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There is an excellent online tutorial about using the internet for philosophy research (or indeed any academic research) – it covers the basics from using search engines (the difference between searching for mind body problem as just three words or as a phrase by enclosing in quotes, ie; “mind body problem”) through to how to recognise a reliable resource.

Check it out here.

Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy
Research Seminars Semester One, 2006/7Thursdays 5.30–7.30pm, Saloon, Trent Park Campus, Middlesex University, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ

5 October Gilles Deleuze and the Conditions of the New: Dan Smith, Middlesex University

14 October Conference: Populism and Genre [Tate Britain]

26 October title to be confirmed: Christopher Fynsk, University of Aberdeen

9 November Thinking with Deleuze and Whitehead: A Double-Test: Isabelle Stengers, Université Libre de Bruxelles

23 November Modern Musical Schematism: Wesley Phillips, Middlesex University

7 December Phenomenology and its Excesses: Ian James, University of Cambridge

14 December Hobbes in New Orleans: Solidarity and Government in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: John Protevi, Louisana State University

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/crmep/EVENTS/index.htm

Enquiries: r.brassier@mdx.ac.uk

This looks like being a major gathering of ket figures within analytical philosophy and quite posisbly a fascinating event…I think I’m going to have to check my teaching dates and see whether it’s possible to get over there to take a peek…

UCD Dublin PutnamFest
11-14 March 2007
UCD, Dublin

School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, will celebrate Hilary Putnam’s 80th birthday through a major
international gathering of his colleagues, friends and former students

Contributors to the four day conference marking the occasion include

David Albert (Columbia)
Paul Benacerraf (Princeton)
Ned Block (NYU)
Richard Boyd (Cornell)
Tyler Burge (UCLA)
Stanley Cavell (Harvard)
Peter Clarke (St Andrews)
James Conant (Pittsburgh)
Michael Devitt (City University of New York)
Hartry Field (NYU)
Juliet Floyd (Boston University)
Paul Franks (University of Toronto)
Warren Goldfarb (Harvard)
Russell Goodman (University of New Mexico)
Bob Hale (Sheffield)
Christopher Hookway (Sheffield)
Saul Kripke (CUNY)
David Macarthur (University of Sydney)
John McDowell (Pittsburgh)
Yemima Ben-Menahem (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Axel Mueller (Northwestern)
Charles Parsons (Harvard)
Hilary Putnam (Harvard)
Ruth Anna Putnam (Wellesly)
Charles Travis (King’s College London)
Mark Wilson (Pittsburgh)
Crispin Wright (St. Andrews)

The full conference programme will be available in November 2006. Please see below for preliminary information.

Registration

The registration fee is 80 euro (40 euro for students and unwaged) to include tea/coffee and a wine reception. Places may be limited, so early registration is advised. Official registration begins in November 2006, however, you can pre-book a place by contacting Helen.Kenny@ucd.ie

For those of us who think the advent of searchable texts is a massive aid to scholarship, the following is of some interest. Perhaps we will eventually find that Google Scholar and perhaps even Print Google can be extended to include all scholarly work and enable anyone who wants to access and search texts of interest. What was that someone said, oh yes, information wants to be free!

Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:42:13 +0100
From: British Academy

The British Academy says that copyright is hindering scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.

On 18 September, the latest British Academy Review, ‘Copyright and research in the humanities and social sciences’, was launched at an event in the Academy attended by leading representatives from national institutions and the research community. Baroness Onora O’Neill, the President of the British Academy, chaired the launch event and welcomed the report. “From the national point of view,” she said, “it is timely and provides a helpful contribution to the current debate about whether the UK’s intellectual property framework is fit for purpose. The report shows that the copyright system may in important respects be impeding, rather than stimulating, the production of new ideas and new scholarship in the humanities and social sciences.” Read more…

I’ve just got an email through confirming my place for this conference in a couple of weeks, which looks very interesting. This project is being run by Essex University and looks like it may produce some useful clarification of the transcendental / naturalism debate, thoguh I’ve been too busy this year to pay it as much attention as I would have liked. Take a look at the speaker list and subject titles though if Kant, transcendental arguments or the naturalism debate are in your horizon and email them if you want to attend. Details on the website linked.

Yesterday I spoke at Treadwells’ Bookshop in London on the topic of Deleuze and magic.  There was about twenty or so people there and I spoke a little too fast but for about half an hour to forty minutes after which there was a lively and interesting discussion for another three quarters of an hour.   The talk seemed to generate a lot of interest and a couple of people commented on its lyrical nature, which was a little strange as I hadn’t deliberately set out to make it a writerly kind of paper – but I suppose it’s part of the style I use and so it’s taken as a complement.  I will post some extracts up here in the near future, though it’s still very much a work in progess.