CFP deadline: May 20th, 2013

The third Italian graduate conference in analytic philosophy, promoted by the SIFA Steering Committee, aims at improving the interaction among young scholars and researchers in philosophy, both from Italy and elsewhere, to discuss the new trends in the following areas: Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind and Epistemology. The keynote speakers in these three general areas are:

Language: Emma Borg (University of Reading)

Logic: Greg Restall (University of Melbourne)

Mind: Sarah Sawyer (University of Sussex)

With the aim of including as many contributions as possible, the conference will be structured around plenary sessions with keynote speakers and the contributed papers selected by double blind review. The contributed papers should last around 45 minutes (presentation + discussion). The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts of about 6,000 characters (roughly 1000 words) are invited on any topic in the broad areas indicated. The abstracts, prepared for blind refereeing, should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sifagc2013

Deadline: May 20th, 2013

Acceptances will be notified by June 20th, 2013. Accepted abstracts will be available at the conference in booklet form and also available online before the conference. Selected full papers of the conference may be published in the proceedings.

Scientific Committee:

Cristina Amoretti, Carla Bagnoli, Massimiliano Carrara, Mario De Caro, Massimo Dell’Utri, Michele Di Francesco, Francesca Ervas, Marco Giunti, Roberto Giuntini, Elisabetta Gola, Simone Gozzano, Alison Hall, Guy Longworth, Josep Macià, Cristina Meini, Francesco Paoli, Adriana Silva Graça, Isidora Stojanovic, Pietro Storari, Chiara Testino, Jesus Vega Encabo

Organising Committee:

Cristina Amoretti, Francesca Ervas, Valentina Favrin, José Gil Férez, Antonio Ledda, Maria Grazia Rossi, Giuseppe Sergioli, Giuliano Vivanet

Further Information:

In addition to the SIFA, the conference is supported by the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy, the Doctoral Program in History, Philosophy and Didactics of Science, the research groups “Linguisticamente” and “ALoPHiS” of the University of Cagliari.

The organisers hope to be able to provide selected speakers with support for meals or accommodation in Cagliari, but encourage participants to apply for travel bursaries etc. from their home institutions, and will be happy to provide accreditation to the conference in support of such applications.

For further information, please contact: ervas@unica.it

or visit the website at: http://people.unica.it/sifa2013gradconf

Midterm Conference of the S.I.F.A. (Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy)

University of Modena 9-10 December 2013

CFP deadline: September 1st 2013

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

• Clotilde Calabi (Dipartimento di Filosofia, Università degli studi di Milano)

• Naomi Eilan (Departmen of Philosophy, Warwick University)

• Christine Tappolet (Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Meta-ethics, Université de Montréal)

General Aim

The aim of the Conference is Emotions in epistemology, social epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law. This conference aims to address the topic of the interplay of emotions and cognition as
it bears on views of epistemology, reasoning, moral
philosophy, and aesthetics, with special attention to production and transmission of knowledge.

CALL

The Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy invites submitted symposia and papers for this meeting in the following topics:

Emotions and perception

Emotions and perceptual illusions

Emotions and self-knowledge

Emotions and self-deception

Emotions and moral salience

Emotions and mutual recognition

Emotions and cognition

Emotions and practical judgment

Emotions and shared action

Emotions and action

Emotions and practical conflict

Emotions and practical reasoning

Emotions and consistency

Session Papers should not exceed a length of 25 minutes (about 12 double-spaced pages) for a total 45 minute session.

Symposia (two) are allocated a two-hour slot and consist of a set of 3 linked papers on a common theme.

Symposia organisers should submit an outline of the symposium along with a list of speakers and abstracts as a single document. Please do not submit more than one PDF file per symposium.

Submissions should be by abstract (500 words).

Submissions will be blind-refereed and selected on the basis of quality and philosophical relevance.

All paper and symposia submissions should be in PDF-format and should be properly anonymized in order to allow for blind refereeing.

Papers may be in Italian or in English, but English is preferred.

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS SEPTEMBER 1ST 2013.

