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On Saturday, November 7th, the Second Annual Pediatric Bioethics Conference will take place at UNF. The conference is free for students. Here is the announcement:

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Andrea Pitts (B.A., UNF 2006; currently pursuing her Ph.D. at USF) will be presenting our first annual UNF alumni lecture at Saturday’s conference. The title of her paper is “A Chimera, Lie, and Illusion: Reciprocal Love in Rousseau.” Here is the abstract:

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Here is the abstract for Kenneth Brummel-Smith ’s plenary session at this Saturday’s conference:
The concept of universal health insurance coverage is vastly popular. The big question is what system should be used to achieve it – private, employer-based coverage, a public-private mixture, or a single payer system. Most of the debate about the choices is [...]

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Here is the abstract for Tristram Engelhardt ’s plenary session at this Saturday’s conference:
All over the world, national health insurance systems are in crisis. Because they face the challenges of the moral hazard (people using all benefits to which they are entitled, even when the use is minimally beneficial), the political hazard (politicians promising benefits [...]

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Here are the last of the abstracts for the conference’s concurrent sessions. Abstracts of the plenary sessions will follow next week.

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Here are abstracts of the papers for the conference’s second concurrent sessions. More to follow shortly.

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Here are abstracts of the papers for the conference’s first concurrent sessions. Over the course of the next week, I’ll post the abstracts both for the other concurrent sessions and for the plenary sessions, as well.

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2009 Conference Schedule

Here is the (near final) draft of the schedule for the 13th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference: “Health Care, Conscience, and Property.” The conference will take place at the University of North Florida on Saturday, September 12th. It is free and open to all.

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Paper Titles

The Northeast Florida Philosophy Conference is coming up in three weeks — on September 12th. Here are the titles of the papers for the concurrent sessions.

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Congratulations to the students whose papers were selected for the 13th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference:

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Ernest Sosa

The FPA is pleased to announce that Ernest Sosa (Rutgers) will be the keynote speaker at the 2009 meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association. The meeting will be held in Gainesville at Santa Fe College on November 13-14, 2009.

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We have at least one student at UNF who will be submitting a paper. Perhaps others are interested, as well:
Western Conference of the Society of Christian Philosophers
PAPER DEADLINE: Saturday, August 15

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Conference Announcement, Reminder

Announcement: By the end of the week, we will have program decisions for the Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference.
Reminder: The deadline for undergraduate submissions to the FPA’s annual conference is September 14th; the deadline for graduate submissions is August 14th. More info is available here.

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Last Call

… for submissions to this conference.

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The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics invites submissions from students for its 19th Annual Meeting (March 4-7, 2010):
Submissions are invited on ethical issues in various fields (e.g., public administration, law, the environment, accounting, engineering, computer science, research ethics, business, medicine, health care, journalism, higher education) and on issues that cut across professions. Special consideration [...]

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Less Than 20 Days

… until submissions are due for UNF’s annual conference. Papers on any topic of philosophical interest will be considered, although papers related to the conference theme are preferred. Authors of papers accepted for the conference will be notified by August 15th.

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I though this might be relevant for those working on Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and/or Moral Psychology. Best of Luck!

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Call for abstracts of presentations for a symposium on teaching philosophy to be part of the 55th annual conference of the Florida Philosophical Association, to be held November 13-14, 2009, in Gainesville, Florida, hosted by Santa Fe College.
DEADLINE: August 14, 2009
More information on the 2009 meeting is available here.
Symposium organizer: Charlotte Pressler, South Florida [...]

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MOVING TO THE FRONT (FROM APRIL 30)
Paper submissions are invited for the 55th annual meeting of the Florida Philosophical Association, to be held November 13-14, 2009, in Gainesville, hosted by Santa Fe College.
(Note: For graduate students, the deadline for submissions to the FPA conference is, roughly, two weeks after the deadline for submissions to the [...]

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I was visiting the web-page of the Philosophy Department at the University of Western Ontario, and noticed that they had an open call for papers for an upcoming graduate student conference on feminist philosophy (Sept. 18-20). The Keynote speaker is Alice MacLachlan (York University).
 Here is an excerpt of their description of the conference: “This conference aims [...]

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MOVING TO THE FRONT (FROM MAY 19th; ORIGINALLY POSTED APRIL 28th)
UNF’s Department of Philosophy invites paper submissions from undergraduate or graduate students for the 13th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference:
“Health Care, Conscience, and Property”
September 12, 2009
Jacksonville, Florida
Plenary Speakers:
H. Tristram Engelhardt (Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine)
Kenneth Brummel-Smith (Florida State University)
Directions: Submit both (i) a cover [...]

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My Ways Are Not Your Ways: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible

Theme: The conference will focus on the charge that the Abrahamic religious traditions should be rejected because of their foundation in the Hebrew Bible, which allegedly portrays God as immoral and vicious. The presenters and commentators will include philosophers—both theistic and nontheistic—as well as Biblical scholars.

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Both the theme and the plenary speakers are set for the 13th Annual Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference. The theme is “Health Care, Conscience, and Property.” The plenary speakers are H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (Rice) and Kenneth Brummel-Smith (FSU). The CFP will be out shortly.
Note: Although papers related to the conference theme will be preferred, [...]

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…is the topic of the Global Studies Association of North America’s 2009 Conference. 
May 8th through the 10th.
Click here for more details.
Co-Sponsored by the Peace Studies Program at Florida Atlantic University.
Keynote Speakers include: Ginette Apollon (“Human Rights in Haiti”), Farshad Araghi (“The Global Food Crisis: Event or Conjecture?”), Stephen E. Bronner (“America and Darfur: Notes for a [...]

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October 22-24, 2009

Fort Lewis College

Durango, Colorado

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