A few announcements that may be of interest to philosophers in NYC

First, the following announcement comes from Rohit Parikh:

CONFERENCE ON EASTERN AND WESTERN PHILOSPHICAL THEMES

December 3^rd, 4^th and 5^th, 2009 – NYC

http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/

"At one time, there was lively dialogue between Western and Eastern philosophy. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and William James were strongly influenced by Eastern philosophy. But, during recent years, Western philosophy has shown much less respect for the East than previous and there seems less awareness that issues like epistemology, time, and selfhood have been addressed very intelligently in the East.

The purpose of the conference is to reinvigorate the dialog between Eastern and Western philosophy (philosophy as distinct from religion), and a galaxy of brilliant speakers from all over the globe have agreed to participate.

Registration is Free. Students who attend the conference may apply for (modest)

travel grants.

For online registration please visit http://web.cs.gc.cuny.edu/~kgb/registration.html"

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Second, and I'm a little late in posting this, the 2010 Synthese Conference will take place at Columbia in April. Here is the announcement and CFP:

The 2010 Synthese Conference: announcement and call for papers

On April 15th and 16th of 2010, the Synthese Conference will take place at Columbia University. The 2010 edition of the Synthese Conference will focus on the theme of epistemology and economics. Recent years have seen an increasing amount of interaction between epistemology and economics: traditional topics in epistemology, such as the analysis of knowledge, have found a significant role in the study of interactive decision making, while traditional topics in economics, such as the analysis of rationality, now figure prominently into certain areas of epistemology. We anticipate that the conference program will include slots for five invited papers and at least five contributed papers. Every paper that is presented at the conference will be considered for the special issue of Synthese that will be based on the conference theme of epistemology and economics. The list of invited speakers is still being finalized. In the meantime, we encourage submissions for the contributed slots. Submissions should be relevant to the conference theme of epistemology and economics, broadly construed, and should satisfy the usual guidelines for submissions to Synthese.

Submissions for the contributed slots must be received no later than February 1, 2010. Notifications of acceptance will be made by February 20, 2010. All submissions should be sent to synthese.conference.2010@gmail.com .

The Synthese Editors-in-Chief: Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks and John Symons

The Local Organizing Committee: John Collins, Haim Gaifman, Jeff Helzner and Philip Kitcher

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Finally, and I'm also a bit late with this one, I'm very happy to report that Vincent Hendricks is now a regular visitor at Columbia.