CALL FOR PAPERS

The Association of Philosophy Students at The University of Toronto at
Scarborough is hosting its third annual undergraduate philosophy
conference.

Conference Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010

Submissions must be digital, sent via email with the following two
attachments, both of which should be in one of the following formats:
Portable Document Format (.pdf); Rich Text Format (.rtf); HTML (.html or
.htm); or ODF Text Document (.odt). The two attachments are to be as
follows:
? A cover page which has your name, institutional affiliation, and email
address.
? The content of the paper itself, which must not contain any identifying
information (such as name, institutional affiliation, or email addresses).
Submissions are encouraged to include an abstract of no more than 150
words at the start of this file, though it is not necessary.

Papers may be on any philosophical topic and should not exceed 4000 words
(not counting an abstract). The actual presentations will be around 30
minutes each. Each presentation is followed by a brief commentary by one
of our commentators, a reply by the speaker and then a question and answer
period.

Eligibility: any undergraduate student who does not have an undergraduate
degree prior to July 1, 2010.

Submission Deadline: February 20, 2010.
Selected authors will be notified via email by March 1, 2010.

Please email submissions to uts.aps.conf.2010@gmail.com

For more information please visit our website at
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~phlub/ and select '2009-2010' from the top
menu, followed by 'Conference', or email the Association of Philosophy
Students at phlub@utsc.utoronto.ca

hello all,

hope everyone had a good break. I have not really heard anything new over the holiday's. I was wondering if anyone had talked to Colin Russell yet, and if so what his recommendations were.

I have kind of let other parts of the association slide since this all started so I will try to work on that.
We will starting our discussion group at the Toad again this Wed. I try to be there around 8, and stay till around 11. I hope to put up some posters this week to promote our discussion group. Hope some of you can make it out.

I still have not heard from anyone interested in presenting a paper, so if anyone is please let me know. If there is anything else anyone thinks we should do please let me know.

marc

tentative schedule for next year sans Borman and Hickson

PHILOSOPHY, 2010-2011 Fall/Winter courses

Course # Course Name Instructor Cap Days Term Meeting Time

PHIL-1001/6-001 Introduction Muir 70 MWF FW 1:30 – 2:20
PHIL-1001/6-002 Introduction Tomsons 70 MWF FW 9:30 – 10:20
PHIL-1001/6-003 Introduction Forsey 70 TTh FW 10:00 – 11:15

PHIL-1301/6-001 Intro Logical TBA 70 TTh FW 4:00 – 5:15

PHIL-2002/3-001 Classical Muir 50 MWF F 11:30 – 12:20
PHIL-2010/3-001 Existentialism Forsey 50 TTh W 11:30 – 12:45
PHIL-2219/3-001 Art Forsey 50 TTh F 11:30 – 12:45
PHIL-2233/3-001 Envir. Ethics Tomsons 50 MWF W 10:30 – 11:20

PHIL-3100/3-001 Epistemology Tomsons 50 MWF F 10:30 – 11:20
PHIL-3502/3-001 Medieval Muir 50 MWF W 11:30 – 12:20
PHIL-3508/3-001 18th Century Forsey 50 TTh F 2:30 – 3:45

PHIL-4502/3-001 Human Rights Tomsons 15 MWF F 2:30 – 3:45
PHIL-4503/3-001 Plato Muir 15 MWF W 2:30 – 3:45

PHIL-4700/3 Directed Study TBA 5 TBA F TBA
PHIL-4700/3 Directed Study TBA 5 TBA W TBA
PHIL-4800/6 Thesis Course TBA 5 TBA FW TBA



Cross-listed courses:

Course # Course Name Instructor Cap Days Term Meeting Time

POL/PHIL-2200-001 Social & Political Phil Boucher 50 TTh FW 10:30 – 11:15

urgent

I just received this email from Elizabeth Dawes. All students must contact Colin Russell for a one on one consultation. I will also post the tentative schedule so students can have some info before they go into these consultations. Professor Borman and Hickson are not on the schedule even tentatively so I am assuming that the dean is not considering keeping them, I think that any student going into these consultaions should stress that keeping them would help us meet our requirments and help keep the intregety of the department.

