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on Wednesday, September 16 EVENT Philosophy Department Meet & Greet, November 9 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 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 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 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. 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 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 |
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