Professors Thomas Nadelhoffer and Kevin Timpe (Northwest Nazerene University_) have started a new blog Disability and Disadvantage to provide a “space for philosophical reflection on various kinds of disadvantage (e.g., discrimination based on racism, classism, sexism, hetero-sexism, ableism, and the intersectionality of these and related phenomena) as well as discussion of such disadvantage within the philosophical community.”
Prof. Rachel McKinnon will also serve as a regular contributor.
Professors Thomas Nadelhoffer and Jennifer Wright will be presenting a poster, “Enhancement, the Self, and the Lottery of Life” at the International Neuroethics Society annual meeting in Washington, DC on 11/13 and 11/14.
Prof. Jennifer Baker will be presenting the commentary on “Self Love and Moral Agency” for the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress at the University of Colorado, Boulder 8/7 – 8/10.
Profs. Thomas Nadelhoffer and Jennifer Wright will present a paper, “Enhancement, the Self, and the Lottery of Life” at the Neurointerventions in the Law Conference in Atlanta GA 9/12-9/14.
Prof. Christian Coseru will be giving a paper, “Reflexive Sensibility and the Madhyamika’s View from Nowhere” at the XVIIth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies in Vienna Austria on 8/23/14. During the same trip, he will be giving a paper, “Consciousness and Causal Explanation: Santaraksita Against Physicalism” at the 5th International Dharmakirti Conference in Heidelberg Germany on 8/28/14.
Prof. Ned Hettinger will be participating in a symposium on “Reconsidering Dualistic Thinking on Non-Native Species and Their Role in Conservation” (Julian Olden, organizer), at The North America Congress for Conservation Biology, Missoula, MT (July 2014); presentation title “Defending Native Species: Naturalness, Cosmopolitanization, and Novel Ecosystems”.
Ned Hettinger will be delivering the keynote address “Age of Man Environmentalism and Respect for an Independent Nature” for the 11th Annual Meeting on Environmental Philosophy in Allenspark, Colorado in June 2014.
Profs. Sheridan Hough and Christian Coseru to present at the 20th Anniversary Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson, Arizona. Prof. Sheridan Hough will be giving a talk, “That Poor and Erring Organ: Nietzsche on Consciousness and Instinct.” Prof. Christian Coseru will be giving a talk, “Reflexive Sensibility: The Bedrock of Consciousness.”
Prof. Jennifer Baker will be presenting a paper, “Virtue and Civic Liberty: Past Actions and Present Requirements” at the annual meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, April 14th in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Professor Coseru will deliver a talk, “A Buddhist View of Cognitive Phenomenology” at Marquette University as part of the “Self-Awareness and Subjectivity in Consciousness: Buddhist and Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives” workshop, on Tuesday, April 10, 2014.