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11/2011 Professor Harker's paper "How to Split a Theory" has been accepted for publication in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

EVENT Philosophy Coffee on Wednesday, September 16
The ETSU Philosophy Club will be holding a Philosophy Coffee event on Wednesday September 16. Professor MacAvoy will lead the discussion on the topic of "Adventures of the Subject: Basic Problems in Continental Philosophy." The event will be held in Rogers-Stout 321 at 3:00 PM.

EVENT Philosophy Department Meet & Greet, November 9
Curious about philosophy? Want to know about philosophy courses or programs? Come to the Philosophy Department Meet & Greet, Wednesday November 9, from 4:00-5:30 PM in Rogers-Stout 321. All are welcome. Refreshments provided.

10/2011 Professor Sytsma's paper "Two Types of Typicality: Rethinking the Role of Statistical Typicality in Ordinary Causal Attributions" (with J. Livengood and D. Rose) has been accepted for publication in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

09/2011 Professor Gold's article "A Critical Glimpse at the American Appropriation of Asian Meditative Traditions: Confessions of an Unsuccessful Meditator" has appeared in the International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society.

09/2011 Professor Kortum delivered a panel paper on "Deer Imagery and Ritual Landscape of the Biluut Rock Art Complex Bayan Olgii Aimag, Western Mongolia" at the XII Biennial Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) at Cambridge University.

09/2011 Professor Kortum had a paper on "Deer Stones and Rock Art in Central Asia and South Siberia during the 2nd–1st Millennia BCE" (with B. Fitzugh and K. Lymer) read at the International Conference on Deer and People –– Past, Present, and Future, in Nottingham, England.

EVENT Philosophy Coffee on Friday, September 23
The ETSU Philosophy Club will be holding a Philosophy Coffee event on Friday September 23. Paul Tudico will lead the discussion. The event will be held in Rogers-Stout 324 at 3:00 PM.

09/2011 Professor Sytsma's paper "Philosophical Temperament" (with J. Livengood, J. Sytsma, A. Feltz, R. Scheines, and E. Machery) will be reprinted in the Routledge volume Experimental Philosophy and Its Critics edited by J. Horvath and T. Grundmann.

08/2011 Professor Allen's article "Rationality and the Morality of Global Food-Justice" will appear in the volume Morality and Spirituality in the Contemporary World edited by C. Chakrabarti and S. Fairbanks for Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Professor Sytsma's article "Information Supply and Demand" will appear in the volume Connected Minds: Cognition and Interaction in the Social World edited by N. Payette for the same press.

07/2011 Recent ETSU graduate and philosophy minor Jonathan Calloway has won first place in the prestigious Elie Wiesel Ethics Prize for 2011. Congratulations Jonathan!

06/2011 Professor Kortum is leading a 6-week field season on his NEH three-year collaborative research grant, with three ETSU students. They will explore rock art and archaeology at the Biluut Hills on Khoton Lake in the Mongolia Altai.

06/2011 Professor Sytsma's article "Neuroscience and Theoretical Psychology: What's to worry about?" (with P. Machamer) has been reprinted in the volume Theoretical Psychology–Contemporary Readings, edited by H. Stam for SAGE Publications.

05/2011 Professor Allen's article "Is Liberty Bad for Your Health? Towards a Moderate View of the Co-Equality of Liberty and Health" has appeared in Public Health Ethics. In addition, he has had another six chapters accepted for publication in Springer's forthcoming multivolume Encyclopedia of Global Justice.

05/2011 Professor Duckworth has received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to finish writing his new book on Mipam (1846-1912), one of the most prolific figures in the recent history of Tibet whose works continue to be widely studied across the Tibetan cultural region and beyond.

05/2011 Professor Sytsma's article "A New Perspective Concerning Experiments on Semantic Intuitions" (with Jonathan Livengood) has appeared in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

05/2011 Professor Kortum gave a public talk in Washington, DC as part of an all-day public seminar on The Archaeology of Ritual Landscapes in Mongolia organized by the the Smithsonian Associates program. His talk was titled "Prehistoric Rock Art in the Altai Mountains."

04/2011 Professor Tudico has won the ETSU College of Arts and Sciences non-Regular Faculty award!

EVENT Philosophy Department Awards Ceremony, April 29
The Philosophy Department at ETSU will be holding a department awards ceremony to recognize some of our outstanding undergraduates. The ceremony will take place on Friday, April 29, at 2:00 PM in Rogers-Stout 321.

04/2011 Professor Harker's article "A Surprise for Horwich" has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Studies.