Please, send your proposals to Carla Bagnoli: carla.bagnoli@unimore.it

CFP deadline: 28 April 2013

11^th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy

9^th and 10^th September 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS

On the 9^th and 10^th of September 2013, the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia (Italy), under the joint patronage of the Italian Society for Political Philosophy and the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, will host the eleventh edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. This two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity to present papers, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere, and exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to students’ presentations, there will also be two plenary sessions. Plenary speakers in past editions have been: Hillel Steiner, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Peter Jones, Gianfrancesco Zanetti, Jonathan Wolff, Michele Nicoletti, Philippe Van Parijs, Sebastiano Maffettone, Giovanni Giorgini, Andrew Williams, David Miller, Alessandro Ferrara, Valeria Ottonelli, Adam Swift, Gerald Gaus, Serena Olsaretti, Thomas M. Scanlon. This year’s keynote speakers will be:

Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS, Roma)

Philip Pettit (Princeton University)

Graduate students interested in giving papers should send their contributions (max 2500/3000 words – in English) accompanied by a short abstract (max 300 words – in English), by Sunday 28^th April 2013. Papers may focus on any area within political philosophy, and presentations should take no longer than twenty minutes to allow at least another twenty minutes of discussion. Please note that the 28^th of April is also the deadline for registration for anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper.

Conference registration is free of charge. Paper givers will be offered accommodation in local university colleges. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually. Anyone who wishes to attend the conference without presenting a paper can write to check availability. Details about meal arrangements and conference programme to follow.

Please address all correspondence (including paper submissions and additional inquiries) to the conference email address: pavia.gradconference@gmail.com

The conference is sponsored by the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia (FIRB Research Project “Alimentare il rispetto”) and by the Department of Humanities of the Piemonte Orientale University in Vercelli (ESF Start-up Grant “URBANITAS”, Compagnia di S. Paolo, Torino).

Tenth National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy

Website: www.sifa.unige.it/sifa2012

Given the great number of submissions, the workshop on “Realism”, that will be held before the conference in Alghero, will start on September 12, 2012, on the late morning (in cooperation with the LABONT – University of Turin). Speakers: Paul Boghossian, Petar Bojanic, Maurizio Ferraris, Marco Panza and Achille Varzi.

The conference will start on September 12, 2012 on the afternoon.

Conference dates: September 12-15, 2012

Registration is now open

Program is defined

Tenth National Conference of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS (EXTENDED): April 29, 2012

Website: www.sifa.unige.it/sifa2012

This year the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA) will celebrate its 20^th anniversary with a National Conference that will be held in Alghero (in Sardinia), September 13-15, 2012. The Conference will offer an occasion for discussion of many themes of research in analytic philosophy. We invite submissions on the following areas:

Philosophy of language, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and metaethics, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of logic, Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of law, Political philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Aesthetics, Philosophy of religion, History of philosophy, History of science.

Open lecture for the 20th anniversary of the society by Diego Marconi (University of Turin).

INVITED SPEAKERS

Maria Rosa Antognazza (King’s College), Elvio Baccarini (University of Rijeka), Paul Boghossian (New York University), Petar Bojanic (University of Belgrad), Roberto Casati (Institut Jean-Nicod), Pascal Engel (Université de Genève), Pieranna Garavaso (University of Minnesota Morris), Diego Marconi (Università di Torino), Genoveva Martì (ICREA and Universitat de Barcelona), Martine Nida-Rümelin (Université de Fribourg), Stefano Predelli (University of Nottingham), Claudine Tiercelin (Collège de France), Achille Varzi (Columbia University), and more to be confirmed.

A workshop on “Realism” will be held before the conference in Alghero, starting on September 12, 2012, at 2 pm (in cooperation with the LABONT – University of Turin). Speakers: Paul Boghossian, Petar Bojanic, Maurizio Ferraris, Marco Panza and Achille Varzi.

SUBMISSIONS

Contributors will have 40 minutes, ideally divided into 30 minutes of exposition and 10 minutes of discussion. The languages of the conference are English and Italian. Those wishing to make a presentation should submit:

A short abstract (about 200 words)

A long abstract (1000-1500 words)

Long abstract should be thoroughly prepared for blind refereeing, with any and all revealing references to the author removed, including personal acknowledgments.

Both short and long abstracts should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page at:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sifa2012

The creation of an EasyChair account will be required. For any problems, please refer to the conference webpage:

www.sifa.unige.it/sifa2012

Abstracts will be subject to double blind refereeing and acceptance will be notified by May 15, 2012.

Deadline for submissions (Extended): April 29, 2012.

REGISTRATION

Participation in the conference is subject to a registration fee and to the payment of the SIFA membership.

