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WELCOME TO THE USC PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
WHAT'S NEW:
SCSP CONFERENCE
CFP: The next meeting of the South Carolina
Society for Philosophy will be held at Queens
University in Charlotte NC (February 26-27, 2010).
This will be a joint meeting with the North Carolina Philosophical Society.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2009 (only abstracts
are requested, but much earlier than in the past).
NEW WEB SITE: The Classics
in Contemporary Perspectives Initiative now has its own web site. Coordinated
by Jill
Frank, the CCPI "is an interdepartmental and interdisciplinary group of faculty and
graduate students founded in Fall 2008 to explore the complex and
multifaceted ways in which the ancient reflects, refracts, and
interrogates the modern and the contemporary."
ETHOX FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP: Leah McClimans
has been awarded a 3-year research fellowship in clinical ethics at the
University of Warwick, UK. The fellowship is funded by the Ethox Foundation.
The project is three-pronged focusing on the "effectiveness" of clinical
ethics; the ethical implications of patient-reported outcomes and developing
educational standards in ethics for clinicians.
CASBS FELLOWSHIP: Konstantin
Pollok has been awarded a fellowship for academic year 2009-10 at the
Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION AWARD: Ann
Johnson and her collaborator Johannes Lenhard, currently at the
University of Bielefeld, have been awarded a sizeable grant by the
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This grant will support work on a
project titled "Towards a Culture of Prediction: Computational Modeling in
the Era of Desktop Computing". The proposed project, first, will build an
account of the development, dissemination, and role of desktop computing
in present-day science and technology and elaborate on how this has led to
a culture of prediction. Second, it will develop a historical study of
the role of prediction in science and engineering, to show both how it has
changed and the ways in which it is continuous with the proposed culture
of prediction.
HUMANITIES AWARD: Congratulations to
Professor Ignas Skrupskelis who
has been given an award from the Lithuanian Government in honor of his service to the humanities.
This is an award that is given to Lithuanian scholars living abroad and it is intended to recognize
the distinction such scholars have brought to Lithuania by their intellectual activities.
NSF GRANT: Kevin Elliott
is co-PI for a 4-year NSF project entitled: "NIRT: Intuitive Toxicology
and Public Engagement," examining public perspectives on the toxicological
risks of nanomaterials, considering how those perspectives compare with
those of experts, and examining how members of the public and experts
communicate with one another about these issues.
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University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC USA 29208
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