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Consequence #3 of the new online journal, nonsite.org, has just been published. It consists of half of the papers presented at the "No Quarrels: Literature & Philosophy Today" conference, organized past Rob Chodat (Boston University) and Oren Izenberg (University of Illinois at Chicago) and held at Boston Academy from April 1-2, 2011. The residuum of the "No Quarrels" papers, forth with a few invited responses to the briefing papers equally a whole, volition announced in a later consequence of nonsite.org, sometime in Nov. To read Izenberg and Chodat's introduction to this event of nonsite.org, please click here. To admission the contents of issue #3 equally a whole, delight click here.

Here are the titles of the papers included in this effect:

  • Wordsworth's Prelude, Poetic Autobiography, and Narrative Constructions of the Self (Elisabeth Military camp, Academy of Pennsylvania)
  • Wordsworth, Wittgenstein, and the Reconstruction of the Everyday (Magdalena Ostas, Boston University)
  • Wittgenstein on the Face of a Work of Art (Bernie Rhie, Williams College)
  • Literature, Genre Fiction, and Standards of Criticism (James Harold, Mount Holyoke College)
  • The American Evasion of Pragmatism: Souls, Science, and The Case of Walker Percy (Rob Chodat, Boston University)

On behalf of the British Wittgenstein Lodge, we are pleased to announce the following public lecture:

The 7th BWS Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Bernard Harrison

Title: Wittgenstein, Reality and the Novel (see abstract below)

  • University of Hertfordshire
  • De Havilland Campus, Room R115
  • Tuesday 18 October 2011 at 5 pm (a wine reception volition follow)

Professor Harrison is Honorary Professor at Sussex, and holds the E.E. Ericksen Chair as Emeritus Professor at the University of Utah. He has, for many years, divided his time between philosophy and literary studies. His work in the sometime category includes Significant and Structure (1972) and Grade and Content (1973); and, in the latter, 'Tom Jones': The Novelist as Moral Philosopher (Text & Context) (1975) and Inconvenient Fictions (1991). His most recent book, in collaboration with Patricia Hanna, is Word & World: Do and the Foundations of Linguistic communication (2004), focused on Wittgenstein's philosophy of language. Professor Harrison's lecture will exist of interest to literary scholars every bit much as to philosophers.

Abstract: Is there a connectedness between language and reality which runs, non by style of true indicative sentences, simply by way of meaning? Our two currently dominant accounts of linguistic communication seem to stand in the way of any such appetite. The first presents linguistic communication as, essentially, a device for describing the nature of empirical reality. On this account, the part of language is to record, non to create. Experience is the only test of reality, and the only 'germs of being' are to be institute in the natural world, not in the writer's ingenious putting together of words and phrases. The second business relationship denies that the natural world is the source of pregnant in language. On the contrary, meaning in language is determined internally to language, through the relation of words to ane another, and is thus never finally or definitively determined. On this view, not only the world we affect to describe by means of language, simply even the authorial cocky which notionally offers the descriptions, deliquesce into linguistic constructs. The word cannot be a 'germ of being' because language has lost all connexion with being, with anything external to itself. These two culling accounts appear to present us with a classical type of philosophical dilemma. This newspaper proposes a mode of resolving this dilemma. It suggests, following Wittgenstein, that we call up of meaning, non as a ii- term relation between linguistic expressions and items or aspects of reality, but as a three-term relationship between linguistic expressions, items or aspects of reality, and socially devised and maintained practices. Meaning arises as a event of the roles assigned to linguistic expressions in the conduct of practices.

The effect is free, only registration is required. Delight email bws@herts.air conditioning.uk

If you require parking, please mention it in your email and a parking voucher will be attached to your registration confirmation.

  • How to get to the conference venue
  • Motorcoach timetable from/to London
  • Map of the campus

The American Comparative Literature Clan'southward 2012 Annual Meeting will take place at Dark-brown Academy, Providence, RI from March 29th to April 1st, 2012. The ACLA website is now accepting proposals for seminars and papers. For more data about the Annual Coming together and a list of accepted seminars, please visit the ACLA 2012 Website.

The following is the CFP for a seminar that is being organized by two of my boyfriend web log editors:

FORMS OF COMMUNITY

Seminar Organizer(due south):

  • Yi-Ping Ong (Johns Hopkins University), Corina Stan (Leiden University College, The Hague)

Communities:  melancholia, moral, domestic, utopian, linguistic, political, national, diasporic, imagined, underground.  In recent decades, critical and philosophical reflection has focused on the possibilities, conditions, and dangers of various forms of human customs.  From Strawson's conception of "moral customs" and Agamben's notion of "coming community" to Nancy'southward "inoperative community" and Canetti's distance-annulling crowds, thinkers in the post-WWII period have increasingly imagined moral and social life through the category of customs.

