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December 28, 2006
Meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy, 2007
S.E.P. 2007 -- Vancouver, Canada. May 17-20, 2007.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 35th annual meeting of the Society for Exact Philosophy will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 17-20, 2007, organized by Prof. Paul Bartha (UBC). Paper submissions pertinent to the conference theme, "Time, Logic, and Exact Philosophy", are especially encouraged, but papers in all areas of analytic philosophy are welcomed.
Guest Speakers--
* Richard Healey (U Arizona)
* Jeff Horty (U Maryland)
* John Woods (UBC)
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 7th, 2007. (Notifications: by Jan 31st.)
Submission Instructions:
Authors are requested to submit their papers according to the following guidelines: 1) Papers should be prepared for blind refereeing, 2) put into PDF file format, and 3) sent as an email attachment to the address given below -- where 4) the subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase "SEP submission", and 5) the body text of the email message should constitute a cover page for the submission by including i) return email address, ii) author's name, iii) affiliation, iv) paper title, and v) short abstract.
Electronic submissions should be sent to
Nota Bene: All submissions will receive email confirmation of receipt. If your submission does not soon result in such an email confirmation, please send an inquiry either to the above address or to the local organizer.
More Information--
For more information on the conference and conference accommodations, visit the conference web site at:
Information on the Society and its previous meetings is on the web at
"The SEP is dedicated to providing sustained discussion among researchers who believe that rigorous methods have a place in philosophical investigations."
Join us in Vancouver.
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December 06, 2006
Testimony
Sophie Fortin has been thinking about testimony recently, and she has me reading the introduction to Lackey and Sosa's Epistemology of Testimony
Schmitt...invokes what he calls the Trasindividual Thesis, which consists of the following two parts: first, H's belief that p is justified on the basis of testimony only if it is justified on the basis of S's good reason to believe that p, unless on the basis of a good reason to believe that p that H possesses herself, and second, H's belief that p can be justified on the basis of testimony even though it is not justified on the basis of a good reason that H possesses to believe that p.
By way of defending his thesis Schmitt's central strategy is to discuss what he calls the Transtemporal Thesis, a similar though far more intuitively plausible thesis regarding memorial justification, which consists of the following two parts: first, a subject, A's belief that p is justified on the basis of memory only if it is justified on the basis of A's original good reasons to believe that p and, second, A's belief that p can be justified on the basis of memory even though it is not justified on the basis of a current reason to believe that p that A possesses. Schmitt then argues that if the intuitively plausible Transtemporal Thesis is accepted, then an analogous case can be made showing that the Transindividal Thesis is nearly as strong. (Lackey, p. 12-13)
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December 05, 2006
Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Prize Fellowships
(Organized by the Kurt Gödel Society with support from the John Templeton Foundation)
The Kurt Gödel Society is proud to announce the commencement of the research fellowship prize program in honor and celebration of Kurt Gödel's 100th birthday.
The research fellowship prize program sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation will offer:
two Ph.D. (pre-doctoral) fellowships of $60,000 US per annum for two years
two post-doctoral fellowships of $ 80,000 US per annum for two years
one senior fellowship of $120,000 US per annum for one year
The purpose of the fellowship is to support original research in mathematical logic, meta-mathematics, philosophy of mathematical logic, and the foundations of mathematics. This fellowship is to carry forward the legacy of Gödel, whose works exemplify deep insights and breakthrough discoveries in mathematical logic.
The selection will be made based upon an open, international competition.
An international Board of Jurors chaired by Professor Harvey Friedman will oversee the process.
The finalist papers will be published in a special issue of a premier journal in mathematical logic.
Web:http://kgs.logic.at/goedel-fellowship
Contact: goedel-fellowship@logic.at
Goal and Criteria of Merit:
In pursuit of similar insights
and discoveries, we adopt the following criteria of merit for evaluating Fellowship applications:
1. Intellectual merit, scientific rigor and originality of the submitted paper and work plan. The paper should combine visionary thinking with academic excellence.
2. Potential for significant contribution to basic foundational understanding of logic and the likelihood for opening new, fruitful lines of inquiry.
3. Impact of the grant on the project and likelihood that the grant will make this new line of research possible.
4. The probability that the pursuit of this line of research is realistic and feasible for the applicant.
5. Qualifications of the applicants evaluated via CV and recommendation letters*
(*recommendation letters are not required for senior applications).
Scopes:
Original fellowship proposals from all fields of mathematical logic (such as Computability Theory, Model Theory, Proof Theory, Set Theory), meta-mathematics,
the philosophy of mathematics, and the foundations of mathematics insofar as the research has strong relevance or resemblance to the Gödelian insights and originality.
Preliminary Timeline
December 1, 2006. Announcement
June 15, 2007. Submissions deadline
October 2007. Jury decision due on papers to be publis=
hed
December 15, 2007. Final versions due
January 2008. Jury decision on winners due
=46ebruary 2008. Award Ceremony
Mar.-Sept.2008. Commencement of the Fellowships
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