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

*ABOUT THE APPC*
The APPC provides the opportunity for postgraduate students from
Australasia to present their work, debate their ideas, receive feedback
from peers and form collaborations across institutions. 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 Auckland, Melbourne and Sydney.

*ABOUT BIDS*
A successful bid will likely contain a budget with an indication of
expected fund sources, a conference planning timeline and brief details of
local facilities (including accommodation options). Bidders are encouraged
to be 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.

*CONTACTS*
If you are interested in submitting a Bid, or would like any further
information about hosting an APPC, please contact Tessa Jones
(tessa.jones@monash.edu).

Kind regards,

Tessa Jones
Proposal Support Officer - Monash Research Office
PhD Candidate - School of Philosophical, Historical and International
Studies
Monash University

Max Charlesworth (1925-2014), AO, FAHA, was one of the great figures in Australasian philosophy. Areas in which he worked included: philosophy of religion, bioethics, European philosophy, social studies in science, studies of indigenous Australian religions, and political philosophy (with a particular focus on relations between church and state, and the activities and organisation of the Catholic Church).

Max obtained a BA (Hons) (1946) and an MA (1949) from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD (1955) from the University of Louvain. He was Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Auckland (1956-1958); Lecturer (1959-1961), Senior Lecturer (1962-67) and Reader (1968-1974) in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne; and Planning Dean of Humanities (1975-1980) and Professor of Philosophy (1980-1990) at Deakin University. From 1990, he was Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Deakin. He held various visiting appointments in the course of his career, including at the University of Notre Dame (1968-9) and the University of Louvain (1972).

Max was the founder of Sophia, and its co-editor from 1962-1990; he was also founder and co-editor of The Catholic Worker. His major books include: Philosophy and Linguistic Analysis (1959); St. Anselm’s Proslogion (1965); Life among the Scientists (1989); Life, Death, Genes and Ethics (1989); Bioethics in a Liberal Society (1993); Religious Business (1998); and Philosophy and Religion (2002).

Positions of responsibility that Max held included: membership of the Charles Strong Trust (1975-2014); Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Centre for Human Bioethics (1987-1990); member of the Victorian Government Standing Review and Advisory Committee on Infertility (1985-2014), and member of the National Bioethics Consultation Committee (1988-1990)

A fuller account of Max’s life from which all of the above has been cribbed may be found at: http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/468/art%253A10.1007%252Fs11841-012-0345-x.pdf?auth66=1402102405_b1202bd7fa702bea8c1f0b412c095e7a&ext=.pdf

**The AAP hopes that this page can be used to collate and share thoughts about Professor Max Charlesworth. If you leave a post, make sure you add your name at the end, and your email, if you wish.

 

The philosophical community will be saddened to learn that David Malet Armstrong died on the 13th of May after a long illness: two months shy of his 88 thbirthday. DMA or Armo, as he was affectionately known, is the most important philosopher that Australia has produced. Such has been his impact that he not only made major contributions to the philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, he also played a significant role in laying out the terrain and setting the agenda in those fields. As one reviewer put it when summing up Armstrong’s book What is a Law of Nature?, ‘all future work ... starts here’. The Australasian Association of Philosophy expresses its sadness at David Armstrong’s death, and offers its condolences to his wife Jenny and her children and his sister Suzanne. The University of Sydney will host a Memorial for David Armstrong in the Great Hall at 2.00pm on Wednesday 16 July.

The AAP hopes that this page can be used to collate and share thoughts about Professor DM Armstrong. If you leave a post, make sure you add your name at the end, and your email, if you wish.

The 2014 Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference is being hosted by the Australian National University. It will be held in sunny Canberra, July 6th-11th. Registration for the conference is now open!

The keynote speakers for this year's conference are:

Catriona MacKenzie (Macquarie University) undefined AAP Presidential Address
Cecile Fabre (Oxford University)
John Hawthorne (Oxford University)
Christian List (London School of Economics)
Philip Pettit (Princeton University and ANU)undefinedAlan Saunders Memorial Lecturer.

To register or submit an abstract (max. 200 words), visit the conference website at:  http://www.aap-conferences.org.au/

Papers in all areas of philosophy are welcome. Alongside the regular sessions, there will be the following streams:

Philosophy, Politics and Economics:  In Celebration of Geoffrey Brennan (Co-ordinator:  Nic Southwood)
The Ethics of Force:  War, Self defence, and other cases  (Co-ordinator: Seth Lazar)
Advances in Philosophy of the Cognitive Sciences and Psychology  (Co-ordinator:  Glenn Carruthers)
Teaching Philosophy (Co-ordinator:  Philip Cam)
Continental Philosophy (Co-ordinator:  Joanne Faulkner)
The Philosophy of Frank Jackson and Michael Devitt (Co-ordinator:  Kim Sterelny)

These streams are open to all conference delegates.

For more information please go to http://www.aap-conferences.org.au/.  The cut off date for submission of abstracts and for early bird registration prices is 1 May 2014.

Please direct any enquiries to phil.admin.cass@anu.edu.au<mailto:phil.admin.cass@anu.edu.au>

AAP 2014 Organizing Committee
Daniel Stoljar (ANU)

The second phase of the ARC’s Public Consultation on its draft documents for ERA 2015 has opened. This emil invites submissions on the Draft ERA 2015 Journal and Conference Lists, available through the ERA 2015 consultation website.

AAP members are invited to send any contribution they wish to make towards an AAP submission to Eliza Goddard (elizagoddard@aap.org.au), by 3 March 2014.

Registrations are now open for the 2014 AAP conference, to be hosted by the Australian National University. The Conference will commence on Sunday 6 July with an address by the AAP President and a welcome reception.  For more information please go tohttp://www.aap-conferences.org.au/.  The cut off date for submission of abstracts and for early bird registration prices is 1 May 2014.

Please direct any enquiries to phil.admin.cass@anu.edu.au

The 2014 Australasian Postgraduate Philosophy Conference will be held at Sydney University on the 22nd to the 24th of April. Registration for this year's APPC is now open.

The Australian Research Council recently announced a Public Consultation on the Draft ERA 2015 Submission Documents, with a deadline for submissions of 14 February 2014.

The relevant documents and information about the public consultation are available at: http://www.arc.gov.au/era/ current_consult.htm.

An AAP submission to this consultation will be coordinated through AAP Council. AAP members are invited to send any contribution they wish to make towards this submission to Eliza Goddard (elizagoddard@aap.org.au), by 3 February 2014.

AAP Media Professionals' Award 

The Australasian Association of Philosophy offers an occasional award of $500 to journalists and other media professionals for excellence in the presentation of philosophy or philosophical issues in the media.

The AAP invites entries/nominations for media work from journalists and other media professionals. Entries/nominations may come from the author or from others. The closing date for entries is 30th March 2014. more>>