If paid BEFORE July 15, 2012:

50 (conference fee) + 50 euros (SIFA): permanent faculty

30 (conference fee) + 25 (SIFA) euros: others

If paid AFTER July 15, 2012:

80 (conference fee) + 50 (SIFA) euros: permanent faculty

50 (conference fee) + 25 (SIFA) euros: others

Early registration will be open on May 1, 2012 at the SIFA website: www.sifa.unige.it/sifa2012

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Alghero is a town of Catalan origin right on the Sardinian Sea (one of the most beautiful Italian towns: http://www.alghero-turismo.it/Default.asp?l=en). It is served by low-coast airlines and it has many not expensive accommodations. Check the Conference website in few weeks for all the practical information.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Mario De Caro (SIFA President), Cristina Amoretti, Fabio Bacchini, Carola Barbero, Massimiliano Carrara, Massimo Dell’Utri, Michele Di Francesco, Marcello Frixione, Pierdaniele Giaretta, Simone Gozzano, Andrea Iacona, Andrea Sereni

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Fabio Bacchini, Stefano Caputo, Massimo Dell’Utri

SPONSOR

University of Sassari

LabOnt (Laboratorio di Ontologia, Dip. di Filosofia, Università di Torino)

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submissions (Extended): April 29, 2012

Registration opens: May 1, 2012

Notifications of acceptance: May 20, 2012

Deadline for early registration: July 15, 2012

Conference dates: September 13-15, 2012

Titolo: Disaccordo

Editors: M. Cristina Amoretti e Massimiliano Vignolo

Deadline: 20 maggio 2012

Cari soci della SIFA,

il prossimo bollettino SIFA sarà dedicato al tema del disaccordo e, oltre alle relazioni presentate al convegno SIFA di Midterm “Agreement/Disagreement” che si è tenuto a Torino l’11 e il 12 dicembre 2011, conterrà altre due sezioni per le quali sollecitiamo i vostri contributi:

1) sezione di note critiche sul tema del “Disaccordo”, lunghezza massima 15.000 caratteri, spazi inclusi.

2) sezione di recensioni critiche di volumi sul tema del “Disaccordo”, lunghezza massima 10.000 caratteri, spazi inclusi. – I volumi da recensire possono essere proposti liberamente dagli autori, ma devono essere approvati preventivamente dai curatori del volume. Per questo motivo, prima di presentare la propria recensione, scrivere a sifabollettino@gmail.com per verificare che il titolo a cui si è pensato vada bene.

Tutti i contributi, sia le note sia le recensioni, possono essere scritti in italiano o in inglese e devono essere inviati entro e non oltre il 20 maggio 2012 al seguente indirizzo: sifabollettino@gmail.com

Tutti i contributi pervenuti, sia le note sia le recensioni, saranno referati. La notifica di accettazione sarà inviata agli autori entro il 31 maggio 2012.

Per qualunque informazione o chiarimento scrivere a: sifabollettino@gmail.com

Cordiali saluti,

Cristina Amoretti e Massimiliano Vignolo

Dummett al Convegno SIFA, Genova, 2004

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Qui link a:

ricordi sul  Guardian, sul Telegraph, su The Scotsman, su Commonweal, sul NYTimes; su Il Sole24ore; su Il Secolo XIX (pdf)
interventi di  Roberta de Monticelli,  John Aldane e Daniel Isaacson sull’Independent. 

Intervento di Michael Dummett al Convegno SIFA 2004:
“The Place of Philosophy in European Culture”

Universidade de Lisboa, 2-4 November 2011

The Meeting is supported by the Portuguese Society for Analytic Philosophy, the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy, and the Spanish Society for Analytic Philosophy and is intended as an occasion to discuss non-published work presented by philosophers working in analytical philosophy in European Latin countries. Preference will be given to junior researchers, i.e. researchers concluding their doctoral dissertations, and philosophers who have completed their PhD within the last 5 years. Each presentation will last 40 minutes, with ca. 20 minutes for discussion.

There are no restrictions on the topics to be addressed. Those wishing to participate as speakers should submit an abstract (of up to 1000 words) to latinmeet2011@gmail.com by July 20. Submitted abstracts will be refereed by the Scientific Committee of the Latin Meeting. Decisions on whether papers have been accepted will be made by September 10. Some of those whose paper has been rejected might be invited as discussants, depending on the topic of their work. We have some funds to cover accommodation costs for people giving a paper.

ScientificCommittee: Andrea Iacona, Célia Teixeira, Elisabetta Sacchi, Jesús Vega Encabo, Josefa Toribio, Manuel García-Carpintero, Manuel de Pinedo, Massimiliano Carrara, Pedro Santos, Ricardo Santos, Stefano Caputo, Teresa Marques

Organizing Committee: Célia Teixeira, Pedro Santos, Teresa Marques

With the support of: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Sociedade Portuguesa de Filosofia Analítica, Sociedad Española de Filosofia Analítica, Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica

The Seventh ECAP is organized by the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, and by the University of Milan, in collaboration with the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy.

For more information: http://www.esap.info/ecap7/