W. D. Hart gave lectures in the philosophy of mathematics and supervised a graduate student at the Instituto de Investigaciones
Filosóficas, UNAM, in Mexico City in April.
Pictures from the 2008 Undergraduate Reception are now online.
Andrew Blom has been selected as a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow for 2008.
John Whipple has a new paper out: "Hobbes on Miracles," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 89, No. 1 (March 2008), pp. 117-142.
Anne Eaton presented a paper titled "Standpoint Aesthetics" at the Pacific APA on March 22nd.
The philosophy department is pleased to announce the hiring of John Whipple, who will be joining the faculty as an assistant professor in the fall of 2008.
Sally Sedgwick will present a paper at the Central APA on the evening of April 17th. The paper is entitled "Organic Unity as the 'True Unity' of the Intuitive Intellect: Hegel and the Critique of Judgment"
David Hilbertgave the paper "Color blindness and basic sensible qualities" at a conference titled "Horizons of Vision." The conference is at California State Long Beach, March 6-8.
Nick Huggett gave a talk entitled "Passing Time" at UC San Diego on March 3rd.
Marya Schechtman presented her paper "Why Unify?" on February 29th at a workshop on normative theory at Stanford.
Sam Fleischacker spoke on a panel called "Religion and Violence: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Perspectives on the War in Iraq" on Wednesday, Feb. 20th at 5:00 p.m. in the Cortelyou Commons at De Paul.
Connie Meinwald gave a talk titled "The Metaphysics of the Republic" at the Arizona Plato Colloquium. The conference will take place February 15th-17th.
Colin Klein has a new publication: "An Imperative Theory of Pain," The Journal of Philosophy Vol. CIV, No. 10 (Oct 2007), pp 517–532.
An essay by Neal Grossman will appear in a volume entitled Mind Before Matter: Visions of a New Science of Consciousness, edited by Trish Pfeiffer and John E. Mack, MD. The book is slated to be released this spring.
Fall 2007
John Whipple presented his paper “The Structure of Leibnizian Simple Substances” at the South Central Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Tulsa on November 16.
Anthony Laden has become co-editor (along with Natalie Stoljar) of the Political and Legal Philosophy section of Philosophy Compass, the on-line journal. Its a relatively new peer-reviewed journal that specializes in commissioned, shortish survey articles that are accessible to non-specialists and advanced undergraduates.
Sam Fleischacker's edited collection, Heidegger's Jewish Followers, has been accepted by Duquesne University Press, and should come out sometime in 2008 or early 2009.
Sam Fleischacker gave several papers recently:
-"What Exactly is a Right to Welfare?" at Northwestern Law School in mid-September.
-"Hume and Smith on Sympathy" to the Early Modern Workshop at the University of Chicago in mid-October.
-Along with a Palestinian scholar named Ibrahim Abu-Rabi, he spoke at an event entitled "Religious Resources for Middle East Peace," at Berry College in Rome, Georgia, on Nov. 1st.
On October 17th, the LAS Faculty congratulated Walter Edelberg on 25 years of service to UIC.
Nick Huggett will be making a few presentations in the coming weeks:
October 14th: 'Why Integrate the History and Philosophy of Science?' in a plenary session of the &HPS1 conference at University of Pittsburgh. Matt Lund, late of UIC is also involved.
October 27th: '(Again) a Philosopher Looks at String Theory' to the conference Metaphysics Meets Physics on the Banks of the Raritan, at Rutgers.
November 16th: at Grand Valley State University in Michigan to speak on 'The Flow of Time'.
Anne Eaton will be giving a talk at Mount Holyoke on October 11th. The talk will be titled "What Is This Thing (For)? On Artifact Function"
Colin Klein has a new publication: "Kicking the Kohler Habit" Philosophical Psychology Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 609–619.
Sam Fleischacker just gave a plenary talk at a conference on Scottish philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary (officially the 4th International Reid Symposium). The talk was called "Common Sense in Ethics: A Review and Critique."
Anne Eaton has a new publication: "A Sensible Antiporn Feminism" Ethics (Volume 117, July 2007, Number 4).
A paper by David Hilbert has just appeared in Philosophical Topics: "Color constancy and the complexity of color," Philosophical Topics, 33: 141-158, 2005 (written in 2006 and appearing in 2007).
Tony Laden has two publications appear recently. An article: "Transcendence without God: On atheism and invisibility" came out in Louise Antony, ed., Philosophers without Gods.
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A book: Political Theory, from Cambridge, which he edited with David Owen. He wrote half of the introduction, and an article called "Negotiation, Deliberation and the Claims of Politics"
David Hilbert and Nick Huggett have a new publication: "Groups In Mind" Philosophy of Science Volume 73, Number 5 (December 2006) Page 765. It is available online.
UIC graduate Mary Simmerling has accepted a new position at Weill Cornell Medical. She will be Assistant Dean of Research Integrity in the Medical School and Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, Division of Bioethics.
Anne Eaton and Sam Fleischacker received grants to participate in a three-week seminar on Scottish Enlightenment Aesthetics and Its German Reception in St. Andrews, Scotland this past summer. The seminar was run by Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern) and Paul Guyer (Penn).
The philosophy department welcomes three visiting faculty for 2007-8: Aaron Snyder, David Svolba, and John Whipple.