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Abstracta Special Issue V (2010)

Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:18:18 GMT

We are pleased to announce our “Special Issue V”. Our fifth special issue is a symposium on Michael Slote’s “The Ethics of Care and Empathy” (Routledge, 2007).

We are very honoured with the opportunity of publishing this discussion by a team of distinguished philosophers and of such an importance for ethical theory in general (whose relevance extends to a range of other subjects such as philosophical psychology, the philosophy of action and of emotion, and feminism).

Abstracta Special Issue V (2010)

Contents:

* Editorial

* Précis of “The Ethics of Care and Empathy” (Michael Slote)

* Complexity in Caring and Empathy (Nel Noddings)

* Empathy and Ethics (John Cottingham)

* Caring and Empathy: On Michael Slote's Sentimentalist Ethics (Julia Driver)

* Is Empathy All We Need? (Annette C. Baier)

* Reply to Noddings, Cottingham, Driver, and Baier (Michael Slote)

Abstracta Volume 5, Number 2

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:57:51 GMT

Abstracta Volume 5, Number 2 is now available at:

http://www.abstracta.pro.br/

or

http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english

Contents:

* Making "Reasons" Explicit: How Normative is Brandom's Inferentialism? Daniel Laurier (Université de Montréal)

* On The Interpretation of Hume's Epistemology
João Paulo Monteiro (Universidade de São Paulo)

* Editorial – Second European Graduate School:
Philosophy of Language, Mind and Science
Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum),
Raphael van Riel (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) &
Michael Sollberger (Université de Lausanne)

* Semantic Reference Not By Convention? Jessica Pepp (University of California, Los Angeles)

* Prospects for an Intentionalist Theory of Self-Deception
Kevin Lynch (Warwick University)

* Synaesthesia and the Relevance of Phenomenal Structures in Perception
Michael Sollberger (Université de Lausanne)

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New Issue of ABSTRACTA (Volume 4, Number 2)

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:33:15 GMT

We are pleased to announce that the new issue of Abstracta (Volume 4, Number 2) is now available at:

http://www.abstracta.pro.br/

or

http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english

Contents:

“Causal Inheritance and Second-order Properties”
Suzanne Bliss (Macquarie University) &
Jordi Fernández (University of Adelaide)

“Rules, Games, and Society”
Martin A. Bertman (Helsinki University)

“Brain and Behavioral Functions:
Supporting the Intentionality of Mental States”
João de F. Teixeira (Federal University of São Carlos) &
Alfredo Pereira Jr. (São Paulo State University)

“¿Es Incoherente la Postulación de Mundos Posibles?”
José Tomás Alvarado Marambio
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

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ABSTRACTA Special Issue II

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 10:12:27 GMT

We are pleased to announce the “Special Issue II” of ABSTRACTA. Our second special issue is a symposium on “The Phenomenological Mind” (London: Routledge, 2008) by Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi. We are very honoured with the opportunity of publishing a discussion of such seminal book by a team of distinguished researchers.

Gallagher & Zahavi's “The Phenomenological Mind” is considered to be an “introduction to philosophy of mind and cognitive science” from a phenomenological point of view. However, as the critical reviews of Blanke, Brook, Cole, Hutto, Schwabe, Slors, and Tanesini point out, it is equally to be understood as an introduction of phenomenology into the (analytical) philosophy of mind and cognitive science. The deep and detailed discussions in the Special Issue of ABSTRACTA reveal both the need for and the limits of this project. As clearly stated by all, “The Phenomenological Mind” is a seminal work, the scope and significance of which becomes most clear in the contributions for the Special Issue.

Abstracta Special Issue II, 2008

Contents:

Précis: The Phenomenological Mind Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi

Articulating and Understanding the Phenomenological Manifesto
Daniel D. Hutto

Phenomenology, Neuroscience and Impairment
Jonathan Cole

The Importance and Limits of Phenomenological Philosophy of Mind
Marc Slors

Intentionality and the Externalism versus Internalism Debate
Alessandra Tanesini

Phenomenology: Contribution to Cognitive Science
Andrew Brook

Phenomenology as Another Toolbox for Neuroscientists?
Lars Schwabe & Olaf Blanke

Reply: A Phenomenology with Legs and Brains
Dan Zahavi & Shaun Gallagher

Abstracta (Volume 4, Number 1)

Sun, 11 May 2008 17:56:49 GMT

Dear members of Abstracta mailing list,

We are pleased to announce that the new issue of Abstracta (Volume 4, Number 1) is now available at:

http://www.abstracta.pro.br/

or

http://www.abstracta.pro.br/english

The issue brings two guest editors (Albert Newen and Tobias Schlicht, both from Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and consists of four articles which were awarded the “Rudolf-Carnap-Essay Prize”. The prize was part of an event that took place at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in February 2008. The event comprised of a graduate conference and the “Carnap Lectures”, which were given by Alva Noë (Berkeley).

Contents:

Volume 4 Number 1, 2008

Editorial:
In Honour of Rudolf Carnap – Central Topics in Epistemology Albert Newen & Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Skepticism, Externalism and Inference to the Best Explanation Jochen Briesen (Humboldt-University / Berlin)
Testimony, Transmission, and Safety Joachim Horvath (University of Cologne)

Reconsidering the Epistemology of Deductive-Inferential Validity Florian Demont (University of Birmingham)

Theory Assessment and Coherence Peter Brössel (University of Konstanz)

Best wishes,
THE EDITORS.

Special Issue of ABSTRACTA

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:28:40 GMT

We are pleased to announce the first “Special Issue” of ABSTRACTA and honoured to open the series with the proceedings of a symposium that celebrated the 10th anniversary of publication of Eric Olson’s book The Human Animal (Oxford University Press, 1997).

The symposium was an Author-Meets-Critics session of the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Three of the most distinguished contemporary philosophers working on personal identity were the commentators: Lynne Rudder Baker, Ned Markosian and Dean Zimmerman. Eric Olson wrote a précis of the book and replied to their comments.

Here are the contents:

Précis of “The Human Animal”
Eric Olson (University of Sheffield)

Big-Tent Metaphysics
Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Three Problems for Olson’s Account of Personal Identity
Ned Markosian (Western Washington University)

Problems for Animalism
Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers University)

Replies
Eric Olson (University of Sheffield)

Response to Eric Olson
Lynne Rudder Baker (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

This should be the first “Special Issue” of many. They will be primarily dedicated to symposia in which a number of distinguished invited authors discuss some of the most relevant books published in Philosophy in recent years.

Thanks very much for your attention.

The Editors.

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New Members of the Board

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:11:57 GMT

We are honoured and delighted to announce the following two new members to our advisory board:

* Bas C. van Fraassen (Princeton University)

* Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)

To visit their webpages click on the links belowÇ

http://www.princeton.edu/~fraassen/

http://philosophy.rutgers.edu/FACSTAFF/BIOS/goldman.html

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