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Corrected link to registration form: http://philosophyk.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/registrationform.doc -------------------------------- Apologies for cross-posting! FINAL REMINDER: /Toleration and Pragmatism: Themes from the Work of Professor J. Horton/, Keele University, 17&18 February 2012 KEELE FORUM FOR PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH 'J.-J. ROUSSEAU' ANNUAL LECTURE* (http://philosophyk.wordpress.com/keele-forum-for-philosophical-research/) Friday, 17 February 2012, 5.00 pm – 6.40 pm Conference Room Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University Professor John Horton (Keele): What Does It Mean for Political Theory to Be More 'Realistic'? Opening: Professor Ann Hughes, Director of the Keele Research Institute for Social Sciences Chair: Professor Bulent Gokay, Head of the School of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy CONFERENCE: TOLERATION AND PRAGMATISM: THEMES FROM THE WORK OF PROFESSOR J. HORTON Friday 17 February 2012 (1-4.45 pm) and Saturday, 18 February 2012 (9.30 am - 1.15 pm) Conference Room, Claus Moser Research Centre, Keele University Speakers: Professor Sue Mendus (York): Contingency, Tragedy and Political Philosophy Professor Albert Weale (UCL): Social Contract and Associative Obligation Professor Glen Newey (Brussels): Political Obligation, Realism, Modus Vivendi Professor Rainer Forst (Frankfurt): Toleration and Its Paradoxes Professor Peter Jones (Newcastle): Modus Vivendi – the Best We Can Do? NB: Please book as soon as possible - places are limited. To register, please see the form at: http://philosophyk.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/registrationform.doc Registration deadline: 3 February 2012. Registration after this date will incur a £5 administrative charge. For further enquiries, email Sorin Baiasu at: [log in to unmask] ------------------------ The Keele Forum for Philosophical Research is part of the Research Centre for SPIRE in the Research Institute for Social Sciences. The Forum was officially launched in November 2008. Previous Annual Lectures were given by: Giuseppina D'Oro, Miranda Fricker and Stephen Engstrom. Apart from the 'J.-J. Rousseau' Annual Lecture, the Forum organises the following events: - The Royal Institute of Philosophy Invited Lecture Series - The Forum's Special Lectures - The Philosophy Summer Seminar Series - Reading Groups, conferences and other events. --------------------------------------------- * Why the Jean-Jacques Rousseau lecture? To begin with, 2012 marks the tercentenary of Rousseau’s birth; but there is also a reason why Keele in particular should celebrate this anniversary, for we hereby celebrate the true but very little known fact that Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived for a time in Staffordshire. From 22 March 1766 to 1 May 1767 Rousseau lived in the little Staffordshire village of Wootton. Rousseau had been invited to England by David Hume with whom he soon afterwards quarrelled. He then spent the next year in seclusion in Staffordshire writing the first drafts of his Confessions. When he was not writing it is said that he roamed the Staffordshire countryside in his Armenian costume studying wild flowers. He must have made a striking figure. Many years after his departure the locals remembered ‘Owd Ross Hall’, not just for his eccentricities but also for his gifts to local charities. They believed he was a king in exile! (Stephen Leach - Honorary Research Fellow, Keele) -------------------- Dr Sorin Baiasu Philosophy Programme Director SPIRE: School of Politics, Int'l Relations & Philosophy University of Keele ST5 5BG, UK Tel: +44(0)1782-733364 Fax: +44(0)1782-733592 Web: www.keele.ac.uk/spire/staff/baiasu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just published: /Kant and Sartre: Re-discovering Critical Ethics/ (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=275619 /Politics and Metaphysics in Kant/ (UWP 2011) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo11419084.html For free review copies, email: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]