on educational practice and aims and examine what values should underpin education in the coming years. The conference will be organised around three main themes, and contributions are invited on the following topics (the questions are merely indicative) 1. THE VALUE OF EDUCATION: For what and, more importantly, for whom is education? What, if anything, is the 'good' of education? Is it a universal good? Has education intrinsic or instrumental value? What has been, or will be, the impact on our conceptions of education and its aims of market consumerism and structural changes such as privatisation? Is the idea of a liberal education now dead or does the fashionable notion of 'student empowerment' revive it? 2. EDUCATION AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY: How should educat