Fall 2014 Newsletter
Announcements
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The Social Philosophy Today issue on “Food” is out!
The 2015 International Conference
Announcing the Keynote speakers for the 2015 International Social Philosophy
Professor Nel Noddings, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Child Education Emerita, Stanford University, and Professor Lorraine Code, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, York University. The conference will also feature the Presidential Address by Professor Margaret Crouch, Professor of Philosophy and Former Director of Women’s Studies, Eastern Michigan University.
NASSP Sessions at the Eastern and Central Division APA Meetings
At the Eastern:
GVIII-‐4. North American Society for Social Philosophy
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Peter Higgins, Immigration Justice
Chair: Melissa Mosko (Canisius College)
Critics: Jose Jorge Mendoza (Worcester State University)
Serena Parekh (Northeastern University)
Shelley Wilcox (San Francisco State University)
Author: Peter Higgins (Eastern Michigan University)
GXII-‐1. North American Society for Social Philosophy
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Michael Boylan, Natural Human Rights: A Theory
Chair: George Yancy (Duquesne University)
Critics: Paul Churchill (George Washington University)
Tina Fernandes Botts (University of Michigan)
Author: Michael Boylan (Marymount University)
At the Central:
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Tony Cunningham, Modern Honor: A Defense
Critics: Jacob Held (University of Central Arkansas)
Krista Thomason (Swarthmore College)
Nancy E. Snow (Marquette University)
Author: Tony Cunningham (College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University)
Member Announcements
Jami Anderson announces two conferences. Announcements accompany this newsletter (posted in cfp member announcements on website)
Carol Gould informs us of her new book: Interactive Democracy: Social Roots of Global Justice
Jan Narveson announces the following publications: “Cohen on Rawls on Incentives and Equality” in Socialist Studies 8.1 Winter 2012, pp. 35-56; “Is Pacifism Reasonable?” in Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2012 pp. 143-154: Pacifism, Fifty Years Later in Philosophia, 2013; Liberty, Property, and Welfare Rights: Brettschneider’s Argument Analyse & Kritik, 02/2013; Social Contract: The Last Word in Moral Theories, in Special Topic: Can the Social Contract Be Signed by an Invisible Hand? in Rationality, Markets, and Morals Vol. 4, 2013, 88–107; Reiman on Labor, Value, and the Difference Principle in Journal of Ethics vol. 18 no. 1, March 2014 pp. 47‐74; Equality, Universality, and Impartiality—How They Work and Why They Matter Ch. VI in Uwe Steinhoff, ed., Do All Persons Have Equal Moral Worth? Oxford University Press; Society and the Inherent/Instrumental Value Distinction, in John Abbarno, ed., Inherent and Instrumental Value:excursion in Value Inquiry University Press of America 2014
Nancy E. Snow announces two edited collections: The Philosophy and Psychology of Character and Happiness, co-‐edited with Franco V. Trivigno (Routledge, 2014); Cultivating Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology (Oxford, 2015).
Peter Wenz, University Scholar of the University of Illinois, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Springfield, and Adjunct Lecturer at Canterbury University in Christchurch, New Zealand, will have his next book published this spring by Prometheus Press. The book is titled: Functional Inefficiency: The Unexpected Benefits of Wasting Time and Money. It concerns the role of inefficiency in combating unemployment. Before that publication, Peter will lecture for two weeks in April at in Xi’an, China, at the invitation of two faculty members there who have translated two of his works into Chinese. The two works are Environmental Justice (SUNY 1988) and Environmental Ethics Today (Oxford 2001). The Chinese translations are published by the Shanghai People’s Press.
HAPPY FALL!