Events Calendar
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Saturday, November 21, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Minimal Consciousness:
A Workshop on Ethical and Conceptual Dimensions
of States of Minimal Consciousness
The Heritage Room
Kellogg Center
Michigan State University
Led by neurosurgeon and philosopher of mind Grant Gillett, this workshop explores how to understand and care for people whose level of conscious awareness is real, but severely diminished. Dr. Gillett’s morning lecture will be followed by an afternoon round table discussion on the relationship between minds and the social world in which they are situated.
Schedule
9:15 Introduction to the Workshop
9:30 “The Ethical Significance of the Minimally Conscious State”—Grant Gillett, University of Otago
10:15: Response—Tom Tomlinson, Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences, MSU
10:30: Break
10:40-11:45 Discussion
12:00-1:15: Lunch
1:15-2:30: Roundtable: “Cognitive Science and ‘Second Nature’” morning speakers plus Andrea Bozoki, Department of Neurology, MSU, Kyle Powys Whyte and James L. Nelson, Department of Philosophy, MSU, and Scott Kim, Psychiatry and Bioethics, University of Michigan.
2:30: Workshop Wrap-up and Reception
Admission is free. Parking will be available in the Kellogg Center garage. Contact James L. Nelson for further information (jlnelson@msu.edu)
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters, The Martin Benjamin Endowed Lectureship in the Department of Philosophy, and The Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences,
Michigan State University
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
College of Arts and Letters
Signature Lecture Series:
7:30 p.m., December 2, 2009
Cobb Great Hall, Wharton Center
Thursday - Saturday, April 22-25, 2010
Ancient Philosophy Society
Xth Annual Meeting 22-25 April 2010
Michigan State University
Call for Papers:
Papers in English on any topic in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy are invited: 3,000-word maximum, prepared for blind review. Before submission
by e-mail attachment, see full instructions at:
www.ancientphilosophysociety.org
and:
http://www.ancientphilosophysociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/CALL-FOR-PAPERS-actual.pdf
Submission deadline: Monday 2 November 2009.
Decisions will be reported by the end of December. Inquiries and submissions should be directed to:
submissions@ancientphilosophysociety.org
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