This panel will explore the idea and feel of community in various historical contexts and in various mediums and instantiations, from historical groups to communities imagined in literary or philosophical texts.  We welcome papers that discuss:

  • moral communities
  • linguistic communities
  • utopian / dystopian societies
  • "affective communities" (Gandhi)
  • the crowd
  • monastic communities
  • the university as a "theater of intelligence", from the School of Athens to contemporary institutions
  • artistic communities:  Nietzsche's community of artists, the pre-Raphaelites, the Bloomsbury group, Gruppe 47
  • communities "to come" (Derrida, Nancy, Agamben)
  • virtual communities (social media, networks, games)

We likewise hope to engage in farther reflection on what binds a community together, and on non-oppressive means of thinking the communal.  What practices, rituals, or principles enable the germination of a sustainable customs? Possible topics include:

  • recognition
  • friendship
  • souvenir-exchange
  • moral emotions (blame, resentment, forgiveness)
  • dis/identification
  • hospitality
  • tact, delicacy, and love as moral or political categories

We wanted to permit you know that video recordings of the Simone de Beauvoir Today Symposium — which was hosted by the Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature at Duke University — are now available for free on iTunes. For a brief account of the event, written by ones of the participants, please click here. To access the gratuitous video recordings, please click hither.

This weekend the Boston University Philosophy Department will exist property the kickoff in what promises to exist an annual series of workshops on Late Modern Philosophy (roughly the flow from 1750 through 1900). This year's workshop will focus on philosophical psychology and ethics. Information is available here. The schedule is below.

Friday, October 14th

ane:30-ii:50   Bernard Reginster (Dark-brown Academy)
"The Volition to Nothingness: Nietzsche on the Pregnant of the Austere Ideal"

3:00-4:20   Emerge Sedgwick (University of Illinois-Chicago)
"Freedom and Necessity in Hegel'south Philosophy of History and Philosophy
of Right"

iv:30-six:00   Keynote Speaker: Alexander Nehamas (Princeton Academy)
"Nietzsche, Intention, Action"

6:00-7:00 Reception

Saturday, October 15th

9:00-10:xx  Paul Katsafanas (Boston University)
"Kant and Nietzsche on the Will: Two Models of Cogitating Agency"

10:30-xi:l   Maudemarie Clark (Colgate Higher/University of
California-Riverside) and David Dudrick (Colgate University)
"Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology: Volition to Power as a Theory of the Soul"

12:00-ane:30  Break for lunch

1:thirty-2:50   Charles Griswold (Boston University)
"Loving Another as though Yourself: Rousseau on Narcissism, Self-Love,
and Social Decay"

3:00-4:20   Frederick Neuhouser (Barnard College/Columbia Academy)
"Hegel on Life, Freedom, and Social Pathology"

4:xxx-five:50   Michael Rosen (Harvard University)
"The Darstellungsproblem"

6:00-7:00   Reception

Nosotros wanted to point our readers to a wonderful new essay on Cavell, written by Richard Moran (Philosophy, Harvard University), that is now available online. Prof. Moran's essay, entitled "Cavell on Outsiders and Others," was published in a recent issue of the French journalRevue Internationale de Philosophie, and a PDF of information technology is available here.

Here is a preview of its first page (click on it to overstate):

Marie McGinn (University of East Anglia), who will exist the 104th President of the Aristotelian Society, volition be delivering her inaugural Presidential Accost on the topic of "Non-Inferential Noesis." The declaration of the talk is copied below. A typhoon of Prof. McGinn's talk is now available at the post-obit URL:

http://world wide web.aristoteliansociety.org.great britain/proceedings/podcasts_papers.html

Subsequently the event, a podcast of the address volition be available at this same web accost.

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THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

10 October 2011 | xvi.xv – eighteen.00

Non-Inferential Knowledge

MARIE MCGINN (UEA)

The Chancellor's Hall

Senate House – Academy of London

Malet Street

London WC1E 7HU

United Kingdom

Chaired past QUASSIM CASSAM (Warwick)

The Presidential Address marks the official inauguration of the 104th President of the Aristotelian Society – Professor Marie McGinn of the University of East Anglia. It will be chaired by the Social club'south outgoing President – Professor Quassim Cassam of the University of Warwick.