Philosophy

Science and Pseudoscience 15 March 2008 Birmingham (UK), West Midlands, United Kingdom Website: http://www.philosophy.bham.ac.uk/events/Pseudoscience.shtml Contact name: Dr Lisa Bortolotti How do we distinguish science from pseudoscience? The one-day conference will present different answers to this question. Confirmed speakers are Professor Steve Fuller, Professor John Worrall and Professor Chris French. Organized by: Royal Institute of Philosophy Birmingham Branch

What is comparative philosophy? 14 to 16 March 2008 Oxford, United Kingdom A colloquium exploring fundamental issues and problems in comparative or 'cross-cultural' philosophy. What counts as successful, valid, valuable, useful or meaningful comparative philosophy? Asian and western traditions will be discussed.

On Whose Terms? Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts 13 to 14 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://onwhoseterms.org Contact name: Dr. Deirdre Osborne This conference focuses upon local, national and transnational perspectives on Black British literature and the arts. It aims to celebrate and critically engage with the field. Organized by: Goldsmiths, University of London

The Idea of the New: Discovery, Expression and Reception 7 March 2008 London, United Kingdom Website: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/list/ies_conferences Contact name: Lesley Moss This interdisciplinary conference will explore how we recognise and define ‘newness’. It will examine the developments and tensions which cause writers to break away from tradition and the moments of breakthrough which ensue. Organized by: University College London Department of English Language and Literature

Structured along the theme A Journey Into Islamic Values which promises a succinct yet informative day detailing the intrinsic aspects and values about Islam. Organized by: Islamic Society, University of Essex

Dear colleagues, It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 3rd Biennial Meeting of the EARLI Special Interest Group 16 "Metacognition", which will be held from 8th to 10th of May, 2008 in the city of Ioannina, Greece. The first meeting was held in 2004 in Amsterdam and the second in 2006 in Cambridge. Both meetings were highly successful in bringing together SIG members as well as researchers from all over the world. We aspire to continue this tradition. The aim of this meeting is to provide a forum for the presentation and exchange of research findings and expertise, relating to the processes, the ecological validity and the applications of metacognition. The relations of metacognition with learning and thinking from early childhood to old age in various settings will be highlighted. The meeting will include symposia, individual papers, and posters. Dr Beate Sodian, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany, and Dr Marcel V. J. Veenman, University of Leiden and University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, have been invited as keynote speakers to the meeting. The scope of the previous meetings has typically been very broad, and we hope to draw together once again a wide range of researchers and experts in the field of Metacognition. We would, therefore, welcome submissions covering all areas of Metacognition research, including: The facets of metacognition Metacognitive experiences Metacognitive knowledge Metacognitive skills Metamemory The measurement of metacognition Development of metacognition The cognitive underpinnings of metacognition Theory of mind Epistemological thinking Self-regulation and metacognition Executive processes and metacognition Metacognition and learning Social processes in metacognition The Organizing Committee will work tirelessly towards an excellent conference programme. We hope that Ioannina's atmosphere and lakeside location will make it a welcoming venue for all participants and that the meeting will be an enjoyable and enriching experience in scientific, personal and social respects. The Presidents of the Organizing Committee Anastasia Efklides Plousia Misailidi Deadlines Submission of proposals: October 15, 2007 Notice of acceptance: November 15, 2007 Early Registration: January 15, 2008 For further information please visit the meeting website: http://sig16.uoi.gr

The 35th Conference on Value Inquiry with the theme “Values and Medicine” will be held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing New Jersey 5-6 April, 2008. Broad participation is sought. Papers that address concerns of values in medicine and values in relation to medicine are welcome. Submissions are due by 14 January 2008, and should consist of at least a seven hundred word abstract that has been prepared for blind review. The submission of complete papers is encouraged and early submission is advised. Reading time of papers should be about twenty minutes. Papers may be practically or theoretically oriented. Topics may be disciplinary and range over issues within a single field of value inquiry such as normative ethics, applied ethics, aesthetics, political theory, or economics. Topics may be interdisciplinary and range over issues between two or more fields of value inquiry. Topics may even be meta-disciplinary and range over purely conceptual issues important for fuller understanding of matters of values and medicine. The College of New Jersey, which has recently been recognized as having one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States, is approximately five miles from Trenton, the state capital, ten miles from Princeton, and one hour from both Philadelphia and New York, all of which are easily accessible by public transportation. To submit a paper or an abstract, or for additional information contact: Review Committee 35th Conference on Value Inquiry The College of New Jersey 2000 Pennington Road Ewing, NJ 08618 e-mail: papers.james@gmail.com

15th International Summer School in Cognitive Science NBU, Sofia, June 30 - July 19, 2008 Courses Margaret Boden (University of Sussex, UK) - Creativity and Computers Paul Smolensky (Rumelhart Prize Winner for 2005, John Hopkins University, USA) - Explaining Grammatical Competence and Performance in an Integrated Connectionist/Symbolic Computational Architecture Geraldine Legendre (John Hopkins University, USA) - Optimal Morphosyntax and Its Acquisition Bradley Schlaggar (Washington University at Saint Louis, USA) - Cognitive Neuroscience Investigation of Typical and Atypical Development Terry Regier (University of Chicago, USA) - Language and Thought Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - Analogy and Cognition Eve Clark (Stanford University, USA) - Acquisition of Meaning Herbert Clark (Stanford University, USA) - Using Language Jeffrey Elman (Rumelhart Prize Winner for 2007, University of California at San Diego, USA) - Connectionist Models of Language Processing Organised by the New Bulgarian University Endorsed by the Cognitive Science Society Sponsored by European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) http://www.escop.org/ Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science New Bulgarian University 21 Montevideo Str. Sofia 1618 phone: (+3592) 8110-401 e-mail: school@cogs.nbu.bg

The aim of the roundtable is to engage with the epistemological and methodological challenges which the field currently faces and to discuss the implications of these. It is hoped that the papers will reflect the interdisciplinary nature of legal semiotics research as well as the challenges of working in the field. In this context, proposals from a wide variety of semiotic perspectives are invited. These might include but are not limited to papers on : The central debates in legal semiotics and the progress/key developments in the last decade How we acquire knowledge in the field including the role of different research ‘approaches' Method, methodology and epistemology in legal semiotics The relevant contribution of different theoretical traditions in legal semiotics New approaches to studying legal texts and legal discourse in different legal cultures The promises and limits of deconstructionism in studying the law, legal cultures The political and/or ideological uses of particular approaches in legal semiotics Young researchers working in related areas are particularly encouraged to participate. In the interest of a cohesive round table, prospective participants are requested to adhere to the theme as outlined in the call for papers.

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