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Women have been and continue to be underrepresented in the history of philosophy. Unfortunately, pragmatism is not an exception to this current trend. The genealogy of pragmatism pays less attention to the works of those women who contributed to the movement. Jane Addams, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Alice Hamilton, Mary Parker Follett, Anna Julia Cooper, Ella Flagg Young, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Mary White Calkins, Florence Kelley, Victoria Welby and many others are only just resurfacing in the literature, after having been cast into oblivion for decades. For those women, to pursue an academic career or to live as public intellectuals was at best a challenge, if not an impossibility.

One century later, the situation is only slowly changing. Women represent almost half of the community of professional philosophers. However, women keep being less quoted, less considered and held less creditable as subjects or objects of knowledge as their male peers. The aim of this conference is thus to celebrate the past and current work of women researching and advancing  philosophy in a pragmatist tradition and highlight their ongoing contributions to specialist academic research as well as public discourse.

The conference will also promote mentoring, networking, and sharing good practice between women working on any aspect of the pragmatist tradition, broadly construed. As an output and lasting legacy of the meeting, we plan to create a virtual archive of women currently engaged in research on pragmatism, which will strengthen cooperation and facilitate communication between scholars. Lastly, the reunion of women pragmatists should lead to the adoption of some resolutions to correct gender bias in research, teaching and cooperation analogous to other associations of women philosophers.

Persons who self-identify as women and gender non-conform persons are encouraged to send a 300-word abstract prepared for blind-peer review to nsmiras@ub.edu before the 30th of September within one of the following research areas (please give the number of the area in which you wish to be considered):

1. HISTORY, GENEALOGIES OF PRAGMATISM, PRAGMATISM AND OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL TRADITIONS
2. LOGIC, METAPHYSICS, EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
3. AESTHETICS, THEOLOGY, RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY
4. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY OF MIND, PHILOSOPHY OF PSYCHOLOGY
5. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, ETHICS
6. GENDER, RACE, SEX, INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS
7. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, PHILOSOPHY OF LAW, PHILOSOPHY AND ECONOMICS
8. INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO PRAGMATISM

Attendance is open to all persons interested in pragmatism.

Deadline for submission: September 30, 2019. 
Communication of acceptance/rejection: November 10, 2019

Webpage: womenpragmatistsbcn.wordpress.com

Location: Universitat de Barcelona
Date: 28-30 January 2020

Workshop in Kooperation der Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FEST) mit dem Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie und Rechtsphilosophie der Universität Koblenz-Landau.

U.a. mit Sami Pihlström, weiter Informationen folgen in Kürze.

Organisation:
Prof. Dr. Matthias Jung
PD Dr. Magnus Schlette

Kontakt
PD Dr. Magnus Schlette, 06221-912237, magnus.schlette@fest-heidelberg.de

Ort: 69117 Heidelberg, Schmeilweg 5
Datum: 19./20. August 2019

The Association for Philosophy and Literature hosts its 2019 conference at Klagenfurt, Austria from May 29th – June 2nd, 2019.
Some of the contributions are pragmatism specific.

Further information are available at the APL-Homepage.

Tagung an der Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing.
Für weitere Informationen klicken Sie bitte auf das nebenstehende Bild.

Leitung: Michael Spieker / Martin Müller

Datum: 20.05.2019 – 22.05.2019

Ort:  Akademie für Politische Bildung
Buchensee 1, 82327 Tutzing

Pressebericht zur Tagung in der FAZ

Among other contributions to the topic of normativity in a globalized world,
Andreas Hetzel will give a lecture in which he will look at the topic from a pragmatist point of view.

Further information: please click the poster.

The conference language is English.

Date: May 15th-16th, 2019
Place: HfPH München
Organization: HfPH München

Die Naturwissenschaften sind heute eine kulturell prägende Macht. Ihr „Ethos der Nüchternheit“ entzieht dem Glauben an Übernatürliches jede Legitimität. Wovon handelt der religiöse Glaube dann aber noch in einem naturalistisch dominierten Zeitalter?

Diskussion im Rahmen des Akademieabends der Katholischen Akademie Berlin.

Referenten: Prof. Dr. Matthias Jung (Koblenz)
Prof. Dr. Hans Julius Schneider (Potsdam)

Anmeldung

Ort: Katholische Akademie Berlin

Datum: Freitag, 03.05.2019, 19.00 Uhr

The concept of human nature has been challenged by social scientists because of its inability to clearly delineate the distinction between the biologically inherited and experientially acquired attributes of being human. Yet the very fact of being susceptible to acquired cultural influences irrelevant to other species makes clear that this is an evolutionarily constrained susceptibility. Symbolic processes are the source of the most important and distinctively human acquired influences, and include both linguistically mediated and habitually reproduced social conventions. Susceptibility to these influences arose due to the evolution of neurological adaptations that support symbolic communication and cognition. Although human brains do not include any structures that lack ape homologues, the slight reorganization that made symbolic abilities ubiquitous has also created the possibility for socially transmitted information to radically reorganize mental functions. In this lecture I reanalyze the concept of symbolic reference in order to overcome equivocal and ambiguous uses of the concept that obscure the special nature of these adaptations and thus blind research to the complex bio-cultural interactions that produce some of the most ubiquitous and unprecedented features of being human. These include modifications
of memory functions, emotional experiences, the nature of identity, and the range of mental plasticity.

Location: Marsilius-Kolleg der Universität Heidelberg (Im Neuenheimer Feld 130.1)
Date: March 29th 2019, 6:00 pm
Organized by: FEST and GERPRAGNET in cooporation with Marsilius-Kolleg and Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Heidelberg

(Beim Klicken auf das Bild werden Sie zum Video auf Youtube weitergeleitet)

Prof. Dr. Michael Hampe ist seit 2003 Professor für Philosophie an der ETH Zürich und im Wintersemester 2018/19 als visiting fellow an der FEST Heidelberg.

Es ist ein Charakteristikum moderner kritischer Philosophie, die Begriffe der absoluten Wahrheit und der absoluten Gewissheit in Frage zu stellen. Doch darf daraus nicht der Schluss gezogen werden, wir wüssten nicht, was wahr

sei. Tatsächlich verfügen wir über eine Reihe von bewährten Praktiken der Überprüfung von Behauptungen hinsichtlich ihres Wahrheitsgehaltes. Die Relevanz dieser Praktiken ist unabhängig von einer allgemeinen philo-sophischen Wahrheitstheorie. Wegen der politischen und kulturellen Bedeutung von Wahrheiten, die weit über die Bedeutung dieses Begriffs in den Wissenschaften hinausgeht, ist es wichtig, die Relevanz und das Funktionieren dieser Wahrheitspraktiken anzuerkennen und aus dem Scheitern allgemeiner philosophischer Wahrheitstheorien nicht die falschen Konsequenzen zu ziehen.

On December 7-8 Roberto Frega will organize a workshop on Dewey’s 1932 Ethics in Berlin, at the Centre Marc Bloch. The workshop is aimed at discussing the contributions to a future volume on Dewey’s Ethics.

Program and Abstracts

Place: Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
Date: Dec. 7-8, 2018, 12 am-7 pm and 9 am-1.30 pm.
Working language: English