04/2011 Professor Sytsma's article "On the Relevance of Folk Intuitions: A Reply to Talbot" (with Edouard Machery) has been accepted for publication in Consciousness and Cognition.

EVENT Philosophy Coffee on Friday, April 1
The ETSU Philosophy Club will be holding a very special Philosophy Coffee event in conjunction with the College of Public Health called "Health and Social Justice."  Co-presented by Dr. Randy Wykoff and Dr. Michael Allen, the discussion will cover some of the topics to be developed further in their "Social Justice" course, which will be held in the Fall.  The event will be held in Rogers-Stout 324 at 3:00 PM on April 1.

04/2011
Professor Harker has recently presented papers in South Africa and Germany. The paper presented in South Africa has since been published in the South African Journal of Philosophy.

EVENT Fourth Annual Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Conference
The Philosophy Department and Philosophy Club will host the 4th Annual Appalachian Regional Student Philosophy Conference, March 18-19. Dr. Stephen Stich (Rutgers) will give the keynote address. In addition, the conference will feature a symposium on Early Modern Philosophy of Science with Benny Goldberg (Pittsburgh), Peter Distelzweig (Pittsburgh), and Dr. David Miller (Duke) presenting.

03/2011 Professor Sytsma's article "Deep Trouble for the Deep Self" (with David Rose, Jonathan Livengood, and Edouard Machery) has been accepted for publication in Philosophical Psychology.

EVENT Screening of "Wandering Mind," February 28
Their will be an exclusive screening of the film "Wandering Mind" in Ball Hall 127 on Monday, February 28, from 7:00 - 9:00 PM. The award-winning director of the film (Theodore Martland) will be on hand to introduce it and will answer questions after the viewing.

EVENT Philosophy Coffee on Friday, February 25
The ETSU Philosophy Club will be holding a Philosophy Coffee featuring Professor Kortum in Rogers-Stout 321 at 3:00 PM. The topic of discussion will be the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and specifically the question, "Can there be a private language?"


EVENT Screening of "Wandering Mind," February 11 and 18
The Philosophy Club will be screening the film "Inception" on Friday, February 11, followed by a discussion of the themes of Reality and Dreaming on Friday, February 18. Both events will be held in Rogers-Stout 321 at 3:00 PM.

01/2011 Professor MacAvoy's article "On the Unity of Intelligibility in Heidegger: Against Distinguishing the Practical and the Discursive" will appear in Philosophy Today.

01/2011 Professor Allen has had 13 chapters accepted for publication in Springer's forthcoming multivolume Encyclopedia of Global Justice.

01/2011 Professor Duckworth's new translation of Botrul will be released in March from SUNY press.

01/2011 Professor Kortum's paper "Emerging Higher Education in Azerbaijan: Varieties of Internal Corruption and Proposed Remedies" has appeared in the Journal of Azerbaijani Studies.

12/2011 Professor Sytsma's article "Robot Pains and Corporate Feelings" (with Edouard Machery) will appear in the upcoming issue of The Philosophers' Magazine.

EVENT Philosophy Coffee on Friday, December 3
The ETSU Philosophy Club will be holding a Philosophy Coffee featuring Professor Sytsma in Rogers-Stout 321 at 3:00 PM. The topic of discussion will be the nature of meaning.

12/2010 Philosophy majors Courtney Oglesby and Dustin Phillips have received a Student-Faculty Collaborative Grant to work with Professor Sytsma on a project concerning "Pain Hallucinations."

11/2010 Professor Allen took ten ETSU students to the conference "Crossing Boundaries at Davis and Elkins College in WV, a professional conference with a student section. All of the students presented research papers, with topics including Recent Developments in Marxism, Cosmopolitanism and World Food Security, and Dante's concept of the World Monarch, amongst others.

EVENT Philosophy Department Meet & Greet, November 3
Curious about philosophy? Want to know about philosophy courses or programs? Come to the Philosophy Department Meet & Greet, Wednesday November 3, from 4:00-5:30 PM in Rogers-Stout 321. All are welcome. Refreshments provided.

10/2010 Two articles by Professor Sytsma have recently appeared in print: "Semantic Intuitions: Reply to Lam" (with Edouard Machery, Max Deutsch, Ron Mallon, Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich) in Cognition and "Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience" (with Edouard Machery) in Philosophical Studies.

EVENT Talk, "Folk Psychology and Phenomenal Consciousness," September 17
Professor Sytsma will give a talk
at ETSU on Friday September 17 (2:00 PM in Rogers-Stout 424), as part of the ETSU Department of Psychology Speaker Series. The talk will concern recent work in experimental philosophy of mind.