Hello all

Colin Russell, Registrar, has agreed to provide advising to all Philosophy majors and Honours students on an individual basis in order to assist students in planning their degree program. Philosophy students should contact him directly at c.russell@uwinnipeg.ca or 786-9337 in order to set up an appointment. He will sign all required forms for majors and Honours students in Philosophy.

The Philosophy courses to be offered in 2010-11 have been carefully selected in order to meet the needs of the greatest number of students. As was the case in 2009-10, there will be two Honours seminars available in addition to directed readings and the Honours thesis. Also, we were able to arrange for PHIL-2200/6 (Social and Political Philosophy) to be offered by professor Boucher through the Politics department.

Students in the three year BA should expect to be able to meet all degree requirements in a three year period, assuming that an appropriate selection of courses has been made. However, as is the case in all small programs, students may find that their preferred courses are not available.

While it may not be possible for Honours students to complete all of their Honours credits in a single year, this is typically the case in small programs. For example, in French Studies which has six full-time members, students usually complete their Honours courses over a two year period beginning in their third year.

Colin Russell will work with you to explore all of the options and to select the courses that best meet your needs. If a gap affecting multiple students is identified, we will look at the possibility of adding a course to the 2010-11 offerings. We appreciate your patience during this time of transition.

Best wishes,

Dr. Elizabeth Dawes
Associate Dean of Arts
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, MB Canada
R3B 2E9
Telephone: (204) 786-9942
Fax: (204) 774-4134
Email: e.dawes@uwinnipeg.ca

Link to new facebook page

hello all,
this is a site that has been set up in response to the proposed amalgamation. Please check it out, it frames some of the problems and is also a place for brainstorming new ideas.
http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=338258400437&ref=mf

Also anyone concerned about this issue and who would like to have their voice heard please email me a uwphsa@gmail.com

emergency meeting tomorrow

There will be a meeting tomorrow, it will be from 12:30 - 1:20 in room Rice 3R40. I am not sure if this is a free period but hopefully some of you can make it out. This meeting will be to discuss the changes that are being proposed for the department next year. Sorry for the short notice, the proposed changes have just come to the associations attention and they seem to demand immediate action.

Call for Papers

Another one for you guys.

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE PHILOSOPHY PAPERS, DEADLINE 11/15/09 **

Episteme, an International Journal of Undergraduate Philosophy, announces the scheduled publication of volume XXI, May 2010.

Episteme will consider papers written by undergraduate students in any area of philosophy. Papers are evaluated according to quality of research, depth of inquiry, creativity, original insight and clarity. Submissions should:

1. Remain under the 5,000 words maximum.

2. Include a cover sheet with the author's name, mailing address (current and permanent), email address, telephone number, college or university name, submission title, and word count.

3. End with a Works Cited page in Chicago style. Please use endnotes rather than footnotes.

4. Arrive electronically by midnight on 11/15/09 to the e-mail address episteme@denison.edu as a Microsoft Word attachment.

Episteme is an annual student-run publication, founded in 1990, that aims to recognize and encourage excellence in undergraduate philosophy by providing students and faculty with examples of strong work.

Our May 2009 issue, volume XX, contained the following four papers:

"The Place of Book X in Plato's Republic, by Willie Costello, University of Pittsburgh

"A Gap in Kim's Eliminative Argument for Reductionism," by B.D. Mooneyham, Kansas State University

"Rawls on Abortion: Adapting his Theory of Justice to the Controversy," Douglas Dreier, Cornell University

"Norm-Expressivism and the Frege-Geach Problem," Megan Blomfield, University of Bristol

Please direct all questions to the editor -- Denison junior Sean Walt -- at episteme@denison.edu.