May 13th, 2009

Click here to download the flyer/announcement for the Fourth Annual Marquette Summer Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy entitled “Thought and Action in Aristotle and the Aristotelian Tradition” taking place June 16th-18th, 2009 at Marquette University. This event is presented by the Midwest Seminar in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and the Aquinas and the Arabs Project with the support of the Helen Way Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, please contact Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University by Email: mistertea@mac.com or Telephone: (414)-288-5649; or by going to the conference website: http://web.mac.com/mistertea/Midwest_Seminar/2009_Summer_Aristotle_Conference.html

May 7th, 2009

Click here to download the flyer/announcement for the upcoming seminar series on Plato’s Sophist entitled “Plato on being, non-being, and falsity” taking place in June, 2009 at The University of St Andrews. For more information, please contact professor Sarah Broadie at sjb15@st-andrews.ac.uk

May 7th, 2009

Click here to download the flyer/announcement for the upcoming conference entitled “The Ethics of Interpretation: From Ancient to Postmodern Times” taking place May 13th-14th, 2009 at Marquette University. This event is made possible by the Way Klingler College of Arts & Sciences and is sponsored by the departments of philosophy and theology.

For more information, please contact Prof. Pol Vandevelde (pol.vandevelde@mu.edu) (414 288 5962) or Prof. Franco V. Trivigno (franco.trivigno@mu.edu) (414 288 5952), or visit the conference website:
http://www.sem-phen.org/NextPresentations.html.

May 5th, 2009

Dear colleagues,

As editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, it is my pleasure to announce the following prizes for recent scholarship in the history of philosophy.

The JHP Board of Directors has instituted an annual prize of $3000 for the best published book in the history of philosophy. The winner of the prize for 2007 is Terence Irwin’s The Development of Ethics: A Historical and Critical Study, Volume I: From Socrates to the Reformation (Oxford University Press, 2007).

The JHP Board of Directors has instituted an annual prize of $1500 for the best contribution to the Articles section of the Journal. The prize for 2008 is Richard Foley’s “Plato’s Undividable Line: Contradiction and Method in Republic VI” (vol. 46: 1–24).

For more information, please visit the Journal’s website, http://philosophy.duke.edu/jhp.

Sincerely,
Tad M. Schmaltz, Editor
Journal of the History of Philosophy

May 4th, 2009

Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy. The Editor will serve a five-year renewable term beginning July 1, 2010. The Journal, an international quarterly, publishes articles, notes, discussions, and reviews devoted to the history of Western philosophy, broadly conceived. The Editor must be a leading scholar in an area of the history of Western philosophy. It is also expected that the Editor’s home institution will provide operating support that supplements that from the publisher, Johns Hopkins University Press, and the Board of Directors. The Editor is responsible to the Board of Directors for the editorial process of the Journal, which includes supervision of the refereeing process for submitted manuscripts, issue composition, and relations with the publisher.

Initial expressions of interest should be made by September 30, 2009. Complete applications, including a copy of the applicant’s C.V., must be received by December 31, 2009, to be considered. Send all correspondence preferably by e-mail to: martinich@mail.utexas.edu

or by post to:

Prof. Al Martinich, Search Committee Chair
Department of Philosophy
1 University Station
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
USA

The Journal of the History of Philosophy is committed to equal opportunity and affirmative action in all appointment decisions.