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WELCOME TO THE USC PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
WHAT'S NEW:
HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION AWARD: Congratulations to Ann
Johnson! She 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.
NEW DEPARTMENT CHAIR: Congratulations to
Professor Anne Bezuidenhout
who has been appointed as the Philosophy Department's new chair starting in academic year
2008-09, and many thanks to our previous chair
Professor Jeremiah Hackett
for his service in that position.
NEW FACULTY: This Fall 2008 we welcome a new faculty member:
Michael
Stöltzner.
PUBLICATION: The long-awaited volume 5 of Leibniz's Complete Works and Letters,
Series VII: Mathematical Writings has recently appeared, co-edited by
Heike
Sefrin-Weiss.
Look for the link at http://www.gwlb.de/Leibniz/Leibnizarchiv/Veroeffentlichungen/.
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.
SCSP CONFERENCE CFP: The next meeting of the South
Carolina Society for Philosophy will be held at Winthrop University
(February 27-28, 2009).
The deadline for submissions is January 4, 2009.
ACPM CFP: The 4th Atlantic Coast
Pragmatism Meeting will be held at USC Columbia, March 28-29, 2009.
The deadline for submissions is January 30, 2009. Local arrangements: Tom
Burke.
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