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  • 09 Dec 2016 2:38 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The 2017 conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy will be held at the University of Adelaide between 2-6 July 2017. The conference commences on the afternoon of Sunday  2 July with a reception followed by the Presidential Address delivered by Professor Daniel Stoljar. It concludes with a conference dinner on the evening of Thursday 6 July.

    Keynote speakers will be Professors Karen Bennett (Cornell), Paul Guyer (Brown), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown) and Barry Smith (London). Nancy Sherman will also deliver the 2017 Alan Saunders Lecture on the evening of Tuesday 4 July.

    Registration and abstract submission will open in late February 2017 through the conference website.

    Proposals for conference streams may be made until the end of January 2017, by contacting the conference organizers.


    Garrett Cullity
    Antony Eagle
    Jordi Fernandez
    Denise Gamble
    Philip Gerrans
    Jenny McMahon
    Gerard O'Brien
    Jon Opie

  • 19 Oct 2016 8:37 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    CALL FOR TENDERS TO HOST THE 2017 AUSTRALASIAN POSTGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE

    The Postgraduate Committee to the AAP is welcoming proposals from postgraduates from any institution in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore with postgraduate philosophy programmes to organise and host the 2017 Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference (APPC).

    ABOUT THE APPC

    The APPC is usually a three-day conference and provides the opportunity for postgraduate students from Australasia to present their work, debate their ideas, receive feedback from peers and form collaborations across institutions. Hosting the conference provides the opportunity to gain valuable experience in conference organisation and committee management as well as promoting your university's philosophy program. For over two decades, APPCs have included discussions with other graduates, meetings with successful philosophers, career seminars and/or publishing workshops (e.g. with the editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy). Recent conferences have been held in Canberra, Adelaide, Sydney and Auckland.

    ABOUT BIDS

    A successful bid will justify their selection of the conference dates and will likely contain a budget with an indication of expected funding sources, a conference planning timeline, and brief details of local facilities (including accommodation options). Bidders are encouraged to be both realistic and creative with their bids. Our comprehensive APPC Hosting Guide can be sent upon request, and we are happy to assist organisers with any further questions that they might have. Bids for the 2017 APPC close December 31st. Bidders are not restricted to groups from a single university and it may be helpful in terms of funding sources and organising resources to link up with others from local institutions.

    CONTACTS

    If you are interested in hosting the 2017 APPC, or would like any further information about hosting an APPC, including the APPC Hosting Guide, please contact Toby Solomon (toby.solomon@anu.edu.au<mailto:toby.solomon@anu.edu.au>).


    Toby Solomon

  • 12 Oct 2016 10:02 AM | Anonymous member

    Vale György Márkus, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Died October 5, 2016 at the age of 82.

    In 1978, the philosophical community in Sydney became the beneficiary of political conflict in Eastern Europe. Having been forced from his university post in Budapest in 1973, György Márkus arrived at the University of Sydney in 1978 to take up a lectureship in the then Department of General Philosophy. György soon become “George”, a warmly admired and widely respected philosophical presence in an otherwise fractious local environment.

    In Hungary, a younger Márkus had been a student of the well-known Georg (György) Lukacs, and not surprisingly his major philosophical commitments were to a type of a Hegel-inspired, humanist variant of Marxism that within the Eastern European context some had seen as an alternative to the state-sanctioned version. Colleagues and students at Sydney, however, soon came to appreciate a philosophical depth that transcended particular theoretical commitments. George’s massive erudition in the history of philosophy was most obvious in his command of philosophies of Kant and the German Idealists, but he also had a deep understanding of the main currents of Anglo-American philosophy—then unusual in central and eastern European trained philosophers. He had translated Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into Hungarian, corresponded with the American neo-realist Roy Wood Sellars, and in the 1960s travelled to the US with the intention of studying with his son, Wilfrid, only to end up at Harvard with W. V. O. Quine.

    In the Sydney context, many philosophy undergraduates had their first exposure to social and political philosophy via his inspiring and powerful introductory first-year course. At higher levels, he introduced many to the history of Marxism, contemporary European philosophical philosophical movements such as Habermasian pragmatics and Gadamerian hermeneutics, but, especially, Kant and German idealism. Márkus’s teaching could simply be life-transforming, and it is difficult to capture the unique philosophical personality that many undergraduate and postgraduate students in these years were fortunate enough to experience at first hand. A former colleague, John Burnheim, perhaps comes closest in describing George’s “extraordinarily powerful combination of authentic sensibility and concern to get things right”.

    It was this refusal to cut intellectual corners and to be satisfied with merely convenient answers that inspired those with whom he came into contact. The recognition of his work, especially in Europe and the United States, later led to his election to both the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. After retirement from his position at Sydney in 1999 and the award of emeritus status, he continued to teach courses for a number of years, both in Sydney and in Budapest. In more recent years he concentrated his researches on a theory of culture, some of the results of which have appeared in the volume, Culture, Science, Society: The Constitution of Cultural Modernity, published by Brill in 2014.

  • 08 Jul 2016 7:12 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Congratulations to Stephen Gadsby - Winner of the 2016 AAP Post Graduate Presentation Prize.

  • 07 Jul 2016 12:59 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Congratulations to Boris Hennig - Winner of the 2016 AJP Best Paper Award.

  • 07 Jul 2016 12:50 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Congratulations to Scott Stephens and Waleed Aly - Winners of the 2016 AAP Media Professionals' Award.

  • 07 Jul 2016 12:48 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Congratulations to Dr Matthew Beard - Winner of the 2016 AAP Media Prize.

  • 07 Jul 2016 12:11 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Congratulations to Dr Ruth Boeker Winner of the 2016 Prize for Innovation in Inclusive Curricula.

  • 07 Jul 2016 11:48 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Congratulations to Monima Chadha - winner of the 2016 Annette Baier Prize.

  • 03 Jun 2016 4:35 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The AAP is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2016 AAP Postgraduate Presentation Prize  more>>

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