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EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY NEWSLETTER NĀ° 18 ********************************************************************** The bulletin is issued thrice per year by the end of February, June, and November. If you wish to let us know about activities you or your department are planning (conferences, seminars, workshops, and the like) or about important philosophical events that have recently taken place, please contact either your national correspondent or the newsletter editor, Alberto Voltolini <[log in to unmask]>. Please note ESAP's website: http://www.dif.unige.it/esap/ ECAP 4 - Lund University, Sweden, 14-18 June, 2002 (Call for papers) Fourth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, ECAP 4, Lund University, Sweden, 14-18 June, 2002. Plenary speakers: Manuel Garcia Carpintero, University of Barcelona Susan Haack, University of Miami Timothy Williamson, University of Oxford Sections and chairpersons: 1. History of Philosophy, Jaakko Hintikka 2. Logic and Philosophy of Language, Pascal Engel 3. Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, Nancy Cartwright 4. Metaphysics and Philosophy of Mind, Martine Nida-Rķ±¶ķµ¬in 5. Practical Philosophy, Philippe Mongin Invited speakers: Nancy Cartwright, London School of Economics (section 3) Sten Ebbesen, University of Copenhagen (section 1) Pascal Engel, University of Paris IV- Sorbonne (section 2) Philippa Foot, University of California, Los Angeles and University of Oxford (section 5) Jaakko Hintikka, Boston University (section 1) Diego Marconi, University of Eastern Piedmont (section 2) Philippe Mongin, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & É£ole Polytechnique, Paris (section 5) Martine Nida-Rķ±¶ķµ¬in, University of Fribourg (section 4) Peter Simons, University of Leeds (section 4) Wolfgang Spohn, University of Konstanz (section 3) Submission of abstracts: Authors are invited to submit abstracts of papers that they wish to present at the congress. Each presentation will be given 40 minutes, including time for discussion. Abstracts should be printed on one page with single line-space, 12 points font size and must not exceed 2500 characters (including spaces). The abstract page should include the name of the author, the title of the paper and the name of the section in which the author wishes to present it. It is desirable that the abstract provides an outline of the arguments given in the paper, and not just the theses argued for. The abstract should be sent in duplicate to ECAP 4 (address below), by fax (number below) or electronically in PDF-format as an attachment to [log in to unmask] Authors will be notified by the end of February 2002 about the programme committee's decision regarding their presentations. Participants of the congress are also invited to a dinner that is planned to take place June the16th. Reservations are made in the registration form. Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 December, 2001. Registration: Registration should be made by 1 April, 2002. Please use the enclosed registration form or go to http://www.dif.unige.it/esap/ecap4.htm Workshops: Congress participants are welcome to attend three special workshops that are being planned in connection with the congress: 1. Philosophy of Law, organized by Aleksander Peczenik ([log in to unmask]), 2. Economics and Philosophy, organized by John Broome ([log in to unmask]) and Marc Fleurbaey ([log in to unmask]), and 3. Truth, organized by Sten Lindstrķ¹¶ķ°Ø[log in to unmask]) and Krister Segerberg ([log in to unmask]). Programme Committee of ECAP 4: Wlodek Rabinowicz (Chair), Joao Branquinho, Josep Corbi, George Meggle, Nenad Miscevic, Kevin Mulligan, Elisabeth Pacherie, Carlo Penco, Howard Robinson, and Stelios Virvidakis. Contact: For updates on the congress, suggestions for accommodation and further information please visit the web page: http://www.dif.unige.it/esap/ecap4. All inquiries, registrations and abstract submissions should be sent to: ECAP 4, Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Kungshuset, SE-222 22 Lund, Sweden. Fax: +46-46-222 44 24. Email: [log in to unmask] ECAP-congresses are organized every three years by the European Society for Analytic Philosophy, ESAP. The Society organizes these congresses to further contacts and collaboration amongst European analytic philosophers. <snip> see website for more details of meetings