Philosophy in Utah

February 25, 2013

UVU undergraduate philosophy conference – new deadline, March 1st

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Submission Guidelines

Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2013 at UVUPC13@gmail.com

• Word count: 300-500 (abstract), 2500-3500 (full paper).
• Consideration for (non-cash) prizes requires full paper submissions.
• Paper should include: name, email, phone number, institution.
• Accepted Formats: .doc, .docx, .odt, PDF, LaTex. (please not Pages).
• Topics: Everything Philosophy, broadly defined.
• Conference (tentative) Dates: March 21-22, 2013.
• Please direct questions to: adam.wilson@uvu.edu
http://www.uvupc.blogspot.com

January 7, 2013

Aporia CFP

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BYU’s undergraduate philosophy conference is pleased to announce the 2013 call for papers. The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for undergraduate students to present their philosophical work to their peers. Selection criteria will include both overall quality as well as diversity of theme and thesis. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: phenomenology, philosophy of technology, philosophy of art, logic, and ethics. Papers previously written for classes are welcome for submission, though in most cases they will require revision to make them suitable for a conference audience.

The deadline for submissions will be Monday, 14th January, 2013. The winning papers will be announced in before the end of January.

BYU Feb 2013 Undergrad Phil CFP

November 28, 2012

Some end-of-term amusement for you…

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November 12, 2012

Mitzi Lee on Aristotle on greed and justice

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The University of Utah Philosophy Department Colloquium Series
presents
Mitzi Lee
University of Colorado at Boulder
Friday, November 16th
3:00 – 5:00
Tanner Library, Room 459

“Greed and Justice in Aristotle’s Ethics”

Abstract
Abstract: Aristotle’s account of the virtue of justice has been criticized on the grounds that Aristotle gives an overly tidy minded picture of what just and unjust motivation look like, and reduces them to a single kind, namely, greed or lack thereof. I attempt to develop a defense of Aristotle’s account of justice, by arguing that what Aristotle means by ‘greed’ (pleonexia) is not simply excessive desire, but a complex motivational state that includes characteristic desires and beliefs about oneself and one’s proper relation to others, and that it is fundamentally a social disposition, not a simple emotion or desire, as is usually thought. The opposite of the greedy person is the isos or ‘fair-minded’ person—someone whose desires and beliefs reflect a correct perception of what his or anyone else’s fair share of some social good ought to be.

October 29, 2012

Chris Weigel on X-Phil

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Richard Marshall interviews UVU’s Chris Weigel on 3:AM Magazine.

October 24, 2012

Intermountain Philosophy Conference

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The University of Utah is hosting this year’s Intermountain Philosophy Conference this Friday. Here is the website with the schedule and other details. Matt Haber has done an excellent job putting all of this together!

September 12, 2012

Undergraduate philosophy conference at SLCC

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Here is the announcement (the official site is here):

Welcome To The 21th SLCC Undergraduate Student Philosophical Conference Website!

We are thrilled to announce the 3rd annual International Philosophy Conference and the 21st Undergraduate Philosophical Conference held by Salt Lake Community College! This year’s conference will be a two day event in which we will explore ‘Education as a Creative Production of Culture.’

The academic portion of the conference will take place on Friday, November 9th, 2012. It will begin with a one-hour plenary session featuring our keynote speaker Dr. James Faulconer. This will be followed by a two-hour panel session in which students will present their work inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche and Pierre Bourdieu.

The artistic portion of the conference will take place on Monday, November 12, 2012. In this session we will enjoy a presentation by Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer. He will be speaking about, ‘Noise and Noises: Being Surrounded by Noise Affects Our Perception and Creativity.’

We are currently seeking undergraduate students to present papers at the breakout panels. These panels will be conducted and moderated by SLCC and/or visiting professors. Each student will read their paper (maximum of 15 minutes), after which a discussion Q/A will take place. We hope to have 5-7 papers presented at each panel.

The papers may be broader in scope than just Friedrich and/or Bourdieu alone. Furthermore, they need not be exclusive to our conference (enabling students to present at more than one conference). The deadlines are as follows: October 1, 2012 for Abstracts and October 31, 2012 for final papers. Please use the Paper Submission Form to submit your entry to the conference. We will accept papers from anyone in the world that wishes to participate.

The 7th Annual Intermountain Philosophy Conference

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At U of U this year. Here is the flyer: Call for papers.2012

November 15, 2011

6th Annual Intermountain Philosophy Conference

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This Friday, 18 November, hosted by BYU. I am posting here the program and a map of the BYU campus. And here are some verbal instructions for finding your way to the conference:

We are pleased to announce the program of the 6th annual Intermountain Philosophy Conference, to be held this Friday, November 18.

The program is attached. A campus map is also attached.

Driving instructions: as you come from the north (as most of you will), exit at the University Parkway exit. (There is a lot of road construction in the area; sorry about that.) Come east and south on University Parkway until you get to 450 East (Provo–see map); then turn south for a block. At the traffic light, turn east on North Campus Drive for a block and then turn into the parking lot next to the Museum of Art (building #64 on the map). You will find free visitor parking there. From there walk southwest across the quad to the Joseph F. Smith Building (JFSB) (#70 on the map, the building with the glass facade on the east side), where the meeting will be held. (Please note that there are three buildings ending in “Smith”; ours is directly west of the library.) Go down to the basement via stairways or elevators, and to the middle of the east side, where room B192 is located, in front of the spiral staircase. That is where the opening ceremony and keynote address will be held. The following sessions will be in other rooms in the basement of the same building.

Program3
campusmap

September 13, 2011

CFP: Intermountain Philosophy Conference

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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Utah Philosophical Association announces the sixth annual
INTERMOUNTAIN PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE
to be held at Brigham Young University
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Papers on any philosophical topic are welcome.
Please submit abstracts to daniel_graham@byu.edu
Abstracts should be about 1 page single-spaced.
Deadline for abstracts: Friday, Oct. 14
Papers should be about 30 minutes reading time
(about 15 pages double-spaced).
It is anticipated that the conference will go from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m.,
with dinner provided at 6 p.m.
If you wish to serve as a moderator or commentator,
please send this information to the above e-mail address.
This event is free of charge. Please share this information
with philosophers of other institutions in the region

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